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the autumn parade

by the gifted children

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out by the roadside where no angels walk we're in aimless agony joyless tubers plucked from the ground, huddled round nearly invisible skeleton trees sitting in fallow fields so come on, november come on, unbroken skies bring leaves in the hallway bring me some cold sunlight through open autumn windows the sun always sets around here...
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throw hills behind us, we're off to the autumn parade a brisk apple bicep a struggle to run away nothing is new or in season we've got thousands of leeches to carry the sickly away to carry me away to carry the sickly away to carry me away
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this is the taint, the compromise the world is a chest factory we’ve delved into peat beds gold chains and affectations the always complaints and the maladies speak in tongues on featherbed lane engrave our lawns with secret symbols a hazy hillside dash and we're gone become standard bearers of the new language
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autumn ghost 02:59
instrumental
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the derelict castle, the growing moat the circle shrinks as the gravity grows death, love and history - haunted by the same old things and we can no longer see land from our calamity vessels soon we'll explode our inflatable arks... (good-bye!)

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just a couple months after the release of their 5-CD boxed set, 'building your lo-fi shelter', the gifted children are back with some great new material for your fall soundtracks. 'autumn ghosts', over the course of just 5 songs and 10 minutes, once again showcases the gifted children's ability to create a single cohesive arc of out many disparate elements...

the opener, 'come on, november', features piano and bass reminiscent of 1950s pop, with only some latter-half static entering the mix to let you know this EP isn't going to remain as straightforward as it starts. 'second hearth' and 'abstinence heroes' sound more like 'typical' gifted children songs: short, atmospheric, quirky, and filled with hooks. then the title track, an instrumental, slowly builds in grand fashion from a simple, repeated acoustic motif into full-blown electronic noise. the EP ends with 'calamity vessels', a spare and pretty song with just acoustic guitar, piano and voice.

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released October 29, 2010

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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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