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Everything is Subliminal

by The World Palestine

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1.
here's to breathing I love that fuzzy feeling in the afternoon daylight makes it better but when the moon sings everything seems bright again I'm understanding pleasure face the ceiling I'm safely in a blanket flowing freely now outside it's getting lighter cleared for breathing and endless sleeping flight parade let water extinguish fire free let everything go feeling tired free let everything flow getting higher on and on
2.
the truth will be told the world is so cold found out it's not so cool and you're ice cream cone already melted everybody get down (pizza shh) everybody get proud (pizza shh) the truth will be told the world is so cold you drive a car to school because a bicycle's so elementary people tend to do it backwards we pretend to live in shadows
3.
you did not do what Fred Rogers said you wish you had instead and now you're feeling bad he's gone now you did not do what Fred Rogers said now he's dead did you ever want to make Fred Rogers proud?
4.
we're going to the light everybody now let's go hit it take your clothes off and dry all your feathers
5.
chestnuts roasting slowly consuming insatiable morning repeated beginning chestnuts roasting butterfly girls they waste all their evening with instant meaning
6.
it's so easy to start a band if you've got half a brain and at least one hand all the scenesters ever want to do it stand if you've got half a brain, you should start a band
7.
complications on the inside if you let it go there is no place to have a home in a universe of dim light this man slowly turns alien wasted all the hope you've waited long enough contradictions of the human kind it's like anything everyone that you love the most judging whether we should move on and the distance and challenges come back as a ghost you've waited far too long
8.
to do, look at you but you're holding up the rest to die, I need up high the whole room (of course) is next voodoo 2 pedal on time just like you do do you have scrambled fro-yo eyes dude you do
9.
I Come 03:46
I come to take your pain away to fall so far so fawn away
10.
I think the man before me started meow wow wow but you can't hold me to this it was pink in the middle before we got it meow wow wow but you can't throw me into it
11.
Pt 2 01:24
wasted time because I tried press rewind be here in my life

about

Article written by Torin Andersen for F5 Paper (July 2015)

"Everything is Subliminal means a lot

Achoral escapade engulfing chiming guitars over half-time drums, Everything is Subliminal by The World Palestine (Les Easterby) opens like daydreams on a warm summer afternoon.

A quick change of pace lands album opener, "Let Everything Flow," into a prancing piano and a vocal hook as Easterby sings, "Free.. let everything go... feeling tired... free... let everything flow… getting higher," followed by an ascending synth warble. Another abrupt change in feeling, with distorted guitars and quarter-time drumming, this record will be a great listen for those with a short attention span.

Horns have rarely been heard over the course of Easterby's career, but "G-Fruit Juice" opens with them. Though a long history with musical experimentation in And Academy and previous projects, horns can be found on AIDS (And Academy) and Let's See Star B, a release that will be repressed by the same label dropping Everything is Subliminal, Air House Records.

Easterby had this to say about Everything is Subliminal as a response to Let's See Star B, "With this album, I was semi consciously trying to top what I did with Let's See Star B — its still different, and I try not to compare stuff, but I was hoping to make something just as strong."

The floating, ambien like drift of the track "Fred Rogers a.k.a. Pong Ping on a Flower Bed" is perhaps the heart of this July 28 release.

Easterby said, "'Fred Rogers' is truly an homage to what an amazing person he is. Replace the words 'Fred Rogers' with 'your father' and that's what it was originally."

Often masking his vulnerability, Easterby continues, "I try not to get too obviously emotional with this stuff. A lot of it means a lot to me, but to the average person might come across as random garbage."

Statements like that may be the cause for the tangential nature of Easterby's sonic constructions. Whole, structurally sound, pop songs are often blunted by the musings of a dreamer curious to see what lies behind this or that sonic exploration. As a kind of sonic collage that incorporates many odd time signatures, key changes, synthesizer effects, each new track sounds as if the band (all instruments except horns where performed by Easterby) started in the middle of the song.

Influenced by absurdist blues-rock outfit Captain Beefheart, '90s rock/punk redefiners, Nirvana and the Beatles, Easterby ties these sometimes-tangled song structures together with vocal melodies seemingly culled from Brian Wilson's — of Beach Boys fame — best B-side performances.

Ultimately writing these works for release and live performance, Easterby had this to say about the audience he's really writing these songs for, "Some stuff just amuses me. I'm really trying to entertain myself first and foremost. Of course it feels good when other people enjoy it and get something out of it, but more than anything, I'm pretty self-indulgent, and that's what making music is about to me..make yourself happy."

Much of the turns and chances taken of Everything is Subliminal are blissful and performed as such. A kind of elated reference to the rock band outfit but told through an experimental pop composer, these works are often dense with vocal harmonies layered over drums, bass, distorted guitars and synthesizer leads. A rich Tapestry that makes for great repeated listens in the pursuit of missed melodies and finding the sense in the awkward compositional transitions.

Be at the release party July 30 at Barleycorns for your chance to get a copy and see the new performing trio Easterby has asked to join the antics. The performing, trio consisting of Alec Jahn and Weston Townsley, will perform with their band, Fairness. Also on the bill are Travel Guide and Future Horse. Get there early!"

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released July 28, 2015

Written and performed by Les Easterby

guest musicians:
Jason Whitmore - sax on trk 2, flute on trk 5

recorded by Ryan Rodine and David Lord at Air House studio

mastered by Micajah Ryan

cover art by Matthew Wiseman

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