I want the small of your back to be a place my hand can rest
Finger prints paint pointless pictures through your knotted dress
But I overthink everything, magnetizing my top row of teeth to the bottom whenever you're near me.
I try to clench my jaw too tightly.
I'm not usually a nervous person, at least I don't think I am, but you make me so self conscious that my tongue begins to take note of the imperfections in the permanent retainer behind my bottom row of teeth. You know, it's not as straight as it used to be.
Takes me back to my high school classroom during the days of binging Inio Asano's old manga scanlations before anything was licensed. At that time, I was discovering many kinds of Asian shoegaze, but I've never heard anything like this. Makes me think of Pasteboard, Supecar, and Midnight Pingpong a bit, and it's funny bc the first two I listen have blue album covers too. Lu
Synths abound on the new single from Hearts and Rockets—icy cold, sharp, and minimal, and topped with a punk rock sneer. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 22, 2020