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little stories told by ghosts

by Dunnock

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1.
I left my coat in the car so everyone could see my dress when I walked into the bar you were there very handsome a bottle at your lips when we left together you had your hands upon my hips and when you killed me with that brick from the ground we were down by the water and the lights were all around
2.
you didn’t even know that I was there as my blood flowed out and the river flowed on a thousand feet away no girl will ever kiss me your bullet killed that in me before it ever had a chance to grow you won’t see me on your tv the world didn’t want me the world won’t care now that I’m gone you heard me crying as you ran away as my blood flowed out and the river flowed on a thousand feet away
3.
I played on this beach as a child with my mother and my father still together now I lay here with the sand turning black and you’re standing with that knife in your hand and the water comes lapping at my feet and you’re crying with the fog rolling in when they find me jade pickers walking by my new dress will be tangled round my thighs and my fingers twisted at my side I played here as a little girl with my mother who was my whole world made sand castles every single day til the green tide washed them all away
4.
I’ve never been very good I never was very good to you I drank and beat you but I was your dad Smith & Wesson Model 36 my sock drawer wrapped in a rag bullets in a preserves jar and last night we had a fight and I walked out the door and last night we had a fight and nothing will ever be alright again You followed me You murdered me and left me lying there you followed me you murdered me and out came blood and water I walked down to the creek forgot my winter jacket past the swing set Where we slaughtered pigs the family stones covered with snow my father and my grandparents the rusty trucks against the barn we knew we’d never fix -------- when you were a baby and wouldn’t fall asleep at night your mama would put you in the passenger seat of our green Chevy Blazer and drive up and down Cameron Ridge Tires kicking up gravel and the deer would freeze for a second in the headlights and then dart out of the way and the trees cast shadows and the radio was tuned to WWVA 98.7 playing Ronnie Milsap and TG Sheppard and Dottie West Alabama Eddie Rabbitt Johnny Lee and I was at home listening to the same songs at the same time with a bottle of jack on the table and all the guns save one on the rack downstairs

about

Hermetic San Francisco Bay Area duo Dunnock play untrue black metal, a raw blend of shambolic, punky riffs, howling noise, and lo-fi, reverb slathered electronic ambience as indebted to the minimalist garage psychedelica of Spacemen 3 and the tormented genre explorations of Xiu Xiu as it is to fellow black metal outsiders Striborg or Velvet Cacoon.

The band's second full length record, "little stories told by ghosts," is the result of five years sporadic work in living room "studios" up and down the East Bay. Telling the story of four fictionalized murders near bodies of water important to would-be Dunnock mastermind Jacob Thomas's childhood and adolescence, the album is narrated by the victims and, through the recounting of their tragic life tales, also serves as an alternative autobiography of sorts for the band's leader. The tide laps at shoes and country streams run through fingers as the lyrics travel from the beaches of Humboldt County to the forgotten hollows of West Virginia and the crumbling Baltimore waterfront of the 1980s.

Musically "little stories told by ghosts" represents a stylistic leap towards the abyss as Dunnock crack open the formula behind their three chord riffs, hammer it into oblivion and mix what's left in a cast iron pan with trace elements of krautrock, shoegaze, spoken word poetry, Bmore breaks, and trip-hop along with lengthy aquatic field recordings and walls of brutal noise, spreading the resulting concoctions out to nearly quarter hour run times. Current and former members of Botanist, Dhampyr, Palace of Worms, and Afraid provide guest vocals and additional instrumentation. Dunnock are a band that have often defined themselves in terms of their failures, and "little stories" represents the band's best effort to fail ambitiously.



"Dunnock plays a sort of outsider black metal that I’m not sure anyone else is even attempting. Imagine Striborg and Godspeed You! Black Emperor doing a collaborative project, and that’s a good starting point."

-Indy Metal Vault (www.indymetalvault.com/2018/05/16/album-stream-interview-dunnock-little-stories-told-by-ghosts/)


"Sure you can call this stuff art, just as you can call an untidy room art, but neither are arguably impressive in any way."

-The Independent Voice (www.theindependentvoice.org/2018/05/06/dunnock-little-stories-told-by-ghosts/)




Co-released with Sylvan Screams Analog. Cassettes available from them here: www.facebook.com/SylvanScreamsAnalog/


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credits

released May 18, 2018

On this recording Dunnock consisted of:

Aidan O’Flynn – Keyboards and viola
Jacob Thomas – Guitar, drums, keyboards, percussion, mountain dulcimer, sampler, field recordings, drum machine, pieces of silver, vocals

with

Tammy McCoy – Guest vocals on 2, 4
Sam Lemmons – Guest vocals on 3
Balan – Drums on 2
Patrick Martens – Additional drums on 3
Jakob Battick – Lead guitar on 2
Aidan Flaherty – acoustic guitar on 3
HL – acoustic guitar on 1, χορός throughout

Track 4 contains lyrical elements from “Am I Born to Die?,” taken from Charles Wesley’s “Hymns for Children” (1763)

Recorded between the months of March 2013 and January 2018 in The Aviary and other locales.

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