Hand That Takes, by Throwaway

Hand That Takes

by Throwaway

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A blue tape in a clear box with Monty Etzcorn's great art. Rrrrraaaawwrr!

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1.	Intro 01:36	lyrics	buy track
Imagine if you will A town just full of people People making stairs People making people The mannequin is in In every nook and crevice Working on the job Sweet and no disturbance Now extract your mind threads Throw them on the bed I’ll be elsewhere instead I’m glam like paper bags In the height of service Why not take a peak Behind a custom curtain I’m glam like paper bags In the height of service
2.	Glitch Mob 03:24	lyrics	buy track
Get away I’m a storm of rotting pixels I’m volatile Safety first Just after fashion Let’s all play armageddon I’ll go first This is not some bingo This is not some 8-bit smashing of feelings This is a high-stakes serenade And you don’t have a high score I’ve been smashed That’s point one for the status Quo and co. I don’t talk I just think of actions I’m furious in the background Til I - I’ll just be Glitch mobbing You can’t see me I’m staticy Computer error Pray to your savior I’m just a lever I’m just a lever This is not some bingo This is not some 8-bit smashing of feelings This is a high-stakes serenade And you don’t have a high score Give me one more heart This can’t be over Restart, let me restart
3.	Kyubabe 02:39	lyrics	buy track
I’m so frust-er-ated Aren’t I educated? Feel inebriated Swallow it down Revelation Just more devastation Where is my salvation? Hold it Oh, what a day What a dime of a day Every honey bee winks at me If how their hives Weren’t just dropping like flies Well, that’s all right Take in your mouth All the sensuous views Huh, wrong orifice Oedipus Wait, that’s not me I’m as clean as a sleeve Don’t peek to see Underneath The witch’s time will come You are a flower that will numb Open the curtain, little one See, all the leaves They slow dance just for me Weirdly intimate, over it Smile, darn ya smile Don’t breathe into the bile Poison takes a while Look! All the grass Oh, how quickly it’s passed! Well, it would be past If I passed When did I fall? What the hell is this wall? Where is the ground Up or down? No good can come of this (ha ha ha ha!) You’re dripping like fish (ha ha ha ha!) No good can come of this No good can come of this Team emotion Keep your team emotion Screw in every notion Lock it Ordinary Not extraordinary Aren’t I ordinary? Could I…? Ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba ba Oh, words are cheap Woe is me The nightmare’s just begun You are a hammer with no thumb Open the curtain… Quiet, quiet! Quiet, quiet! Quiet!
4.	Cute Frankenstein 03:01	lyrics	buy track
The chamber’s rather empty Keeps the stone still Talk about a bad day Or else just a nominal ticking Do you know the password? No one else does Maybe maybe we could play some charades And there will be a cheap prize Somewhere, something is sinking Doc, I think I caught the leak too late But I’m one for fixing Thanks to the divine hand of duct tape It’ll crumble any minute now The glory of the broken house The rebuild is the reckoning Hear me The ocean keeps on screaming Its ugly tenor Never thought I preferred Lakes, I guess they Are just more drinkable There’s euphony in screaming I caught it in jars Watch me be a good citizen Sweater and all the fixings Somewhere, something is sinking Doc, I think I caught the leak too late But I’m one for fixing Thanks to the divine hand of duct tape Thank you duct tape! Thank you duct tape! Break it all today Break it all tomorrow I am just a stage I am nothing borrowed It’ll crumble any minute now The glory of the broken house The rebuild is the reckoning Fear me
5.	(News Bulletin!) 01:02	lyrics	buy track
In Japanese: こちら現場です。ご覧の通り現在都市部では大きなビルや電柱がなぎ倒されており、壊滅的な被害が出ております。正確な情報は出ておりませんが、目撃者の証言によりますと恐竜のような大きな生き物が街を次々と破壊していったとの情報が複数入ってきております。現場は非常に混乱しておりますが、慌てず、一刻も早い避難と安全の確保を最優先に、自分の命を守る行動をするよう警察、消防各所は住民に呼びかけています。大変な危険な状況が続いていますので、くれぐれも…キャー！ English translation: I'm here on site. As you can see, large buildings and utility poles are presently being knocked down in the urban districts, causing devastating damage. We still don't have accurate information, but multiple eye-witnesses have said that a large, dinosaur-like creature is destroying the city, one building at a time. The scene is extremely chaotic, but police and firefighters are urging residents not to panic, and to act to protect their own lives by evacuating as quickly as possible. This incredibly dangerous situation is unfolding, so please do not -- AHHH!
6.	DINOSAUR. 03:54	lyrics	buy track
I’ve reached my break point I’m sorry to say That I’ll probably eat you Later today Who the hell thinks On the 405 “Damn it’s good to Be alive” I’m a goddess I’m a creep I’ll trade my coffee For one misdeed Hey, mutherfucker! Whaddaya know I’m a dinosaur! Hey, mutherfucker! Whaddaya know I’m a dinosaur! I’m polite to others What a pain Wouldn’t smashing Be all the same Introspection May be overdue Or I could put this All on you I’m a goddess I’m a creep I’ll trade my coffee For one misdeed Hey, mutherfucker! Whaddaya know Watch my stomach grow I could eat a thousand subway cars Do bad they don’t make spices this large But you should taste just fine Hey, mutherfucker! Whaddaya know I’m a dinosaur! [x3] Hey, mutherfucker! Whaddaya know Buildings are like reeds They snap between my hands And produce screams The army says hello But they’re so weak Cannons tickle Like a feather in the breeze There’s a hunger That cannot be tamed A bird brain has no Logic to contain This historic carnage I am triumphant I am a legend I need an outlet
7.	Six 05:44	lyrics	buy track
There’s a light in the house But it flickers out I thought a saw a face But it withered with the ceiling fan The clock must have forgot What time it was I’ll turn it back [x3] Something must be awry How did this become nowhere? Two steps forward, two steps back How am I anywhere? What if my car is stuck? What if my feet are buried? What if I’m sinking From the dead weight I’ve carried? Fi-ga-ri, fi-ga-ro This is more than I bargained One two three anxiety I guess I won’t be pardoned I have a duffel that’s filled with regrets I try to unpack, but I just make a mess The street is the same, but something isn’t right What the hell always sullies the night? Where’s the rain? I was told exactly What to expect on cloudy days I guess myths were thrown out long ago Nothing stays still Maniacs run loose While I bang on the windowsill What is the spark that I have lost I much prefer fantasies But I think they’re numbing me So here’s the car Here’s where I decide to Turn off the feedback and depart But the noise still wails in my head [Queen-like instrumental] There’s a light in the house But it flickers out I thought a saw a face But it withered with the ceiling fan The clock must have forgot What time it was I’ll turn it back
8.	Outro 00:37	lyrics	buy track
I’m glam like paper bags in the height of service Hush now it is time for us to close the curtain I’m glam like paper bags in the height of service

about

Behold, a woman with a paper bag on her head. From the paper bag comes shrieking and yelling, things like "HEY! Motherfucker wouldn't ya know - I'm a dinosaur!". Dissonant detonations of guitar fallout knock you down, and the paper bag lady keeps up the pressure: the nightmare has just begun. You must be listening to Throwaway's second album, Hand That Takes.

Blonky noise rock holds hands with intro (extro?) -spection: the more you listen to the screams, the more you can hear the ghostly vestiges of burnout, and of the modern-day exhaustion of having to Be On all the time as you struggle to make a career - or even a living. Arguments are had with the self, the internal antagonist is brought to life and you can hear them punching it out in real time. "DINOSAUR." details someone so exhausted by their daily charade and grind, they have a vivid fantasy about transforming into Godzilla and destroying the entire city. "Cute Frankenstein" grapples with someone barely keeping their emotional balance in check, imagining themselves slowly crumbling away and having to reconstruct their facade piece by piece.

Throwaway's din contains echoes of noisy bygone freaksters like Foot Village and Scissor Girls; here, the ghosts of Coughs and Pre howl across the tiktok-blighted heath in the wake of the spotify death machine. Throwaway has arrived.

Hand That Takes will be available from FPE in cassette or digital format July 29.

credits

released July 29, 2022

Kirsten Carey - guitar, vocals
Oliver Dobrian - drums (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7)
Jonathan Taylor - drums (track 2, 6)
Ami - vocals (track 5)

Album artwork by Monty Etzcorn
Cassette layout by Ben Willis

All songs engineered, produced, and mastered by Lizzy Erickson at Manifest Studios in Santa Monica, CA
Track 8 recorded in a tunnel in the Keweenaw Peninsula, MI
Thanks to Ben, Lizzy, Oliver, Jon, Ami, Miki, Monty, Maddy, Scott, and Jonathan for their generosity, time, and encouragement. And thank you - yes, you - for being strange enough to come to this place.

This is FPE Records #44, 2022.

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Throwaway Detroit, Michigan

Long ago, from the depths of the streaming ocean, a single-celled organism changed the course of history as it slithered slowly towards the land. Now, millions of years later, its ancestors gather at the holy rock venues to pay tribute with a strange new version of rock and roll. ... more

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