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Love​-​Like Banners

by Loki Starfish

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    Loki Starfish
    Released: 20/06/2011
    Label: Gigantic Ego / Mosaic Music

    Duration : 55'17 minutes
    Tracks : 15
    Format : Digisleeve
    Design : Miammiam

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1.
Scars & Promises So now I feel the loss of a thousand And my back is covered with black wounds That’s the only way I found to bleed this out This is the song I had to cry Scars on my back & hushed promises That’s the only way I found to bleed all this
2.
Silence + Evidence I realize as the echo strikes That resonance is a value (none shall deny). Breathing through my will It travels though my bones. Revealed to my perception As a tree of life and sound (It's a shelter for my thoughts) I got my channels all thorn up But I got the message from my Heart through the essence of my blood I got the message from all around I got the message from my touch through the fabric of my skin I got the message from all I am I got my structure vibrating through the mineral of my bones With chromatic chills and lace work keys I got my waves breaking onto Crystal knives stuck into sound Dwelling dawn Peace Marching Reign of evidence Ecstatic void Sounds through wax Thoughts echoing Realm of silence Plastic eternity
3.
Love-Like Banners Now that you step in With your eyes wired on my skin I know that I am The end of the world Foot tracks over dunes The storm's tearing hearts away Love like banners of those who've reached the end You got the will to tread My trust aches within your chest You're out to learn What the end feels like I hear shutters bang You're on your own I wave in silence Till you're out of sight
4.
DIW 04:59
D.I.W Urgently blind I missed my entrance What's wrong on the inside? What's dead in the right circle? And whose fault is it then ? How hard it felt right down my heart To read emotions signs in air I've been trying to face up But Dead Ice Winter covered up in time Struck down on stage drowned in it Is this how it all ends? Woke up quick in backstage spring Hope behind my lids An Inside fire was lit And yeah how good it felt How strong I felt when I walked in Reading the motion through my nerves I've shown hoarfrost and black sparks And Dead Ice Winter was the greatest help Struck right on time Proved to be good Is this how it all ends? Calming my sight I took down the place all hope behind my lids a great fire was on then and yeah how good it felt It took two hearts to get filled by wind and silence I sure had light shining pure here within my stomach How pure I felt reaching the end heart fasten true in slow motion I've shown hoarfrost and glitters And Dead Ice Winter was even greater Struck right in time Proved to be true and it's not how it all ends
5.
Drifting Sun 04:02
Drifting Sun For some nights with you I know I'd quit drugs I know I'd stop the pain on me I know I'd be the one It's crystal clear now What you want from me Simply being myself Simply being myself And the darkness collides with my heart when the day dies I do deserve it I know it is time I know it isn't fake at all I know I'd be the one You make me feel like I'm true Your eyes are filled with courage Your breath, your speech, your sayings Your heartbeats make me feel alive With a nursing light I go drifting like a dead sun I got burn by the radiance Of a long gone mother Now that you know what it takes To face with my own true self Your mind will let go the pain And feel the pleasure we can share
6.
It's the Light And so with this light She envies the way he comes How the rapture becomes him As She never had it Except the rare times she touched She's sort of cerebral Envying life running through Her boyfriend's body Each time he comes His screaming... pleasure shape mouth The way he holds her tight She actually feels him flow down inside She doesn't seem to need anyhting else How beautiful he is when he comes She seeks inclusion She wants to come along Be part of the wave that takes her all From her inner lands to the skin of her breast It's not the pleasure It's his brilliance over and over It's the light inner and softer It's this life purer and deeper
7.
Marlon Mango 03:17
Marlon Mango Mango asked a lot of questions She even managed to make him cry They had sit on the front porch And the sky was a cornucopia Mango was here for the first time in a decade or something But it took her seven days To tear his life to pieces The town was green that day Vowed to its leafy dream But Marlon loved Mango And since his former life was drained and sucked dry In the empty streets of Halifax He would leave it behind And He would follow mango They had this sure thing That life was all by their veins Carrying away all the dirt of this town “Would you come with me If I asked” She said He shed another tear “You little cry baby” (he thought about himself) Before he answered “Yes I'd come with you Straight to San Francisco. That is.”
8.
Intermezzo 01:37
9.
There's No Hatred, No Dare Say I will Ask for help now How weak you made me feel what pure negation you were I know you were in pain Still I can't forgive you I can't There's no hatred no There's no forgiveness either My silence's the price you pay Everyday of your life This is the song to kill your memory To take things back, things that are mine The least I could save The least that is me The least I had before you that remains here within
10.
A Season For Weepers Let me mourn some more of that story It makes my heart barren ground From witch I no longer wish to grow Dried dead with arousing pain And I'm about to give up My airs of despair are dancing by And my shoulders are heading south Far beyond my flesh lies some untold pain And I realise that speaking its truth will never heal And I realise that speaking its truth will never ever heal What else could I complete made fragile yet settled down This pain devours me Someday I'll be informed that I drowned check around what you desire The distance devours me here And those scars are not even pretty Spread over my skinny chest I collapse for once inside myself Yet comes no better end Dusty shades on the eyes Even if you fucker messed me like a whore Men of town Men of shores My fuckin heart's in your town boy Here is one thing done I plant another life A season for weepers A reason to give up
11.
Chambers To Place Doubt We were a concept The feet our god had to pray at A matter of dark lights A negation of the whole self A question mark to be placed upon life We were enabled by chaos A plain white void to fill with dust Some devouring entity Coal eating disaster Some chambers to place doubt Some receptacles life was afraid of Some shores to remove from the map Some lines to be bent over time Some words to be foretold then hushed Some promises to forget Some gender to trouble Some facts to claim unchanging A lack of light in our hearts A lack of soil to root in A lack of hope to grow with Will we just ... just end ? Withdrawn in some mind that's just changed
12.
Crescent Horn In my hazy state of mind Some day starts again With the bracing space Wrote some notes to keep some faith In the tear-flooded breath You were sharp and sincere That light you pressed against my flesh Was magic and even scarier than doubt Write some plans about leaving this town and rename some stars Take the poison from your speech You're a one way ticket to my loss Shut up Shut up You make my pain unbearable You make my will a dying bride You make my wrath taste pretty You make my will a firefly I kept that thing secret in some dying space of mine Choking letters, They realise That syllabic realm of yours Is thrillingly clear Some thirst for your inner being Settles in my mouth And in the darkness of these streets I'm gonna give it to you My speech, my body, my faith The long wave of instant consciousness The large weight that dwells in your heart Dwells forever Shut up Shut up You make my pain a crescent horn You send me off to hibernate You make my wrath bring you higher You make my will your ghost-writer A dozen times The messiest cases of vanished pain Placed confused in the center of your brain The self constructed valour In resonance fades through the cells Shut up Shut up You make my pain a crescent horn You make my will a dying bride You're makin' me your ghost-writer You make my will a firefly
13.
Camisolatic 03:16
Camisolatic Ask me that question again You will see the words fade in Falling at our feet in the void we created The void of misunderstanding Camisolatic Heart You're so attached to me Pardon the fact that I keep playing that game I keep playing the wrong game Now I am moved by a feeling I don't even believe in And I am about to mourn The very existence of love I was never taught how To receive the love I was given I was never told how To give mine
14.
Blood 04:24
Blood Taking the cryptic speech of yours I surely knew you'd come With that fragile move of yours And I deny your existance Come closer darling I never even killed a bird Blushing red sea face open wide Blood held beneath your skin Remaining along my side And I suffer your exitance Come further darling I never even killed a bird Now Fuck me tender fuck me true This is a black thirst for ruby With that certain speech of yours I am part of your existance Fuck me hard darling I never even killed a bird
15.
On The Verge 03:17
On The Verge You got this sense deep inside that the days to come are yours You get tense and uptight To march proud and grateful And a sunfelt desire Hung strong on your heart Complicates the way you're in love with life Dwelling dawn Peace Marching Reign of evidence Ecstatic void Sounds through wax Thoughts echoing Realm of silence Plastic eternity Make room for pleasure and truth Welcome your nerves to peace indulge your forth coming dreams with sips of fluent happiness Chose a point on your inner horizon Convert your lips to kisses And radiate humble but true

about

This is not an album. It is a musical microcosm that radiates into three dimensions: sounds, words and images. Unlike projects where conceptual ambition eventually weigh tons, the combination of expression forms that Loki Starfish’s using is concentrated in a striking pop language, audio and visual, physical and cerebral.
Love-Like Banners appears as an album whose pop tendences and electronica merge in for a finely crafted songwriting. We ultimately found ourselves sunk in a composite universe : melodic clarity, plastic textures, grooves on front line, either fractured, either floating, and sometimes facing with the roughness of rock.
The organic alliance between electronica, pop and neo-vintage can evoke The Notwist, The Knife, cousins who freed themselves from gender divisions chains. The will for aesthetical adventure, visceral land and bodily paths can be found in those gloomy climates from 80’s post-punk bands like The Chameleons, The Sound or Joy Division. We might also perceive echoes of Radiohead, Interpol, Hood’s slowcore, Nick Cave’s tongue, Björk’s exuberance or Dominique A’s elegance.
With Scars and Promises, the album opens on a strangely clear and soft-distorted manifesto, which seems to set the true meaning of the project: "Scars on my back and hushed promised". Silence + Evidence strikes again and more precisely, while Love-Like Banners creeps softly with senses wide open. Gradually a rough course starts cuting its way through clarity and shadows, cynical melodies sounding like cries or even whispers, enveloping waves like a cocoon, ethereal and saturated sounds. The exploration will pass through ambiguous landscapes taking invigorating roads - Drifting Sun - or more tortuous - Camisolatic, Blood - before reaching an awakening : On the Verge, standing for no conclusion, rather a clearing, some suspension points...
So this is not an album it is much more: It is an exploration of this paradoxal microcosm, a little bit like life, stimulating the need to lose yourself and maybe find yourself again in the end.

credits

released June 20, 2011

Produced and recorded by Jérémie Lapeyre
Additionnals recordings by Laurent Saussol
Mixed by Laurent Saussol and Jérémie Lapeyre at Frozen Studio
Masterised by Benjamin Joubert at Water-mark Studio
Texts, arrangements, voices, programmings, electribes : Jérémie Lapeyre
Texts assistant : Julie Chamagne
Graphism and illustrations : MiamMiam, www.miammmiam.com

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Loki Starfish Paris, France

Loki Starfish is an electro combo with pop tendencies right out of Paris' alternative scene, in keeping with groups like The Knife, Fad Gadget or Foals. Sophisticated and energetic melodies with Cold Wave tonalities, the group distinguishes itself by its musical persuasions and the multiplicity of its range. ... more

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  • Mar 29
    Paris, France
  • Apr 11
    Paris, France

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