Phase/Shift, by Iambic Beats

Phase/Shift

by Iambic Beats

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fyeahmetal It's just stunning. Each track is its own unique pearl. Despite the bluish artwork, the overall feel is warm-toned and warm-hearted. While my favorite parts remain the straightforward spoken word passages, the brief operatic singing in "Vapor" brings chills in a good way. Favorite track: Pools.

eurus the lyricism is incredible; the mix is FUN. Vapor is my favorite:

the water screams/
with its own unbecoming

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1.	Blue Ice 04:48	lyrics	buy track
Heaviness finds me, binds me still I shiver a little, less as your chill Settles over, I slip under sinking No longer thinking of spring And love and life and once-was warmth The thrill of bonding, crystalline Clear blue eyes, buoyantly stretched Beyond reprise, repeating a hexagonal dance Was there ever a chance we could stay Aloft defying metamorphosis The insistence of phase change pushed By daily rages pulling boundaries Set transitions, entrenched positions Freezing us out of the other, insoluble Wife and mother, you shudder to think How thin veneers deceptively safe A skating rink, covering dark lurking waters A wash of warmth smooths slashed scars A reprieve from the wars, armistice For a moment of possibly…
2.	Ocean 03:58	lyrics	buy track
Water laps at the sand I recognize a longing unanswered Ocean calms when the moon draws near Like a fevered patient given cool cloths She wears silver trinkets like pearls Basking seductively in the moon’s intentional gaze Tomorrow and again the moon will be gone Ocean will reach and fall, lose shape Turn inward on herself and become her own tears I understand her dance The emptiness of negative space The necessary zero that gives the one meaning  The water knows this better than I Wearing gilded crowns or darkness As though either were normal As I step into her shallows I, too, am awash in an anguish For all the ages The kind one treasures for its rarity Holds to her breasts to keep always For to long thusly is to know a depth of love That even in abstentia illuminates The moon nestles between my rib bones and the water I walk into the frigid depths Until longing joins hands with satiety The zeros meld into the ones Light becomes dark My lips are a winding shoreline My voice, a current And I sing the ocean’s song
3.	Pools 02:21	lyrics	buy track
I am but water. The puddle of Last night’s shower. I live for an hour or two. Until the sunshine Absorbs me. I am the ocean For children in Wellington boots. For earthworms. And for the descent of errant swallows. I am the pavement’s Liquid memory. I am a silver mirror. Reflecting.
4.	Vapor 03:11	lyrics	buy track
The sweet release Of a quiet death, The solace that comes With an unbecoming I look up Nose to sky And down Chin to earth And I see nothing In the everything Oh, to be loved In a cage And kept by silent rosebud promises Lips on stems That lie Lie, lie Foils and fouls And gilded skeleton keys Be my October like you once were Haunt me as you did When nights were long And burned blue, every one The kettle hisses now Her sweet release Her quiet death The water screams with its own unbecoming
5.	Clouds 03:53	lyrics	buy track
I remember as a child Standing in a courtyard of sorts Looking up at the sky and watching as the clouds moved Realizing I had no idea how anything actually worked And it made me feel so small How childish and lonely to realize the migration of clouds A haunting epoch of self-awareness and clarity. I think I knew it then; The truth of my mortality. Forming from nothing, Sunshine and peace. Building then billowing, Rage and rain. Dissipating, faded, and final.

about

This album is inspired by the phases of water. And just as different as ice is from water and steam, so too are these songs worlds apart in many ways. Poetry binds the the tracks, but they span genre and emotion more than any album I've created.

We open with Blue Ice, a virtual live jazz/beat poetry experience with the lovely vocal stylings and reading of Aspen Blue. From the blues to the chillwave sound of a more typical Iambic Beats track, we move to Ocean, which is a serene, if slightly melancholic, look into longing and untouchable love. Next, the more upbeat Pools will have you thinking about what it is like to be water- changing shape, living only briefly. The fourth track, Vapor, rises with a much darker feel, highly uncharacteristic for me. It is grim and contains snippets of prayer and my own opera stylings (you were warned). Finally, we close with Clouds, a true story paired with the poem it inspired, both written by Ty Gardner, the first also read by him.

I hope you enjoy!

credits

released August 21, 2021

As with all Iambic Beats releases, the cover art is done by the lovely and talented Shannon Mastromonico (@moth.magic on instagram). She conceived of the woman on the cover, who represents all phases of water (check out the steam for hair and ice cube earrings!).

Shannon's art is the stuff of the best dreams and I am incredibly lucky to have her for a friend. That I am able to feature her art on my album covers is truly an honor.

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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.