Along the Lethe
by Beacon
Past Inside the Present
Past Inside the Present
Very excited to hear the album in its entirety! 'Until Next Time' is absolutely stunning!
xoxo Favorite track: Until Next Time.
xoxo Favorite track: Until Next Time.
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Until Next Time
05:38
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There’s a darker way now
But darkness settles
With my face to the glass
Both sides of the tether
A morning sun
Fresh with blood
On prevailing winds
No sea’s too far
That I won’t go
Bring embers for you
We’re better off lost
My face to the glass
The darkness calls
With both hands I dig
Back to the core
My face to the glass
The darkness calls
With both hands I dig
Back to the core
No sea’s too far
That I won’t go
Bring embers for you
We’re better off lost
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Oranges
03:54
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Stay here
Inside my arms
Stay here
In my arms
And if the dark becomes us
Let your eyes adjust
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Pay My Debts
02:58
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There’s someone lost
Inside my head
I’ll pay my debts
I’ll pay my debts
It found my voice
The voice it said
No more regrets
No more regrets
Something in the sky turns black
Start another fire, I guess
The painted walls
The wars you’ve bled
I’ve found my place
In this labyrinth
I leave my thoughts
Along the Lethe
No more regrets
No more regrets
Something in the sky turns black
Start another fire, I guess
Something in the sky turns black
Start another fire, I guess
Is there another life?
Is there another life?
Or am I keeping mine?
Or am I keeping mine?
Something in the sky turns black
Start another fire, I guess
Something in the sky turns black
Start another fire, I guess
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I'm the Answer
02:52
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I’m the answer
I’m the outcome
And you’re my problem
Nowhere left to run
You’ll never learn
Until you back down
You’ll never learn
Until you back down
’Til you back down
All that carbon, all that bone
Cast in amber like before
I’m the answer
Won’t be the last one
‘Cause you remind me
Of what’s yet to come
You’ll never learn
Until you back down
’Til you back down
You’ll never learn
’Til you back down
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Can't Turn Back
02:52
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I’m alive!
Cease fire
I kept time
In the constant dark
With both eyes
Hypnotized by
The clock
Of a constant heart
The city lights
In an hourglass
I wanted you
I can’t turn back
The city lights
In an hourglass
I wanted you
I can’t turn back
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I don’t want to talk about
What happens next
I’ve given you all my doubts
You’ve given them back
We’ve waited for it
The last to know
We’ve waited for it
The last to know
But now you’re gone
We’ve waited for it
The last to know
And now you’re gone
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Nova
03:43
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Not alone
Not alone
Guess I’ll never know
What I lost
What I lost
In time to let it go
Hearts roll
Hearts roll
Through fingertips of dirt
Then I’m gone
Then I’m gone
It’s time to leave my bones
Destroy my wicked
I want your lithium
I took the fires from you
Each time we made a pact
I’m your Prometheus
I’ll never give it back
And now the water’s clear
The bottom’s plain to see
Don’t look around for air
You’re where you want to be now
Destroy my wicked
I want your lithium
Guess I’ll never know
Guess I’ll never know
Guess I’ll never know
Stay, Stay
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Show Me How
02:39
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They say it’s happening
It’s starting now
You thought you left me
You thought you knew how
And they say I could love you more
Than I do now
Well show me how
Show me how
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Harm
04:26
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Let it in
The bite that breaks the skin
I’m falling back in time
Wondering if you were ever mine
What half will I become?
Three days since my last spell
The force that slowly builds
And breaks inside my blood
If I do no harm
If I do no harm
If I let it in
All that I know
Is that I don’t know
Start it again
If I let it in
All that I know
Is that I don’t know
Start it again
If I let it in
I’ll do no harm
I’ll do no harm
I’ll do no harm
I’ll do no harm
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You talk a mile a minute
And I just lie to keep up
How could I try to leave this?
It’s everything that I want
Everything I want
And so the roots take hold
And break through the floor
So ceremonious
It’s where they’ll find us
It’s where they’ll find us
So ceremonious
MATTHEW DEAR
Cassiterite
On a screen
I slip, and you catch
A long word
To repeat, again, and again
and again, and again
As red lines
Until they find us
How could I try to leave this?
It’s everything that I want
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about
Perceptions of time and its effects have changed dramatically in recent memory. At some point in the past, four years might have been an average wait between new albums for a busy touring band like Beacon. But in our current post-quarantine, perma-pandemic reality, four years can contain lifetimes.
It was during this strange, illusive period that Beacon wrote Along the Lethe, their fourth full-length record following 2018's Gravity Pairs. The Lethe is one of the five rivers of the underworld in Greek mythology. The newly dead who drank from its waters lost all memory of their earthly lives. Composed and produced largely in quarantine, Along the Lethe is an album as much about the allure of forgetting tragedy as it is the need to maintain our connections to the past.
"I see Along The Lethe as Jacob and I preserving an extraordinary moment of our lives," explains Thomas. "It contains the most difficult and exalted experiences we’ve had creating music together. Writing it down makes it impossible to forget."
Album centerpiece "Ostrich" invites multi-instrumentalist Colin Stetson to weave a tapestry of saxophone notes into its subdued piano chords, gracefully revealing Along the Lethe's untethered emotional core. The sonic hallmark of the song is its ‘Ostrich’ tuning, a method that calls for all strings on an instrument to be tuned to the same note.
Lead single "Until Next Time" is a soft-glowing piano piece bolstered by the hearty backbone of hip-hop. Its genre-blurring tracks touch on slinky UK garage, ecstatic synth-pop, and avant-garde electronica, even as they wrestle with heavy lyrical themes like seduction of forgetting ("Oranges") and the ecological intrusion of disease on civilization, sourced from Malaria research ("Harm"). Album closer "Mile a Minute" somehow feels both unsettling and life-affirming with its sunny tones and skipping arpeggios at odds with a surreal vocal appearance from Matthew Dear and Automaton-delivered declarations of love.
It's no stretch to say Along the Lethe is Beacon's most eclectic, expansive album to date. As Jacob describes it, "It feels like a record without restraints."
Along the Lethe arrives on September 9th, 2022 on the band’s imprint, Apparent Movement. Read more at beaconband.com.
It was during this strange, illusive period that Beacon wrote Along the Lethe, their fourth full-length record following 2018's Gravity Pairs. The Lethe is one of the five rivers of the underworld in Greek mythology. The newly dead who drank from its waters lost all memory of their earthly lives. Composed and produced largely in quarantine, Along the Lethe is an album as much about the allure of forgetting tragedy as it is the need to maintain our connections to the past.
"I see Along The Lethe as Jacob and I preserving an extraordinary moment of our lives," explains Thomas. "It contains the most difficult and exalted experiences we’ve had creating music together. Writing it down makes it impossible to forget."
Album centerpiece "Ostrich" invites multi-instrumentalist Colin Stetson to weave a tapestry of saxophone notes into its subdued piano chords, gracefully revealing Along the Lethe's untethered emotional core. The sonic hallmark of the song is its ‘Ostrich’ tuning, a method that calls for all strings on an instrument to be tuned to the same note.
Lead single "Until Next Time" is a soft-glowing piano piece bolstered by the hearty backbone of hip-hop. Its genre-blurring tracks touch on slinky UK garage, ecstatic synth-pop, and avant-garde electronica, even as they wrestle with heavy lyrical themes like seduction of forgetting ("Oranges") and the ecological intrusion of disease on civilization, sourced from Malaria research ("Harm"). Album closer "Mile a Minute" somehow feels both unsettling and life-affirming with its sunny tones and skipping arpeggios at odds with a surreal vocal appearance from Matthew Dear and Automaton-delivered declarations of love.
It's no stretch to say Along the Lethe is Beacon's most eclectic, expansive album to date. As Jacob describes it, "It feels like a record without restraints."
Along the Lethe arrives on September 9th, 2022 on the band’s imprint, Apparent Movement. Read more at beaconband.com.
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Beacon Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn duo Beacon explore the dark side of sweet melody with a sound thats as seductive as it is subtly discomfiting. They fuse the deceptively sweet melodies of R&B with an intoxicating undercurrent of darkness, drawing on influence as disparate as Warps back catalogue and Underworld. ... more
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