Dark Matter, by Iambic Beats

Dark Matter

by Iambic Beats

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fyeahmetal It's not just words over beats, but a vibrant, dynamic interplay between the elements that keeps things interesting from first to last. The cover art is incredible! Favorite track: Distilled.

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1.	Zero... Some Game 02:34	lyrics	buy track
My name was a prayer And your kneecaps were broken We lay on our backs In the blue grass And dreamt of the fire That would swallow the earth But I knew even then The fire was only meant for me You were a sacrament On my heathen tongue And we danced With a rope of lightning Binding us Look, I still have the scar Written across my bones From that night My bile distilled into wine The day you forgot me I toast you with Sweet lips and sips To remain polite Table is all set With pitchforks and doilies Waiting for the lost Elijah love That we all know never comes home My abacus grows dust The equation bleeds on the tile And there’s no bead for zero anyway
2.	Distilled 02:55	lyrics	buy track
I sip you, golden, distilled My veins pregnant with heat As the pages burn before me I dilate completely Naked and raw Hungry, in awe, I am Everywhere and nowhere at once Why must you Sip me too Your lips graze edges That don’t exist At least not anymore Another pour Always another Ok but this is the last And the last And the last, and the Vision blurs I sentence my slurs Filled with you Always you Didn’t want Now I need My bleed is a brain And a reach and a fall Clouds are animals they Move and soak me and did you know Rain is just salt and Saline caries current? The flames of the book sulk away In the steaming rain And I am the wet ash Your scent masked With petrichor The graveyard Of last nights downpour The liqueur Sprouting dahlias From bottles and rotted pots The flood I was Abuzz, wet like pavement In relentless sun That isn’t wet at all Just my mind non-existent as it is telling me There’s water when I need it most What if it’s all just A lie within a lie Within a ghost Drunk mirage Constructs of Oz of Utopia that fell in an alternate history fable Of Abel and Cain Who really died from drowning in This same sad rain After learning their mother Was born in a cage Or did you skip over that page? You say the book told it differently But I’ve burned it Didn’t you listen? Remember when each letter was written in long hand? Each sentence was a prayer for the other guy Who prayed for the other guy Who lost his rib Anyway I’m probably rambling now Your dial tone fills my ears But I can’t hear it anymore On account of this raging downpour That has started again and again Inside my house I sip you, golden Distilled
3.	Journey to the Stars 02:35	lyrics	buy track
The Earth no longer wants me So I dream of a sanctum of stars The line blurs Until lucid dreams Become the days Floating between sun and moon I chart my course I make my calculations It's time Five Four Three Two One Zero The weight is going now And with it... Everything Home, here I come
4.	Midnight Kiss 03:47	lyrics	buy track
Upon your midnight kiss Minutes shatter Spilling seconds Like stars on my skin I am made For a single Quivering Moment Immortal By your lips
5.	Cloudscapes 02:11	lyrics	buy track
Secluded worlds hide secrets from our cold, prying eyes, suffocating starlight in the heat of their embrace. Lost beneath the contrails of a smoggy methane haze, we conjure up impossible visions; draping distant lands in sparkling, precious mists. Ruby clouds dissipate, buried in the plausibility of every grain of sand; their shimmering mirage dispelled by the coarseness of our modeled reality. Visions fade from view; regurgitated numbers peeling back secrets that unnerve the impossible.

about

Dark Matter takes a turn from the path of my first EP, Chiasm. These tracks are edgier and take on a gritty feel. There are still soft spots to be found (Zero... Some Game, for example), but overall, Dark Matter is raw and experimental for me. Here is where I let myself write beat drops, sing poems and chop up the syllables, and use sound effects to represent journeys into space. I tackle topics of addiction and helplessness, love and wonder. Overall, it is an exploration of the darkness that we all know well. The one that can feel all-consuming, but ultimately lays a backdrop for the stars. Enjoy.

credits

released June 1, 2021

Album art is by the incredibly talented Shannon Mastromonico (IG: @moth.magic). Shannon doesn't know it yet, but she's a gift from the universe.

Midnight Kiss features a poem written by Lisa Alletson, one of the most talented poets I've ever met.
Cloudscapes features a poem by the brilliant Sam Illingworth. Sam writes science poetry and runs Consilience, the first peer-reviewed science poetry journal.

More details about the poets on each song page.

I'd like to thank Shannon, Lisa, and Sam for letting me feature their work in my album. I'd also like to thank my poetry community for the strength to turn anything I feel into words and put them out there for the world to read and hear. Finally, thank you to those closest, who convinced me that my work meant something. I wouldn't be here without you.

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about

Iambic Beats Los Angeles, California

We have so many titles. A few of mine are: scientist, poet, writer, singer, mom. I like to think I live at the intersection of music and words and always asking questions. A goddamn lovely place to be.