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these magic days

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the tired but willing 03:35
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the tired but willing Misread my recollection Of a pause from the changing same the tired but willing the dead and living who who humbly submit to an order accepted the roundhouse rejected and all the restful kin grim and silent the sword-split and simian they applaud, from alarm then a pause to reevaluate (aloft in the sundry) [voice solo, over same chords] some perfume(d) my selections for the blindfolded highest bid all some sugar cookie spit-shined and a rummy gin for the key to the white wedding from the wedding to the widows parade
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perfect squares 02:09
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tchotchke 03:27
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dirty money 04:25
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hand me my tamborine 00:59
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naturalist's fantasy 02:13
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24 seconds of a future sickness 00:28
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i am a windwill 01:37
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peaches & tangerines 03:12
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a burning seed 02:21
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good california rockin funtime 00:10
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yeah 02:27
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sunburns and souvenirs 02:41
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a charcoal summer 03:03
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points between 03:21
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station to station (vocal) 00:50
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second hand blues 03:10
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parks and rec 02:38
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Parks and rec Reflex actions Double edge razor Turn in sudden separate paths Lukewarm water Salted tempers Open windows Fingerprinting Turning back then looking forward Then just standing there Waiting (For a) casually pleasant evening To wrestle with the second best (Knelt before my sunken treasure Double helix Broken measure Gray the numbers and a spiral staircase (bored with but so all the rest, bored with...) send for maroons a noisey barker jumping fences crumbling monuments cradling a slow but steady incandescence overrated bottom dollars blown out for the timing of the tune (short and somewhat obvious bored with but so (are) all the rest girl in sour summer dress feelings (s)old the summer drags)
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reflex breakdown 01:56
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man of war 01:20
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time twisted 03:53
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tipping starside 04:46
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breaks my back 01:10
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so i was (palimpsest) 01:59
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station to station (instrumental) 00:50
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one hundred fifteen magnetic fingertips 01:09
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obituaries, personal ads, basketball magazines from the mid- 90s, poor social skills, obsessive interest in music (recorded, notated, performed) since early childhood, lost californians, blind men with guitars and dry delirious voices, spiritual poverty, maritime disaster, new york poets, car accidents, nose-bleeds, hans holbein the younger, profound loneliness, milkshakes, the library, periodic visits to strange wonderful places, long drives on two-lane country roads at dawn, various indulgences and deprivations.

grew up in and around berthoud, colorado, a place seemingly taylor made for locking oneself in a basement or garage, alone or with some friends, some instruments, a couple microphones, and wiling away every last teenage moment.

began in notebooks, scribbled desperately wildly, often in transit.
spread out onto dozens of cassette tapes, recorded on the cheap using anything from wobbly dictaphones to glorious tascam 4-tracks.
occasionally compiled into one-off mixes sent to one or two friends.
after several years Ian decided to share his work with the world in the form a seven-song cdr ep. he made about 150 cdrs and mailed them out to every college/freeform radiostation he could imagine being interested. Encouraged by the response of a couple of stations, including kxlu in los angeles, he formed the band in early-mid 2007 with a couple of friends (Cale on drums, Zack on bass).

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released November 11, 1918

all songs were written, recorded and produced by ian davis

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