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Fun with water. I tried to meld my voice with Shauna Jones’ alto to create the impression of a single, androgynous singer. Originally recorded circa 2006 but reworked in vain for each album through Night Loops. Listen with headphones for a thorough head-cleaning.

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THE MATRON

In persistence while you sleep
the matron stands before the sink
among the objects of the day
and grinds away the grime you miss
while you chicane the jungle gaze
down city shafts throughout the day.
You sweat harder than a horse
beneath the girth, and when you draw
the blinds...

And if you didn't drink so much
your body wouldn't wake you up
and send you squinting out across
the floodlit kitchen to relief,
to glimpse the flicker of a form
among your wants

scrubbing and scraping
soaping and scouring
grinding and grating
scrubbing and scraping

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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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