Cycles
by Logan Archer
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Digital Album
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Cycles
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For Once in My Life
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Shiver, Go, Stay
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Mary
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Breeding Atheists
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Cycles (part two)
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Lost in My Thoughts
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Goodbye
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about
This is the culmination of a year of bedroom recording, frustrations, dozens of songs, writer's block, and a slew of other problems.
It's the acceptance and grievances. A philosophical and heartbroken work full of lies and predictable occurrences, a work that is full of instruments everywhere trying to communicate with each other.
It's the love led by deception and denial, the embrace of nature's cyclical tendencies, the banal means by which we try to (temporarily) solve our problems headed by prescription meds.
The lovely things, the darkest corners we try to hide in. The contrast between good and evil, truth and falsehood and all my struggles between those lines.
It's all of these things spun in an entirely homemade web of guitars and usually reserved vocals surrounded by reverb-laden oohs. This record is my baby, it is what I am deeply proud of. This is the best thing I have made thus far by a long run.
Here it is. A year in the making, this is Cycles. Enjoy.
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It's the acceptance and grievances. A philosophical and heartbroken work full of lies and predictable occurrences, a work that is full of instruments everywhere trying to communicate with each other.
It's the love led by deception and denial, the embrace of nature's cyclical tendencies, the banal means by which we try to (temporarily) solve our problems headed by prescription meds.
The lovely things, the darkest corners we try to hide in. The contrast between good and evil, truth and falsehood and all my struggles between those lines.
It's all of these things spun in an entirely homemade web of guitars and usually reserved vocals surrounded by reverb-laden oohs. This record is my baby, it is what I am deeply proud of. This is the best thing I have made thus far by a long run.
Here it is. A year in the making, this is Cycles. Enjoy.
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credits
released 09 March 2013
All acoustic guitar, vocals, electric guitar, bass, handclaps, guitar pick, tambourine, organ, drums, chord organ, piano, other percussion, songwriting, production, engineering, mixing, mastering, album cover: Logan Archer
In other words, everything: Logan Archer
Recorded using GarageBand for iPad.
Thanks be to her who gave me the inspiration. Thanks be to my friends who helped me realize this effort as what it eventually became:
“Cycles”
Thanks be even to her who put me through hell, out of which I came armed with broken songs. Thanks be to my parents, who were watching television the next room over as I recorded the aforementioned song. Thanks be to the Beatles, to Elliott Smith, to Yo La Tengo, to Daniel Johnston, to all the beautiful artists whose work inspired me to create. Thanks be to God and to those who do not believe in Him for the inspiration just as well. Thanks be to all the people in my life who have ever been genuine and incredible.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. To all of you. It’s only 37 minutes of music, but it’s 37 minutes that mean the world to me.
Dedicated to Nonnie.
All acoustic guitar, vocals, electric guitar, bass, handclaps, guitar pick, tambourine, organ, drums, chord organ, piano, other percussion, songwriting, production, engineering, mixing, mastering, album cover: Logan Archer
In other words, everything: Logan Archer
Recorded using GarageBand for iPad.
Thanks be to her who gave me the inspiration. Thanks be to my friends who helped me realize this effort as what it eventually became:
“Cycles”
Thanks be even to her who put me through hell, out of which I came armed with broken songs. Thanks be to my parents, who were watching television the next room over as I recorded the aforementioned song. Thanks be to the Beatles, to Elliott Smith, to Yo La Tengo, to Daniel Johnston, to all the beautiful artists whose work inspired me to create. Thanks be to God and to those who do not believe in Him for the inspiration just as well. Thanks be to all the people in my life who have ever been genuine and incredible.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. To all of you. It’s only 37 minutes of music, but it’s 37 minutes that mean the world to me.
Dedicated to Nonnie.
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Hi, I'm Logan Archer. I am a young, independent musician who writes and produces his own material. I hope you enjoy everything you hear here. Have a nice day, you're awesome.
discography
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Mar 2013 -
Nov 2012 -
Aug 2012 -
Apr 2012 -
Nov 2011
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- Track Name: For Once in My Life
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Standing on the truth I've found
I make a noise but hear no sound
You were running through the rain
I brushed my hand around your waist
I was stumbling through nervousness
You looked up and I noticed your lips
And after one day I was running too
I held my mouth and I gave it to you
I think you're wrong, I think I'm right
For once in my life
My life, my dear, I've learned to steer - Track Name: Shiver, Go, Stay
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It was a song that made you shiver
It was a song that made you want to stay
oh no, oh no
It was the saddest song I've written
It was a song that I had called "Nothing"
oh no, oh no
And you made me feel, yeah you made me feel this way
And you made me go and you made me want to stay
It was your smile that made me shiver
It was that smile that to this day I crave
oh no, oh no
It was your laugh that made me laugh back
It was that laugh that made me go insane
oh no, oh yeah
And you made me feel, yeah you made me feel this way
And you made me go and you made me want to stay
And it all comes back, it all comes back
It comes around in the end
It all comes out, everything's out
It's not hard now to pretend
It was your arm across my shoulder
It was the most sincere sign of embrace
oh yeah, oh yeah
And with your lips pressed against mine, it
It was the icing on a liar's cake
oh yeah, oh yeah
And you made me feel, yeah you made me feel this way
And you made me go and you made me want to stay
And it all comes back, it all comes back
It comes around in the end
It all comes out, everything's out
It's not hard now to pretend
With everything now it's hard to believe that we still did it
But immaturity it always wins
When both parties are steeped in their sins
The last thing you would do is resist - Track Name: Mary
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In your eyes I saw a liar
Precious babe held close beside her
You're a face that's clothed in mystery
You're the anger deep inside me
Oh, you were the best liar, Mary
There's a hole you try to fill
Buried bones and swallowed pills
But don't you know it'll get you killed
When the needle can't sit still
Oh, you were the best liar, Mary - Track Name: Breeding Atheists
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There's always a sense of danger
Lurking inside your horoscope
They'll never get it perfect
Just how you like it
There's always a sense of menace
Present in all religions
What is it that they have got
That you haven't got
The last time that you really prayed
And meant every word you said
On your knees as a child
On your knees wondering why
And then you found a bigger world
And the drugs and pretty girls
Now God doesn't seem so real after all
There's always a sense of faithlessness
Present in a purge of faithfulness
You gotta know how the opposites attract
Your doubt stronger than your belief
You base your ethics on mortality
When you die, you will merely cease
Or so you think
Oh, the last ounce of your belief was spent
Praying in the back of the car,
Hoping she wasn't really going through with it after all
And now her womb is full of wax and
You're practicing your incest
Of two liars, of two in denial
Breeding atheists - Track Name: Enough (when love splits)
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Tell me what you want from me
Take all of our things and the kids
When love splits, so does our stuff
We wonder together if we ever were enough
Oh, the couch is flipped over on the ground
Those kids of yours are all out of town
Let's get back to why we lied
Broken glass and fallen vases
With your face all over my face, it's
Getting better as it's getting hard
When love splits, so does our stuff
We wonder together if we ever were enough
Oh who knows? - Track Name: Cycles (part two)
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I'm gonna make a change
But everything stays the same
Everything will run its course
Everything will run its course
Everything will run its course
In a vicious circle
I want to hide away
And come back out one day
It will be beautiful
It will be beautiful
It will be beautiful
It'll be beautiful
Everything will run its course
In the balancing of opposing forces
In cycles - Track Name: Goodbye
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I am here and you are always there
Lying on our backs with my fingers in your hair
Now I'm back and tired of the lies I spit out
You're away and full of patient doubt
I tried in vain to hold you in my arms
You never seemed so comfortable until you broke my heart
Now I've got these pills to take and photographs to burn
I never took it seriously until it hurt
Distance is the lover of my ghost
It never really mattered until it mattered most
Now I have to take my shoes and try a way to walk
"Just hold my hand, we don't have to talk"
One day I will say goodbye again
I've learned to accept it because of how I've been
I'll never cry in public and I'll wear a happy mask
'Cause any of these days could be my last
Any of these days could be my last
Any of these days could be my last
