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Bright New Darkness

by Bokomolech

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Fuzzy dusk, uncertain spring What a terrible winter it's been The mud dries up now Patches of green A big smooth surface, perfect and clean The doors are guarded, they've always been The doors are guarded, they've always been Or so they seem And then it hit me There's no place left to hide There is no other side Connect to part, join to escape Now bend to fit to this impossible shape Don't call for help now Don't hesitate Lighthouse of truth, big waves of fate The doors are guarded, we came too late The doors are guarded, we came too late Crash course in hate And then it hit me There's no place left to hide There is no other side Becoming coward, becoming vile Hope for the price it was at least worthwhile All that you are now Reduced to some files Empty apartments and hollow aisles The doors are guarded and go on for miles The doors are guarded and go on for miles Heads up in piles And then it hit me There's no place left to hide There is no other side While they say it's alright But unless you really try No matter how you try There is no other side
2.
Perfect from now on But are we ever ready? We still laugh, we still cry We're greedy and unsteady Too many words to learn But meaning rarely lingers Feels like it never ends But it slips through our fingers Some time the circle breaks Friends and wise men enter Noone will ever know Just what lies at the center When soon we're left alone With things too few to linger We'll think it'd never end But it slipped through our fingers Will these two tiny bodies Keep us together or tear us apart We're growing antibodies To all the horrors that threaten our hearts Will these two tiny bodies Keep us together or tear us apart And what our fear embodies Will be destroyed by the love in our hearts
3.
Storm winds coming All our windows are smashed in We sought to cover With some cardboard that we pinned You came to warn us Of the darkness that's ahead Pointed to the fire That distant flicker in the wind You tried to guide us Through the fog, the twisting turns We cannot touch it It's too hot, it burns our hands So we'll pass it To our loved ones, dearest friends To keep it and reap it Save a spark for the end We will wrap them in The clean sheets of our love And take them away From this God forsaken hole Of hatred and bile Even for a while
4.
A New Future 06:19
All the noise All the colors All the choices All the time Binary affects Speaking in tongues We found the nowhere Forever young All our friends All our music Al our senses All the time HD and blue light Keep us awake The truth is out there But it's all fake All our grace All our small talk All our traces All the time Living in the gutters Staring at the stars Working in boxes Dying in bars Now our prophets have been blinded their visions have become too vague In search of simple answers The madmen will prevail Our eyes and fingers are kept busy Swiping all our feelings clean Whoring, craving for attention With sunsets we have never truly seen Trail behind I won't leave you Roam to find Scraps and pieces Through the loot Through the ruin We will build A new future With no past No resemblance No design Only thisness
5.
Crazy water Drive me longer Take me away From this world Got nothing left And nothing to regret No one to say goodbye No one to say a word Time to decide And time to forget Time to find my mind And time to take my time
6.
We live and cry here Between the dying stars Our dreams are small gaps Fulfilled with night tears We draw our silence Inside our biggest fears We're crawling in the dark Before we disappear And place our final dance In days of future years

about

Seven years after the release of their acclaimed “Mass Vulture” LP, Bokomolech are back with a new EP titled “Bright New Darkness”, for the production of which they collaborated with renowned producer and musician Coti K. (The Man from Managra, Mohammad).

“Bright New Darkness” comprises a small set of songs that took form through the band’s recent live appearances, characterized by a common compositional and lyrical theme: How can one keep, as both an individual and a member of a collective –be it a family, a band or even society at large-, the flame of their world alive in the midst of consecutive, embedded crises threatening to bring it down.

This agony to find light in the surrounding darkness informed the record’s title, but it also emerges out of both the lyrics of the six songs (the titles of which can be read in sequence as the EP’s main narrative) and the dense electric/electronic instrumentation that, thanks to Coti K’s mastery, tightly embraces the insistent melodies without drowning them.

As the record’s artwork by Petros Voulgaris suggests, “Bright New Darkness” is a balancing act, or a dialectical composition of contrasts: within its chaotic soundscape, it retains a pop sensibility; within the old it discovers the new; amongst the ruins it senses a future still unclear; within the darkness it finds a blinding spark of light.

All doors are guarded. Two tiny bodies spark for the end. A new future, in crazy waters, still remains.

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released November 22, 2019

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all songs by bokomolech
recorded, edited and mixed by Coti K. at Suono
mastered by Giannis Christodoulatos at Sweetspot

bokomolech:
Dimitris Ioannou
Vlassis Karayiannis
Christina Kassessian
Lila Katerinaki
Tassos Protopapas
Kostas Ragoussis

Artwork: Petros Voulgaris

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