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Rising Tide in the Spirit Room

by Orbits

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1.
Tide 02:44
a rising tide in the spirit room lifts every boat made of me and you the salt dries in the empty space and for a minute or two we won't act our age at all a rising tide in the spirit room brings a light to the drywall gloom the waves dance in the empty space we left the last time we tried to paint the walls maybe next year we'll try the door maybe next year we'll get out just a little bit more than we did this year and I'm betting next year when we find the key you'll turn it with me turn it... a rising tide in the spirit room
2.
Jumbotron 02:18
i was on the train to Frankford when the call came and it filled my heart like a shopping cart through a faded plate-glass pane disembarked in the dark but it was too late and i met my doubts at the self-checkout with a courtesy complaint: "i don't wanna do that anymore." shaking like a snow globe, stuttering through the keyframes can't be proud when the point you're making pokes a hole in everything bathing the city in blue light from the shoreway and the lexicon from the jumbotron in the stadium displays: "i don't wanna do that anymore." i hope this finds you well.
3.
Hindsight 02:36
with the benefit of hindsight i had some time to get my mind right i kept four plants under my desk light to replace the stale air for me look at how the chipped paint shrinks I had a bit too much time to think and now the letter on the door lets me know "you don't live here anymore" hey man this was never yours you don't live here anymore
4.
got this string that i'm pulling on now (i'm pulling it now) a seam seen splitting in the background (I'm pulling it now) so i'm letting it tear like it was never there here's me like i was never there not unlike the air ears still ring but i'm settling down (i'm settling down) a pace less pressing, but i'm pacing now (i'm settling down) say what you will of comfort say what you will of peace sometimes a bittersweet pill and i'm swallowing still consolidating threads wound over time and distance an impulse trained to not meet change with such resistance and if i lost a couple prime years caught up in my own shit well i hope there was mutual benefit here's checking bags for change while checking flight information here's a checking phones for range between pristene destinations here's coming home tired, searching for ways to explain it was the trip of my life and the trip was more of the same

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"Hey, let's just try to make some songs and not stress out about them."

Written and recorded remotely in Cleveland, OH, Philadelphia, PA, and Chicago, IL in December 2020.

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released January 1, 2021

Toby Reif (Cleveland, OH) - vocals, guitar, bass, synth, programming, mixing, mastering
Maxwell Stern (Philadelphia, PA) - vocals, guitar, lap steel, artwork
Adam Beck (Chicago, IL) - drums

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Orbits Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

toby reif and maxwell stern met on a message board in 2006. they are now in their 30s!

they have played in many other projects, and between you and me, this one is pretty good.

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