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Kiln

by Lotus Eater

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  • Limited Edition Cassette with bonus gift!
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Our debut EP is now on cassette!

    We have teamed up with El Rey Tapes (Fontana, CA) to release a very limited run of 25 tapes for "KILN" and we couldn't be more excited!

    And for a limited time only the cassette will include a Lotus Eater button and a CD copy of the EP (for those who don't have a tape player in their car)

    Includes unlimited streaming of Kiln via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.
LEAVE YOUR THINGS AND HIT THE ROAD LET’S GO FIND THE BEAUTY IN SOME BACK COUNTRY BAR WHERE THE JUKEBOX DOESN’T HAVE THE SONGS WE LIKE BUT WE’LL MAKE DO DANCING LIKE FOOLS IN THE NEON LIGHT WITH ALL THINGS RANDOM THE FALL FELT LIKE JUST ANOTHER REASON IT WOULD SEEM COINCIDENCE WAS REALLY PRECIPICE TO THAT FEAR WE CAN FEEL BUT NEVER SEE CONVERSE WITH ME AS IF IT WAS MY HEARSE REHEARSING YOUR LINES AS IF A VALENTINE THE SMELL OF FLOWERS NEVER SETTLED YOUR STOMACH I MADE YOU CRY SO MANY TIMES AND I NEVER KNEW WHY IF THIS IS THE EXIT, THEN TRULY I HAVE NOT LEARNED MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING IT SEEMS MORE LIKE A DREAM NOW FIGURE WE GET ANOTHER CHANCE, DARLING I WOULD HOPE TO FIND MY WAY BACK TO YOU WITH ALL THINGS RANDOM...
2.
Friends 03:23
FRIENDS I DON'T GET TO SEE ANYMORE DON'T FEEL LIKE FRIENDS TO ME NOW THAT I'M SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE CLOSE TO ME WELL IF ONLY THEY KNEW HOW MUCH I'D RATHER BE ALONE WELL YOU CAN CALL IT WHAT YOU LIKE I'VE HAD MY SHARE TIME WISHING I WAS THERE EVEN IF I WASN'T HERE WELL IF ONLY YOU'D KNOW WHAT I KNOW THIS COULD BE LOVE FRIENDS I DON'T GET TO SEE ANYMORE DON'T FEEL LIKE FRIENDS TO ME NOW THAT I'M SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE CLOSE TO ME
3.
No Fantasy 04:59
WHISPER IN MY EAR ALL OF MY SECRET FEARS PUT YOUR FINGERS DOWN MY THROAT AND TELL ME THAT THERE'S HOPE IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU SAY IT'S THE THOUGHT I SUPPOSE IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU SAY AT ALL TIE A RIBBON AROUND MY EYE PROMISE TO TELL LIES DRAG YOUR CHEWED NAILS UP MY SPINE AND TELL ME I'LL BE FINE LIKE A PRAYER NEVER HEARD TO A GOD THAT DOESN'T CARE I KNOW YOU WANT THE BEST FOR ME AND THAT'LL SWEAR THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO I'LL STILL BE THERE FOR YOU IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO AT ALL WHATEVER YOU DO TO ME IS ALRIGHT I CAN TAKE IT I RECALL YOU WERE YOUNG ONCE OR DID YOU FORGET AND WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER DID YOU IMAGINE THIS AND IF THIS AIN'T NO FANTASY WE'LL WAIT AND SEE WHEN YOU GO TO SLEEP DO YOU STILL SEE ME SO NOW EVERY TIME I STEP OUT OF LINE YOU ARE ALWAYS THERE TO PUT ME IN MY PLACE AND I'M NEVER GOING TO CHANGE AND IF I EVEN COULD YOU NEVER WOULD WANT ME TO TELL ME WHAT IS IT YOU WANT I KNOW IT'S ALRIGHT AS LONG AS YOU KISS ME GOODNIGHT
4.
FROM YOUR FIRST STEPS AWAY FROM YOUR MOTHER'S BREAST UNTIL YOUR LAST BREATH FOREVER UNTIL AT LONG LAST WE CAN FORGIVE OURSELVES THERE'S STILL SOME DAYS LEFT IN THIS BODY OF MINE THE SUN FILTERS MY BLOOD LIKE A SPITSHINE THE WIND IS SWEET DRYING SWEAT OFF MY NECK AS I LOOK INTO THE LIGHT HOW LONG MUST I PRETEND THAT YOU MEANT NOTHING UNDER THIS NIGHT SKY THE THIN AIR TASTES LIKE WINE YOUR FRECKLED LIPS PERSIST TO FILL MY MIND THE GROUND BENEATH ME IS COLD AND WET AS I LOOK OFF INTO THE ABYSS HOW STRANGE IS IT TO SEE WHAT WE COULD HAVE BEEN WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR ME TO HAVE YOU BACK WITH ME

about

I first started recording the demos for this EP in late 2015.
With the exception of drums, all of the instrumentation and vocals were recorded in my home studio located in the Mojave Desert during 2016. The drums were recorded and performed by JR Kurtz in August 2016 at his practice studio in the LA Arts District.

After JR finished tracking the drums, I took a few more months to re-record all of the parts over again. After some financial and health setbacks I was finally able to finish the new recordings and decided to release these four songs as an EP entitled, "Kiln"

Kiln represents the end and start of something new.
The change of structure and physicality.
These songs represent the last year of my life, the good, the bad, and the strange.

credits

released December 1, 2016

John Schroeder:
Music and Lyrics
Mixing and Mastering

JR Kurtz:
Drums

(For specific instrumentation credits select a specific song)

I would like to thank my friends and family who supported me while I recorded this EP.
To JR Kurtz who recorded all the drums on this album in one day.
To Joellen for literally everything.
To Zach and Ry for helping create Lotus Eater and giving me the confidence to release this record.
To Adrian for always being there and helping me focus my early demos into what you hear now.
To Commodore for bouncing off my early ideas and for letting me steal his Korg for a month to record.
and of course...

Thank YOU for listening and supporting my art!

-John

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