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Gradients

by Western Haunts

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1.
The Laws 05:25
Bound By bonds We lost Our vows Guilt Our hearts Bought out Our cross Youve been guarded by forbidden gardens (its all because) The laws We seem guarded By beliefs discarded (we've broken all) The laws Shave Our heads We'll sell Our locks Skin Our teeth Our roots Are Rot Starve Our thoughts Feed Our fears Stone Lost souls Burn Our stakes
2.
Millonaires 04:34
In the Town where we were born. There's division A provision for our millionaires In the mines and on the floor Find/buy redemption/theres a mourning No we can't all be the millionaires With all of us mourning, fire off a warning We need the light to light the spark to light Are we fodder for the war Of convention/here's your warning Merely fuel to fire the millionaires Sell your sight to save the store the expansion. Tired cannon of the millionaires
3.
Is this Politic or passion Your preacher is a pusher For people in decline Heart wont revive Mothers milk or oil and water Our profits or a martyr For people in decline Our poisoned pride They're cannibals for hire For pyros lighting fires The people in decline Never fit the design Are we mortars or immortal Or pixels in a portal Our digital divide Poor in our prime When a bloodlust thrives In the throes of a lie A courtship dies We'll hunt our own tribe
4.
We're arm and arm Sorrow We know we've worn Hollow Running On a wire And I know that you're already gone We come from common blood lines Separate lives You follow scriptures time lines Blinded by Your own, your own Vision There's no omen there's no right Prediction Broken beacons only cite Fiction
5.
Curtains 05:30
Hello Will we grow Too old Before were bold Devoted To our mend rewrote Present tense A fading The final throes The caving Our resting home Remaining A farewell show A sudden end To what's about to fall/The writings on the wall The curtain falls The load Will we bear And cope Or disappear Exposed Are we whole High hopes Come with a toll
6.
Waiting Pool 05:19
I drink HS quarterback blood Multiplies the bones in my body Skyline lightning, high on the night Caffeine crash and nicotine prom queen Right into a waiting pool Rip tides of glimmering glass The proof. The light. All of it fleeting The heart. Your life. Can't stop the beating The greed. The fright. All wall street people Their gain. Our plight. Burn down their steeple

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OUT SEPTEMBER 15TH 2015!

On a barren stretch of Highway 99, just south of Seattle’s Aurora Bridge sits Western Haunts’ self-retrofitted recording and rehearsal space. Atop a steep flight of outdoor stairs, within a storage facility in front of a parking lot of abandoned cars is where the band has recorded and produced all of their own releases. It’s a rough, hardscrabble setting, which starkly contrasts with the bands' lush, vast, glacial sound. Paradoxically, it's a sound that might have never developed without the creative freedom that this unique environment offers, free from the time and financial constraints of traditional studios, allowing the band to fine-tune its sound in a way many new bands can't.

Gradients, Western Haunts latest self-released full-length, is truly a product of its environment. Challenging circumstances, including stumbling upon an armed burglary attempt on their studio and nightly rounds of gun fire, threatened to curtail the Spring 2015 recording and mixing sessions. To say this made for a tense creative energy in the studio is certainly an understatement. To say that Gradients doesn’t deliver on the sonic embodiment of driving tension and the rush of cathartic release would be a mistake. Gradients is a lush, vast, glacial album that walks in the footsteps of its 2014 self-titled predecessor. However, what differentiates Gradients from the rest of Western Haunts’ discography is the distinct incorporation of 80’s New Wave and Post-Punk influences, making Gradients their most upbeat and dynamic release yet.

Western Haunts has also partnered once again with local Seattle artists to create the cover and CD artwork for their latest release. Harold Hollingsworth, a talented local artist and painter who previously shot and directed the band’s music video for their song A Zealot Sun and Jason LeJeunesse, painter and Seattle nightlife owner (Neumos, Capitol Hill Block Party) have visually captured the stark, moody tone of Gradients with stunning results.

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released September 15, 2015

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Western Haunts Seattle, Washington

Western Haunts’ KEXP-approved dream-pop sound is a call to Midwestern revival, drenched in reverb and the haze of psychedelia and shoegaze. Across two EPs and their recently-released debut album, the Seattle quartet have slowly sharpened their sweeping harmonics into something that’s nothing short of gorgeously gauzy.

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