Cast of Static and Smoke

by Vile Creature

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Sick and tired Beautiful slow sounds Favorite track: Water, Tinted Gold & Tainted Copper.

Jake Tavares There isn't much to NOT like about this album. In fact, I can't think of one thing. Deep and dark and emotive. I can't stop spinning it. Favorite track: Water, Tinted Gold & Tainted Copper.

jane bird This album is heavy in the way an ancient old oak is - all gnarled and twisted and sublime and also a home to birds and other woodland creatures who take their headbanging slow and natural. Love it so much. Favorite track: Forest, Subsists as a Tomb.

Claire Donner Vile Creature, saving me from the sound of my coworkers chewing since 2015.

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1.	Water, Tinted Gold & Tainted Copper 10:20	lyrics
Track 1: Water, tinted gold & tainted copper the five awaken from their slumber blinded by visions of the elements of life leading to a scorched earth a crows nest shrouded in metal and rust even scraps fear nothingness i've seen blackened, deserted shores calling me, whispering lore is uncertainty safer than security? life reduced to moments powered on, flickering. " Prodigal, Machinery, Crawling Back to the Devil I Know. Tricked Out. A Workaround For Free Will Got What We Thought We Wanted. What We Thought We Knew Touched The Wires Together Wade Through The Yellow Waters And Then The Rust / And Then The Rust / The Death Of Us Freedom / Corrosion / Death By Determinism I’m Going Back To The Cage That Knows What’s Best For Me Throw Myself At Their Feet And Cease To Dream" the five return to their slumber
2.	Circuits, Bending & Breaking 09:16	lyrics
carbon bodies ash up to your knees toiling for years algae blooms swell and spread choking our air dark towers shroud these walls dusk settles seeds linger after droughts they linger baptized in the river of metallic sludge sinking to the bottom give in what if the end never comes baptized in the river in waves i'll meet you at the edge sinking to the bottom drowning in waves circling the drain find me (cycle is interrupted) numb and broken floating with the current (desperate to find a future)
3.	Forest, Subsists as a Tomb 13:36	lyrics
take heed- you dare spread the destruction from whence you came take heed- you who share frame & limb with those who breathe take heed- you whose youth shall quiver before our breadth ive felt the mass of a fractured world bear down upon my diminished branches take heed- all that has been lost you lost was ours to claim take heed- all that has been lost you lost is yours to blame seeds linger after droughts there is no lingering distance between you and death life blooms after doubts your kind has done nothing
4.	Sky, in Descending Pieces 08:52	lyrics
moth floating high above wings scorched limbs singed (sky) withered evergreen lacking air the end came swiftly (in) crooked lips wavered fealty laugh amid the wreckage (descend) we pebbles formed mountains gained arrogance shattered back (pieces) cracked bleeding hands (the sky) no longer carve stone (descends) water exists as (the end) our only sculpter cracked bleeding hands (cast of) of soil and ore (static) of carbon and steel (smoke) of fortress and conquest

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** Jimmy Claypool, who played on the song Forest, Subsists as a Tomb was accused of sexual assault by multiple survivors and we stand with them. All money recieved from the purchases of this song will be donated to sexual assault support initiatives, and we will no longer be playing it live **

Read the short story the record is based on at: www.castofstaticandsmoke.com

THE VINYL & CASSETTE OF THIS ALBUM ARE OUT OF PRINT. IF YOU WANT A PHYSICAL COPY OF THIS ALBUM YOU CAN PURCHASE PRESERVATION RITUALS, OUR DISCOGRAPHY CD WHICH INCLUDES THIS RECORD.

credits

released March 7, 2018

Recorded at Signaturetone Studios in Minneapolis by Adam Tucker
Additional Recording at Candle Recordings in Toronto by Josh Korody
Art & Layout by Stephen Wilson
Released by Halo of Flies (US) & Dry Cough (UK)

Track 1 features Chris Colohan on vocals
Track 3 features James Claypool on guitar
Tracks 1,3, & 4 feature Erin Severson as the narrator

The record was recorded live with one guitar, one drum kit, and two weird queer kids with lofty ambitions!

Vile Creature is:
Vic - drums, vocals
KW - guitar, vocals, percussion

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Vile Creature Hamilton, Ontario

slow & heavy two piece with anti-oppressive and fantastical leanings.

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May 31

Phoenix Concert Theatre, Lee's Palace, the Garrison, the Baby G, Bar Orwell

Toronto, ON

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