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Sudden Sun

by Coo & Howl

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1.
Copper Sea 03:03
With turtles and with toads You are shifted From one statue’s pose to another And held in place Patina green spread out on copper Little flowers grow between your toes And still, when it’s quiet, I hear you breathe Now every cell conspires To adore you But nobody’s wires Reach as far as me, Not even yours.
2.
Golden in the right light Near black in the late hours Soft when skin is showing Held back when laughing lifts Letting off our lizard tails And starfish arms Whittled down to wires And a thumping heart, We grow back Pink as the skin under the scab On your knee, waiting to drop off Blue as the irises Burned in my brain With shining that stays Keratin and coral reaching Deep in molten core We are sweetly sleeping.
3.
And the skin grows over it But the mark won’t match Or hide the blood from the sun No guts will stay calm or content Being buried in me Make the cut, fly at once From my body to thee It’s a hell of a thing To worship or grieve What with all of the doubt in its seeds I’ve been down I’ve been down I’ve been down, Do believe.
4.
Lizard Tails 02:22
wom wom wom doorbell
5.
Out Of Sleep 05:04
Grooves of a vaccination scar Wind along the spires Of fires that fly From a sun she set in ink Moon’s a burning bathroom light That flooded through a barely opened door And blew the night off of our wishing to be saved Light up all these days for me Pull my shadow off Pull me down Arms curling like ivy all around All tied and tangled, Snake and eel All flushed with blood Ghosts come flicker around the bed Sleep in their claws and on their fangs A doubt as deep as atoms A pulse when things are quiet Beating now To keep all of the saddest songs in time.
6.
Sudden Sun 01:00
7.
Up & Shining 03:02
Oh, someone come And eat me up I'd boil in the belly of Whatever word Means all that love At the water line Without our clothes And the sun coming up And shining on the waves.
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9.
Salted 03:08
Salted after all Red and dry Set to split Shook the tree for fruit But we all fell from that height Shimmy off the bone Blood leaves he branches, besides
10.
Odd Notions 02:30
Salt and ruin All on down the line The frame fits you in it Here’s a coffin for the notion Any part of you will feel the pang The ground can’t grow our thorny pit No life in it In all that earth, inanimate! A period to punctuate The last few lines, All ending way too late Black from the root up Flowers and all And here’s a coffin for the notion We could return to anything but soil Oh, we’ll be food for other loves.
11.
The light you left won’t leave you But the rate of the flicker slows And all the brand-new black Seems sideless then. The sudden sun will get you And steal the lines she shows But every edge returns Follow none but the route of hers All the way around.

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Recorded by us. Mixed and mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East. Art by Christian.

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released October 1, 2011

Christian Cundari—Guitars, Banjo, Synth, Ukulele, Viola Caipira
Ben Didsbury—Bass, Effects
Matt Dodge—Drums
Jenna Savage—Vocals
Matt Savage—Vocals, Guitar, Synth, Perc.

With:
Kelly Davidson—Additional vocals on track 9
Marnie Hall—Violin on tracks 2,9
Dan Madri—Additional guitar on tracks 2, 7, KORG on track 5
Tyler Pollard—Harmonica on tracks 3, 9
Nick Zampiello—Organ on tracks 1, 7

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Coo & Howl Cambridge, Massachusetts

Coo & Howl is a 5-person band of family members and friends, who have performed together in and around Boston for years. This close musical partnership has allowed the band to develop a uniquely collaborative writing style. Each song is balanced by a tension between influences and styles—and hints at recognizable genres without falling prey to the conventional trappings of any particular one. ... more

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