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Echoes From The Ultraviolet Fuzz

by The Curiously Strong Peppermints

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1.
ACT I: TWO PIROUETTING DEBRIS Let me in! Let me in!" said the Synthetic Grin "The world awaits as you please." "Who am I to comply?" said the Inverted Why "I know nothing is as it seems." As he opened the door with no elaborate retort Shielded his eyes, welcomed to the new life "Go away from this place with your acerbic face!" But the Why couldn't stand to complain He didn't know in his soul he had created a hole Craving a refreshing refrain The Why, he stood still on the hourglass hill This is what he said: "Time is a strain on my third-dimensional plane I cannot stop until I've hopped that transcendental train Life has a way of becoming yesterday The pressure builds but we are still a supple mold of clay" "I can see that I'm free," said the Why so discrete "But it feels as a masquerade." To the Why, with a sigh, then the Grin bid goodbye "See how deception is played?" As the Grin left the door the Why had hid his remorse And this is what he said: "Time is a strain on my third-dimensional plane I cannot stop until I've hopped that transcendental train Life has a way of becoming yesterday The pressure builds but we are still a supple mold of clay"
2.
Loving my underwater girl Deep beneath the farthest sea She released her heart to me Drowning in her coral world Though the suitors kiss her feet I'll woo her with no air to breathe Teenage idol genocide (She is my underwater girl) Supermodel suicide TV family matricide (She is my underwater girl) Party heiress homicide Meeting with a Spider-Man In the hallways, contemplate The villains of our wet escape Leaving, come and take my hand Above the surface suffocate Our love and death are both the same Teenage idol genocide (She is my underwater girl) Supermodel suicide TV family matricide (She is my underwater girl) Party heiress homicide
3.
Anna Livia Plurabelle lives in a world I couldn't sell But I bought my way inside and now I pay the price Driving the border with her at my side Finding the order in a matricide Grant me this: the taste, her lips are such a sultry spice Oh dear Anna I wonder where you wandered to? I can't live it up until I fill my till of you La la-la Anna Livia Plurabelle I la-la-love you more than life itself Although an absentee I know that you'll come back to me And we can sing "la-la-love" eternally Anna Livia Plurabelle, had to assure her I wouldn't tell All our cosmic understanding under candlelight Stealing her kisses in the pouring rain Feeling her tryst and now I go insane She's been gone so long I long for her to wrong my right Oh dear Anna can you imagine tragedy? You can clear it up: my excess eccentricity La la-la Anna Livia Plurabelle I la-la-love you more than life itself Although an absentee I know that you'll come back to me And we can sing "la-la-love" eternally La la-la Anna Livia Plurabelle La la-la Anna Livia Plurabelle
4.
Light the bulb and cut the line, sight of such a valentine Vigor is revitalized, see my hand's amazing size Hallucinate and hear the sound: my internal clock unwound Picking at my thorny crown and my body crashing down There's a Jesus Christ in my closet with a .45 He told me I should go to sleep but it's so fun to be alive Pulling at my hair and watching shadows dance before my eyes There's a Jesus Christ in my closet with a .45 Life is blurry in this rush, have no worries, my dreams are crushed My reflection's changed so much to protect the crystal touch My fatigue is overdue, Hide and seek all to renew Are these songs all preaching truth? Or are they just teaching youth? There's a Jesus Christ in my closet with a .45 He told me I should go to sleep but it's so fun to be alive Pulling at my hair and watching shadows dance before my eyes There's a Jesus Christ in my closet with a .45 I don't mind the rush to my head I don't mind the dance with the dead I can find a reason to live if I can find one more...
5.
Painkiller 03:44
This body's an anvil for your heartbreak hammer machine The beauty's unstable, endured schizophrenic regime I couldn't disable splendor before it became obscene So tell me a fable of your superego's esteem She's hemming the cut before the blood clot So hand me the shot because I want: No pain - Everything about you seems like a windowpane No pain - Living with your love, I need a lot to sustain I see you and suddenly wonder what apprehensions I dream I feel the lightning and thunder: our bodies' electricity But remember that history's mirrored into unconscious stream Now that the mystery's injured two pirouetting debris She's hemming the cut before the blood clot So hand me the shot because I want: No pain - Everything about you seems like a windowpane No pain - Living with your love, I need a lot to sustain No pain - She's a diamond cut too rough but not enough to complain
6.
ACT II: SEASON OF THE GRASSHOPPER Where we once huddled before, our placentas have been torn For I am an animal Our forbearance has run out just to bare us one more child For I am an animal But for years we were enamored, fetal morphine needle stings Mended hearts with sticky semen fingers, bloodstained broken wings And the wheres and whens and whys, they overshadowed whats and whose What else could I do? The detection of discourse is the reflection of remorse For I am an animal And now I'm drowning in this cell, the solitude that it repels For I am an animal All at once we turned mistaken, her lungs burning outside-in We stood grieving and deceiving at her bloodshot stoic grin And her eyes, they burned with sulfur bleeding plastic parcels through What else could I do but write this song to sing? And I construe it into such a simple thing The season of the grasshopper comes Siphon out your brother's tongue For every mother's madcap lover finds the words most others ponder Bleeding from the fingertips of all Time is a strain on my third dimensional plane Life has a way of becoming yesterday
7.
I'm reading between the lines as they de-claw my rights (Twisted whispered lies!) I'm feeling the eagle's eyes in lacerating sight (They have severed my spine!) Come along and forgive this disgrace Of who defends our paradigm Morals gone, we win empty space All to end their nursery rhyme I'm cleaning the wounds of pride of my mind's parasite (The sycophant's delight!) I'm breathing the cyanide, taste my lungs liquefied (Dissolving my insides!) Come along and forgive this disgrace Of who defends our paradigm Morals gone, we win empty space All to end their nursery rhyme Fourteen ways to beat the system Fuck the path of least resistance
8.
Hypnotize the judge's eyes, the gavel cracks your head Tenderize your honor's thighs, the dealers in their beds Advertise and ask her why they're tearing at our throat: "We apologize but someone's gotta be the sacrificial goat" The papers say the gambler's play should always follow suit But dealer's way is to betray and collect the table's loot "The truth I may rewrite someday, I'll deal another hand And in this game only a royal flush can make a stand" The dealing goes in cyclic flows slicing through the air The player knows that he chose to play the game unfair For preaching prose cannot disclose just what their language means So kill the lamb and use it's glands to oil the machines
9.
Nightingale 03:08
Nightingale a' sailing all across the crystal sea Don't you see I'm drowning? Won't you send some sympathy? I'm marooned in ruined order A song to save myself is beyond ability I cannot take a chance without avoiding happenstance My curse has left me thirsting for innocence My grace is fading fast to circumvent this circumstance Forbidden is the hidden deliverance Fly away high nightingale Let me glide right beside as you sail Fly away high nightingale Let me ride right behind on your tail Nightingale a' flying all around the empty sea I'm treading through my troubles; won't you lend some empathy? Time to soothe this rueful soldier A "thanks" to travel back and to bank tranquility The cause of all my pain is just the clause to maul my brain But I know it doesn't show in my photograph My karma can't complain of metaphysical migraine A slave to the engraving on my epitaph Fly away high nightingale Let me glide right beside as you sail Fly away high nightingale Let me ride right behind on your tail
10.
Catastrophic 02:44
The curtain calls are closing on our storybook crusade Six years in the making of my masterpiece mistake Intravenous feeding of my deathbed birthday cake The valentine is bleeding as this dance becomes my wake It's catastrophic The callus you wore on my heart I couldn't stop it The carousel tore me apart A wilderness of wonder is just hanging on your breath But the tentacles of anger are entangled in your head Your overnight to Mordor was a red-eye slight of hand An Oppenheimer horror to destroy a fragile man It's catastrophic (I loved thee) It's catastrophic (I hate this) It's catastrophic (you left me) It's catastrophic (now taste this) It's catastrophic The callus you wore on my heart I couldn't help it I loved you from the start
11.
Rain Down 03:02
ACT III: THE WOMB REDEEMED So she stares into the sun I don't know why she has that gaze Well I guess it's just the rays they beat down It's all the ways we yet haven't found The clouds we dream could escape As I walk I curse to the world Sometimes perception alters the sky And I scream my sunburns up overhead Goddamn you Ra, our heads turn instead Someday my cloud will drift by Uproot your contaminations Unleash your clouds Let your emptiness pour Overcast and understated Let it rain down Transcend and send your soul to soar I cannot wash off her face Or the blisters on some brother's hands I feel the scorching warping the lens Of all the eyes in our present tense But we need not pretend So she shields herself from the sun And imagines this ravenous dream: Her unborn daughter to cast off the reins And dance under clouds that cover the plains A hope to someday be free Uproot your contaminations Unleash your clouds Let your emptiness pour Overcast and understated Let it rain down Transcend and send your soul to soar
12.
The corners of his mouth are the devil's forehead His biceps are the hourglass hills Her breath smells like contradiction Her scent tastes like perpetual car crash He says his eyes are closed but the lids lay transparent An observing soliloquy Her hands cradle the scars in the sty While her mind is raining grasshoppers But hope is the paradox that unravels the loop Love is the fuse, the binding wire Welcome to the ultraviolet fuzz Echoes beckon through the sounds of love Accepting our perceptions are in flux The psychedelic static of our heart All adrift in an inflatable ego: The life raft in a cold, cold eternity Shrouded by silicon waves and cruciform tides The unlicensed photograph is our compass Fate is a slithering mass All consuming and dripping digestive juices Time is a knife too dull to kill Reaping laughodils like a windmill in motion But hope is the mechanism of human mystique Love is the ladder, the eternal escape Welcome to the ultraviolet fuzz Echoes beckon through the sounds of love Accepting our perceptions are in flux The psychedelic static of our heart Welcome to the ultraviolet fuzz...
13.
Polystyrene 03:36
We have a lot to talk about you damned gray matter You fell into the trap and now the cats grow fatter It's too late to say you're sorry too Iodize the wounds because the battle is over Romanticize the fools because the heart is sober Break your three-part harmony in two All the effervescent shooting stars flood the black light shine A shimmering and glimmering lemon-lime Never-pleasant brooding scars evaporate in time In this polystyrene life of mine Pop the pimple, stop the Simple Simon's saying Drop the easel, realize the sky needs painting Purple clouds of orange amplitude Breathe in all that you believe It is so serene, tastes like polystyrene Congressmen converting on a teeter-totter Senators are splurging on the freak-out fodder Muckrake gray duck in forgotten lore Cross the teeth and dot the eyes of "indecision" Lost your heart and hope to die of malnutrition Fruits of labor rotten to the core And the effervescent shooting stars flood the black light shine A shimmering and glimmering lemon-lime Never-pleasant brooding scars evaporate in time In this polystyrene life of mine Forget the fix of all the tricks your mind is playing Rearrange this strange place I'm sick of staying Dream away with all your earthly dues Breathe in all that you believe It is so serene, tastes like polystyrene
14.
Brother release me from this debt I haven't bothered to place my bet Enslaved by the actions of every man Betrayed by the apple; the last rights read Slumber surrounds and seduces you Reduces the sound as you come unglued Unknowing the number the beast has brand Awaiting your savior, his leading hand Close your eyes and imagine as your children are saying their prayers Outside roads will unravel as you travel reality's layers Into the attic of every mind Only an entrance that some might find Embraced by the promise of earthly dreams But remember the purpose: the womb redeemed Avoiding the end but The Void is near Can't see the M but it's everywhere Eleven dimensions you can explore And seven heavens when you're not reborn Close your eyes and imagine as your children are saying their prayers Outside roads will unravel as you travel reality's layers Time is a strain on my third dimensional plane Release your fears so you can steer the transcendental train Life's just a grain on a transparent membrane Say goodbye Inverted Why, you'll love again someday

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The Curiously Strong Peppermints return with the release of their second album, ECHOES FROM THE ULTRAVIOLET FUZZ. Although it picks up right where their debut album left off, it is more cohesive, band-oriented and features a wider sonic range than their debut, Endless Fields of Poppy. ECHOES is a concept album organized into three Acts and examines: the rise and fall of Anna Livia Plurabelle and The Inverted Why; the couple's disillusionment at the hands of The Synthetic Grin; The Inverted Why's isolation and his eventual redemption in The Ultraviolet Fuzz. The album is full of hooky melodies, abstract lyrics, oddball instrumentation and of course lots of noisy guitars. The Curiously Strong Peppermints are currently performing live in the Midwest to support the album.

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released October 25, 2011

Written & Produced by: Jesse Miller
© 2011 Soniclovenoize Music Publishing (BMI)

Recorded & Mixed: June 2010-September 2011 by Jesse Miller at The Arbor House and Xanadu Studios III (Minneapolis, MN) and The Green Room (Woodbury, MN) on analog 4-track tape and with the extraneous magic of ones and zeros

Mastered by: John Miller
Cover artwork by: Gretchen Doebler
Photographs by: Sarah Pruchnicki
Layout by: Jesse Miller

Performed by:
Jesse Miller – lead vocals, guitars, chord organ, toy piano, Hawaiian tremoloa
Ben Swanson – bass, acoustic fuzz bass, banjos, glockenspiel
Mason Butler – guitars, keyboards, synths, kalimba, glockenspiel, ebow, bass, tambourine, percussion, handclaps, whistles, glass bottles, backing vocals
Bradley Hunt – drums on 4, 5, 6, 8 and 13
David Schmitz – keyboards on 1, drums, handclaps, whistles & vocals on 3
Sara LaPage – trumpet
Jeannette Kjos – saxophone, clarinet
Eric Reiter – drums on 1, 2 and 10
Lindsay Baukert – violin
Gretchen Doebler – backing vocals on 1, 3, 6, 11 and 13
Ana Raba – backing vocals on 3
Evan Reidell – backing vocals on 6 and 13
Matt Kyle – handclaps on 3, drums on 14
Nick Vittum – drums on 7 and 12

This sound recording © 2011 Sunshine Cortex Records – all rights reserved
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The Curiously Strong Peppermints are an unexplained purple cumulonimbus cloud formation hovering above Western Abu Dhabi that has been emitting unusual sonic frequencies since 2004. If you stare at it long enough you can see a Jesse, a Ben, a Sean, and sometimes a David and Jeannette. Four pieces fell to earth, available here. ... more

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