ALIENATED, by THE FUNS

THE FUNS "ENEMY"

ALIENATED

by THE FUNS

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1.	ENEMY 06:36 video	lyrics
I am my enemy Living in fantasy I am my enemy Living in entropy I am my Enemy AHH x4 Some go east Some go west I will keep my middle chest Don’t tell me that There’s nothing left I guess at least There’s still my breath Left in me now x4 Sometimes brief Sometimes long I will keep The same old song Don’t tell that We don’t belong I guess at least The beat goes on in me now In me now x4 Some go east Some go west I will keep my middle chest I guess at least there’s still my breath
2.	MODERATE OVERKILL 04:57	lyrics	buy track
Even I could care Moderate overkill Get lost go there If you are burning still Living in the days of the dying sun I could never want to become Living in the days of the dying sun I could never want to
3.	FORGET ME NOT 05:05	lyrics
Forget me not Golden rod x2 I get so blown out I can’t speak Sometimes I stay inside my head for weeks Over-saturated by the constant things x2 Forget me not Golden rod x4 Sincerity becomes A dirty word And what you really Care about gets blurred Over-saturated by the constant things x2 Forget me not Golden rod x2
4.	I CAN DREAM 01:44	lyrics	buy track
Mississippi dumb bell The yard is full of sea shells I can dream The linen skates your face It holds your frame in place I can dream Keep it together Let’s keep us together I can dream
5.	ENTITY 02:10	lyrics	buy track
We fall in love Like diamonds in the street I lay roses at your feet Endlessly You’re a hallow entity Stay up late Trick or treat I lay roses at feet Endlessly You’re a hallow entity I work earth It gives me peace I lay roses at your feet Endlessly You’re a hallow entity x3
6.	FUR CUP 03:29	lyrics	buy track
THERE IS FUR IN THIS CUP AND I DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD MORE THAN ANYONE x2 I'VE GOT HAIR ON MY TONGUE I'VE GOT EVERYTHING I WANT MORE THAN ANYONE x2 SHE PRESENTS ELECTRIC DRESS AND IT HAS NO MEASUREMENT MORE THAN ANYONE x2 SAW THE SKY THROUGH A FRAME AND I NEVER FELT THE SAME MORE THAN ANYONE x2 I'M NOT THE GIRL WHO MISSES MUCH HEADLESS FIGURES COATS OF RUST MORE THAN ANYONE x2 MAKE A CAST OF THE ROOM RESIDUE OF YEARS OF USE MORE THAN ANYONE x2 A BODY BURNS LIKE A PIT FLOWERS GROW OUT OF MY SKIN MORE THAN ANYONE x2 RAIN MEDITATE WASH AWAY x4
7.	THIS IS THE SOUND 00:38	lyrics	buy track
This is the sound x2 You feel it now x2 We hit the ground x2 It’s getting loud x2
8.	INTO THE MIRROR 05:02	lyrics	buy track
My world appears I could be near Your world is clear To be out here Your world is near I could be here I could be near It still appears My world is here Into the mirror My world is clear Your're still near My world appears I could be near Your world is clear To be out here Your world is near I could be here Leveled out this time I could feel this heat Everywhere we go Is everything to me Even if we stay Something here to keep All of this Is everything to me
9.	INSTINCT 03:05	lyrics
I’ll make a mess And leave on the lights Structure your curse Give me the divine Let’s just say My head isn’t right Talk me to death All teeth I’m spent You sum up my instinct X4 Get in a hole I throw down a line Jaw like a fox We lay down a fight A lot of things I think Don’t’ make any sense Soaking the leaves Drink tea I’m spent You sum up my instinct
10.	POWER 10:38	lyrics	buy track
Still after all this I could feel it change All your power you wear like a chain I could tell you don’t know how I could see it too take me over now and all of this waiting starts to drain me to be here with all that remains

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REVIEW:
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Released November 9th 2018 on Sister Polygon Records.

Beyond the corn and soy fields of Illinois’ underbelly is the unlikely home of an intensely focused American rock band. As vicious as they are elegant, The Funs’ sounds emanate from 100-year-old bricks, rattling the sagging windows of an abandoned funeral-home-turned-artist-residency the duo built as their home. The Funs are not a band. They are a self-described cult, converting anyone willing to get close enough to the blood and noise. If you dig, they’ll take you in.

The Funs, also known as Jessee Rose Crane and Philip Jerome Lesicko, spent years transforming their hoarded old house of death into something of a sanctuary for one life’s most affirming practices, artistic creation. Building it tooth and nail into an artist and musician’s residency they now call Rose Raft, The Funs made an album called Alienated to christen their self-created home. Alienated is the first album produced in Rose Raft’s studio, recorded by Dave Vettraino. The album’s title refers to a feeling disaffection from the infrastructures that domesticate creativity into monetization. It describes the band’s desire to release sounds into the world without losing its soul to a commercial grind.

The Funs began releasing their jarring, feral sounds on tape via Lesicko’s own Manic Static imprint in 2009. After more than a decade of collaboration, the psychic connection between Crane and Lesicko radiates throughout Alienated. Songs like “Instinct,” With an almost single-minded drive to continuously write and record, the band heat-seeks their words and buzzy, glowing melodies. Content is now constant. Thousands of images flash through our retinas every day. The Funs remind us to close our eyes and listen. “Don’t’ let yourself go numb,” says the band, “light your nerves and feel it all.”

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glow in the dark flowers New Douglas, Illinois

JESSEE ROSE
CRANE

PHILIP JEROME LESICKO

MNGMNT / BOOKING
SULLIVAN DAVIS
sully@localuniverse.net

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