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You Will be Spending Time Outdoors, in the Mountains, Near Water

by Vio/Miré

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Jacob Uribe
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Jacob Uribe I found this band through RSD 2015, and I needed to buy this vinyl. This album is hauntingly beautiful. The imagery and poetry of the lyrics are without compare. This is an amazingly crafted album. Favorite track: Dogs 2.
LJ Brubaker
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LJ Brubaker Vio/Miré has been one of my favorite bands for years, almost entirely by accident. They have yet to make a release that was lacking in some way. Theirs is a hallowed and harrowing sound, gentle and transformative. And it's impossible to complain when new music keeps coming out on my birthday.

I recommend listening through the entire discography.
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  • 12" LP Record
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    180-gram white vinyl in a gatefold package. These songs were all recorded to 1/2" tape.

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    Comes in a gatefold case. Good for listening to in oldish cars.

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1.
Nutmeg 01:52
2.
Foxes 05:09
a halted herd of horses by a hill I will ascend if I am to be a beginning must I be an end? the pleasant call of alcohol, like a siren in the glen and come nightfall might I stay with you again? o, with you again! fennec foxes nestled in a den a broken band of brothers spurn the land they cannot flee if I am to escape might I be free? I'm disinclined to set my mind on that which shall not be and then our legs entwined, your body next to me oh, you're next to me boats pulled on the shore out from the sea the leeching, lurid language of a note behind a pin has will gained strength, or is patience wearing thin? the subtle sounds that grace these grounds, struck dumb by daytime din are you coming 'round, or are you giving in? are you giving in? left to visit places you had been? fennec foxes nestled in a den sirens in the glen labored lovers lingering in bed hills I will ascend captive creatures curled up in a pen must I be an end?
3.
Dogs 1 05:45
dogs are barking in an alley way they're fighting over bones I love the moment till I curse the day breaking bottles over stones and I have seen the grass's easy sway under spruces overgrown and I have known the near to move away how the wind was overblown enormous things that will remain unseen like mountains under seas there was no love to buy, but love to glean like apples under trees but I, I was not hungry, I was not lean and I had bedding under me now engines of a boat sound on a stream, turning under steam as if the dog could find a better place to go, peering though a screen as if the fabric I destroy I will resew, I'm cutting though a seam I have seen the light a forest throws, scattered through the green and I have seen a woman set aglow, breaking through the beam how the wind was overblown breaking bottles over stones I under-knew the over-known I understood the overtone how they're fighting over bones
4.
Arms 05:20
my tired arms are trembling but I am getting paid my family shows resemblance, we show it in the face you stood a while remembering the day you went away you think the frigid air is tempering cause there's a lifting gray the family dog is whimpering cause she is freezing cold my mother's gaze is lingering cause she is getting old your father's farm was wintering while he was seeking gold my smoker's chest is billowing cause I am feeling bold the minister is rambling when he should be done the sprinter, she was ambling, when she could have won you're running and you're scrambling that you might find some the bears betrayed their handling when they hurt someone now your stomach goes on rumbling but I have had my fill I don't mean to be unwelcoming, I mean you're welcome still I'm shoving and I'm elbowing to see why killers kill and if my arms have not been trembling well, I expect they will
5.
Dogs 2 04:08
a dog is running with another dog on a hill above the sea a boat is anchored by a wooden dock as a hand above a knee I'm breaking bottles over heavy rocks, an urge above a need a hidden passage to a secret lock, a note above a key just below the surface growth emerged in mud beneath the sand she was touching me and I was mat at her, stretched beneath her hand what is common will become obscure as a book beneath a ban I have seen the roots of fallen firs spread beneath the land I've seen the weaker being show the greater strength, as a whaler on a whale I've seen the shortest message speak impressive length, as a sign upon a trail "what lies ahead has already been laid," said the train upon the rail the misdirected route that fortune made, as a wind upon a sail
6.
Battles 04:37
in the battle of man against the beast I was not injured in the least but o! my comrades were its feast! and in the battle of man against machine I escaped unscathed and clean but o! what a hellish scene! in the battle of man against the heat I found myself with food to eat but kitchens fraught with spoiled meat and farmland lined with sun-scorched wheat in the battle of man against the cold I was able to grow old but o! you know death is bold! for though I survived as I have told, I found myself with none to hold
7.
Trains 02:41
I was delayed, but oh, I've arrived the train set fire on the ride I'm not dead, but oh, I will die, as rain claims fire by and by I was betrayed, but oh, I survived the flame was tired and contrived I'm not thread, but oh, I will tie and flame tames water till it's dry
8.
Turns 04:16
9.
Snakes 03:04
in your words I felt shelter, now I am as a snake under a stone I was a hare amongst bares, I was a herd-horse on its own, how would you welcome a visitor into your home? I tasted her, I felt her she shaved her head, I was a louse and if you too were a fig amongst pigs, if trouble swelled within through growth without, how would you ask to enter someone's house? now a grass grows tall unnourished, unlit or, if I found another way of looking at it - the old fall, the young falter, the joined split but those who claim lost love never really found it now we deal with what I dealt her with fingers stretched and anger brewing but if you dragged a mole from its hole, if it came clear grief was ensuing, how would you ask someone how he is doing? sent to hell to stir and swelter, I returned and sought my love but if the way were many days, if present passed as present does, how would you ask someone how his journey was?
10.
Dogs 3 05:36
a tired dog was sleeping by my tired feet, a beast before a man the branches trembled on the broad-leafed tree, as strings before a fan taking sips upon my sidewalk seat, "to the sea before the land!" tossing bottles into city streets, "to the dead before the damned" I stayed awake all night because I slept all day, till sometime after three thinking, where I set my feet I know they will not stay, as on walkways after sleet I was put out of my house because I could not pay, collectors chasing after me but when something can't be solved it tends to go away, a cool rain after sleet a dog was biting on a chicken bone making noise during the night an airplane wasn't flying where it should have flown but there was calm during the fright there is much that I don't see until I am shown, until I'm guided during sight there was much that had been seeded, but little grown a garden during blight striking matches during night a tired dog during a fight composure during fright guidance during sight

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Recorded at DRABS studio in Pawtucket, RI. Mixed here and there but mostly at Hewnoaks Artist Colony in Lovell, ME.

Thanks Dennis, CR, Liz.

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released September 16, 2014

Brendan Glasson sings and plays guitar and reed organ.
Emily Dix Thomas plays cello and sings.
Dave Noyes plays cello and trombone and sings.
J.P.A. Falzone plays synths and Rhodes piano and sings.

Songs by Brendan except "Nutmeg," which is a folk song that James showed us.

David Colannino printed the covers.
Additional engineering by Aleric Nez and Liz Isenberg.

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