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Five of Cups

by HOLY WAVE

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1.
Five of Cups 05:16
Down and out in Monaco and now it’s hell. Lighting re-fries while the fat cats chat, and now I’m the rat! just scurrying by… No sense of might. Crushed like a bug in the ground. And when I’m all smashed to bits then you can find me at the five of cups. I’ll have some drinks then a couple more, man, anything that you can pour. Down a round cuz it’s a sin, To live like a pest fixed on a pin. I was once a giant of the scene, I rode the gravy train! I made my heaps! And now it’s the streets, And down and out in Monaco. Attracting flies while the ladies lie on the grass. just saunter by no need for time. made a couple bucks so it’s the five of cups for me.
2.
Bog Song 04:52
In through my window the hunters moon Lights up my breath as it freezes Lights up our faces as we leave Into the night, down the road we go, Our headlights light eyes that light up Like fireflies from behind the tree lines Outside my window the countless stars Fade the moment we see ours Some of them live and some have died Deep in the woods where the beasts Of the bog Watch hunters light through the fog Come down the mountain like minor planets.
3.
Chaparral 04:43
Stories unwritten, growing old mountains of jewels Stowed away, blown away, growing mold boxes of tools Letters rewritten and never sent fountains of truth Make the time, take the time, break the time visit our youth Growing up, throwing up, dixie cups Ice cream cones too Ballrooms and houses of rock and roll lost in the blue Backyards and highways and alley ways Alley may’s too live on when you start to sing along old can be new
4.
Temporary lives Almost like a dream Opening my eyes I’m missing everything Wishing I was still asleep Waking up is not so easy Circumstances change Nothing ever lasts I stopped counting all the years They’re moving by too fast I wish the moment hadn’t passed Now that I know it’s not so easy I wish I’d had a different dream Now that I know it’s not so easy
5.
When she Visits Me three times in a row And the World is Falling into a hole We’ll drink Napenthe And try to remember Names of Places Where we wasted happiness Only Hearing High notes of a lyre Water Behind We walk straight into the trees
6.
Ode to the feeling It’ll come and find me Hypervigilance Im not like you cuz It’ll come and find me Hypervigilance Only cars and trains for me Don’t wanna be a freak in an airplane seat. But it can’t all be bad, i gotta magic power I can see through your shit. some respite! Silence, sweet silence…….nope. It will come and find me Hypervigilance In the corner of the room she turns to me. Hypervigilance Or Chaotic brilliance? In that room the doom will bloom It’ll come and find me Hypervigilance But I have a secret power it’s that I can see through your shit Hypervigilance
7.
False stop Every second goes They sing along When the time's right And he won't He won't Clean the dust Clogged inside Sad woods Melting down It's burning fast Steady inside And I won't I won't I won't sing along I won't move And I saw I saw And I saw How it fell And I saw How it fell Hold your breath Noisey water How can I turn this over Clearing the air while breathing in We are so over They had to fill the hole back up Jumping ahead of what we had We are so over How can we bear the weight inside And if it breaks all over us We are so over And if the street is empty again But I already gave you all We are so over
8.
Just before the night turns into day All the candle light has faded away I know that there’s somewhere I should be The future doesn’t seem so clear Now that the morning is here Nothing in the dark to fear Where the shadows disappear Nothing in the dark to fear Where the shadows disappear Locked away where death can’t get inside Nothing in the dark There’s no place to hide Nothing in the dark to fear Where the shadows disappear
9.
I got a house A wife A good job where I am polite When I’m depressed I take a pill Then I cheer up again Im happier And so it goes It’s your 100th year today and that makes me glad. And if I should ever die God forbid I hope that no one is happier And so it goes I ask about what’s near How wide it is How deep it is How much is mine to keep And if it will make my life happier And so it goes I got a house A wife A good job where I am polite When I’m depressed I take a pill and now I’m happier Todo esta frente a ti Deja de huir Así soy mas feliz Y deja de huir Que todo esta aquí Todo esta frente a ti Todo es mas fácil así Así soy mas feliz Deja de huir Todo esta frente a ti

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Five of Cups opens with the title track, establishing the album’s auditory and thematic modus operandi from the get-go. Holy Wave’s lysergic textural palette is immediately apparent in the song’s woozy synth lead and anti-gravity guitar jangle, but the atypical chord progressions and vocal melody steers the music away from anodyne escapism into a pensive grappling between self-determination and defeatism. Holy Wave continue to ride the wistful and phantasmic train on “Bog Song,” where the members vacillate between swells of austere minor chords and layered electric orchestration. From there, the previously released digital single “Chaparral” plays with the band’s own sense of nostalgia, weaving references of their El Paso past into a tapestry of transcendental triumph.

Like so much classic album-oriented rock music, the real magic begins to unfold in the latter half of Five of Cups. On “The Darkest Timeline,” Holy Wave recruits their friends Lorena Quintanilla and Alberto Gonzalez from the Baja California, Mexico psych duo Lorelle Meets the Obsolete to add additional ethereal layers to their intoxicating after-midnight grooves. “Nothing in the Dark” functions on a similar principle, using a steady propulsive drum pattern as the bedrock to tape-warbled synths, arpeggiated guitar chords, jet streams of fuzz, and serene vocals. Five of Cups’ ruminations on combating defeat and disappointment are directly confronted on album closer “Happier.” Once again straddling the melodic line between melancholy and breezy sophistication, Holy Wave examines the synthetic construct of happiness in our modern age and how so often the attainment of comfort lacks any true sense of joy. Yet this isn’t some nihilistic dirge. Rather, it translates as a buoyant reminder that the bandwidth of human experience inherently requires peaks and valleys, and that euphoria is often found in the search outside of the familiar.

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released August 4, 2023

All songs written by Holy Wave.
Holy Wave is Ryan Fuson, Kyle Hager, Joseph Cook, Julian Ruiz.
Recorded by Charles Godfrey.
Mastered by Erik Wofford.
Vocals and Synth on "The Darkest Timeline" by Lorelle Meets The Obsolete.
Additional vocals on "Happier" by Estrella del Sol.
Outro beat on "Happier" by Ernesto Grey.

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