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no one will know we were ever here

by the gifted children

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Holiday Sexytime For Adult Partners, holiday!, what light?, christmas ghosts, the recollector, volume 02, relics of the near future, volume 01, summer homes, part 1, the recollector, volume 01, and 47 more. , and , .

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    Beautiful, clear, square lathe-cut 7" records, in a sleeve containing collage prints by jeff suszczynski. Everything from the record itself to the jacket to the insert to the cover art was lovingly and painstakingly handcut. Limited to 33 copies!

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ballad of an aging indie rocker 01:16
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our 'hobby' is a bust 02:07
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your mythologies 01:24
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my building is crumbling 01:10
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something's dead inside 01:53
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a new 5-song EP that plays like a suicide note from a band left largely ignored for the past 17 years... this certainly isn't the end of the gifted children, as there are too many excellent unreleased tracks for them to give up at this point, but they've allowed all the self-doubt and depression run rampant on this short but great release.

starting off with a playful self-stab with faux-anthemic ending (the bill trautman-penned 'ballad of an aging indie rocker'), the uptempo second track ('our hobby is a bust') starts the descent into implosion with a repeated, semi-humorous/semi-sad, self-deprecating refrain ('our hobby is a bust/no one will know we were ever here') to close out the first side...

the second side takes things to a darker place, with the songs progressively turning further inward, from self-reflection ('your mythologies') to self-doubt ('my building is crumbling') and eventually to self-destruction ('something's dead inside).

this is the sound of a band exploring its own psyche and not finding a happy resolution to anything, somehow encompassing an arc that feels complete over the course of only 8 minutes.

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released December 13, 2012

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the gifted children Rochester, New York

the gifted children is a music collective centered in rochester and buffalo, ny.

since forming in 1995, the gifted children have released 13 albums, over 30 EPs and singles, and a boxed set, with several dozen unfinished albums currently being worked on. stylistically they range from art rock to folk, electronic to indie rock, ambient to shoegaze. ... more

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