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Top Secret Area EP

by Invalids

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Travis
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Travis Brings me back to my TTNG days...and I'm really glad to be back. The song is always heading in another emotional direction and making even the most chaotic feel confident and complacent. It's a wonderful thing that I found this, and glad to investigate the rest (even though I missed out on the tapes...). Favorite track: Bismarck.
Troy Fryer
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Troy Fryer Bismark is heavenly. The first 1:25 and last 2:03 are just bliss, and get looped many times when I listen. Admittedly, it gets more plays than Dolly Zoom, but the tapping and key modulations in Dolly Zoom are themselves remarkable. Absolutely incredible for a two-track EP. Favorite track: Bismarck.
azzerad
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azzerad surpassing the already near flawless wonder of "euonia" and "two hundred second"ep comes this-the perfect marriage of mathrock structure and wide eyed pop hooks. their best stuff yet Favorite track: Bismarck.
Trent Schovanec
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Trent Schovanec Amazing instrumentation with catchy vocals. Another home run from invalids. Favorite track: Dolly Zoom.
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1.
Bismarck 07:59
Maggots in my shoes Put them on no matter what Business interview Don’t recall, poised in empty halls, Patterned and installed, understated, undissolved Cleaned up the floor, clean to keep unused Close the bedroom door, close to coming loose, and what’s the use? Not sure what to do, the flu shot gave us the flu We heard that it was buried in the yard just past the reddest leaves, And left carried on the breeze, resigned to dig a hole Consistent with the angles we were told And we felt it warming up, pushed the earth beneath our feet Aberrant sound against the anomaly, we gathered close, And like we’d always seen, brushed off the dust and the dirt, As the covering recedes, a gentle glow lit our faces light, but only from beneath Like flashlights, and bed sheets, and ghost stories Knowing that we stayed up too late, Revel in hanging on every word Comforted, no matter how many times, it’s still a surprise The kind of things we could repeat The kind of things we could believe The kind of things we teased, but left alone, we couldn’t sleep Do you cover your mouth to breathe? Do you ask for anything? You close your eyes so all you see, the negative They used to walk right across the Bering Sea on foot Can you still believe that if you dug a hole straight down and still beyond The mantle, through and through the asthenosphere, You’d get to China? But they’re not, nor have they ever been, our antipodes And just like me, not even halfway through before you lost your light (and inevitably freeze) If it’s just down the street, if you promise to be careful But it’s just down the street, but it’s just down the street Curtains quickly drawn and hoped no one saw Resigning to covering your ears So all you hear is the sound of your own blood Running downhill to earn your gravity Ignoring stride to feel free of form And there had to be a secret underneath, that even though the surface gleamed, As the sole to the feet, or the tongue to the teeth, What you thought was a flower enamored of its bees, you came to see The mechanics disagree Found success to pry without marring all the sides There was no beautiful design, just elaborate mistakes barely held in place Some off, disfigured view you wish you never knew
2.
Dolly Zoom 05:08
Feels like that means something Took our picture when our hair was too long Used to look so much better than now Trouble is remembering what was said The colored pages of the script that we dismissed A shadow cast, that you never knew me when I was young We never threw anything away (just in case) Stand up straight Remember when we were all so eager just to get somewhere new? I know we knew (bent into some unnatural strain) Animate inanimate, like watching just before it starts to fall Like tucking in my shirt cause I knew this was gonna be serious this time (like messing up the order of the answers on our hands, what might we pull off) Leaning towards windows while it grows Learning words from how we think they’re being used, And using them to mean what they don’t really mean Leaving home with it pocketed when we really needed it, Returning to discover that we hadn’t left with anything (return to being left alone) Stay awake Arm in a cast, you broke it falling in slow motion We never knew that we could take it, we take it, we take it away Technically, light’s the only thing that we can see Have you ever thought about what that really means? The sky, so lit up at night, has already passed us by Has already had its life Lived some benign analogy Some asinine ontology

about

Friends of ours at SHAME Records approached us about the possibility of printing professional-quality DIY cassettes of a short release. The idea for this cassette was to play around with the notion of purely physical releases, like when punk bands put out EPs only on 7" records and young me and even younger Nick could only ever hear them with a turntable or perhaps friends or family or friends of family with turntables thereof. For a short time, we've recreated that environment, where the only way to hear these tracks (and the instrumentals on the B-side) are via physical cassettes in a deck. No MP3s allowed.



Although, this is the 21st century, so I mean, digitals came forth, because of course we're rocking this thing on our iPods I mean come on.


Cassettes Dec. 2013

Digitals March 4th, 2014

Invalids tabs:
[.tbt] www.tabit.net/tabs/list.php?f=5655

[.txt] dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2148281/Invalids%20Tabs%20Complete%20Mar%202015.zip

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released December 17, 2013

Pete Davis: guitars, vocals, drum programming

Nick Shaw: bass


Music and lyrics by Pete Davis
Recorded by Invalids


Artwork by Yvette Young
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Distributed by SHAME records
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Invalids started as the bedroom project of Pete Davis (with remote internet-based collaboration with other musicians). As of March 2015, it has grown to a proper four-piece band with the addition of Joe Scala, Raymond Bonanno, and Blair Benzel.

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