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The Negligent Biome, 2nd Edition

by Plumes

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1.
Gratification at 20 03:33
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I heard that you slept through the summer Some dreams were enough of a shock to your slumber That you would awake, crack an eye, For sometime have a chance to escape But your eyelids were weighted another Returning to dreams of a nature, I wonder How much you expected to end up In terrors of un-sticky tape And you’re trying to use it to stich up a still But it’s torn down the middle and halves come and go as they will In absence of tossing and turning I watched as you slept but I did without learning Of the tumultuous love That was making a fight from a game We met when you woke for a moment I thought maybe you were the missing component But once I’d dressed for the weather The heat never actually came Now the sunsets are coming progressively sooner Diminishing too, now the time left to swoon her’s the same Oh, start to feel a fool Oh, an unsure construal Of trying to reach you while honoring rules Oh, Mailroom disarray Oh, No one knows the way To send the right signals and read those arriving And try to decipher towards what we are striving someday I heard that you got up in autumn With plenty of exits for sale finally bought’em And the doors locked behind you That still on the stoop left outside You let me climb in through the window How long should I stay? Oh please say so when you know Cause I want to stay in my bounds So I won’t be shown to the door I’m just so grateful to finally be let in I’ll take any offer and try not to wear our get thin
2.
Fall (Thanks, Sam) 04:40
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Are you around, can you spare a minute or ten? Are you in town, can you hire the crier then? Promptly alert me for this message I cannot stall, I wanted you if only for the fall I know you’re busy, your tone betrays the stress I know your troubles, they grow as days progress But if you’ve a moment, I mustered up the gall I wanted you if only for the fall I wanted you if only for the fall As much of summer as autumn could recall Just to have this something beats having none at all I wanted you if only for the fall Maybe you’ve seen them but my cards aren’t that far from my chest My hand was something but the dealer held most of the rest My suits were a secret but the chips now are all ‘bout to fall I wanted you if only for the fall I wanted you if only for the fall As much of summer as autumn could recall Just to have this something beats having none at all I wanted you if only for the fall
3.
The Last Day of Summer 06:00
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Then I wake up, Cloudy Morning Its inconsequential that my bed aint fit for two Cause it won’t be host to you anyway Then I look out, Through the window Imagining again that conversation bout the view That I never got to have with you Then I sit up, Scan the bedroom Its terrain is one you never bothered to explore But we’ve built a map of yours Then I glance at, Notifications And I’m afraid to look and find that none were sent by you Maybe my doubts were all true But I open, That little window I realize I’m ashamed to feel contempt for everyone Who dared to raise my hopes that maybe you had sent me one Then I slip on, Favorite work-boots The rubber that they’ve shed lies in a trail that leads to you But absent from that trail your rubber too And I end up, That tired basement Waiting to pretend to you I’d go there even if There weren’t a chance you’d pass through and I’d have someone to goof off with But you don’t show, your chair is empty Frustratedly I’ll wait for you to fire the next flare But I’ll fold once I begin to think you musn’t really care Once I do though, I’ll tell you I know You’ll say something lift my spirits, buoyant once again And poke a hole right in my hull that I will not notice then ‘Til I come to, Underwater It’s inconsequential anOcean’s bed is host to few, alone this wreck, forgotten settles, still in want of you And then I wake up, Cloudy morning……
4.
Thai Chili 05:41
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I’ll be cooking Thai chili in the afternoon having prepped all the stuff in the morning And you’ll be rolling out our bed at a quarter to two I’ll be thinking of our plans in units of hours and I hope that they change without warning Maybe fireworks with our friends maybe just me and you And the days will pass real slow When they end I know we’ll know That there was no place to go, we were already here They’ll be major renovations in nostalgia-ville, overwriting past associations The cerebral facades of south campus will have looks to kill And the former Beacon of Buswell will assigned a new occupation Maybe mine will be the hands on that windowsill And the sentiment store still Has no spaces left to fill But I’ll repurpose that long dreamt of but unreached promise land With showers cold And sneakers old The weeks unfold The heat foretold Jumping in the Charles right before the sun and looking at the hour when its show is done Part of me might wish that I had had her here but I’ll be glad to shed my planned dependence She’ll be fornicating out on the docks with the man of the year Maybe I’ll be filling that void with an actor who has cultivated some of her essence Or maybe I’ll be picking my apples with a new kind of dear It’s been damn well clear Pursuer’s failure fear Was not helped by the silent sneer of a negligent biome

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The first recording of Gratification at 20 was made in October of 2015, nearly three years ago. At that point the only recordings Plumes had made were the demo of Shifting Gravity Falling Snow on Sounds Born in Elmhurst, the demo of Radiant Blue Arm you can hear on In Lieu of Essays, early demos of Sorry Sam and Curtain Falls that weren't good enough to appear in that collection, and a handful of instrumental recordings for short video projects.

Since then, though, we've worked on dozens and dozens more (including work on our first proper, full-band, full-length, upcoming album). At least to our ears, our abilities as mixers and our standards for takes have considerably grown in the last 3 years. Listening to the original EP shows this; there is nothing in those recordings like EQ adjustment, compression, or double tracking, and there are things like timing and pitch errors.

Thus, we are re-releasing The Negligent Biome - EP with updated mixes and a few new performances. We endeavored to balance preservation of the original's character with new improvements, working to make the parts sound like we had always meant them to without changing their foundations or adding bells and whistles. More details on the adjustments can be found in descriptions of individual songs.

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released September 11, 2018

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Plumes Boston, Massachusetts

Plumes is Ben Long (on the drums!) Tim Green and John Thorsen. Music- listening to it, learning to play it, writing more of it- has been one of few things we've taken really seriously for the last 7 years. These songs grew through many late nights and missed appointments. Our songs are all really about something. It's sincere and sometimes naked. Hope you like it ... more

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