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Abstracted Catholic

by The Empty Mirror

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Stainglass 02:47
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When I turned off the radio Kept buzzing on Turn me into an audience And we are one My body is glass and You stained me My body is glass and You stained me You saved me You saint me Contain me My captors Obey me.
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Static 01:19
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The sky is gone A signal passes over me The Word is wrong A people never meant to be Sing me a song Like I am sleeping peacefully The signal gone A people listening Through static minds In ordered time.
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Brokenbrained, Brokenhearted 02:22
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The brokenbrained and brokenhearted Having bled the blues Tear the world and twist it to their use Either I’m the weather Or your sky is bare Thought I saw a twinkle in your eye – Do I stare? Have a seat; have another The table’s set for two A confidence grinding into gruel Oh, he’s cruel Hope you’re seeing beauty Through the blackout air A continent of children trapped And mothers scared Life ain’t fair Here and now Seal the doubt Burn it down Burn that frown To the ground Live without Live without Love whatever the drugs allow.
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Forthwith 02:44
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Force-fed Pleasant Witness the people who ill bred Exhausted Forthwith Hold it Fold your palms You’re listing numbers I’m finding sums We add up to no one Chair lifts Braces Rattle to pieces before it Forthwith Hold it Fold your mind It’s not the weather It’s all the time Forthwith Hold it Fold your tongue If nothing doing Then nothing done I’m hearing my own voice You’re missing the whole point Exhausted We’ve lost it.
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God of Hunger 04:25
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A punishing figure Ruled like an heir Once a believer in despair Now reborn He’s reborn He’s reborn in the truth In the truth By his own proof Sieg Heil! Desperate lunge But he only needs become For once revealed Never lost But tell me: To what end is this And at what cost? I’m reborn Reborn I’m reborn in the truth For one use We’re reborn We’re reborn We’re reborn in the truth In the truth It becomes you.

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“The Empty Mirror has an advantage over the other noise rockers that they have been compared to – melody. Far from coming across as discordant, The Empty Mirror’s sound – cleverly dubbed ‘Nightmericana’ – reels the listener in with sheer musicality on their latest release Abstracted Catholic– a five song collection that defies genre and goes for the gut . Musicianship rules the day with Ante Ruich’s assault on the bass, Bill Kim’s frenzied drumming and Valdes’ innate ability to let feelings of isolation and tension ring out of just six strings as his voice – at times a gentle Syd Barrett-like purr and at others a feral scream – careens above the madness.” -Rockwired

“If you’re a fan of Billy Corgan, you are allowed to foam at the mouth a bit.” -Independent Clauses

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released May 28, 2009

Electric Guitar & Vox……….....……………….......……...…Grant Huling
Drums………………………………….……………….......……….Bill Kim
Bass………………………………………….….……........……Ante Ruich

Written and produced by Grant Huling.
Recorded February & March 2009 in Seattle, USA.
Drums recorded by Alan Chizmar and James Sullivan at the Hideout Studio.
Mastered by Leif Shackelford at Structured Loud.
Cover art includes a detail of “After the Flood” by Virginia Wagner and a detail of the autopsy of John Kennedy.

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