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This is sort-of half remix of our early song “Disaster” sung in a minor key, half unreleased track. “Disaster,” along with “Analemma” and, later, “Saturday Afternoon on the Median” was originally part of a live set called “Crazy 8s,” which also included a couple of musical fragments that got excised as the set developed. The quieter, polyrhythmic harp/hammer dulcimer/wineglasses/bells section which forms the centerpiece for this version is one idea that I always regretted having to abandon (for the sake of the flow) and I’ve had this recording of it kicking around since 2008. Somewhere along the line Kate improvised some bassoon over parts of this alternate version, and I’ve also added a number of layers to it over the years. Though the lyrics and rhythmic feel are almost the same as the original “Disaster,” the mood is quite different and it feels like a new song to me.

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A MINOR DISASTER

As the grape leaves choked the light from the sundial,
through the windless air just after the feast of St. Jerome,
a flying machine like she'd never seen
came bombinating over field and town.

It had four square wings the color of lobster claws
and a nose that buzzed like her father humming through a comb
and it made her sigh and need to fly
'til the engine coughed and the plane came down.

Oh my God,
is something moving in the cockpit?
Somebody's alive in there!
They're gonna die if I don't help them!
I'm not ready.
I'm not ready.

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from No Outlet (volume 1: 2007​-​2013), released January 7, 2020

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JACK O' THE CLOCK "presents a fine lesson on what it means to write songs that are at once approachable and human while simultaneously being incredibly profound in terms of timbre, depth of emotion, and harmonic complexity," Progulator.

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