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The Ambassador EP

by Western Haunts

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Blue Tides 02:09
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Run through the market like wild hungry children of cannibal criminals free like the flood With their silver silver tongues. You draw a line in the sand hand in hand with the bandits who ran in the name of the cross Crooked albatross You can rely on. Bandits light the… Capitol Fires From the sleeping shepherd You can rely on. Fools gold Are you one of us? On a wire Spark a fight in us. In the fire Where do I stand? Where do I cross? Where will I land? Is it all lost?
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Cairo 04:53
I can see your colors running Fire on a bed that’s burning Silence all your children’s laughter Cairo it’s the morning after Standing on our shoulders pharaoh Line them up and sling your arrows Mired in ancient river narrows Flood the street with all our marrow In halls of elders we’ll bloom our shelter Tear the gates down and flower the seeds of spring
4.
The Strawman 04:56
All my mistakes. In your eyes. Cuts like a blade. In your side. Ghosts in the grain, fire on the plain side Voicing the lie, read off the page lines Halls we haunted, all forgotten You can’t have it either way from behind a veiled lie Singed your wings like a moth from a flame You’re a strawman’s shame inside All my disdain, fire inside Placing the blame, wounded pride. Lighthouse in flames, sirens song wains, cries Rising black tides, drowned suit and tie All I wanted, all eyes on Straw man in the gallows, a hangin’ on All our shadows, a carrion.
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Blue Blooded 05:07
I’m blue blooded, born and bred too slow The meager earnings, of the working droves Sons of Lazarus born, debtor’s prison scorn Burn their idols, restore the morgue We’ll live off the tomb in the wake of, emptied trust All our dimes in a well we’ll drain, inherit us I’m blue blooded, on a pedestal Like my father, just like his before Courses my veins cold, heir to the throne I’ll grow What I’ll inherit, I’ll cast as stones Blood on loan, broken homes We’re all losing blood Our type, tangled up in the blood lines

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Fueled by uprising and in the spirit of the folk revival music tradition, Western Haunts’ moody, psych-tinged fourth release, The Ambassador E.P., follows in the footsteps of its predecessor’s expansive, anthemic song craft, the Utøya E.P.(2011). Recorded and produced by the band in a collection of storage units along a dilapidated stretch of Seattle highway, The Ambassador E.P. (OUT JULY 2012) is a collection of songs penned for the disenfranchised with a sonic wash of populist zeal.

Western Haunts’ musical progression from reverb drenched, Americana into a driving, psychedelic rock outfit continues to evolve on The Ambassador E.P. The band’s knack for layering lush organ and vocal soundscapes with pulsing, percussive, rhythms and spiraling guitar lines, blanket the listener in sound on the new release. Ominous lyrical themes weave a cautionary tale of living in a rich eats poor world of talking heads, crooks, cronies and inequity. On the eve of Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday and the twilight of a turbulent period of global unrest, Western Haunt’s latest work poses the question of what do we do the morning after.

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released August 14, 2012

Jake Witt - Vocals & Guitar
Nathan Witt - Drums & Vocals
Michel DeBauge - Keys & Vocals

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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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