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Shadow Box Envelope
Each limited edition envelope contains a copy of the Shadow Box CD with 12 pages of artwork, a new companion zine with an additional 20 pages (and augmented reality features compatible with the Artivive app), a letter from us with a description of the project, and QR codes for video features. These videos include two music videos, a full length live set, and Memory Loss- an hour long behind the scenes feature that documents the process of making this project, as well as some backstory on QTC and WitchCentipede. Envelopes include a download of the album, as well as PDF versions of the artwork and zine.
Includes unlimited streaming of Shadow Box
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
An artifact that's kept in a drawer
From someplace you lived at sometime before
It's just a recollection, a thought
A list kept for connecting the dots
It's a splinter left neglected inside
And it's that face seen in the darkness at night
So while you're cycling through the ups and the downs
There's still a frequency that drowns it all out
Won't you be here?
Come home- a place that's hiding just out of sight
It's in the afterglow, illusive but still beaming with light
And it's not far to go...
Do you feel that you have been here before?
The walls fall down, you fall through the floor
And all that you kept buried inside
It finds you there and eats you alive
Like secrets hid in your shadow box
Through doors now closed, and some that are locked
And all the things that no one could know
It's time for you to let them all go
Won't you be here?
Come home- a place that's hiding just out of sight
It's in the afterglow, illusive but still beaming with light
And it's not far to go
You're insistent that you will and you might
I think we're almost home.
Follow the trail back down
Finding the long way out
A call, a connection
Step back, don't interfere
These are lessons from yesteryear
Still you keep on drifting
All the trees tower overhead
So replay that thought again-
"No time like the present"
I said that I meant it
And I call out for change
I ask for forgiveness
'Cause you said I'm to blame
So you taught me a lesson
And now I'll let go this way
I'll embrace new direction
The wind takes us whichever way.
No time like the present
And no words left to say
I'm alive and insistent
This is my time and my place
So you taught me a lesson
And now I'll let go this way
I'll embrace new direction
The wind takes us whichever way.
Clutching tight to these delusions
A safer space, a home inside
It's for these reasons I keep moving
From place to place, a name unrecognized
With intersections in the traces left behind
So if these notions seem confusing
It's 'cause there's pieces I forgot
From time to time, I might remove them
And I'll re-sequence details, rearrange the plot
But with names and faces that I thought I'd lost
But I know your crimes.
And I know your shame.
Can you learn to let this go and walk away?
"Yeah, I'll tell you all about it someday"
Just hit rewind, try another way
Your secrets kept up in the rafters
Away from all who would find them now
I dissolve in the absence of change
This is a call to my list of estranged
For every path I've known, I let you go each time
To be absolved as I wander my days
Be self assured in your decisions
'Cause once you leave, you can't return
It's not the same, no it's some place different
Like a memory or a fragment overheard
A distortion of the way you thought things were
I'll ask you one more time-
Will you show your face?
Can you discard your lies and hold your past at bay?
Forever hiding from the truth in your shame
You're like a pantomime
Or a match in play
Your secrets kept up in the rafters
Away from all who would find you out
I dissolve in the absence of change
This is a call to my list of estranged
For every path I've known, I let you go each time
To be absolved as I wander my days
The blankness in a date and a time
Some fragments that I hope not to find
A specter that arrives unannounced
It's saying something but the frequency's out
I don't remember- just a voice on a tape
Maintain your silence, catalogue it this way
I lost the sequence- come on and figure it out
Felt every second on the way to the ground.
I'm taking last looks back at the living world and that's all.
It's a long way back but it's not my trek anymore.
I'm taking last looks back at the living world...
And that's all.
Some distant voice in the dark
It's unfamiliar and faceless
We've been trying to reach you but can't find your location
So are you coming or not?
I'll never live to regret this now
Our days are numbered and they won't let us forget it
So we'll just give it our best
I'm absent only in stasis
I've been trying to reach you but can't find your location
You did whatever you wanted
Forgive us all our revisions
Dear correspondent, please stand by for our transmission.
Can you still hear it now?
I think it's over and out.
Do you remember?
Yeah, sometimes I think I do
Was it some other lifetime?
Or some feeling half removed from us?
So can we go backward?
Can I recount these days for you?
As they fade into miles of half thoughts- in this maze
Some unlearned, some unchanged
And so we find a way to go
But could those days come back if you want them to?
Could you erase the dark and find the time?
It's in this way our fates unfold
And so you're face is changed each time I see you
I hear the tones repeating on the line
So be here now, and every time
So forgive my silence
It's not like this everyday
In each step I'm trying
And in some moments find a way to get back home
Or almost
It's your conscience that nurtures the ghost
Some unlearned
As they fade
And so we find a way to go
But could those days come back if you want them to?
Could you erase the dark and find the time?
It's in this way our fates unfold
And so you're face is changed each time I see you
I hear the tones repeating on the line
So be here now, and every time
And so we find a way to go
But could those days come back if you want them to?
And I do.
Could you erase the dark and find the time?
It's in this way our fates unfold
And so you're face is changed each time I see you
I hear the tones repeating on the line
So be here now, and every time
So be here now, and every time
So be here now, and every time.
Looks like you're coming undone
The vaguest recollection in the darkness where they run
So tell me how to begin
A labyrinth leading endless, a spiral I fell in
Still something beckons you on
A voice that softly whispers your secrets 'till they're gone
A half lit world kept inside
Hands guide you through the darkness, they keep your path aligned
I'll do my best here to trust you
Identifying the things that I must do
They said- all the world is your stage
You had the time of your life spent
Watching the rise and the fall
What dreams may pass through here
Make paths for us all
And there's still stories to tell
A list expanding endless, no wishing in the well
I think the body's a cage
A prison I'm all tangled in that holds me all my days
So only claim what you need here
Be careful with the intake, it rents a room in your head
It's your space, fill the page
You had the time of your life spent
Watching the rise and the fall
What dreams may pass through here
Make paths for us all
Blue Flowers.
The Haunting.
The places you saw.
I hear a voice in the dark calling after me
Is it trial by fire cause it has to be?
Are your imaginings joy? Do they find you peace?
Let it embolden your hope 'fore it atrophies
I don't know your name
Let all of the world be your stage.
Horizons awaiting
Deconstructing outlines
'Cause it's not what you're saying
It's what's on your mind
All the world starts inside
Paths intersecting
Thoughts on their way out
Should they ask you directly
Where are you now?
What did you find abound?
Faces coming and going
On this mobius strip
But there's some things worth know
Amidst perpetual drift
I'm always talking about leaving
And would you look at the time
But a fragment worth saving
it can keep you alive
So underline the cause and make amends
We are tired, we're unsure
Let us rest
You are my fading days
And the sum of grace and time
Your mind, forwards and backwards
Or forget me nots
Sent from astronauts
In time, in lives reversed hereafter now
'Cause I think that I'm changing
And I think it's about time
No sudden movements, keep focused
There's eyes in the trees down below
You saw them first, but they noticed
Now they wait for you in vast undergrowth
We found you alone
Forget what you know.
With a silence in your heart
A face shown in the dark
And soon enough the pieces break.
Trust not your eyes or the past tense
Our offer is only escape
Once you've seen what's behind the curtain
Soon all of your thoughts fill that space
With a silence in your heart
A face shown in the dark
The passing of some numbered days
With eyes now stitched apart
A self set to restart
And some things never seem the same
When the ending comes, don't look away.
In oblivion, you hold your gaze.
In all of these shadows still wander
In way posts uncharted find truth
These storm winds may take you apart, oh dear martyr
The vortex will come back for you
With a silence in your heart
A face shown in the dark
The passing of some numbered days
With eyes now stitched apart
A self set to restart
And some things never seem the same
So be here how you are
And own up to your scars
No sense in acting you're unscathed
So be here how you are
Maybe that's a place to start
Maybe there's an exit to this maze
The passing of some numbered days.
Oh, I assure you
Telepath- it's my mistake
I'll see you at the curtain call.
So you cried nevermore
And it all changed so fast
You spoke of futures and no turning back
Got yourself a plan
Something hard to ignore
Set out defiantly to even up the score
But now the path's overgrown
And I think you've lost your way
Circling the chalk outline 'round the place
Won't you try it again?
Come on, get this thing right.
Escape your feedback loop of a life.
So is it time spent in your limelight...
Or you're lost, up in your head?
Did you lose something you had ignored?
And will it come back?
One of these days I think we'll know for sure, but until then...
Spending time up in the limelight
My god, I'm so lost
Tell me when does this end?
Say it again, like you've said it before
And count up to ten
I'll keep my secrets safe under the floor
And locked in my head
One of these days, you can't take anymore
But until then.
12 pages of artwork and companion zine are both included with digital download in PDF format. For physical copies, purchase an ENVELOPE [includes CD, zine, letter, and download] or CD [includes download].
credits
released December 13, 2020
Written and performed by Quentel the Cryptid
Drums by Jamey Blaze
Mixed by Ryan Perras
Mastered by Robert Rich
Illustration and design by Elly Russell
Vocals, guitars, bass, piano, and glockenspiel recorded at District Recording [San Jose]
Drums recorded at Vantana Row
Synthesizers and electronics recorded at WitchCentipede
Thanks to Jamey + Volly [Vantana Row], Adam [Omnigone], Justin + Mikey [Red Door], Jonathan [Ale Industries], Studio 23, 3Dot, Up the Creek Records, StarCrash, Nathan Derr, Genie, Crystacular, Matthew Abaya, Mark Pasko, Elma Rico Kasting, Chris Franz, Katie [Panic in Polkadots], Jay [Beautiful Red Panda], Bobby, Trudi, Tyler, our families + all of the animals, and anyone else who has shown us support. Thank you <3
10/10 ALBUM IT IS LITERALLY PERFECT!!! i cannot possibly pick a favorite every single track goes hard as fuck greatest of all time best album best band frying my brain on this shit til i DIE. HAND BY HAND!! elora faith *****
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