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Let In Elijah EP

by GALAXY FINGERS

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I Need Therapy 03:28
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Maybe just another drink will let me forget all of it Or I could go stick my head in some stranger's sink like an idiot 'Cause I've been thinking a lot about how You would always drown me out Have it your way I'm done with all the games you play Would it be too sad to feel bad Would it be too bad to feel sad for me Would it be too sad if you felt bad about what you do to me I could cry enough to fill 10 million more oceans of great size (I think I'll go, I'll be gone by tomorrow) But you always fill your cup from the leaking faucet of my eyes (Fill the empty picture frames with a ghost) I've got poison coursing through my veins - it's eating at the itching Questions in my brain (I've got the car packed, it's early dawn now and you wonder where I've gone... You wonder where I've gone) Would it be too sad to feel bad Would it be too bad to feel sad for me Would it be too sad if you felt bad about what you do to me Would it be too sad just to feel bad Would it be so sad just to know that I would do anything to be glad Look what you did to me
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Clap For Them 03:21
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When you come And when you go When you come around And I'll say no Watch you go Lock the door I don't think I'll see you anymore When you disappear I feel better No, I'm better And I won't let you You say you'll feel better come the sunrise I say I don't want to see the sunrise You say I don't recognize your problems I say that you might be the problem I'll be laughing through your sad town You'll be chasing this whole world down to the ground You missed your chance, now Watch me go farther than the sunrise When you turn around I feel better come the sunrise When you leave town I feel happy to see the sunrise
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Hugs When You're Anxious 05:13
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Closing my eyes Please don't turn away from me I don't know why This is so hard to do for me When I come around I know I'll get to thinking When I come around I know I'll get to thinking I don't know how I'm going to keep this secret I know that I ­ I need to make a decision When I come around You know I'll get to feeling When I come around I know I'll get to feeling These feelings are wrong But I really need to feel something The story goes on And I really need to eat something When I come around You know I'll get to feeling When I come around You know I'll get to feeling Right now my chest on the floor My hands hold pencil and paper I roll back up to my side I look back into your eyes I know I've done this before Right here with my face on the ground Burn my back and my arms Feel my stomach ache Don't go home Don't go home Don't go home Don't go home
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Delivered (Bonus Track) 05:33
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Talking at the spot below the collar of your shirt Wonder what it's from - if it's blood or if it's dirt Like the way you speak, but I hate the words you're speaking to me Hey, I think we get on pretty friendly I can see how sometimes it gets lonely Hiked the trail beside the little town that loved to hide Right along the coast, we heard some guy died inside Let's find his ghost and ask him what he misses most Share a laugh for everyone that gets only half We'll go numb and sink the world in our teeth Long expired - along with all the faces I've seen I'm the only one I'm the only one I'm the only one standing in between What I need I'm the only one I'm the only one I'm the only one standing in between Starved desire will always die I'm the only one I'm the only one I'm the only one I'm the only one

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FORMATS: 7" Single [Numbered Limited Edition of 300 copies] / Digital Single

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Alex and Clara met during a study program in Japan. When they got back home, they ended up on opposite coasts of the United States (one in Connecticut and the other in California), but they decided to start writing songs long-distance. It sounds like a tale, a story made up for the beginning of a novel, but it is true. This is the origin of GALAXY FINGERS, a group influenced by doowop, shoegaze, post-punk, folk music, and slowcore. They were captivated in equal parts by the COCTEAU TWINS, PRETEND, Laura Marling and THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, and the chemistry was so strong that over time they realized they needed to record the songs. Clara recorded the vocals from the east coast, and the rest was recorded on the west coast. And behind the control panel of these songs was Brad Lee, member of THE ALBUM LEAF. The result is their first EP, “Let In Elijah EP”.

“I Need Therapy”, with its vocal plays, places us close to SLOWDIVE and MOJAVE 3, though those lazy drums and rhythms evoke our beloved GALAXIE 500, with touches of the fifties in the melodies and arrangements that make the North American duo’s openness to influences clear. “Clap For Them” slows the tempo down, diving head first into the most precious, delicate folk, where the connection between the two voices that seem like one shines, and where playful guitar arrangements surprise us, increasing the lysergic effect and adding intensity to a piece born to be crystal.

“Hugs When You’re Anxious” leaves us dry. Slowcore makes its presence known. BEDHEAD. That martial, minimal drum that marks its strict rules. The voices come in. LOW. Every detail counts. Every gesture. Every sound. Emotions are running high. But we can’t move. We must go on. The caresses make us tremble, but remember, we can’t move. When the drum’s ride comes in, it starts to set us free. We won’t tell you the end. You have to find out for yourselves. Explosion? Containment?

“Delivered” is not included on the vinyl release, but it is on the digital version of the EP and the download that comes with the 7” Single. On this song, Alex and Clara once again go deeper into slowcore. This time, we have CODEINE and their silences, their open cymbals, their knowingly strummed guitars. But this incarnation is nicer, more charming. We are again reminded of Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead’s bands. And those whistles. You just have to let yourself be swept away. Concentrate on the space, on the time, and let yourself go. Let the light come in through the cracks.

This is a great introduction. Tons of excitement. Without exaggerations. We are anxiously awaiting the Mini-LP announced for the beginning of 2019, because in these times of agitation and speed, options like GALAXY FINGERS are becoming less and less frequent. And strangely enough, at the same time they are very much a product of the times we are living, born and raised on distance, on space, and on time.

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released September 21, 2018

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