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Vandalized Statue To Be Replaced With Shrine

by monde ufo

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1.
Rectory 03:42
Where in the worlds Deepest core Are we born Down way down Out of bounds School taught belief Mythic beatings pieced for peace White pale white Sacred rites Let it pardon this soul uncontrolled An Unrelenting hole Or hellscape Unbeknownst by god If it’s a lie Open the van and get inside Hold on to these Parcels Of pleased Land in demand Do not obey or be afraid It’s just the stakes All old money saved inside Maintain the hands and alibi The house stands Exhausted Famined From no base within The ground still shaking Let me at it no luck casino Ugly fully conceived But sure Being brash is worth more Aching muscles Slowly deceive The Lore of what my people stand for As a place Apart of this world Stay here Or be alone
2.
Racing on in Q******** The rat in me has cut its teeth Im sleeping less the racket Knows No difference Fevers and red arteries ///// My eye lids mirror the consitences A stroke of luck the blemish leads to heat Live stream funeral in my yard view my grandmothers Flowers from a far It Makes the sentiment a little different But I’ve never cried to Jim Reeves May the good lord bless and keep me My father in the hospital viewing from a different screen Oh someone is with me The connection a little weak Its Over used its over seen Let all the blood flow Pooling up the creek Damed up no recede An angel from up above came down to meet a devil for lunch and discussed Plans to give me an ultimatum they schemed about money And professional opportunity For just a little demoralizing fee See my father has blood clots by his knee Clogging up the artery’s But the callouss break off to his intestines So they wanna strike a deal him or a career Which was a rude inspite the pandemic happening Oh they weren’t with me The jesture is shrewd A weak moment through and through Let all the blood flow We know what the deals mean a loose loose poisinng No crossroads here its clear no deal They said sure of course its just their work that they have no pension or incentive They just work for trips to earth The beaches closed and I’m still at home Moving on the race is on I quit coffee to understand my occupation For they all laugh and enjoyed I was still currently unemployed And struggling to make anything happen
3.
A sudden Decrease in flow and heat Falling sphere consumes our tree The lady formed light tho hardly seen So suddenly A look of of grief one can’t unsee A Quick glimpse of hell Good thing we’re kneeling No need to be exposed As the prophecy unfolds Too Illiterate to be let in Above a fading heaven Or an unknown lit sky The conflict’s gonna end Unless we stop offending him The slowing war falling in You seen the bright flash glowing light settling in We’re in the 1000’s Sharing visions As the second is exposed And The prophecy unfolds Write the book to avoid our sins Number 3 stays hidden Bishop moves in Diagonally ambitious To make a difference Of their sense of godlessness
4.
5.
Air Quality 02:33
inside a rented home one room but not alone Am I mad id say no The air can be clean the Shelves won’t worry Poorer are thee employees or the immunities Am I mad I can’t say no Distracted and lacking A moral backing Common flow stolen low
6.
The crucifix behind my catholic school Was defaced The Virgin Mary too A cult or just some older kids Smoked in the woods And Carved on shit mostly About people that were easily sexually active With some Harshly scratched Reactions on the ceiling I left the playhouse took the slide Rode my brothers bike and found my father We were leaving the park got dark the shadows gleaming I’d ride the trails Trying to be less scared Well The jumps were bad And there was lots of trash Old mattress pads, and dirty mags Sex toys split right down the middle I heard about a witnessed seance Classmate said they needed Attendance She said she joined and I said I sure but thats All I heard Strangely things did disappear Even before dark When the church was still clear old men offering booze to older kids A bad form of acceptance Abandoned Encampments of older age Bones dispersed everywhere Metal bent in symbols In trees and broken pieces Found remains of industry Deep in woods smoking weed Forgotten local people hiding out Or just sleeping School has closen lack of need Priest still stay in the rectory Beneath the trees grown elderly Across the lot from Mary
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8.
An after supper walk Into The garden begins the end of you An overwhelming scene Bleeds down The eyes have cried this cup to drink to Can’t wait more On this old folklore Spirit willing As the flesh grows weak The sorrowful mystery Of the rosary Accept the hour to be betrayed But tradition longs To sleep On some gathering to decree So wake up An hour is not so long Before thy will be gone
9.
One and one and one and one Fours enough alone and stunned Pressured heat from machinery Lacking source and chivalry Mountain poem dissonance Thin list in defiance Whats the deal Does it rush to leave a meal Civil sightings Go and let me be alone Atoned from all these homes That I can’t see in An end of justice I am you and you are we Leaving footprints All around this empty scene The ghost of disbelieve But I’m just working Sit alone and let it be Abandoned canopy incense and the difference Hold the luck and keep the seal the fruits the seeds anything really disembodied The clueless ideal And then were back here The city has its expertise Cementend reasoning Achieving all these seats For all of us to eat And think about leaving Holding on this pouring rain Its apt to lag and say That theres no difference The rent is paid but is world at bay? Stuck inside an idea that knows no difference That I can see here
10.
I'm So Tired 03:18

about

Heralding 2023 from way out west, Monde UFO land on Quindi with a distinctive album of dream pop vignettes and outer rim punk exotica.

Hailing from the same Californian heat haze as recent Quindi signings Bondo, Monde UFO have manifested in the past four years through a series of DIY releases including their 2021 album 7171 and last year’s set of Fugazi covers, 4 Songs. The loose fit project centres around the singing, playing and songwriting of Ray Monde and Kris Chau and features Kern Haug and Evan Tetrault on drums. The resulting sound arrives as a resourceful analog of plush 60s pop captured through the modest means of a truly independent musical endeavour.

The sound rendered on Vandalized Statue touches on dubby atmospherics, the lilting breeze of bossa nova and the introverted muse of US indie rock, but the end result is a natural, cohesive whole centered around the songwriting. Imagine the girl from Ipanema sat toking in a comfortable spot in the corner of the dive bar while someone weaves her a tall tale or two, and you might be somewhere in the right direction. The stories in the lyrics unfurl as meandering narratives taking you through everyday exchanges and far-fetched, cosmic scenarios alike. At every turn the cosy musicality gives everything a relatable, homespun charm, even as the mixing desk becomes a mess and the lo-fi FX crash into each other.

The album will be fronted by three singles which reflect the wide reach of Monde UFO’s sound. ‘Visions of Fatima’ is one of the more melancholic pieces on the album, fronted by laconic organ and centring on cracked vocals with an off key charm that indirectly evokes Jeffrey Lee Pierce. ‘Government Employee’ is a sun-kissed trip of low-key lounge surrealism, bizarro storytelling and shuffling exotica splendour which broadly defines the woozy mood of Vandalized Statue. ‘Garden Of Agony’ is a more delicate but no less dreamy piece matching electric tremolo with acoustic fingerpicking balladry which hides its considerable depths behind a seemingly simple arrangement.

At once intimate and projected into the cosmos, Monde UFO add to the particular path Quindi is taking through hidden corners of independent music with a romantic, restless spirit.

credits

released April 21, 2023

Kris Chau: Singing Bowl, Vox
Evan Tetrault: Drums on tracks 1, 2, 9
Kern Haug : Drums on tracks 4, 7
George Langford: Percussions and Drum Programming on track 9
Ray Monde: Saxophone, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums (track 3), Bass, Vox.

All songs Written and Produced by Monde UFO
Except "I'm So Tired" written by Ian MacKaye

Recorded by: Ray Monde except tracks 4 and 7 by Kern Haug
Mixed and Mastered by : Kevin K Smith.
Partial Mixing by Kern Haug on tracks 4,7
Art Work Layout: Kris Chau and Ray Monde
Photo: Andy Redbears

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