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Embrace

by Obverse

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1.
Our Orbit 08:09
One in the same. Ancestors grant us the light from that stars that they became. Astral systems writing their infinite will to our names. Given to faith into the unknown, but in our time, never alone. We transformed. Obsessed with control, and we have shut ourselves in. Our orbit provides us with limitless fuel to survive. Light repulsed by layers of filth from combustion. Photons sacrificed to increase our production. On the same ground as the first ones, enveloped in darkness. Shut ourselves in this comfortable grave. The overlords of this star trapped our minds into the short term, encouraging the fabrication of a false atmosphere - composition designed to bury the sky - it rejects higher entities. On the same ground as the first ones. We have become pistons in engines. We have been provided with conarium infections, spread through our mass connection. We have been provided with sedative explanations: Feel not the inclination to embrace light. Multiply our isolation. The photon absorbed by the flesh contains instructions for removal of our slavers. The photon absorbed by the flesh contains instructions for the emancipation. The photon absorbed by the flesh contains instructions for removal of reptilian overlords. The photon absorbed by the flesh contains instructions for quantum extraction of those who shed their skin. Dark forces that we paid to construct a barrier that rejects ancient entities who temper fear manipulate genetic error to prevent the elevation of our intrinsic frequencies. Our orbit provides us with limitless fuel to survive. No recollection of past lives in our perpetual haze. Deaf to the drone of space; enveloped in darkness.
2.
Machine God 04:27
Born in a cave of blackened stone Selfish and alone. Sanctuary of the known, Echoes of confirmational bias. Approximation of paradise Simulation of the afterlife Compromise Nature is selecting against progress. The size of our brain is proving disadvantageous. Ignorant of our own inventions Plugged in but disconnected. Attempts to propagate a hive mind have been rejected. Nature is selecting against progress. Fear is reversing our evolution. De-evolve for your machine god. Isolation born from mass connection. Approximation of paradise: Simulation of the afterlife
3.
Useless critic, did you try to improve me? The words you cast on me meant fucking nothing. The limited construct that you orbit and praise will shatter in the presence of free thought, you ignorant fuck. You should be forced to ingest the waste you produce (and absorb) the toxins that you put into the air. (I inhaled) and felt myself begin to lose faith, until I discovered your true name, Succubus! Virgo and Aires. Our frequencies in tandem cease to be. Trying to sound wiser than you ever were, you blessed the naysayers in my head. Scales tipped in their favor and threatened my creations, because I gave your words weight. Hanging above the great abyss, clinging to what you know. I don't think you'll ever fall, the difference between you and me. Can I forgive you for the ideas you tried to destroy? Soon you'll that you know nothing just like everyone else. Can I forgive you For the ideas you tried to destroy? Here, they manifest! Soon you'll learn you know nothing just like everyone else.
4.
Send me back to before my animal birth into this decaying system of flesh. It maintains an isolated pulse, temple of cognitive turbulence. Condense, descend. Reverse ascension to a dense system which leeches from chemical bonds. The cleansing is incomplete. A dark strain festers evoked by changing surroundings. It was always there. Irreversible transformation has begun. In limbo between obverse states of density. Calling into ruined stations of old. Wait in dead air to hear an echo of the ancient machine, forsaken. An oscillator set into rotation. Providing momentum against gravity towards elevation. I rose until I saw the ancient face and gave into fear. Send me back! Dripping in a virus I cannot see. Drowning in the tangible. I refused a skyward transition, accepting only dense vibrations, matter-bound. Consciousness disconnected from the still-breathing vessel. Falsely ambulant, never vacant, teeming with movement under skin translucent. Human animal: annex of darkness. Every sense infested with absence. Spirit evicted, threshold retracted, sealed by mortality redacted. It was always there.
5.
Embrace 06:23
Born into faith which needs no evidence of a deity. Erasure of an ocean dreamed beyond, disfigured atlas. Prevention of an other-worldly bond. If this is it then tell me why we live. How can you not feel the need to explore what the infinite universe has to give? The stars, they call to me, life is not limited to this world, we are the result of chemical inevitability. What of intelligence, approaching the apex, exponential acquisition of digital storage in artificial memory? If we went back to the big bang and waited for the 14-billionith year, would you still hear me? I call out to the beginning of time, "Can you hear me?" Embrace light. Born to disappear and reappear. Embrace light.

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released March 24, 2016

Music and lyrics by James Davis and Matt Phillippo.

Engineered & mixed by Derek Lamoreaux in James' and Derek's houses. Saxophones, guest vocals, hand percussion and electric oud recorded by Mac Ritchey at Possum Hall Studios. Vocals recorded by Anthony Simone at ZenBeast Audio and by James in his bedroom. Mastered by Kris Crummett at Interlace Audio. Artwork by Elizabeth Popolo.

Obverse is Matt Phillippo (Vocals) and James Davis (Drums, Guitars & Bass).

We would like to thank Derek Lamoreaux, Mac Ritchey, Chris Carter, Neil Kruszkowski, Andy Voelker, Elizabeth Popolo, Ben Phillippo, Cara Campanelli, Geo Huete, Cam Nayeri, Anthony Simone, Jic and Viki Davis, Jon Golden, Sean Kennedy and Earle Pughe.

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