Shoal, by MASS

Shoal

by MASS

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1.	Part The Sea 09:07	lyrics
Water cannot sate me now Nearly drown to flee your smother Break for air, what air there is Return to your kind embrace But while my thoughts wander astray The sky behind me, through shades of grey, blackens... And like tears held too long Thunder sounds with the rain song 'Til my resolve, it suffocates And I fall crying into the waves Leave, I scream 'Til the tide pulls, the sea's roar still Lingers ringing in my ears Yet beyond its reach Laps not at my feet Sometimes I must part the sea The dry ground, it beckons me
2.	Umbrage 04:59
3.	Futility 07:24	lyrics
[ Leaving... I'm fleeing... ] ...this incessant hum Neath night skies now starless Cold, pale ground sickly glows Don't know 'bout tomorrow In silence and alone, few things can reach me Here in nothingness, all weight has come to bear on me Chasms blink at my feet Lingering at the edge Stand and wonder how deep Suffer the consequences of a moment's weak grip As I dream the edge below me, I watch it now flee to the sky But we'll wait and see how we feel When we reach the bottom For when we wake We'll know the depths of our despair And maybe we'll leave this place
4.	Umbrages 03:51
5.	Kogarashi 09:21	lyrics
Held in the air, by the breath of time Up the hills of Kyoto smeared in moisture A mind moves against and within Internal tears crease memories Halcyons within a storm Staged in a play poisoned in foray Forging matter in a grip of a’kin Spread a web of shifting water We speak too long for trickery And I long too hard for bravery The time stay’ed and I stopped us Garnered in your pulse Swollen in heat, laden heavy flesh Heads in 2 inside 1 time Patience and bide inside Hills alight and the closure comes Release and stay halcyons up the Kyoto skies

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released March 26, 2022

All music and words written by MASS.

John Kostaras - drumkit
Kier Stevens - bass, guitar, vocals

Saxophone on Part The Sea and Futility by Katrina Owen.

Recorded at various times and locations:
Hothouse Audio, St Kilda with Craig Harnath and Julian Schweitzer, 2017
Kier's house, Brunswick East, 2017 and also Coburg, 2020
Katrina's house, Dandenong, 2020
Magnet Studios, Coburg with M Faisandier, 2021

Mixed & Mastered by M Faisandier at Magnet in Naarm, Melbourne.

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MASS Melbourne, Australia

MASS is a heavy, dark, progressive duo. The written arrangements contain macro and micro polyrhythms and drift into sinister ambient arrangements and soundscapes. Improvisation within this context allows for continual reflections within the arrangements. ... more

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