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"Hums" was written by Drill For Absentee in 2022. It is included on "Strand of a Lake, Volume 1," one of two 4-song EPs that will be released as a 12" double EP vinyl record in 2023 by Drill For Absentee in the US, Fonoradar Records in Europe, and Friend of Mine Records in Japan.

lyrics

There is a tiger purring in the margins of the meter.
He hums along to an unseen wavelength
An animal let loose off the static leader.

Eyes meet,
And volts overlay together in blind heat.
Across the room, the audio boom
Like the palpitations of a creature in bloom
In open disarray of form,
Leaping off the line, reaching,
With savagery and primal energy.

There is nothing between us,
The vacuum of silence it’s no longer between us,
Only velocity sends the shared chaos of the moment,
Modulations unseen but driving the air,
Frequencies detonating empty space

The hunter dashes across a dry field,
An antelope’s flat high heart flutters,
A moment later in the clutches of breathless, sonic death,
sonic depth,
Silence crushed under the jaws of oscillation,
The humming cycles sparking like the dry cicadas of this savanna
Alive with action,
Excited along an axis.
Ring the alarm.

credits

from Strand of a Lake, Vol. 1, track released September 13, 2022
Michael Nace: guitar, vocals
Kevin Kelly: bass, guitar, backing vocals, oboe
Ken Kuniyoshi: drums

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Drill For Absentee Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

US math rock trio, active 1995 through the end of 1999.

New music released in 2022.

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