Lungfish

What can be said about Lungfish that hasn't been said before? Words like minimal, meditative and monolithic are frequently mentioned and much is made of Daniel Higgs' poetry. The case I would make is that they are a true American folk band.

Their are two collections here, the first covers the period from '91-'98 which covers their debut album "Talking Songs for Walking" through to "Artificial Horizon" and concludes with a 10 minute live version of Armageddon, which has never been recorded or released by the band.

The second covers the period '99-'05, The Unanimous Hour through to Feral Hymns, taking in some live unreleased tracks from the Necrophones sessions.

Lungfish 1



tracklist

1. Descender
2. Animal Man
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Creation Story
5. Savings
6. Cleaner Than Your Surroundings
7. At Liberty to Say
8. Gorilla Monsoon
9. Solid State
10. Signpost
11. Sphere of Influence
12. You Did Not Exist
13. e=fu
14. Urania
15. Organ Harvest
16. Ann the Word
17. Love Will Ruin Your Mind
18. Black Helicopters
19. Armageddon (live in Philadelphia 98)


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Paranoia warped into a gravity
which spread a smothering blanket—
an evolutionary launch pad
vision was tested on blank sky
and a voice said
let me tell you about the time
that something occurred
medication caused an ear to hear
and a conflict of interpretation arose
landscapes were drawn from a plague of particles
and the burden was distributed
the law would return
as inflated skins
while music initiated architecture
animals, living through a velocity of fear
began to modify their behavior
to comply with human observation
thus dropping the keystone
into the eggshell honeycomb
of anthrocentric history sense
as for the plants
they had been with the music
science procured a steepled shell
dressed for immortality
a hollow to hold the music
the motion repelled all opinion
and refused to consider it's origins
apples happened
bringing acids and enzymes
the spinning recorder
disguised an an endless bouquet
things became erotic at the drop of a hat
a tyrant placed an apple on a table
and lorded over it
as a fish realized it held a monkey
inside itself
and expelled it on the beach
in a larval salamander form
the voters clamored for more circles
and the whole rig began to rotate
books were used for fuel and money
and everybody was writing them
the planets turned inside out
to expose their freight
no charges were pressed
because all involved agreed
that they could die
these are the secrets the world sung to me
truer than the truth
a young order of birds
that eats the eyes of believers
science predicted forms of worship
and reveled in them
an orgy of mutation took place
for many years
between stones
near water
inside clouds
the peoples bound their feet
with the skins of animals
to trample their own cities
and each other
they developed external organs
like guns and television sets
they believed that they owned things
one mind in a generation
will hear the eternal broadcast
the voice saying
let me tell you about the time
something occurred
that mind's body will be strapped down
and that body's mind will be subject
to testing or electrical currents
rippled through the brain
but the music pervades
it was music that gave the shove
and resolved in music
we shall breathe
it was children
that crafted a parent
and resolved in children
we shall live



Lungfish pt 2



Tracklist

1. Space Orgy
2. God's Will
3. Hallucinatorium
4. Symbioses [live from Brownies NY 12.11.99]
5. Screams of Joy [live from Brownies NY 12.11.99]
6. Between You [live from Brownies NY 12.11.99]
7. Sex War
8. Cross Road
9. Hanging Bird
10. Love is Love
11. This World
12. Hear the Children Sing
13. No False Suns
14. All Creation Bows
15. Sing
16. Way Out Is The Way Out

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(art by Ernst Haeckel)