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Dividends

by Lubec

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1.
I held the candle and signs Even hid your knife away Queued up in the lines To run over the highway So peaceful yet distant Horizon a ramp I drove today Piece de resistance What happened there? What can we say? I held the camera in time Even shot the only fray Committing no crime Just a chance to convey It took a bit of my heart It took a bit of your brain It took a bit at the start For a hit of pure reign Our apostasy! They’ll spin this all away By the dawn They’ll try to make us stay Me, I’ll walk on
2.
Right Supply 02:51
I never wanted my own You get the physical phone call And it's past your prime Won't ever be that time To hope for two blue lines Am I ok? I'm fine, I'm fine Why should we all comply? I got the right supply It's mine, all mine Though it's fitting for some It's not the beat of my drum I'm the end of the line Don't need a cosmic sign I got my stars aligned We're fine, we're fine Why should I justify? I got the right supply It's mine, all mine
3.
Phantom Ring 03:30
Tricked me in front of all my friends Should have known that we were playing that sport No receiver on the other end Still I hope you’ll reappear Tried to place me under that lens Should have known that I’m a casual sort No receiver on the other end Still you hope I’ll reappear Could I be wrong? It’s flashing We wait so long It’s flashing Wish Full Fill Ment I’m interrupted by the phantom ring You’re interrupted by the phantom ring We’re interrupted by the phantom ring!
4.
Where did you think the money’s gone? Me, I never seem to know You ask me what I spent it on To confess I only think of one thing A place That’s not My own New friends and plots A chance To know What a life is not I see them waiting! Some never roam I see them waiting! Still at home Where did you think the spirits gone? Me, I never seem to know You ask me what I’ve led us on To confess I only think of one thing A grain of truth

about

Now available in cassette and digital formats courtesy of Disposable America Records - disposableamerica.bandcamp.com/album/dividends

"The name escapes me at the moment and I'm going to pretend I'm not a tab away from googling the answer, but there is this practice of willing things into existence by merely thinking positively about the outcomes you desire. Maybe that's what's in that book, "The Secret"? I've never read it but I'm pretty sure someone told me once that's what the secret was.

Anyway, Portland, Oregon’s Lubec have taken this art of universe manipulation and made it much more communal. So many of their songs contain these joyful moments where every member in the band is shouting to the heavens like they're casting some sort of spell and I am on board for their brand of witchcraft.

Lubec's newest release Dividends is another step forward for a band I've been following since I first heard their album The Thrall back in 2014. While Cosmic Debt, their prior release, found them exploring the amebic corners of noise pop, Dividends feels more focused and defiant.

Caroline Jackson's piano is driving, Matt Dressen's drums blast and Eddie Charltons guitars seer through the wash of sounds on this short, but sweet 4-track EP. All the songs feel like they've been crafted during a time when the stability we were lead to believe was inherent to Americans, is not actually that stable or real or truthful.

The track "Right Supply" captures these feelings perfectly. "Though it's fitting for some / It's not the beat of my drum / I'm the end of the line" Jackson sings over a swirling piano and reaffirms with "I got the right supply / It's mine, all mine".

The final track on this EP is my favorite. A tight, bouncy guitar riff with deep note piano offsets the pounding drums. A sample of something or another hovers behind this track like a drone-copter, but the finale is just superb. I imagine Jackson, Dressen, and Charlton throwing their heads back, fists clenched, and shouting "Grain of Truth!" hoping that their collective powers can somehow convince the world around them to follow their lead."

- Colin Vallee, Post-Trash

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released September 29, 2017

Caroline Jackson - Keyboard, Vocals
Matt Dressen - Drums, Vocals, Samples
Eddie Charlton - Guitar, Vocals, Electronics

Engineered and produced by Dylan Wall at Hall of Justice and Tastefully Loud in Seattle, WA. Mastered by Adam Straney at Breakpoint Mastering.

Artwork by Matt Dressen

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