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Namesake Caution

by Time Of Orchids

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And on And on And unto shunning skies Ailing all that is spectacle If you need me, capture this Such is love up front Where strong scathe Menaces to touch Firm, grasping gesture First pleasure and the pain Of bringing forth the news A reaction of held hands For cluttering the way With secret mercy Let these bodies fall True and endwise These bodies all The skeletal Murmur
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It's only a care for the soon To defend your hurrying heart To be part of whole They would have you believe That wonders are never yours to be done In the bare bones What makes you gold from slave Darling abandon, your history Knows no bounds and it forces you Madly, through passages ashen With drudgery into scheme Beckoning In time, your weapon grows for you
4.
Augury Reap what you sow Under heavy wings No multitasking Inconsequential Shout out shut-in He dares In re: referential He bears, mindful Reap what you sow Under heavy wings Waiting, on and on Chasing, particular stall Hating all the stoppage A reflective tendency Parade of seasons past Daunting as love This is upon you This is fair What is fair Run amok, in angle Thrive portions, quaff Under heavy wings Triumph and discipline Must readjust, to breathe So, shelve this Selfish, elfish act Now and forever Then No empty asking No inclination Elimination Gestation A vow
5.
Affairs of clever penalty Blushes in sullen senses Risk anything for a taste This fruit of fortresses Suspect in labor lifelong A vicious artistry unfolds Spreading its figure into form And though it’s just out of your reach Harsh words are used to bring you near They speak of luster bound by shade… And after all, it’s a faultless divide But it’s only matter, a single moment Into rush, what a high-minded crime The treacherous pulse of savages Harken back, villainy Lingering golden rule In the dread and nape Armored lovers share alike New theater veils its purposes A baseborn urgency dwells In the thickest skin Wearing itself thin With a cold and clamping hand Withstand arrival assumed A busybody in full view Arching its way toward paradise A fellow haunting in frame, sworn Channels its dues, closer it looms Bear the pain of wages won Glimpses of our mythmakers Bad tidings sent from majesty In guise, it teems with in-betweens Crowned naughtiest, lurches intrigue A fond farewell to more than it seems
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Gem 04:45
It was hidden very well Well amongst the rocks Blue bouquet arranged Gem, energy is settling Into a bouquet of things Emerge anew, on verge Skyward, searching further Hazard, emerald enchantress Bewildering, precious as candy Surely just as sweet, bedazzler Sordid details, imperil, energy Brash Gem for servant, certain From the mire and lurking Gem for certain, searching From the gripe and further Gem for future, inversion From the mire, skyward Energy is settling Gem, energy is settling Lending a helping hand Blue bouquet arranged Lending, friend in need Energy, emerge anew A bouquet of things
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All pardon the dawning of our rise In actual, dampest, dreariest deed Crib tinge to callow youth Storied free, thistles of scarlet sold Purl, carriages home in harbinger Wrested from clutches Bravery, to a higher realm Banished ilk Able, kindred skin These vaults let in Tarnished Brink of tears, thistles of scarlet sold Ploy, courage to soar above this motion In harmony, broken cradle, creation Hands at the helm, desired Left an impression Bravery, hands at the grind Ruby tawdrily to the soil worth All pardon the dawning of our rise Top of the world drawn tight to eyes Statured ties in spite, sunken bright A withering, mimicked, ribboned Flawless, sheds its own Pearl of scour and seethe Alien, callow scent This hex will end This is not sleep In blue, she sews A sand, which grows Complacency, suppose Command, quip cloying Main white, maiming route Forewarn, where stresses lie Filmic, spectral eyes bright Stigma Lavishes innermost, tactic Duration, arc lumbering, rogue Given free of frenzy, into entry Wrested from clutches Castles clean, calling each Our heart of hearts, protean Chapters close, answer less Indecorous, nesting charge In harmony, from star to star
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In our heyday Dusky spells so easy Like hearth and ritual Praises claimed by an age But brought back Careworn all else this hush With toiling long since Praises claimed by an age Raise high Purveyor of light Praises claimed by an age Serpentine In the heart of cinders spent Everlasting in the horror As all men fall, occupied Good, gracious stroke
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A lurid clamor Sick pity into witness Persuasion by rival Misty-eyed Namesake caution Earthrisen to bask In the ghostwritten Mince words, of hunches and system Real crypts for sparing this, our tendency Not for trade, browbeaten and sifting sands Sunless enduring cringeworthy, sheer duty To the root of character we can forge Marvelously in a deep, black sleep Make haste, spoils of dominion Blemished and preyed upon By strategy undermined The hectic eventual Blisses for business With yearning, the shrill glint Apart, sulking in traces Exchange, likened to burning Biding time, we can find a sly, fertile text Nursery to the beast, taunts the scripted seed Marvelously in a deep, black, glory-bound haze Liberty, come the fierce twin of spirits seized Even as we speak, the supreme Love being Sisterhood prospers We speak in shards It mauls, the harrowing Gravewards ridden, stalklike Dim, writhes the supple signs Cellared and spy, wisps routine Maternal drifts in league, amidst Love being Lilting, grueling flesh, unannounced Drenches, it bores the tempted, selves For pose, propulsion, wit’s end to splendor From feud and without clue, larger measures Sisterhood and the system Infancy divine, a manner of speaking In ridicule and on display or in gusts at play Wilted mine, our last laugh, fatigue flourishes In bellowing, perfect perpetual Web we spin is a thrilling ancestry so crude Winces to plague our murk and see serene
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Own up, elevation, misadventure Cold carnage and entertainment Step out of the silver lining Entertainment woes Illusion, one way to see what can’t be seen Information, private and prying eyes to you yet One wealth to see, one day, captain of industry Of the people, quite an inquiring mind to you yet Blossom, said summoning Bullied stellar, scowling din Entertainment flame Big city lights burn down Grief-stricken, gridiron in flight Our time, burrowing thunder Our time, birthing in debt

about

Time of Orchids was an indefinable avant-rock band that formed in 1999 in New York City. After 3 self-released albums and a release on Tzadik that brought them to a much wider audience, Namesake Caution is their fifth release and their first on Cuneiform.

They don't sound like anyone else, but you can definitely hear elements of film scores, Thinking Plague, new wave/no wave, The Beach Boys, Shudder to Think, Yes and The Magic Band, among many others. These disparate influences should give you an idea of just how different this band is from basically anyone else I can think of!

They have a unique and jarring slant on music – a wedding of staggered angularity and a sweeping, seductive beauty.

This is the band's most dramatic work yet – an album that sparkles with a deceptive pop linearity and ventures maniacally outward from that base.

Nicely recorded by Colin Marston (Behold....The Arctopus), this album boasts layer upon layer of rich, orchestrated vocals, strange guitar figures and otherworldly keyboard textures, all draped atop a rhythm section who are rock solid and complex.

Weird...stunning...and weird once again, this is unlike anything else except Time of Orchids.


"Time of Orchids brings sludge-rock, filth-punk, and aqua-smudge so twisted you'll want to join the band. Torch this paper, breath in the ashes, then hear this band!"
- The Village Voice

"Dense and complex...haunted sonic cinematography and elliptical poetry."
- Time Out NY

"Creative, intricate rock composition played with great precision and painstakingly crafted melody and harmony."
- Downtown Music Gallery

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In early 2008 - less than six months after the release of this gem - the band announced their disbanding:

"After eight and a half years, we have decided to call it a day. We want to thank everyone who supported us and shared their love - fans, friends, labels, etc. We are proud of the work we did and the five albums we recorded. They will stand as testaments to this experience and can probably tell our tale better than any of us can in words. Enjoy them. A major theme in this band has always been that of time and the time has now come to close this chapter."

Thank you for listening...

-ToO

credits

released September 18, 2007

Chuck Stern - keyboards, vocals, guitar
Eric Fitzgerald - guitar, vocals
Jesse Krakow - bass, synthesizer, guitar
Bodie - drums, percussion, foam machine

Produced, mixed and mastered by Colin Marston and Time of Orchids at MENEGROTH, The Thousand Caves, Brooklyn, NY.

Percussion overdubs and some machine noises recorded at Darkworld Studios, Kingston, NY.

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Based in Washington D.C.

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