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Invocation

by Analog Bandits

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1.
Progressing in, nearing my destination Harrowing fear is building inside me The silhouettes, growing bigger than a beast Tempting fate, as I go beyond my reach I know I’m alive I know it’s contrived Through the passageways now I'm on my own Veiled in history, now exposed In the cave, everything End of life, stagnating Loss of identity Clawing out, infancy Hold thy breath, life in me I can’t feel anything
2.
Derelict 02:52
Of the mixture between two minds, Not quite bicameral but intermingling whys Has my agency slipped away, Or have I gained impossible might? Am I a shell, Am I a man Quivering hands produce their dew my heart beat flies it races through The fringes of vision blur and black consumes My limbs don’t move, my eyes can’t blink The weight of life crushes all my will reason’s missing and can’t be found It’s absconded with my normalcy It’s all gone away reason’s missing and can’t be found It’s absconded with my normalcy My limbs don’t move, my eyes can’t blink The weight of life crushes all my will I’m clenching on, to all that’s here Nothing but my excess fear something brings my eyes to light
3.
A weight has been lifted but the weight never existed / at all And with this allotment my heart’s slowed to a crawl Laboured fingers open my hands Numb from the death grip In the hallway of consciousness I now can exist Through nominal times, I’ve tasted sensations of who I am inside Because my identity, is wrapped in a vacancy, I lost, my mind But lucid I think of this, a new body I am in, alive Tempting feelings substance inside built up passed my breaking wonder at the mountain's mist and defy the order and cult for my beliefs Fastidiousness fathered my own heart to do this But I never thought I’d become, become my own creation Somehow I’ll learn to live with this but today is one situation Fastidiousness fathered my inclinations to do this But I never thought I’d become, become my own creation But I won't believe I’ve become, become my own creation
4.
The Mountain 03:57
Given graces, trampled on by those who are bemused Make a mistake, and then watch the fruits of yours misused The spark of life that’s been gifted has been squandered and abused Petty feelings, but the potter’s clay can't be reused Worry not, you’ll understand this in time Pinned to stone, heavy burden your blight Belief in precious life, maybe I had crossed the line, Seemingly imposed guise unknown I feel the skin exposed, Consciousness now is intertwined, The body left behind has no mind Mistakes are nothing but un-found truths The truths of the souls now fused And I will now see this through Hurry now, you’ll understand that I’m right Soul and stone, the Mist has granted you new life.
5.
Entropy 03:45
I’ve made something, that cannot be captured in any way Songs that are played, sound like white noise in a silent wood Pictures of it, don’t do justice. You must see the sight See it clearly, it’s majestic and will sap your might Not Medicine, nor tonic, it can't be swallowed or taken in. Feelings can't be replaced. Feel the weight of conscience , rounding up your mistakes, it's always there, but you don't know why. All in the mind But it's behind Taking all time Cannot rewind Betting on your life Laden with strife The relegation of asphyxiation Potential crashing mental lashes inside of me I feel the burn open up the urn It contains the ashes of my deceased desires Feel the curtain fall, and it falls around us all Clipping out the sides, left with only center Paint the numbered sky, it clamors and is drawn on by The solemn few who dare, to cross the lines
6.
Mnemonia 04:14
The silhouette is fading fast, it’s an enigmatic functional charade we duplicate A mellifluent chorus weaves in and breaks into the siloed cues we made in solitude A wall breaks up inside One step forth, two backward, three steps a whole new lesson instructions, libations, obsessions, insurrections to light up, connection, in life there’s one new black hole my mind now, in torment, rips sage up calculating you can hold out you will breathe out images. malcontent. disjointed. all in a person Mistics stand. gladius. stabs them in the cauda equina iodine. terminate. cavalier. mass hysteria. waiting line, fascist priests, souls are in captive restraint holding a standard, you stare with reckless abandon mashing the relatives, constant human bereavement I sense the memory coming back into a stable state of mind A precedent isn’t here I’m now speechless. I cannot feel around me , I don't know where to go. Falling apart in silence I am just heart and stone. Everything breaks around me , I don't know where to go, clinging to this body from a place on high. I know I'm alive. I know it's contrived.
7.
The Mad Mist 03:05
Can I do anything about it? Lack of control seeps further in me I feel it coming now, the cycle Another burst of trepidation Holding on My rest’s coming soon Redact my innocence, I’ve left it Along with all my fleshly burdens The feeling’s coming back so quickly Subconscious leading me to frenzy Where I’ve been they all want to go I see them heading towards the crown, breaking all the doors Incensed beyond the pale fallow words they’ve said I know that I’m okay all I need’s a break I’m getting used to it, the pattern it’s just like constant repudiation If I feel nothing now, they’ve won it I have a body grown to take it Holding on Light breaks at dawn
8.
Catatonia 04:14
Feel the world open it’s jaws Collapsing them around us Did I know that was, what was happening Now, that I've only had enough to sate my panting thirst-thirst for exorcism Cameras roll and capture this Moonlight stroll through distances Aimless shot at the moon Crickets can't even swoon Mastery of the ancient art Calisthenics of the heart Brick by brick building walls Now I go, my duty calls Waking up I felt the same Except without my brain Others feel I’ve gone astray As I sit between these walls Dancing lights flip and crawl A new dream enters thought Is this mine or is it not Crippling fear anxiety Still it sits and torments me This begins the descent Paper cuts on paper hands Waking up I felt the same Except without my brain Knowing not identity It’s just not the same today My frame of reference gone away
9.
When I grow up I’ll be the king The king of life And everything I know that it’s true Because in my youth I made some planes That flew out of view Oooo they flew Out of view But I can’t seem To remember a thing Of consequence That would help me I’m left here alone Cold hands of stone With a man That I don’t know I don’t know what, what had happened He’s just lying there, there abandoned And the silence, on the stone floor Its revealing, he’s not there anymore There no more. I wonder if I’ll make it Not sure if I’m mistaken There lies within my blueprints A place of high importance A place of high importance I’ll go there and seek purpose For code has lead me to this There lies within my blueprints A place of high importance The place they control The place we’ll take hold And free the souls

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The album has 3 movements: Body (1-3), Mind (4-6), and Soul (7-9).
It follows the story of the transfer of consciousness of Stendention into the body of his created golem Petrus.

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released June 10, 2017

All songs written and performed by Analog Bandits
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jordan Haynes in Louisville, KY
Album art by Polyrhythm // polyrhythm.studio

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