Ouroboros, by Oodles

Ouroboros

by Oodles

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releases May 1, 2024

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1.	Dada 04:04	lyrics	buy track
I want to move somewhere cold Want to suffer when I'm old Diabetic fog in a cataract cloud Keep me hungry I’ll birth abstract emotive extractions To be quaffed by the connoisseurs of future taste I will be unique, single, solitary, and exclusive 18 year-olds will study me at community college Artistic living seemed so romantic Wished I could be Marcel Duchamp Barium sulfate, iodine contrast Life imitates art imitating what? Can’t finish a sentence Can’t finish a drink At 2 a.m. can’t help what I think Atheistic, pessimistic, nihilistic, indignant and willfully ignorant Surrounding and mounding, I’d rather not know what exists Artistic living seemed so romantic Wished I could be Marcel Duchamp Barium sulfate, iodine contrast Life imitates art imitating what Artistic living seemed so romantic Wished I could be Marcel Duchamp Barium sulfate, iodine contrast Now I just want both kidneys to Does transformation look like this? Then why do I still feel like shit? Dada Dada Dada A taste of this, a taste of that, and all I have is this and that Dada I wanna feel nothing new Turn my muscles into goo Give me a simpleton’s mind and a calculator heart That's called stasis I dream of nothin’ but wheat and raisins No scandal and nothing flagrant I will live asleep if I don’t have to think about danger Artistic living seemed so romantic Wished I could be Marcel Duchamp Barium sulfate, iodine contrast Life imitates art imitating what Artistic living seemed so romantic Wished I could be Marcel Duchamp Barium sulfate, iodine contrast Now I just want both kidneys to function Artistic living seemed so romantic Wished I could be Marcel Duchamp Barium sulfate, iodine contrast Now I just want both kidneys to function Artistic living seemed so romantic Wished I could be Marcel Duchamp Barium sulfate, iodine contrast Life imitates art imitating what?
2.	Navel-Gazer’s Lament 05:42	lyrics	buy track
Turn the lock in the key Fleshy fingers, metal strings How come every time I drink I sort of feel like crying? Something borrowed, something blue Something ugly inside you and me Broken verse, post-it notes It's time I got to know myself Meditation, hold my breath Yoga poses as I wait for death! Glass half-empty and I ate the glass Need to lighten up and get off my couch Turn the lock in the key Fleshy fingers, metal strings How come every time I drink I sort of feel like crying? Something borrowed, something blue Something ugly inside you and me Broken verse, post-it notes It's time I got to know myself Out of body, crash into the ceiling Journal entries always start the same My open book burns down the entire library Inverse relationship between wisdom and age Turn the lock in the key Fleshy fingers, metal strings How come every time I drink I sort of feel like crying? Something borrowed, something blue Something ugly inside you and me Broken verse, post-it notes It's time I got to know myself
3.	Onion
4.	Trains and Pigeons
5.	Sylvia’s Song (Never Think of You)
6.	Plastic Jesuses -OR- Simple Times, I Miss You

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EP 2. Recorded in 5 homes, across 2 states, in cars, closets, a pantry, an elementary school, hollered into kick drums, while getting yelled at by the neighbors. Life is cyclical. I take great comfort and discomfort in that idea.

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releases May 1, 2024

Music and lyrics by John Kehl

• John Kehl- lead & backing vocals, guitars, bass, assorted keyboards, saxophone, cornet, french horn (recorded at Friendly Fetus, Treehouse Records Chicago, and Château Pantwin)

• Jason Slota- Drums, assorted hand drums and percussion

• Richard Davies (find him up on BC)- Saxophone, Navel-Gazer's Lament

• Andrew Weber- Piano, electric piano (Trains and Pigeons)

• Brianna Bass (Skunkweed Juju)- Vocals, Sylvia's Song

• Jason Hodac (BOGOH)- Backing vocals, percussion

• Gina Pantone-Urwin- Backing Vocals, Onion

• Tom Urwin (Weaklung)- Screaming guy, Onion

Mixed and Mastered by Matt Gerhard
Hen House Recording, Austin

Art by Colin Luce

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