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HUMANITIES (EP)

by HUMANITIES

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1.
Your masks are in fashion And your lies are too (In fact) you only tell the truth When your lips are sealed Seeing eye to I You’ve got your role You’re in control You’re not in control Playtime’s just begun Now playtime’s over You’re on your own again In front of everyone This is a new century And you’re a citizen In this brave new world In this brave new world (break) Because time is money Because talk is cheap A picture is worth A thousand useless words Your narcissism And your obsessions Some sweet rewards For all the work you’ve done You’re in control You’re not in control You’re in control You’re not in control CHORUS Everything Everything is fine With every lie Everything I spy OUTRO Everything is fine Everything is fine Everything is Everything is fine
2.
Come Outside 03:08
Come outside the gang’s all here with their arms open wide It’s not that cold and there’s plenty place to hide Although the place has changed you can still lose your mind And we can run from the shit that’s been chasing us all our lives (break) I’m sorry I lied I said what I said just to get you outside I knew it would and I’m glad I tried Although your face has changed and you know you’re gonna die So we can stop all the circles we’ve been running in all our lives But it’s like you’d never have to die If you come outside If you come outside It’s like you’d never have to die You can’t outrun the past or stop what’s coming Memory slips away and the future is a burden Inside the prison walls you might call it home Take it outside and you go it alone Pick your battles well cause you’re eventually gonna lose Fight the good fight (and)find your neck in a noose ‘Cause when the well is empty and it’s dry as a bone You’ll drink your own blood that you suck from a stone But it’s like you’d never have to die If you come outside You’d never have to die If you come outside
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VERSE Punch in punching out Precariat won’t leave you out Company no company Competitor Employee Business of liberty Push to pull free and always failing CHORUS And then you can fade away VERSE Punch in punching out Precariat won’t leave you out Company no company Competitor Employee Fantasies of freedom Push to pull free and always failing CHORUS And then you can fade away And then you can leave today Then they can forget your name And then you can fade away OUTRO/REFRAIN With your stomach empty and your belly full of fear With your stomach empty and your belly full of fear With your heart broken and your belly full of fear And your belly full of fear And your belly full of fear And your belly full of fear And your belly full of fear
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{YOUR DREAMS ARE MY DREAMS} I am many and less than one Mirror me as my gaze holds on you, please I need you to see me as I come undone Your dreams are my dreams Together in the dark becoming And together we hide in its seams Inscribing our words with its black ink Your dreams are my dreams Secrets unkept and beds unmade Where your screams join my screams Our debts abandoned and edges frayed Your dreams are my dreams Your dreams are my dreams are your dreams Your dreams are my dreams are your dreams Your dreams are my dreams are your dreams Your dreams are my dreams are your dreams Your dreams are my dreams are your dreams Your dreams are my dreams are your dreams Your dreams are my dreams are your dreams Your dreams are my dreams are your dreams

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Exploring some of the strange terrain in this world of techno-alienation, HUMANITIES' debut EP focuses on our all too familiar, yet strange relationships with things like social media and communicative labour, and our dependence on various technologies and institutions in sharing our experiences with others in the world. The imagery and themes are related to our collective efforts — and failures — at communication and community.

It opens with the driving post-hardcore sound of “Century of the Selfie,” a bitter meditation on the false promises of social media and connectivity, and then moves through the claustrophobia of “Come Outside” formed from varying strands of punk and hardcore. The dystopic visions of work and leisure in “Belly Full of Fear” combine with noisy, dense guitars that shine with a dissonant melody. The EP concludes with the somewhat more optimistic, yet crushing dirge rock of “Your Dreams are My Dreams,” a song that finds a certain communicative and creative possibility in that apparently most solitary, and unproductive, activity: dreaming. Through dreams we find a shared energy that runs deeply into the individual, seeping into it and pushing out beyond it, into others and to the world.

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released March 25, 2016

Engineered & Mixed by Matt Connell at Northwood Studios.
"Ink" and "This Body, This Fire" recorded and edited by HUMANITIES at 100 EYES HQ.
Masterered by Dave Williams at Eight Floors Above Mastering Co.

Artwork & Photography: Alejandro Cairncross
Press Photo: Hannah Enkel

Special thanks to Colour Code Printing & Private Press Printing.

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HUMANITIES Toronto, Ontario

Humanities combine musical ferocity with thoughtful lyrics resulting in angry, poetic dirges. The songs weave dissonant melodies with heavy hitting riffs, and lyrics that muse on the world itself in crisis.

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