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Space Is Still the Place

by The Bright Light Social Hour

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1.
Space is still the place The weight of weightless faces faces straight Our dreams are lies replaced We reach out past the trace until it's gone Sweet Madelene You don’t know my name Deep as the heat I can't stay the same Red hands, sun-tipped pine A strange fruit left inside I will climb my way out I don’t ever wanna turn around Sweet Madelene You can let go of your ghost Fruit from my lips drips on your whipping post Southern charm, bred of harm Surrender to the sound so close I will climb my way out I don’t ever wanna turn around Space is still the place The weight of weightless faces faces straight Our dreams are lies replaced We reach out past the trace until it's gone
2.
Slipstream 02:56
See y'all lay lying low Feet held below Dream of a golden age Drifting alone See y'all lay lying low Days lost in tow Dream of a golden age Wake in the sow Our earthly love will fall A drop in the wave Reach from the lone below Ego give way
3.
Dreamlove 05:05
Somewhere I lost my way inside Ego waylaid relay Fog of mine Aspera into day Light Never meant for decay We move in time Feel high Bathed in light I thought I lost my way We move in time Somewhere I lost my way inside Drifting from night into day Road worn wide Shifting our skin into clay Light Never meant for decay We move in time Feel high Endless flight We were never meant for decay We move in time Somewhere I lost my way inside I thought I had lost my way inside
4.
Ghost Dance 02:35
A glowing dawn of crowded eyes Each a screaming pulsar Wounded knees, dance 'til clean The needles in the ghost Grit, sand, silica Demand perfect porcelain Distant glimmers' ancient dust Begs the flesh to rise Cut like knives through black exhaust A terror in full blossom Whitewash dreams, blowing steam We have not arrived Grit, sand, silica Ground to dense perfection On the outskirts of consciousness Together deep inside
5.
Breath in our sails as we glide past the sea of the edge Eyes shine in skies as we gaze back home from the ledge Red past the pale as the light from the day comes to rest Eyes speak in sighs as we gaze back home from the edge
6.
Aperture 04:40
Stacking higher brick by brick Pretend we are inside of it Pieces set and set aside Back into the line outside All along wait out the day Shrug and lay the dreams away A wall within and wall without Horizon closing in around Desert creeps in every year Young we wait in quiet fear In cracks, an aperture array Escape into a stellar way Rays I was one Floods I was one
7.
Ouroboros 04:29
My brother walks on crushed glass His fingers beaten like brass Caressing the shame That slithers cross his brain My brother walks on crushed glass My sister bathes in black mass Her love a strangled gasp Milky the way A womb hid from the day My sister bathes in black mass My brothers walk on crushed glass My sisters bathe in black mass Oceans thirsty for cash Bleeding still for the past Our futures traded unseen As everything eats everything Take our tails from our mouths Flood the roads in the South
8.
Standing without places Rotation into phases Neon constellations Echoing the nameless Cities without limit Carpeted and endless Quilted emigrations Moonrise in our faces Stay until we call it home Distant western gazes Swollen hearts in vases Fugitive embraces Packed away in cases Comfort is a siren Radiant and instant Scattered by the movement Moonrise in our faces Stay Stay until we call it home
9.
The Moon 03:15
I saw the moon Split into two I saw the moon Split into two And I knew I was all alone From the dead man's mind No thought survived Just a pale blue dream Melted from time And I knew I was all alone
10.
Hot as a rail shot through the sun Horizon awaits, stretch to become Drifting in dream, sifting the real Don't wait until the waters come You reach into me, alchemical flood Our wounds beat in time, slipstream begun Claim what you need, through window surreal Don't wait until the waters come A vision in air, empire undone No body below, now bodies of sun Forever the drift, forever we run Don't wait until the waters come

about

Space Is Still the Place is the second full-length album by The Bright Light Social Hour, released March 10, 2015 on Frenchkiss Records.

The band has stated the album was largely inspired by the struggles of fans they stayed with while touring the Southern United States, as well as by concepts of Afrofuturism and progressivism, inspiring a philosophy and sound referred to by the band as "Future South."

In an interview with The Huffington Post, O'Brien stated, “We became really interested in mixing southern aspects of music -- soul, rock, blues, those sort of things -- with a progressive outlook, where we got really into dance music, house music, techno, psychedelic rock. We became really interested in mixing all those sounds; something future-looking and also vibey and comfortable, but different all together.”

The album title is inspired by Sun Ra's 1974 film Space Is the Place.

The album was recorded between June 2013, and January 2014, at Escondido Sound, the band's home studio in Austin, Texas. It was mixed by the band and Chris Coady in New York, NY in May 2014.

On February 17, 2015, Jay Z's Life+Times premiered the music video for the first single, "Infinite Cities", directed by bassist/singer Jackie O'Brien.

Songs from Space Is Still the Place have been featured in HBO's Vice Principals, MTV's Teen Wolf, Fox's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The CW's Riverdale, NBC's Midnight, Texas, Audience's Kingdom, USA's Shooter, Hulu's Shut Eye, Terrence Malick's 2017 film Song to Song and Ubisoft's Far Cry 5 and more.

Space Is Still the Place was described by AllMusic's Mark Deming as "an ambitious and wildly entertaining journey into the minds of the men who created it" and "a smart, fearless work from a band whose inner journey is paying impressive musical dividends."

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released March 10, 2015

Jackie O'Brien – bass, vocals, Roland Juno-60, tambourine
Curtis Roush – guitar, vocals, Minimoog Voyager, Roland Juno-60, Wurlitzer, tambourine
Joseph Mirasole – drums, Dave Smith Tempest, Elektron Analog Four, Minimoog Voyager

Produced and engineered by Curtis Roush, Joseph Mirasole and Jackie O'Brien at Escondido Sound, Austin, TX
Mixed by Chris Coady at DNA Downtown Studios, New York, NY
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, New York, NY
Artwork by Mariano Peccinetti, Mendoza, Argentina

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