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Quarantine Broken Ballads (For an Infected Dying Country)

by Lonely Me

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Everynight, everyday In quarantine is just the same Moving pictures of my days alone Awaken hours, out of shape I've shaved my head and stayed in bed Stalking neighboors through my window pane Late at night and I'm still waking up I'm out of time and missed my zoom work call Please, stay home Running lives by phone I can barely wish you were here Distracting ways To fulfill my brain Drink my pet peeve shake I'm freakin here (creep) I wash my hands and count my steps along Another loop in time before I get bored Please, stay home Running lives by phone I can barely wish you were here Distracting ways To fullfil my pain Drink my pet peeve shake I'm freakin here Please, stay home Wasting life by phone I can barely wish you were here Distracting ways To spend my days Kick my pet peeve shake Get outta here I'm freakin here (creep)
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Shadowcaster 03:13
Say... You could never make me mad Time will release the truth A dark shade in your grass Come... Walking to the jaws of hell It'll be the only time I'll be thinking of you Time will come Release the flesh I've been waiting for so long Now I'm here to see you fall (down) Wake up... Dancing with your own mess Jumping by your barefoot You've got fire on your steps Play now... Hiding from the light Waiting for the best of you You've got a gun, a point of view (yeah) Time will come Release the flash I've been waiting for so long Now i'm here to see you fall (down) Wasting lies A glimpse of you Now I'm here to see you fall Please let me push you all the way (down)
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Help You 03:29
Now that I've been feeling down My eyes are loud I see clouds on my way All these days that I've been so sure Now are breaking mad All those pieces out of place Breathless I saw you drown away Over water lungs Drug and haze, yeah Yesterday I've felt sorry and wished I could help you... Dig your own grave Hopes and feelings All emptiness Dark cold places on hollow lands Hearts and bleeding In loneliness Misguided dreams by dirty hands All our days are gone Stained in our own mess The life we once knew, broken in our heads Stand alone soldier Through half empty glass Just hang on your dreams no one could share Hopes and feelings All emptiness Dark cold places on hollow lands Hearts and bleeding In loneliness All black hole feed for empty share
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Last Breath 03:05
I can hear you crawling by the night I can feel you row against the tide Wash yourself, trade ignorance by fear You can kiss my ass and say good-bye I can't go back No more I can't go back You can send me flowers everyday Steal from your mother and betray Cut my fingers, I ain't gonna save Keep your last breath to the one you flamed I can't go back No more I can't go back No more I can't go back No more I can't go back No more Who is gonna save you through this moment in the darkness? (Save yourself)

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Lonely Me = Val Waxman
AKA The belly songs

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released August 21, 2020

Produced by Val Waxman
Recorded at home by Val Waxman and friends*
Mixed at "Toca do pombo" by Val Waxman
Mastered by Andre Leal and Kleber Mariano at Estúdio Jukebox
Artwork by Mário Alencar

Val Waxman: ugly guitars, vocals, drums and samplers (01-04)
*Leonardo Oliveira: beautiful guitars and backing vocals (01-04)
*Fabiano S. Cunha: bass (01-04)
*Carlos Otávio Vianna: ebow and backing vocal (04)

Recorded at home along of the quarantine time in May 2020

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Release:

Urgência, desesperança e peso. É assim que podemos definir o segundo EP do carioca Val Waxman, o artista por trás do Lonely Me. Também marca o primeiro lançamento da Jambre Records.

Gravado em colaboração com amigos (Leonardo Oliveira: Guitarras bonitas, backing vocal e baixo; Carlos Otávio Vianna: Ebow e backing vocal; Fabiano S. Cunha: Baixo) em suas respectivas casas ao longo do mês de maio de 2020, em plena quarentena durante a pandemia de Covid-19, crise e a negligência do governo federal. E é assim que o EP se apresenta logo no título: "Quarantine Broken Ballads (For An Infected Dying Country)". São 4 faixas que descrevem a nova rotina imposta contra nossas vontades, os danos psicológicos e a desesperança e insegurança de viver tempos sombrios. Essa temática vem embalada de uma sonoridade crua, pesada e curiosamente produzida em formato analógico, mixado em fita cassete, que só contribuiu positivamente para a atmosfera do EP e a estética lo-fi/noise pop já existente em seu primeiro EP "Twisted Sad Machines".

Mas o novo EP caminha com as próprias pernas, traça um novo caminho do Lonely Me e mostra a versatilidade de Val Waxman dentro do próprio gênero proposto e nos entrega uma sonoridade fresca, direta e equilibrada. De Yuck até mesmo Bad Religion, como o próprio Val afirma como referência. O destaque fica para a faixa "Help You", trazendo toda a identidade do Lonely Me entre riffs pesados, arranjos de violão e um refrão que pode ser cantarolado na sua cabeça por horas sobre todo o vazio e solidão que podemos sentir em momentos de crise.

Tudo dentro dessa obra tem um motivo, desde as colagens de notícias de jornais internacionais relatando a situação do Brasil frente a pandemia em passagem para novos riffs pesados e estridentes, baterias abafadas e a sensação claustrofóbica de faixas como "Last Breath", que inclusive fecha o EP da maneira como tem que ser. Na escuridão.

Diego Carteiro, 21/08/2020.

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Lonely Me Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Shoegaze fuzzy rock songs from a lo-fi noise mind. Interstellar bedroom pop from an outsider jangly soul.

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