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The Benefits Of Devolution

by Phill Vidler

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1.
Please 01:19
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Please stay with me till the morning.
2.
Script 03:48
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Money’s running low Desperation flows Hunger starts to show And the rent is due Wallet’s running light Notes and coins lose life When lucky stars realign I’ll know the worst is through And the script is learned Then it flips and turns And changes again 99% of my time is spent missing sleep The rest is less than I care to keep I’ve never been more anxious And until my eyes close, I’ll just keep getting older Blinking takes its toll When the light’s too cold Terraform my soul So that it can feel If the ceiling spoke With a fact or joke I’d wait till it broke To see if it was real And the script is burned Each breath is earned By the trials of men 99% of my time is spent missing weeks I’m sure there’s more that I’m supposed to be Time’s never been more precious And until my eyes close, I’ll just keep getting older It’s not insomnia, I’m just not here
3.
Cascade 03:56
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Clouds shout in a cascade Death spoke, he let hope stay Home is not coated in filigree Remember me Reacquainting myself With the notion of an elsewhere day There’s something so serene About the swelling of the sunrays Flow, flow to me for love Sew the seams of dreams that I’ve pulled off The ziggurat will fall Our faiths will crush us all Clouds shout in a cascade Death spoke, he let hope stay The river sold love to the sea Saying “remember me” Reacquainting myself With the notion of an elsewhere day There’s something so serene About the swelling of the sunrays Go where you feel you must The stars are just floating dust The earth is not a perfect sphere And I’m off-balance here Flow, flow to me for love Sew the seams of dreams that I’ve pulled off The ziggurat will fall Our faiths will crush us all (There’s something so serene about the swelling of the sunrays)
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Trajectory 02:29
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My trajectory is solemn My love is almost going A January blip, a momentary slip My opacity is muddy See right through my body There’s nothing I would hide from the girl who keeps me alive Let me catch my breath to say Roll the match back my way The flame isn’t out yet, so stay my love The hour is between us Now the world has seen us The deed has been done, now we wait for the sun To end this night that’s nearly gone Our love’s not diminished I know that we’re not finished Just keep us secret now; we’ll make it through somehow Let me catch my breath to say Roll the match back my way The flame isn’t out yet, so stay my love
5.
Nuance 04:57
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The paper’s print, stunning glimpse of memories He sees no face and has no trace of fallacies And now he’s left a note of goodbyes The earth will turn, and they’ll forget him in a while A choice is firm in the nuance of a smile He’ll be back on the waves of heavy sighs Arguing with arguments Organising ornaments Amalgamation of inspirations show him the dents That he wears now The light of moon, this clair-de-lune that is his muse The flawless tune, hummed to the rhythm of her shoes She gives him all he needs to carry on Time’s away, and every day rolls into one That’s life, you say? Then tell me one thing that he’s done To make him feel like he doesn’t belong? Arguing with arguments Organising ornaments Amalgamation of inspirations show him the dents That he wears now
6.
Ebow 02:32
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The layover was delayed, lover While I struggled to find the solution One foot behind the other Find the benefits of devolution
7.
Chrysalis 05:04
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Orion, watch over me Hover where my lover sleeps Shine as though your light’s all there is That’s how I picture happiness You’re how I picture happiness Look up; remember all that you see And when you’re home, describe to me How all the stars are hanging high Just like the colours in your eyes The colours resting in your eyes You are the catalyst for my chrysalis Motivation is eluding me And the days drag by so sullenly A blink can take forever to do With nothing there to open to There’s nothing there to open to You are the catalyst for my chrysalis
8.
Winds 03:48
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The move made me adaptive But I’m not elastic I’m a half built house Made from bricks of doubts Fair winds and following seas Sail me through the bay, lead me to me Winds have tackled me Towards where I’m meant to be But I will continue The world just wants to know what’s in you I wouldn’t change you for all the stars Past Mercury, past Mars I understand but that doesn’t mean I tolerate A thousand reflected suns would struggle to permeate me I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest And you can keep the rest And I say oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
9.
Cacophony 04:09
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Settle into your ways darling I’ll keep right beside you, running, keeping up Do what you are dreaming of I see your eyes are gleaming, don’t sleep it off I just want to hear you sing Relieve the cacophony I can hold you up and swim Through the tides to where you wanna be Everybody talks in silence Friends align through their trial-and-error ways But we were always parallel Centre of caramel, we are tearaways From the same page I just want to hear you sing Relieve the cacophony I can hold you up and swim Through the tides to where you wanna be Where the waves crash over the crag I will defend you till my feet drag Ah I just want to hear you sing Relieve the cacophony I can hold you up and swim Through the tides to where you wanna be
10.
Bones 03:46
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The city doesn’t sleep It just revolves, resets and then repeats Waterlogged grass Shimmer as the light becomes the mass Does the North Star know it’s only gas? New home; just a version of the old home Old bones with the pressure of a lonely goal Separate me From this future stained in mediocrity The light will refract But do my eyes still see through my own cracks? Why am I still wary of attack? New home; just a version of the old home Old bones with the pressure of a lonely goal New home; just a version of the old home Old bones with the pressure of a lonely goal The world still stands while I’m waiting at a stand still The night’s now light but the shadows still prepare to kill New home; just a version of the old home Old bones with the pressure of a lonely goal
11.
Saccharine 03:35
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Here are your worries – take a good long look See how they wear? See how they tear like the binding of a book Write them in the sand as the tide is flooding in Let them be unformed by the storm that you’re avoiding Speculate your remedies with saccharine Evacuate and journey from the state you’re in Your existence is the depth of me The abyss, the chasm in which I recede Light drifts through the atmosphere To land upon you as the rain runs clear Speculate your remedies with saccharine Evacuate and journey from the state you’re in
12.
Placebo 03:51
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Tessellate; it’s your reformed placebo Diary of always is calling the shots while it shows The green under the mountain snow in your snow-globe Ruminate; we’re living in a fish bowl Magpie minds attract to souls Clinically average scores in the polls

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The sophomore album from Phill Vidler. It is a progression from the stripped-back EP from January, "The Fog", with new instrumentation, more experimentation, and far more diverse lyric subjects. Stream it for free by pressing the play button!

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released August 28, 2014

Written, recorded, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Phill Vidler.

Recorded at Forrester Studios
(aka... my bedroom at Uni/wherever I have my recording equipment)

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With a melodic storytelling style matched with evocative lyricism, Phill Vidler paints a dense canvas that is easy to lose yourself in. Phill is a prolific force of creativity and uses a growing inventory of equipment to evolve his sound.

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