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Halfling EP

by The Sifters

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Serotonin 04:17
Dear Serotonin, I think I'd like to be something grim and unseemly Something you wouldn't know much about Norepinephrine's a neural protection Against horror injections of a schizoid selection Oh god, I need a doctor Oh doctor, I need god Serotonin, I have nothing left to say Serotonin, I have nothing left to feel Serotonin, don't you leave me alone Serotonin, I thought we had a deal Said Serotonin, quote: I'd like to find a lecherous means for reuptake My mission is to disprove, my mission is to doubt Norepinephrine won't prevent your rejection I've a horrid affection for depressive selection Oh god, I need a doctor Oh doctor, I need god Serotonin, I have nothing left to say Serotonin, I have nothing left to feel Serotonin, don't you leave me all alone Serotonin, I thought we had a deal There's a rapture in the lowest A freedom so appealing So perversely romantic In the absence of feeling
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The Kids 04:43
Spent the summer like a child Hum from houses all the while Sang a song with some sparrows On a dark stretch of road For someone's sake to suffer us (All along) Through the heat and hangar dust (We're not wrong) Stay and watch the morning red I've seen it before The blanks to be drawn and filled Clap instead of keeping still Even if you had to, you'd think twice Brother, why keep counsel With the sleepers and the shadows? They took our money for a room You might just never find me here Pressed against a beating drum (All along) A pulse to keep our anxiousness (You're not wrong) In your fingers and your breath You've seen it before The dark vault above this roof So what if you're not fireproof? Even though you're up there you've made us too Once you leave the tree alight, The kids will watch it through the night together And once it's out, you ought to know The kids will be the heroes forever
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Palisades 03:19
The water holds the city's reflection And you love it but you don't wear it with ease You're facing the other direction Past the palisades, no one to appease The city sleeps under your discretion But you're buried in a layer of trees In the branches, escaping detection Rest your head now child, asleep in the leaves Oh, should we try to be kind? Oh, should we try to be what you had in mind? I'll make it there without your protection 'Cause I think it's time to leave my family I'm craving that sweetest confection And I'm begging on my hands and knees Oh, should we try to be kind? Oh, should we try to be what you had in mind?
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Madeshwara 03:45
The fathers and their fathers had an engine of their own Helping people to come and go so that they'd never be alone On and on, side by side So pass it down through the patriline Row me across to the other side Madeshwara rode a tiger, across his seven hills to defeat an evil king They all saw him ride his tiger He came and went and they remembered everything On and on, side by side The people sitting in the next car are shifting side to side They would get there much faster with a jungle cat to ride So pass it down through the patriline Row me across to the other side Madeshwara rode a tiger, across his seven hills to defeat an evil king They all saw him ride his tiger He came and went and they remembered everything Madeshwara rode a tiger, across his seven hills to defeat an evil king They all saw him ride his tiger He came and went and they remembered everything On and on, side by side
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Behemoth 03:59
My nerves are taut Taut as fiddle strings Apprehension wants to sing Groaning gins continuously spinning while they clean Bright star, I would I were a sinuous machine Digits on the hand can mend A high horse who begets little sinful men We raised them and lowered them, Dragged them very far, Eventually adjusted them, And put them how they are You're imbued with mission and risk, young man So please try not to do much damage, And to learn as much as you can The people are the heroes now

about

The Halfling EP is comprised of all-original material dating back nearly a year to the spring of 2012, when the Sifters formed. Up until now, the band has existed almost entirely as a live ensemble with very little recorded material. Pulling in different members at each show, the Sifters perform frequently in the Hudson Valley and in New York City.

During January and February of 2013, the band self-recorded and produced their debut album on a shoestring budget in a bedroom and a basement in upstate New York.

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released March 1, 2013

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Engineered and produced by Jake Chapman & Douglas Friedman

Mixed and mastered by Jake Chapman

Arranged by Jake Chapman & Finnegan Shanahan

Cover art by Jonah Rosenberg

Tiger art by Olivia Fox
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Special thanks to Wyatt Bertz, Sam Kogon, Joshua Yun

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Jake Chapman, Finnegan Shanahan, Trevor Gittelman, Douglas Friedman, Joshua Yun

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