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SUPERA​~​1

by Les Incoiffables

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Chinagraph 09:44
* A# - Fm - Cm#5 - Fm - All we have is a grand complication There's nothing left to save Though our complexes sync We're divided by our hearts But not so long ago you know you came to me You needed someone who would share the hate Back then we were walking hand in hand The future was ours I'd never let anything get between us When you needed me there I'd give you anything you ever wanted All you had to do was ask But now the tables have turned and it's crushing me The love is gone, and worse, you don't need me Now there's nothing left, even though I try to tell myself You're giving up too fast But all we have is a grand complication There's nothing left to save Though our complexes sync We're divided by our hearts * Fm - Cm C# * Fm - D# G# Orient ourselves in a new direction These subtle ties, it's a strange connection But I need you and I know you know it I need you and I wish I didn't * Fm - Cm C# [Unrecorded lyrics:] 新大陆是旧大陆 (The new world is the old world) 怀旧在杀死将来 (Nostalgia is killing the future)
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* Am C D G * Am D Em Bm The sun never sets on our British desires The gun always takes what the heart requires On the straight line running from the Cape to Cairo The fates are imperial like a mile And for protection from disease We trade away the high frequencies Although we glow under chemical rays It's such a small price to pay * Am C D G * Am D Em Bm The world isn't ready for self-determination The bayonet's tip is civilisation But still we cannot sleep at night As the black turns slowly into white Oh, the sun never sets on our British desires And the gun will take what the heart requires There's a red line running all around the world * Am - Em - But there's not enough gin in this tonic And there's not enough quinine for the boys * Am C D G Am - - - But we're going to make things right next time, you know * Am - Em - But there's not enough gin in this tonic And there's not enough blood in the Sudan * Am C D G Am - - - But we're going to make things right this time, you know Oh, we're going to take the light and make it glow * Am C D G Go, take, kill, rape It's for your own good Go, take, kill, rape We're doing what we should ... Aim, shoot, run, loot We're doing what we should Roads (Rhodes), steam (Stanley), guns (tea), hats (gold) It's for your own good
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* G#m - E - D#m - C#m - * D#m - A#dim B G#m - - - * G#m - E - D#m - C#m -
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[Unrecorded lyrics:] * Em G C - * Em - A - C B7 Em - Em - A - C D Em - We have a future But I know it won't last long So lock the door and throw away the key No-one's getting out of this alive * Bm - Am - G - F#m - Em - D - C - Bm - Em - No no no or yes yes yes Is this what you wanted? No no no Nostalgia is killing the future * Em G C - * Em G Bm D Em - - - * Em G C - When I see the headline I've got to check it When I see a deadline I've got miss it When I see the Rubicon I've got to cross it When I see a lever I've got to pull it When I see an hourglass I've got to flip it When I see a cute couple I've got to ship it When I see a timepiece I've got to have it Time, all our time, is ticking away * Em G Bm - * Em G C - When the colours bleed through And the picture's confused When it's not all that you want it to be The feeling's wrong and you cannot see We're chromatic * Em - A - C B7 Em - Em - A - C D Em - We had potential But it's the current that counts And I'm sick of waiting for the cards to fall It's time to pull the trigger on this thing * Bm - Am - G F# Em - Bm - D - G F#7 A A6 I don't want to be together forever 'cause that's not long enough And if time and space will keep us apart Annihilation is our only hope * Bm - A# - Am G D - * Em G D C Em G D - We can't wait for what the future holds We want it now, we want it now And we can't wait for the end of the world We want it now, we want it now No, we can't wait for the end of the world We want it now, we want it now * Em - C D

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Delivering on every broken promise, SUPERA~1 is an abridged release of the unfinished full-length debut Superamerica—suffocatingly dense chipmusic/rock with progressive and noise tendencies.

We begin with the distemporal arpeggiation of “Chinagraph” presaging the new Peking order. “Compass And Straightedge” takes up the white man's burden and reaps a new reward. A casual disregard for intellectual property rights allows for a surprisingly reverent cover of a decade-old J-pop classic we're calling 「愛する人はあなただけ」. The plunge into dangerously accessible territory continues with the heart-racing floor-shaking pseudo-disco anthem 「ドキドキ」. Affairs conclude and (re)capitulate with the post-rocketry of “von Braun”.

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released June 13, 2016

Written and recorded in Adelaide, Australia between 2012 and 2014 using an electro-acoustic ukulele and a Nintendo Game Boy with LSDJ.

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Mostly rock and electronic, with disco and noise influences, and a fondness for chromatic descensions

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