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Pilot

by The Wonder

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    Made by MPO in France and featuring artwork by Amy Burrows. Limited to 300 copies!

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1.
Out of Love 03:59
Out of Love Shall we torch another town tonight Light it up, watch it burn right to the ground You play broken and never even catch the eye And yet protest your luckless life tonight Out of love But did you ever even know it? It’s not like you could ever really show it to them Were you just biding your time When we were living on the nickel and dime? And we were living on the edge of this town And we were looking for a way to get down But we were dead before we hit the dead ground And we would never find a way Street scene kids they’re just looking for a ride And the edges of dreams they’ll never find Late night bus rides a chance to maybe start again And yet you’re set to burn it down tonight Out of love But did you ever even know it? It’s not like you could ever really show it to them Were you just biding your time? When we were living on the nickel and dime And we were living on the edge of this town And we were looking for a way to get down But we were dead before we hit the dead ground And we would never find a way
2.
Shadows Throw Bodies We were accidental friends Swaying at the same dance You taught me how to play guitar By Musket and Sextant and Sonic Youth All your Sonic Youth Later we’d be fast friends Broken limbs under sea Detune your life again Learn to take it down And we’d take it down We’d take it down I got the news late last night You had taken a rope and tied To a fan on the ceiling You stood on a chair and you let it go You let it go You let it go Now that shadows throw bodies Everything is upside down You hear the sirens in the dark night Know they’re coming for us but We’ll take them down We’ll take them down
3.
Nothing Else to Do Streaming down your avenue Your old man is chasing you With a crowbar and a plastic gun Will we ever be anyone Just one more song on Rage tonight In the morning we’ll make it right Steal a car, jump the train And never be anyone else again And when we go we’ll go for good And not for evil though we should Make that joke every single time And when we play let’s play for keeps And we will think that we are deep ‘Cause we can write a word or two There’s nothing else to do. Low rise dreams they are the worst So close you can feel them burst And splatter on the kitchen floor Like the ones that came before Tough guys down behind the shed Teaching girls to give them head We sneak down for a better view Cause we got nothing else to do And when we go we’ll go for good And not for evil though we should Make that joke every single time And when we play let’s play for keeps And we will think that we are deep ‘Cause we can write a word or two There’s nothing else to do.
4.
Sixteen 02:53
Sixteen Sixteen, it’s summertime back home Sneaking out of windows, don’t let em know We would meet on slippery slides And we’d dance in the moonlight reverie And I always wanna be that guy Seventeen, the streets are empty they’re dead The town was ours for the taking if we only cared We would stop behind maple trees And drink in the sap of everything And I always wanna be that guy And laying underneath the Milky Way You turn to me and calmly say The atoms of stars, and you are in my heart Eighteen, the city’s dark, it’s cold The double lines on the highway shining gold I’m on my way to see you And I don’t yet know the truth of anything And I always wanna be that guy
5.
Bruises 06:16
Bruises I do like dancing all night long at your house When the lights are down I can feel the beat You call a candle by another name You call a candle by another name And I know that this is going to end LA’s lit up like a Christmas tree From where we are we can see the ocean And I wonder if we’re going to be Good as we were in our twenties In our twenties In our twenties So we take a swim though it’s seven degrees If there were clothes I don’t remember them Now you’re calling love by another name And I know that this is going to end And you think we go ‘round again But I know this is going to end And you think we go ‘round again We go out drinking though it’s quarter to three If there were drugs I don’t remember them And I guess that this just has to be The middle part of our winter LA’s lit up like a Christmas tree From where we are we can see the boulevard And I guess that we can hardly be Good as we were in our twenties In our twenties In our twenties So we take a walk through the darkened hills Thinking ‘bout coyotes and the dogs they kill Now I’m not some guy you met at the beach But I know that you are out of reach And you think we go ‘round again But I know this is going to end And you think we go ‘round again But I know this is going to end

credits

released May 15, 2015

Produced by Remko Schouten and Matt Davis.

Recorded and mixed by Remko Schouten.
Assisted by Berend van Gaart, Vincent Helbers and Filip Degernäs.

Recorded at E-Sound and Ijland studios in Amsterdam, November 2014 with additional recording by Matt at Rue Ambroise Thomas, Paris.

Mixed at Ijland Studio through December 2014 and January 2015.

Mastered by Roger Seibel, SAE Mastering, Phoenix, Arizona, March 2015.

Artwork and layout by Amy Burrows.

Photography by Jayne Tuttle and Taylor Holland.

Matt sang and played guitar, piano and keyboards.
Vincent Boyer played bass.
Ben McConnell played drums.

Strings arranged by Matt and played by the Paris Art Strings Trio.

Spiral Stairs played guitar on Shadows Throw Bodies and appears courtesy of Matador Records.

Toby Martin sang backing vocals on Out of Love and appears courtesy of Ivy League Records.

Kristen Cordle sang backing vocals on Nothing Else To Do.

All songs written by Matthew Davis © 2015.

Thank you Remko, Jayne Tuttle, Frankie Jean Davis, Virginie Lauret, Céline Rigoni, Spiral, Toby Martin, Kristen Cordle, Iris, Berend, Roger Seibel, Dave Cooley, Amy Burrows, Taylor Holland, Elli Shoemaker, The Paris Art Strings Trio, Tim Whitten, Arnaud Betrom, Romain Lavielle, Leigh Whannell, Corbett Tuck, Halit, Danny Rogers, Vincent Helbers, Filip Degernäs, our families and friends, and especially everyone that supported our crowdfunding campaign on Ulule, we couldn’t have done it without you! Thank you!

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