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What Do You Want?

by Pulp Culture

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machinechance With it's dark soundscape followed by power swing starting at 1'41, Embers of Remembered Dismemberment is an excellent doorway to this band's musical world. They achieve some amazingly intricate, tight up and energized moments.

I'm also impressed at the chordal arrangements, how the vocal lines superimpose...

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1.
“Black Hole Information Paradox” Pulp Culture, Alex Brown [VS 1:] Blow out the burning stars that light the sky To shadow these holograms of space and time. I know illusions run deeper than the mind can see. You are the only one who can teach you how to breath [CHORUS] Main sequence can’t last, collapsing afterlives, Burning out, Gasping for light. Dragging mass, Framing it past elapsed gravities’ time delay. [VS 2:] Staring through a mirror in the back of my head, Repeating all the things that you thought I would have said. Quantum diffusion can’t take this urge away from me; All things I’d ever feel in one singularity. [CHORUS] Fast falling through this event horizon, Echoes of time and space are creasing, Endless… Oh, heartless sun, Please tell them why There’s no light that’s left to shine. Dark falls… Useless info, parallels of past rotations Growing pinholes. Endless chasms, voiding all of life’s creation, Why must I do this? All I thought was sacred told me That I’ll be made to collide with my summation, Take on new shades. Limitations of dimensional causation Keep us all bound To our own hunger that consumes us. Swallowing fractured light, Don’t have the end in sight. It can’t become a fixed position. [VS 3:] Keep all the ashes and smoke inside this aperture, Detaching meaning, so it can only seem obscured. Pierce through the constructs that strip form from reality. Slow down and dissipate, red-shifting cosmic debris. [CHORUS] Blinded Singularity…
2.
“Play, Pretend, Rewind” Pulp Culture, Alex Brown [INTRO] Broken pieces of my memories turn All of the past in parodies, [VS 1:] Burning out. Ageless culminations, useless now. Goodbye, little boy; That’s the way it should be, With your selfdom smothered and numb [CHORUS] And though you claim an innocence, It’s not present tense. All those incidental breaths You’ll dream in afterdeath. Not sure how to spell my name. Am I still called the same? Dreams of planes that name me Xane Are shifting frames that move me through Fourths that fall are moving me forth. [VS 2:] Revelations Of my youth Hold love in my fingers, Slipping through. Unwind all that’s true. Leave me nothing but fate So that I can laugh in her face [CHORUS] [BRIDGE into SOLI] Turning the hands of this cage, Rewinding seconds of life, Bodies and mem’ries decay, Waiting for them to repeat again… [SOLI] [BRIDGE into VS. 3:] Words in the journals that will get disposed of as evidence are Telling the stories that mold me to be the judge penitent of Where doth I lie; How did I fall? [VS. 3:] Lucid now… Faith in every moment, Wearing down. Before this I’ve found Piles of books you won’t read, Art he made you can’t even see. [CHORUS] [OUTRO] Broken pieces of my memories turn All of the past in parodies Of This.
3.
“Through the Vortex” Pulp Culture, Alex Brown [VS 1:] Calling forth Strings between Light unseen To form in Endless being. Tear this shape, Realized; Let it ride Fractalized Eyes shut wide. Spirals cast Concentric portals, Piercing the heart Of the blackest hole. [CHORUS] All you desecrate is sacred to something. Day breaking night is sacred or something. Are we all doomed just to repeat ourselves? Shift parallels? Further we fell. In the belly of this hell you’re still twisting Death starts persisting, Life keeps resisting. Why can’t you ever just accept yourself? Hatred you felt? I couldn’t tell; I’ll never tell. O h w e ll w a s h i t al l away.. [VS 2:] Broken mirror Reflections Form sections, Defecting Signet ring Time cycles On their hands, Shifting sands, Channeling Thought command. Reliving Death to get down cold All of the pain That’s within my soul. [CHORUS] Burn it clean. [OUTRO] And with all choice The world rejoice. They ever try To find out why, Unraveling this string again.
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“Embers of Remembered Dismemberment” Pulp Culture, Alex Brown [VS 1:] 1985, shift to drive. Suicidal business man intakes 15 Vicodin, dope sets in. Crashing flames surround my skin. [CHORUS] Hold the line please; Disconnect me. Straying from dreamed Latitudes. Blame it on you, But tell you the truth. All life’s misconstrued By the space we conceive, Holding onto these trite memories Incites paramnesia. Behind the lines of spectral divides Are folded, divergent Aberrations. You’ve seen it too… [VS 2:] I’m made not to keep track of sleep In between the hours that hold my pain. In this prison camp we’re enslaved. ‘Turning soil to dig my grave. [CHORUS] [OUTRO] All the children sing, “Show us love.” Still grows older and fades away Echoes ringing in worlds above; Harsh reactions, deeper graves. Ooh… Sounds all change in different spots. Makes cold bullets and turns ‘em hot. Skulls of presidents that I shot. Think it’s about time I stopped.
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“Hyperbolic Timelines” Pulp Culture, Alex Brown [VS. 1] Tiptoe through a pearly gate, Feeling numb; I’m feeling fine. Nothing hurts, and I could stay Just to pass the time Build regrets into statues, Hollow on the inside. All my life I’ve tried to see through This emptiness. Oh, Oooh, Ah, This is not what I’ve become: Holographic simulacrum. As above in heaven is hell below. [CHORUS] Consumed by the flames That scorch all planes and spectral contortions. Every name is Stuck to the pain of ritual suff’ring. Nirvana a dream Of all Samsara’s tangent distortions. ‘Way it seems to Fracture us into infinite pieces of a whole. [VS. 2 STARTS BASS SOLO] Oh, Oooh, Ah, Without this, what do you want? (Feeding) Eating all those feelings you haunt, Make you as a martyr, so you might know [CHORUS] [BRIDGE/GUITAR SOLO] [ALT. CHORUS/OUTRO] Consumed by the flames That scorch all planes and spectral contortions. Every name is Stuck to the pain of ritual suff’ring. Nirvana a dream Of all Samsara’s tangent distortions. ‘Way it seems to Keep us transfixed with lives the world leases, Ever it goes, and always it ceases, Fractures us into infinite pieces of a whole.
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“Cognitive Dissonance” Pulp Culture, Alex Brown The weight of volition, surmounting, Hangs in balance with perfect contrition, Recompensing tare, All systems left impaired. In between these worlds of lies Is the crown of thoughts comprised. [CHORUS] Proselytes, being played. Oh, my gods, which ones to blame? Faulty, or fitting, dereliction pervades. The truth will reveal itself just the same Resolve to ruling fiction Though it won't call you by name, So they keep sending us in circles. All basic reductive emotions Retract into inductions they motion. Never is a drill, So hold your pieces still. Fox, his own claimed thirst, refutes Reaching for that futile fruit [CHORUS] [BRIDGE A&B] [CHORUS] [OUTRO]
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“The Wait” Pulp Culture, Alex Brown Instant regret, what name to use? ‘Reasons enough to live in the shadows that creep across the room. Empty desire only lingers In visceral pleasures Hide the parallels of art and life. Moving pictures after nightfall Are past incarnations, Vivid stories of my deaths. Memories matter less, This weariness is happiness. I can feel that time moves without me Just enough to see through reality. I’m a great deal less complex Than distant days, which I possessed. My enemy, he knows I’m here; If he’s alive remains unclear. Condemned to the farthest circle, Repeating the chapters you know. Oh… Then I’ll leave me, Waiting at the moment of truth. I wake up without exception, Hearing shots in endless nightmares, Rubbed out by fire in endless false awakenings, Casting the spell that keeps us waiting. In the same place he comes for me My life is dreams negating, Casting the spell that keeps us waiting…
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“In the Shape of a Painting” Pulp Culture, Alex Brown Color, bright’ning. Forms, contrast to the shadows, Tear through my canvas heart. Oh, ev’ry stroke is hallowed; Bleeding lines between Moving lights, I keep drawing out evocatively. Semblant Senses keep me still Drawn to the most graceful fading. Take all of these needles; Show me where the argument started. It’s insipid, this Protean infinite decline. I create nothing I can touch even though I am Mute, I write I’m right. [SOLO 1] [SOLO 2] [TRANSITION IN 5/8] Coextending mirror symmetry, Dual worlds, Curved Past recollects the present Earth, may she come to falter. There is no thought left to sacrifice; Here your art shall be the altar. In losing sight, I know. In wanting what’s wasted, We ever grow. Doomed to forget, we’ll see. If we ever meet again You will agree. Pyres of continual being have Moved through the axis of this Wormhole. That death is spectrums of life, Visions of light, Verses of songs plucked On strings with hyperverse plectrums. In this space, reflected, I face this manifold, Bringing me back to Displaced, Akashic inceptions Compelled by nature to see Aesthetic lies, Beauty behind transient time, I am just sculptures, decaying. Make me a mayfly To find why I paint Eternal return.

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When the human body dies, the brain is flooded with N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, which controls states of consciousness. It is often said that the entire life of an individual may flash before their eyes during this short transition. Xane was a mortal in passing.
He is watching himself before a star of critical mass, ejecting the rest of its fuel as it becomes a black hole. So close that he sees the gravity of his own reflection, red-shifting while it moves across the event horizon, Xane is the starlight entering the black hole. He faces his judgment, and all the different outcomes of his life experiences replay as he is cast into the void.
The information of his existence is forced through a singularity. Xane's memories are strings of the aether. His consciousness interacts with other dream-membranes, forcing him to experience death as other transient human entities. He becomes lucid simultaneously and is jarred from this 6th dimensional state of existing in multiple shape-shifting universes, to a 7th dimensional state in which he is all of those universes. Enlightened, he realizes a pathway to this objective Omniverse of Nirvana, but it is clouded by his self-judgment and cognitive dissonance.
On this plane Xane comes in direct physical opposition with his doppelgänger. In learning his association with this enemy, he transcends through death, spiraling once more, rising into the 8th dimension that hosts all possible beginnings and endings to every universal state below his phase space.
In his Supreme form he sees mirror versions of all the universes that he is, surrounding him. His perspective of existence is embrightened once more to reveal him as a Colabi-Yau manifold. With all his energy he paints these joined octeracts. Enveloped in Brahman, staring into this painting, he is inundated by the divinity of his infinitude. Alas, his love for beauty is all-consuming. This great 10th dimensional point Is, and it is the same singularity that he Was and Is on a lower dimension at the end of his life. So Xane reincarnates as a mayfly, living in one day only to have sex and die, facing the black hole again.

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released January 30, 2014

Recorded at Metro 37 Studios by Matt Dalton and Joey Hall. Alex Brown (Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar), Andrew Zerbo (Guitar), Jake Van Loon (Guitar), Vince Monte (Drums).
Featuring Josh James on "The Wait" (Alto/Sopr. Saxophone), Josie Mollohan on "Through the Vortex" (Cello), and Andrew Allen on "Eighth Dimensional Blues" (Cello).

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Pulp Culture is multifarious, four-piece, progressive rock band from southeast Michigan. The band consistently delivers an energetic live performance and incorporates a wide array of influences into ideas and art, transcending the creative process and connecting people. ... more

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