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Motion Sick

by Civil Villains

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The debut album, 'Motion Sick' by Civil Villains on Thundersnuff Records.

    Comes in a 4 Panel CD Digi-Pak case, designed by the band.

    Printed and manufactured in the United Kingdom.

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    Includes unlimited streaming of Motion Sick via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Children play dead With funeral rouge Making pretend In sheets ghosts outgrew Cut to the quick An ego trip For you Jugular slit Cadaver fit For you I'm painting my lips Mortuary blue Exposure sick Doped and subdued Late night repeats A fault of the loom Cut to the quick An ego trip For you Jugular slit Cadaver fit For you I'm painting my lips Mortuary blue Outside the lines of Crayon-penned bonds The curtain comes down You've got it all wrong A dashboard critique A backseat response To think that I Could have loved you once Cut to the quick An ego trip For you Jugular slit Cadaver fit For you I'm painting my lips Mortuary blue
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Wait She doesn’t love you Stop He wasn’t yours to take Move God, get the lead out Please There's only so long I can wait Bayou Autonomy Bayou Autonomy Bayou Autonomy Beat You're out of options Bless! Blessed are the meek Dull We fake an interest Drift Face down in backwaters bleak Bayou Autonomy Bayou Autonomy Bayou Autonomy Pay me all my worth in salt Another body bag Fill the family vault To the hilt, to the fucking hilt Run Vacate the cooler Please There's time to make good your mistakes Bayou Autonomy Bayou Autonomy Bayou Autonomy
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Cornerstore 03:57
A nausea readymade A rival thirst to slake I plundered the back forty Extracted my take I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore I'm waiting for change Billboard symmetries Secured at low rates Limp lifestyle idealists Greenhorns from out of state I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore I'm waiting for change What? Oh fuck The jig's up I was caught short With no losses left to cut I'm billing my pain to my offspring Just biding my time I'm billing my pain to my offspring Just biding my time I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore I'm waiting for change at the cornerstore
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Elysium 04:39
Let me pull Another thread and bare myself Tasteless pills A double dose for better health Deadly heat Spreading flames rain won’t forgive Growing pains That outpace the morphine drip We've all forgone Elysium Elysium Elysium Diatribes From the constitution torn Wheeling terns Born compulsive and forlorn Chosen sons Operate outside the law Dollar prayers Trading bodies in the raw We've all forgone Elysium Elysium Elysium Did you fall and graze your knee on holy ground? Did you crawl? Another stray sold by the pound
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I set aside my soul De-sanctified the mould Bore forth a marble clone Atavistic and cold So cold Don't deny me What you owe me Sweet synthetic Ecstacy Exempt from nature's law An anaesthesia whore A thousand miles off course Where thought requires no pause No pause Don't deny me What you owe me Sweet synthetic Ecstacy Tell the board what you said What I said? God is dead
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Skip Town 01:35
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Ad astra in Page Desert damned Darling, are we safe? Deep in a blacktop haze Devils creep From the jaws of graves Altar burnt Idle hands Crosses in Sonoran sand To make sense Of every moment I relent To the present tense No-one dreams of english towns We just turn the car around Dharma dumb, liquor proud Wilhelm screams from tapes rewound All my ventures run aground Kerouaced, false accounts I return No demands Passing through the looking glass To make sense Of every moment I relent To the present tense Hopes pre-screened, extinguished, drowned We just turn each other down But I won't plead, relinquish, bow Bow down Bow out
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Petrichor 01:43
There’s beauty in the broken No thought will go unsaid Hypodermic invitations From field hospital beds Drowning in your sympathies I'm out treading the boards A Gaelic rain comes rolling in with gifts of petrichor Banking on a sea change My future claims it’s debt We were but strangers In chorus we once met 'Spite my lucky blood I’ve no time left to buy I’m leaving you my lullabies And oxygen supply I’m leaving you my lullabies
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Nightbloom 04:38
Nude All poker-sold Foreign lands Lo and behold Starved I swallowed whole Your bubblegum Medicinals Symptomatic I came undone Aphrodisium Pulled aside Out of youth Picking through The nightbloom For sweet residuals Skin All powder blue A platinum Fair ingenue Lost I was a fool Floating in A drowning pool Symptomatic I came undone Aphrodisium Pulled aside Out of youth Picking through The nightbloom For sweet residuals
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Monomanic Ala-bastards of spin Ahab or bust Die-hards drowning in Pachydermal wet dreams High office Burlesque Man up Man down Now what? Another muted response From Mary's favourite son The fallout's yours to take home Love from A Cavalier Blonde Blood by the drum Every tenant stripped down Flop house routines Misanthropic and proud A false promised frontier Paradise Bled dry Man up Man down Now what? Another muted response From Mary's favourite son The fallout's yours to take home Love from A Cavalier Blonde Dress down and repossess I do my worst in my sunday best Everyone and no ones blessed Lucky us Thorns in the valley of narcissus So, what the fuck have you done? Your feet up in the sun Marks that are worn on the skin End of days now begin So, what the fuck have you done?
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Never Leave 03:44
Never alone Another replica Made from paper bones A kick from a colt Unpacked my tired skull Spilt it's load Of maladies, vile Mean and loathsome Inch to mile If I was right And you'd agree We'd climb the walls And never leave Never alone A double negative A sick palindrome Out in the cold My senses start turning dull Bountied, sold Blue blood on the tiles Buried ledes and Blistered smiles If I was right And you'd agree We'd climb the walls And never leave

about

Born as a series of voice notes, written over web-cam, developed via shared Logic Pro projects, and honed in the snatched moments of lockdown freedom, we are stoked to bring you our debut album - Motion Sick.

Like the nauseating sensory mismatch experienced from the passenger seat, Motion Sick is largely about contradictory states and lost control - lives lived in cognitive dissonance and perpetual imbalance - where nuance is discarded in favour of explosive pace, where gut decisions are made on upset stomachs.

credits

released May 26, 2023

Produced by Mike Bannard & Civil Villains.

Engineered, recorded and mixed by Mike Bannard.

Mastered by Alain Paul.

Recorded at Shaken Oak Studios & Safehouse Studios in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

All songs written and performed by Civil Villains except 'Skip Town' - written and composed by Mike Bannard.

Lyrics by James King.
Additional lyrics on 'Cavalier Blonde' by Toby Warren.

Photos by James King.

℗ 2023 Thundersnuff Records.
All songs © 2023 Civil Villains.

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James King
Benjamin Brice

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