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Phantomwise

by Encyclopedia Frown

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1.
I can barely play this instrument I can barely carry a tune I only know a few chords But I've got something to say Half baked plans and fleshed out dreams Time ain't on my side I can pay for everything But too steep is the price This must be my cognitive dissonance This must be supersonic interference This must be tectonic indifference This must be my cognitive dissonance I'll have to get used to the fact You're a million miles away You willingly took my place so that I could stay I would never ask of you I know it's just a dream All I have are nightmares and scars Of a life not well lived Love is nothing without sacrifice According to Marie Eugenie It doesn't matter how far you are You'll always be with me I'm already at the corner of McKinley I'll wait for you on High Street if that's okay These words will never mean the same to me again Before the IELTS took you away
2.
Phantomwise 04:20
We were nothing close to neurotypical In the same way dinosaurs ruled the earth We were nothing close to neurotypical Blown away like ashes of an effigy You have no idea what I had to go through To feel nothing at all when I look at you You have no idea what I had to go through To feel nothing at all when I look at you I still think about you phantomwise Phantomwise I was a fog and you were the sun You pierced right through me the damage was done
3.
The monologue must be internal The pain you made me feel seems eternal You're the sun and I'm the moon We're caught in a vicious dance Years wasted sleeping Knocks me from my trance Dreamers dream Doers do You're a dream yes you're a dream I'm waking up from you Baring my heart and soul to you Always draws a blank Your words have lost their meaning The cruelest of pranks Dreams have turned to nightmares Lucid dreaming nights Waking is the antidote To free me from this blight What is your agenda This Ghost of you exists Finding meaning in the mud Why must you persist
4.
Marinduque 03:28
Sun sand and sea Showing the way to me Light refracted waves A million different shades Rose colored feather clouds Watch me stare at the horizon Heading towards my destination That I have never been to Marinduque The waves are bigger at the front of the ship Gently rocking me back and forth The ocean's tinted orange red the moon has made its entrance Ahead I see the great unknown I've been there in my dreams What's in store for me? What's in store for me?

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"...Austerely daubed and cloaked in an angular shadowy post punk brittleness, these edgily ice cooled grooves nod to a sonic disquiet that rumbled through the grooves of platters heading out of the likes of open eye, fast product and factory records, the disaffected frost that swirls around opening salvo ‘cognitive dissonance’ has all the hollowed wherewithwal befitting of a youthful Chameleons while the glooming long stir of title track ‘phantomwise’ hangs itself heavily to the bleak deadheading scowl of the days oncoming positive punk – latterly to become goth – shimmering Batcave / Situation 2 scene most notably the March Violets. Lighter in texture, tone and sound ‘dreamer’s dream’ comes blessed with the kind of anthemic isolationist framing that recalls both Zerra 1 and Ellery Bop. Essential of course, in case you hadn’t already gathered."

-the sunday experience


"The duo Encyclopedia Frown comes from the Philippine capital Manila, their debut EP PHANTOMWISE is convincingly minimalistic with its stripped down postpunk bones yet astonishingly melodic in structure."

-onetwoxu

credits

released October 28, 2016

All songs are written and arranged by Encyclopedia Frown
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Sound Carpentry Studio
Produced by Ronnel Vivo

E.P Cover/Art by Ronaldo Vivo Jr
Concept/Art Direction by Kaya Katigbak

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Encyclopedia Frown Manila, Philippines

Encyclopedia Frown is a power duo from Pateros and Pasig, Philippines.

Heavily influenced by the "Glücklich-Traurig" school of thought, their performances are fraught with tense energy teetering on the brink of collapse as they coax harsh otherworldly sounds from their instruments. ... more

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