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Ear Op

by Los Doggies

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1.
S'long 05:44
You ruined my perfect And made it like I died on purpose So accurately You stole my last stock And made it look Like I deserved it Did you write the book? Quest to indifference This game of ours Rare as red fireballs I played it awfully S'like I lose to you S'long s'lose to me You suicide me And made it look Better than I could So actually The past, it moves through us In rings around the Earth Explodes into the stars In light of where we were The background stays the same Here on the hallowed earth S'like I lose to you S'long s'lose to me
2.
Baetyl 04:13
There lies defeat in all I do Destiny out of bounds I fell into the last sound Lest it all comes through The stone I found Deleted it stayed around Over and off again The latter stands two ways to know There strikes a fever when it goes Felt the need from above and the Earth below Omphalos Best believe it so The stone I found Deleted it stayed around Over and off again The lattice stands two weeks to know The stone I found The leaves said it rained out loud Over and off again The latter stands two ways to know
3.
Ear Op 10:43
It hurts When they put us under The worms Came out our ears weeks later You first Let’s put those ears on wax The worse was on the second time I watched you sleep as you watched me die The hospital sounded like a holophonic disc And we ate white trash ice cream To the sounds that fight my crimson twin Just survive till they take us home Ever now we can make it morning Just a toy in the tube of my room Ever now we can make it soon Just you can, just you can Even though I can't lay down my head The night surrounds The sound of drums The walls give in Got to leave on… The light divides And blue shadows Come walking in Got to leave on the light Did you bury your head to the wall finding there’s nothing to talk to at all? You already ghost me up, night is the place where the earworms a-crawl So bury your head to the wall, minding the space where there’s nothing at all You bury the needle too And make like Magypsies do There’s a man with a basket full of the feet of the boys and the girls And he waits at your bed until the covers come off you I keep the light on through the louvers For the man standing in the hall devoid of the night and the light He’s as tall as a shed but when he turns around to go There's something shiny on his body The street outside, the box above, the magic flows Got to leave on the light Did you bury your head to the wall finding there’s nothing to talk to at all? You already ghost me up, night is the place where the earworms a-crawl So bury your head to the wall, minding the space where there’s nothing at all You bury the needle too And make like Magypsies do It hurts When they put us under the worms Came out our ears weeks later It hurts It hurts the worms Suffice to say I almost died when I saw yours and you saw mine The house was full of sounds that I never heard again And it almost broke my mind The light that rings inside each one
4.
The way it goes slow like We don’t even know When the day breaks off As it were so The way it comes to light Love that came undone Though we kept it on Not to say so They got their clothes on the wall Adjusting limbs every turn They can’t say nothing at all But laugh like nothing is wrong The butterflies are in bloom Live from the Presidio The Gods have gone out to loosh And act as if it were so The weight of all life stored in days at night Played for hours Lasted until The way it goes slow like it has always been unto everything Forever still What if I quote Aleister? Would you make love to the wall? How about I cover one eye and make you kiss the blackhole? I’ll throw the Baphomet hands and strike a Masonic pose Working that Ass of Horus An act as if it were so You got to notice the signs The subtle upturned eyes Leftover flesh on the knife Unbothered not to say so Look for the symmetry line And flip the record in time Feel the psycotronic flow And act as if it were so La-da-di-da-diddy-da An act as if it were so

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released September 8, 2017

JEM2017
Produced by Kevin McMahon at Marcata Recording
Cover Art painted by Jon Duci

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Live-in-studio records often sound better on paper than through the speakers, great in theory but a real gamble in practice. On EAR OP, the upstate New York indie-prog institution Los Doggies waltz way out on that limb. The result is far more than a document of their locally legendary live prowess and their eccentric imaginations. Raw and complex, intimate but fiercely energetic, EAR OP revels in an original ensemble voice: serious post- and progressive-rock approached with an unaffected innocence that you might almost call “punk.”

Following the kind of contrarian logic that has typified their DIY career, Los Doggies went down to go up: shedding the bedroom symphonics, the immaculate maximalism, and the stylistic horseplay of their previous self-recorded releases and engaging producer Kevin McMahon (Titus Andronicus, Swans, Real Estate) to capture naturalistic live performances of four sui generis and challenging long-from songs.

The new recordings find this veteran New Paltz, NY trio at both its most precise and its most freewheeling, powering through the perspective tricks of mathy prog, the visceral urgencies of grunge, the spacious interplay of acid rock, and the homely, uncorrected values of such seminal indie guitar rock bands Built to Spill, often within a single song. EAR OP crosses back and forth between dissonant modernism and moments of genuinely anthemic pop uplift. It is played with wit and ferocious chops, sung with a willing passion as uninhibited as it is unconventional.

EAR OP may represent a new kind of prog rock—lean, idiosyncratic, exposed, and utterly without pretense and pomp. Its title track and centerpiece typifies EAR OP’s effortless fusion of indie- and chops-rock values: autobiographical and programmatic, it narrates the ear surgeries that brothers Evan and Jesse Stormo experienced as kids, both in its surreal lyrics and in its complex musical form—not exactly typical prog fare.

While their past studio efforts were difficult to reproduce live, this virtuosic trio tried its level best, with both drummer/vocalist Evan Stormo and bassist Matt Ross playing multiple instruments at once. EAR OP will require no such multitasking, allowing this band to explore a natural sound and an ensemble empathy earned over 10 years of composing, recording, gigging and unfettered searching.

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