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The Journal

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Krickis This is a great album for fans of Manchester Orchestra and Frightened Rabbit, and of those alternative/indie rock artists in general. The album has good diversity of sound, each song sounding distinct while cohesive to the whole project. Definitely an artist who deserved more attention! Favorite track: Basking.
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When I Was Born (Aug20,86) I was born in a wasteland of a wastebasket yawning after the last piece of garbage was wrought in the dust of the fallen walls out back of a Taco Bell at 3 AM just as they're closing down. As I puked my brains out. (Oct30,86) I was born in a row of houses. Or more like the alley behind as we peed in the dark. Trying not to let the passing cops see us there after the bar kicked us out. (Mar22,87) I was born on a train or a platform. I can't remember cause the blackout. Just know when I came to my knees were bleeding and I don't know how I got home. (Oct31,87) I was born in a water fountain. Baptised broken fingered and dropped off by a bus. And I was almost late to work that morning. But I wasn't. (Aug20,86) Was it me or was it you? Was I the same person then I am now? Are you? Are any of us the same?
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Left My Body 03:05
Left My Body (Oct30,86) Sometimes I feed off of being alone. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing it. (Oct31,87) Sometimes I love that sedentary life. Sometimes it's closer to drowning. Sometimes I feel these glitches in my head. Sometimes I am something else. (June8,89) Leaving combs on the dresser. Leaving trash in the can. Leaving sanity, sanitarily. Leaving marks on the walls. Leaving skin on the ground. I left my body where it was found.
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Sunday Drives (Jul5,86) i don't know how this is supposed to work or why i'm doing this or who this is even for how do i sign off? i guess i just stop? (Jul6,86) i guess i like the view a sunday drive the trees and farms and little towns we go through (Aug20,86) sometimes i feel like my life is starting over i'm just being born again and again
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Basking 04:20
Basking (Oct31,87) i know it seems like i'm always pulling the alarm but i'm really more together than what i put on (Dec18,87) i bask in the glow of the end of this godforsaken year an explosion of doubt a palace and thorny crowns i'm ready for something else i wanna see new orleans in the winter cause it's anywhere but here (Jul5,88) i don't know who i'm trying to impress i guess it doesn't matter but (Apr10,88) is it over yet? (I bask in the glow of your voice in my head I loved all our time We got. It was worth it.)
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Gut-Check 04:18
Gut-check (Jan7,90) i wish i could talk to you when i sleep but i can't so i don't mind running on fumes i'd rather be tired than not hear your voice she snuck me into movies she's not afraid of breaking rules she's not afraid of anything makes me less afraid of everything (Jan23,90) I think I'm definitely falling now the ultimate gut-check a blank slate waiting to be filled in and if i could say anything or any words to anyone i want to say them to you all warm and close all boisterous and belligerent all messy like my head and when i feel her lips i could sigh with the moon and tides will change with our breath
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I'm a Thief 03:22
I'm a Thief (Jan30,90) pardon my directness dear but i'm feeling rather anxious can you pick me up and put me back on the shelf? it's everything i want to say but can't it's every conversation i want to have but can't say out loud (Mar14,90) i could build a life here or anywhere i could go the whole wide world to steal another phrase i'll steal every second i can get
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Don't Be Like Me (Nov22,90) the holidays were always hard and this is also hard let go and get easier already we shared a turkey sandwich on the porch you're months away, it feels like years to see your face, you could say i'm scared that you'll have my chin my nose, my wonky eyes that you'll have my fears my worries and my faults (Jan2,91) hi scout you're a little early but you're just in time
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July 4 1991 04:53
July 4, 1991 (braces and blood) (Jul8,91) welcome to the worst day of my life i'd never been as scared as this the fourth of july. in 1991 i almost lost my wife and son it was so hot out steam on the streets waiting till the sun goes down twilight and a car crash i'm fine they're not they aren't okay the ambulance the braces and the blood and the doctors say they'll make a full recovery and i'm so sorry i should have seen it coming
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What Do I Do Now? (Jul5,01) it's what i should have said out loud "your words are like a warm blanket swallowing me whole i can't escape and i don't want to" i couldn't keep her here something kept calling her away i remember when i saw the look that's the day i knew Amelia wasn't staying anymore i still feel unprepared i still can't believe it what do i tell scout? what do we do now? (Jul13,01) i haven't left my bed in weeks and i am a box of papers cut out of the frame and folded away i'm waiting for the sun to hit so i set on fire i want to be set on fire i wasn't prepared for this wherever did you go? really, what do i do now?
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Pick Up the Pieces (Aug11,01) pick up the pieces i'm falling apart on the couch i'm under the brick of the house i have to pretend i'm okay i know everyone is broken i know you don't know that yet i know my head's full of too much conversation i'm talking to someone that isn't there if there's one thing i've learned it's that some kind of paper are more satisfying to rip into pieces and some people are too and it's not about having all the answers it's about the questions you ask as you go
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Point the Needle Home (Nov12,01) put the pieces back together you're almost out of time (Dec10,01) hold your breath through the tunnels (nov12,01) i'd rather melt into the walls (Dec10,01) point the needle home (Oct31,01) Amelia took nothing when she left (Nov11,01) skipping the sunday drive for awhile (Sept17,01) ready to head East it's gonna be good for us so good for me (Dec12,01) a long drive to Chicago and it's beautiful in the dark (Dec14,01) tiny snowmen on the railing it almost breaks my heart
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I Hope the Future Isn't Bleak (Apr6,08) it's amazing how we find things lose things, an attic or a shed a journal or your head and i'm everywhere again my body strewn about the room trying/failing to put it back together my arms at 16 my heart when scout was born my gut when amelia left my whole life a few words on a page i hope the future isn't bleak
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Take Care of Yourself (Dec29,18) My dad died young i never heard from my mom again and then here i go gonna miss everything down the road i hope you get it right, Scout i hope you live your life i miss you already kid and i'm so proud of you son take care of yourself i love you very much

about

The Journal is a fiction. It's an album. But it's also a book. Its prose is largely written by John; the music by his son, Scout, after finding John's journal just days after he passed. It's a layered work married by the words of a man over the course of most of his life.

It's about life and love and death and birth and trauma and forgiveness and traditions and loss. To let Scout tell it, "It's about how I came to be. How the stories of my father shaped who I am today. How the world seems to act with a cruel kind of irony. The poetic chaos beyond our grasp."

"What does it sound like?
It sounds like the wail of guitars and voices in your head.
It sounds like biography.
It sounds like searching.
For identity.
For reasons to exist.
For reasons not to.
It sounds like something that will keep you up at night."

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released January 6, 2021

Written, Produced, Engineered, Arranged and Mixed by Iain Greba
Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Synths by Iain Greba
Drums by Byron Harden
Mastered by Jesse Cannon at Found Soundation

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