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Parcels & Polaroids

by The Pawnshop Manual

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1.
Five Inch Step 02:36
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“We wish to, and can, move mountains; from our hearts flows the purest well-spring of love for all humanity....It’s impossible to take a five-inch step when we wish to walk in seven-league boots! Can a giant teach a child to read?” To which Dostoevsky replies in his own voice: “There it is: sacrifice all your titanism to the general good; take a five-inch step instead of a seven-league one; accept wholeheartedly the idea that if you are unable to advance further, five inches is all the same worth more than nothing. Sacrifice everything, even your grandeur and your great ideas, for the general good: stoop down, stoop down, as low as the level of a child” – Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
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Falls Over Whole (Believing Through) 05:20
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heal upon sulfur and salons appeals designed by feelings in cologne a lone tour in emotions dissolved, shows our oceans and truths I knew flew from you falls over whole over you ceilings above those evening songs we love revealing all we are for being what we aren't a lone tour in emotions dissolved, shows our oceans and truths I knew flew from you falls over whole over you and fade away spared from sway More than we are more than here
3.
We've Become Here (Believing In) 04:36
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you, your lungs have tried to write over the lines and bought auburn and white forgot old themes in fight So show, reshow All the beliefs in things we know And write, rewrite What we’ve become here Here we try… Stretched inside Reaching up from parts we've fallen into when fullness becomes an overwhelming source of pride when voters and false careers believe in all the lies where bottom, beneath, below becomes the end of why we all dance as volunteers for causes we defy So show, reshow All the beliefs in things we know And write, rewrite What we’ve become here Here, we lie Stretched inside, Reaching up from faults we've fallen into Here we try, Stretched inside, Reaching up from parts we've fallen into Reaching up from faults we've fallen into…
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Nostalgia 04:44
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Parcels and Polaroids 05:47
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And so we go to sleep with those wary boasts that we, we were the ones destined to see it through its threads on spirals and cleats spark the flints inside as wake to sheets and blankets and summer lights bright, brighter becomes our dreams of weather as close, closer they come we string together that I don't need more words to save my life i don’t need no thoughts no doubts no lies cuz it's so far from being here. Cuz as I grip these thoughts these sights these moments of my own I turn, revived Cuz it's all that I need is here the Words pierced in this bench with so many hopes that show, and shows you the way with parcels and polaroids and though, its license believes We've already gone as we, we call the parts as trinkets and lullabies Bright, brighter becomes our dreams of weather As close, closer they come we string together That I don't need more words to save my life I don’t need no thoughts no doubts no lies cuz it's so far from being here. Cuz as I grip these thoughts these sights these moments of my own I turn, revived Cuz it's all that I need is here.
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4:37am (Things That Follow) 05:10
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暁の花咲き、光の中 人ごみを割り抜け、一人の今 刻まれた迷いも、照らされて 悲しみ枯れるほど、希望のそば And you can see you Through Time’s eye Up Down, I'm letting go All the things that let me go The fallen pleas and closing doors Cuz right now I'm blinded more, (by) The kinder things that follow hope. 臆病ならそれだけ自分の中。 予防線ひかれ捕らわれて。。 でも隠しきれないこの温もりは 「今」と言う可能性秘めているから And you can see you Through Time’s eye Up Down, I'm letting go All the things that let me go The fallen pleas and closing doors Cuz right now I'm blinded more, (by) The kinder things that follow hope.
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We've Become Here (Refrain) 03:00
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Falls Over Whole (Bonus Single Version) 04:26
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heal upon sulfur and salons appeals designed by feelings in cologne a lone tour in emotions dissolved, shows our oceans and truths I knew flew from you falls over whole over you ceilings above those evening songs we love revealing all we are for being what we aren't a lone tour in emotions dissolved, shows our oceans and truths I knew flew from you falls over whole over you and fade away spared from sway More than we are more than here
9.
We've Become Here (Bonus Single Version) 04:00
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you, your lungs have tried to write over the lines and bought auburn and white forgot old themes in fight So show, reshow All the beliefs in things we know And write, rewrite What we’ve become here Here we try… Stretched inside Reaching up from parts we've fallen into when fullness becomes an overwhelming source of pride when voters and false careers believe in all the lies where bottom, beneath, below becomes the end of why we all dance as volunteers for causes we defy So show, reshow All the beliefs in things we know And write, rewrite What we’ve become here Here, we lie Stretched inside, Reaching up from faults we've fallen into Here we try, Stretched inside, Reaching up from parts we've fallen into Reaching up from faults we've fallen into…

about

The Pawnshop Manual's debut album, Parcels and Polaroids, is a meditative self-reflection that explores a particular kind of desire: to make changes and connections in an isolating world. Five Inch Step invites an awakening to the superficiality of our interactions that Falls Over Whole (Believing Through) then depicts.We've Become Here (Believing In) swells with an intense longing that evokes deep empathy in anyone who has found themselves bouncing between hope and despair. A gentle instrumental begs for simplicity and focus in a world of contradictions, and the sweet duet that follows, the title track, delivers that focus with its revelation that “All that I need is here.” 4:37am (Things That Follow) is an energetic, clap-along song that makes you want to play it loud and sing it with your friends on your way to somewhere you can't wait to be. It celebrates hope, happiness and togetherness. A slowed-down refrain from We've Become Here brings the album to a contemplative close.

The Pawnshop Manual make intellectual and infectious pop that satisfies the listener's yearning for music that asks big questions and mulls the answers thoughtfully and creatively. Parcels and Polaroids is dynamic and evocative from beginning to end, and its aural meandering will stay with you long after the road trip is over.

To express these complex themes, The Pawnshop Manual draws from musical influences ranging from world music, rock, pop, folk, electronica and classical music. One could say Radiohead meets Björk meets Arcade Fire.

credits

released February 10, 2011

All music written, programmed and performed by The Pawnshop Manual (t.shiota), except:

2. "Falls Over Whole (Believing Through)", written by The Pawnshop Manual. Bass by Miles Waghray, Drums by Juli Steemson (www.radjuli.com)

3. "We've Become Here (Believing In)", written by The Pawnshop Manual. Bass by Miles Waghray, Drums & Noises by Juli Steemson (www.radjuli.com)

5. "Parcels and Polaroids", written by The Pawnshop Manual. Backup vocals by Andrea Schneider, Bass and Melodica by Miles Waghray

6. "4:37am (Things That Follow)", written by The Pawnshop Manual. Choir by Eric Anderson, Mary Jo Curry, Alix Little, Benjamin R. Thompson

7. "We've Become Here (Refrain)", written by The Pawnshop Manual. Backup vocals by Andrea Schneider, Bass by Miles Waghray, Drums by Juli Steemson (www.radjuli.com)

Artwork and Design by Eric Anderson (www.chromoschema.com)

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The Pawnshop Manual make intellectual and infectious pop that satisfies the listener's yearning for music that asks big questions and mulls the answers thoughtfully and creatively.

To express these complex themes, The Pawnshop Manual draws from musical influences ranging from world music, rock, pop, folk, electronica and classical music. One could say Radiohead meets Björk meets Arcade Fire. ... more

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