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1.	Symptoms Include 03:15	buy track
2.	We Fall Alone 05:14	buy track
3.	Rhodos '71 04:48	buy track
4.	I Can See the End From Here 04:38	buy track
5.	Is One I Regret 05:01	buy track
6.	An Emergent Baseline 04:23	buy track
7.	Clouds of Nostalgia Along the River Lethe 05:03	buy track
8.	An Ocean's Embrace 05:51	buy track
9.	The Dust Left Behind 05:21	buy track
10.	Spectral Companion 05:56	buy track
11.	Sensory Reverie Memory Trajectory 04:42	buy track

about

When faced with the obvious, we second-guess ourselves.

—to make sure.

This is The Fear expressed as skepticism.

We all make mistakes, right?

But when the obvious hits us squarely, we take note: and then deny its very existence. Because to acknowledge it is to face living in oblivion.

The denial works. Life goes on. With or without you.

We reach for technology to preserve our Continuity.

Surely, you would notice its interruption. And your paranoia, validated.

Continuity is important to you. You need it. It becomes the bulwark against the deterioration that occurs on the edges of your perception.

I can see it in the way you clench your teeth when you look under the couch for SaranWrap to cover your laundry, or you can't find your credit card to purchase the same brown handbag for the twentieth time.

Dementia feasts on your precious memories.

And so we're left with the wreckage that has become your Continuity. And we try to survive.

...

For Mother.

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released January 13, 2024

// Written, Arranged, Produced and Performed by: oliver nowak
// Programmed, Engineered, Mixed, Mastered by: oliver nowak
// Photography and Graphic Design by: oliver nowak

Created in Mirabella Studio in 2023.

Special Thanks to: Charlotte Sometimes, Asti, and Big-Pharma. And of course: Mother.

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kidneys optional Boston, Massachusetts

hopelessly obsolete, delightfully obscure, proudly useless, hand-crafted sound.

that clean, sterile, clinical, stainless-steel, post-scarcity first-world hyper-produced late stage techtopia future doesn't exist here.

greasy mechanical expression metastasized and inflamed by discrete digital discipline.

an aggressively personal, expressively experimental, post-industrial experience. ... more

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