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Life of the Inhabitant

by time for dreams

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Bianca Valentino
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Bianca Valentino It's a romantic album that's lonely, beautiful, dramatic and evokes wonder. A very visual record. A transcendent journey through isolation, limitless scenery, and unfolding apocalypse. Favorite track: Outside The Citadel.
DEΔN
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DEΔN One of my favourite Melbourne groups has returned! This record is tight as f*ck but stays humble. Ambient and able to sit in the background but also kaleidoscopic and full of complexity when you give it full attention. Something that stood out to me was how good this album sounds, super ultra hi fi. Like driving into utopia with all your broken dreams. Favorite track: Outside The Citadel.
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kim_guthrie Because it's good
Anna H
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Anna H Yummy drama, pathos & effects pedals. Out of this world production! An absolute fave... Favorite track: New Conflict Dream.
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Tattoos on ankles Of poorly drawn pentacles Widows in anoraks Wasted in cul-de-sacs I say Something’s wrong But when I tell them what has happened No one believes Greatest of wing-spans And fakest of fake-tans The vultures fly past us With waitress’s carcases I say Something’s wrong But when I tell them what has happened No one believes me
2.
Stepping out of a darkened room Piles of clothes that decompose like rotting fruit Shattered compact discs are cracking underfoot Under heel of riding boot Under sole of tennis shoe To the house on the edge of town Refusing though the car is clearly broken down Offers of assistance knowing that the price is risking life and limb I can’t begin to tell you how But I just knew To the seat with the clearest view Clouds of smoke you easily can see through The coliseum heaving with plebeian fools The slaves to love, the heroes wearing sequined gloves The blood The beasts without number It’s the most exquisite looking show you’ve ever seen You won’t forget the scenery Though they call it a life of crime It seems by far the noblest way of killing this time Spitting distance from the final bow It hardly matters now Watch the last Thylacine living in captivity And think about eternity Your persistent absence is the sweetest company You don’t know what it means to me
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I made you up to be with me You came to life so naturally And though you used my eyes to see You had such canny vision I felt you caused my mind to cleave in two And so I made believe that you Were never going to leave And that I’d meet you soon When will you be real? I love your weird ideas Sometimes we do disagree Even though you’re made of me You have a personality But no materiality I am walking all alone Toward you though the ice and snow But I know you won’t be home You’re in a world of your own You never answer the phone You don’t check your mail You’re unavailable I still read your part while my heart turns to stone You’re in a world of your own You’ll never be at the show Or afterwards at the disco You don’t exist You’re irresistible The perfect companion that I’ll never know You’re in a world of your own
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You hope to keep most of your teeth You hope the coat you have will last A million miles is what it takes A million leagues tied to the mast You gather up the thoughts of men You keep the letters that they write To read them all a million years To burn them just a single night And when your mind is full of sparks The dishes in the kitchen sink You have to do them by yourself The fire is there to help you think The music’s there to help you breathe The bottle’s there to help you give It doesn’t matter what you do It only matters that you live
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Ring the bell Now the guests are leaving Draw the veil On the ancient evening Scorpion Accelerates your breathing That’s my gift to you- Sting For the sake of the city, we buried the actors outside the walls No one was really sure Where they’d been We burned their clothes in an empty boat And divided up their things The boatman sings: Ring the bell Now the guests are leaving Draw the veil On the ancient evening You can’t forget the taste, you can’t forget the feeling That’s my gift to you- Sting
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Sento 03:22
8.
Staying up all night To get the opposite of insight Changing out of my uniform In a tiny toilet stall The writing on the wall Says I should give you a call 0h seven, seven four Five seven, seven four five nine For a good time

about

Life of The Inhabitant is out September 17th

Life of the Inhabitant, is the second album from Australian / Melbourne duo Time For Dreams. Recorded on the low slopes of Geboor / Mt Macedon in the winter of 2019. The cold, the isolation and the dramatic landscape around the studio felt appropriate for Life of the Inhabitant, a bleak, dehydrated more sci-fi proposition than the band’s first album In Time (IT-LP-09). The new album was born from a desire to create something romantic. Not sexy, swoony romantic but “terrible/lonely/beautiful romantic, broken, defiant, tired, kind, quiet, strong and conflicted romantic” as Carlyon describes it, set in the ruins of the currently unfolding apocalypse.

“The musical scenes in my mind unfolded across the rooftops of a metropolis or in a desert, or on some other planet with half-buried electric cables glitching in the breeze, with zombie fires smouldering in the peatlands. In other words, expansive, overwhelming or limitless scenery, but viewed from a tiny window high up on the edge of the citadel. I pictured Amanda and I wrapped up in a secure bunker looking over all this in wonder and resignation.” -Tom Carlyon

The lyrics of In Time are spare, more like chants, spells or incantations. Life of the Inhabitant has a narrative bent, setting characters in scenes – suburbs drenched in secrets, violence and occult practices (New Conflict Dream), apocalyptic coliseums (Designing the New World), frozen lakes (A World of your Own), isolated colonies (A Million Miles) feudal fortresses (Death To All Actors). The two instrumentals on the album, the titular track and Sento, are set in an underground space-bunker and a bath-house respectively. Eerily prescient, pandemic themed Death to All Actors refers to the murder of travelling theatre troupes who were suspected of spreading the plague from town to town. Outside the Citadel is described by Carlyon as “Amanda and I looking out from our fortified cave over the desert with our samplers, SM57's, and AK47s, listening to Miles Davis and drinking orange and cinnamon tea.”

credits

released September 17, 2021

This album was recorded on the lands of the Woiwurrung
Wurundjeri people. We pay our respects to the Kulin Nation
and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders.

All songs by Time For Dreams (Amanda Roff & Tom Carlyon).
Album produced by Tom Carlyon.
All tracks recorded and mixed at Super Melody World
in the Macedon Ranges by James Cecil & Tom Carlyon,
except New Conflict Dream partially recorded by John Lee
at Phaedra Studios in Coburg.
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin.

Paintings by Richard Lewer - front cover Self portrait (2020);
back cover Thou shall not commit adultery (2013).
Designed by Luke Fraser/AHR+.
Painting photography by Andrew Curtis.
Time For Dreams photographed by Ross Coulter with styling
by Danielle Brustman.

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time for dreams Melbourne, Australia

Amanda Roff & Tom Carlyon are Time For Dreams, an Australian duo making bleak, smoky, dehydrated bad-dream pop. Their music is at once stark and lush, vivid and hazy.
Their work has a strong fantasy aspect and speaks to the existence of multiple realities. A perfect soundtrack for the end of the world.
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