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Year Of Endless Light

by Wilder Maker

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    NOTE: having traveled from apartment to apartment with me, and due to various decisions i made trying to save money in production, these LP jackets are a little banged up. I apologize for this, but I have to sell them as is. There should be no issue with the vinyl itself, just the jackets.

    Vinyl version of the album, comes with a lovely full download of ALL EIGHT tracks in whatever form you please. Artwork by Jordan Piantedosi, layout by Katie Von Schleicher, insert with full lyrics. Edition of 500.

    Tracklist:

    Side A
    I. Float Us Through The Barroom
    II. Song For The Singer

    Side B
    I. Slow Life
    II. Lullaby
    III. Holy Night

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    Cassette version of the album, handy for your Walkmen. Comes with a full download of all eight tracks in whatever form you please. Amazing artwork by Jordan Piantedosi, and layout by Katie Von Schleicher. Edition of 250.

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1.
I defied the wasting life slept inside a dead dog rain woke me hopeless and the birds sang out black from the sharp twists of the brick where the soft fists fell like stars in my eyes humming with liquor I sang death to new Romes fire walking in our blood now the wild sky above us forever and for no one every tight fist holds an absence an idiot destroyer oh all these things forgiven losing numbers I fell in time with you it rained a bible rain and we fell laughing on the floor my favorite danger breathed in the moon and shattered all the stars in my eyes oh my god I've seen pleasure like a breaking wave fire walking in our blood now the wild sky above us forever and for no one every tight fist holds an absence an idiot destroyer oh all these things forgiven when we rise we rise so high cross and calvary forever out of sight ascending night glitter slow somewhere in the pulse a perfect place to go some sweet humming burden half lit in the snow fire walking in our blood now the wild sky above us, forever and for no one every tight fist holds an absence an idiot destroyer oh sing the sky down if the song is true true true you always had the power but man you never knew it every dark thought the crime in the eyes of the criminal crossed you like a shadow oh everything forgiven
2.
If you wake and find me gone do not follow me through the telepathic night through the narrowing day I am told it is better this way I been wasting my time I been wasting my time another novel turns to pulp at the bottom of a sea of red red wine I been wasting my time the moon hangs high like a portrait of your mind lying in the unmade bed 'til another sun kisses the lip of your weary eye and you swear you will do better this time I been wasting my time I been wasting my time another song gives up its form in a bed so wide and warm I know I been wasting my time I been wasting my time I been wasting my time I been rising with the dust and falling like your chest when you let out that breath you drew in just before the airplane crashed and I just want you to come over and stop my troubled mind turn the TV on pour the drinks up to the lips let my silent blood curl towards the wilderness we can talk about the weather we can talk about your friends we can talk about anything except the thing I can't forget in the darkness of my bed in the locked room of my mind I know I been wasting my time
3.
Hangs Hooks 05:14
all we ever wanted the cool hands of sleep around our neck the oceans sing beneath our candlelight and crashing waves whisper losing is a kind of peace and the tongues of mermaids kiss blisters away another glass of wine a crisis of creamy skin blooms Here in this high white space I understand the animal trapped in highway light the way any lost sweetness hangs hooks in your heart
4.
here's a song for the singer who's trembling with light so bright and so brief a bulb burning out in the darkness of the held breath blue hour she lets me see the way her eyes are wet and rimmed around with red like the skin around my handprint on her hip I am the secret that she will not tell the next one There'll be peace in the valley child but not 'til we're old 'til our bodies have abandoned their planetary  pulls on my collar breathes from deep in her throat she says let's make it hotter than a center- fold me in two I am weak as a dollar I am passed from hand to hand for pleasure but in the clear night when I stand at the mirror proud and upright flying like a flag muscles singing in a hundred part harmony my body's meaning unlocked by her body When she holds me in her arms I know it is not me at all it is the wish that is the heartache that will kill her by and by and by the way her hand lights on my hip at the bar I know for certain that tonight we will be lovers she says your clothes look so good in a pile on my floor I say the idea of you is enough to start a war it's heat lightning in my heart her heartbeat mingles with the rain drums on the windowsill and it seems every single thing's alive and so so far away but in the clear night when I stand at the mirror proud and upright flying like a flag muscles singing in a hundred part harmony my body's meaning unlocked by her body and every now and again she comes to me in a dream she says you don't have the gift the gift has you she says let your demons cover you in kisses she says you never gave me quite enough and in the morning I feel the absence after the train and my heart rings and rings like the telephone in the apartment next door it rings louder and it beats harder it is the clenching of the fist in my chest it is a heart that will beat me to death
5.
Slow Life 05:27
Soft eyed seeker did you find your mercy blow
 lucky victim safely carried home
 your face in shadow and then your face in light
 blameless sleeper rough hands reached you
kissed you bloody to the ground oh that slow life 
it’s a love song all the time
 watch the waves speak one word only 
over and over and over

 beauty only deepens with defeat
 brown hair blown wild soft hands worry stone
s honey you know it’s ok not to be christ come down
 I’ve loved you always but you just love the architecture of your mind

 oh that slow life 
it’s a love song all the time 
it was glory
 you were glory
 skipping stones at the sky 
watching the waves wreck
 in your dry eyes
 the same mistake every time 

slowly glory burns
6.
we fell asleep on your narrow couch while the blue snow fell the breath of an invisible order of things shone where your hair touched my wrist when we awoke we moved so slow silence came down like a blanket of snow on and on You turned away I could still taste your tears on my lips the teeth of an invisible order of things tore the park apart I am restless in my blood and I trust no marriage bed I see my life laid out from ship to shore to ship to shore but I am awake in the golden city I am awake in the golden city and Caroline I want to come home Caroline I want to come home when I awoke I moved so slow trembling with freedom, nowhere to go on and on
7.
Lullaby 07:56
the endless dream of days lost underneath the covers turning time away just like all good lovers and hey baby there's nothing to fight about but hey baby what you doin still hangin round the things your body knows the way you lost your clothes, darlin it's a sin it buries me in snow this morning is a joke I never need to hear again did you sleep well did you dream at all did you sleep well did you dream at all did you sleep well you better go now you can take your coffee on the train I'll say I broke the mug
8.
Holy Night 03:58
holy night
when I can set this whole mess right
give away my long low life
let my worries die in you
let my worries die holy night
I gave until I lost my mind
jealous of each trace of light
that ran along your skin so white holy night
I'm paying for it all my life
something woke in me that will not die
you were never half as kind  
as when you took your hand from mine

about

“A remarkable album, richly conceived and remarkably, wildly played…a river of American sounds…bizarre and original.” – Jayson Greene – eMusic Best of 2013

"Wilder Maker’s sprawling second album, Year of Endless Light, concentrates at those drop-everything arresting moments, the type of holy fuck jolts that spur a compulsion to rewind/replay: listen listen listen and maybe if you listen just one more time you’ll finally get your head around some hidden secret.” – Nathan Huffstutter, The Fiddleback

"Recommended highly for fans of heavy folk/country/rock like Bonnie Prince Billy, Richard Buckner and Neil Young, this album is just about overwhelming in its scope and breathtaking in its execution." - When You Motor Away

“An incredible breadth of vision that defies musical genres.”

-Folk Radio UK

credits

released September 10, 2013

All songs by Gabriel Birnbaum (So Cruel And Oh So Bright, ASCAP)

Derek Beckvold (clarinet)
Adam Birnbaum (piano on "Invisible Order")
Gabriel Birnbaum (guitars, saxophone, percussion & vocals)
Elio DeLuca (bass, keyboards, percussion & vocals)
Will Graefe (lead guitars & vocals)
Brendan Higgins (bass on "Slow Life")
Siv Lie (viola)
Andrew McGovern (trumpet)
Danny Mekonnen (saxophones)
Peter Moffett (drums, percussion, vocals)
Katie Von Schleicher (keyboards & vocals)

Recorded by Elio DeLuca at the Soul Shop, Medford, MA (www.soulshoprecording.com)
Produced by Wilder Maker
Mastered by Jesse Brayman at SoundMirror (www.soundmirror.com)
Artwork by Jordan Piantedosi (jordanpiantedosi.com)
Design by Katie Von Schleicher

Immense gratitude goes out to Ben & Diane Birnbaum for their neverending support, to my busy brother Adam for finding the time to contribute, and to Will, Elio, Katie, Pete and everyone else who's quit jobs, slept on floors and drank too much bourbon by my side.

Much love,
Gabe
Brooklyn, NY, 2013

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