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Man, Woman, Friend, Computer

by Man, Woman, Friend, Computer

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Exordium 05:28
Hey, what is the feeling when we kiss? what are you doing? Friend can we save you from what you understand? Maybe this is just as good? maybe we'll hide from what we become maybe we'll reason that there's nothing wrong why why can't i stop this? this taking off with someone else's problems? is it that it's right or just that it feels right well maybe it's right cuz I know that it feels right (give me a kiss)
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with your other face you turn and speak to the mic nothing on your side but your holy rosary and your vice but you feel you've won, you've finally won though you've lost so much and that hollow gaze holds everyone you've got a lot to give you've got a lot to figure out but you know to rule is the hardest thing of all
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everybody knows it's your life do what you need to do cuz till you sing that song into the night none of us will have a clue i've seen your side i know you're right but what's a boy supposed to do though it's hard to decide what you're like oh maybe i'm just trying to evade the truth i saw you racing into the night fearless in search of something new and i know you'll leave us i have seen this oh, honey, hold your rage. i believe you but when you place your fingertips at my side go tell me, oh, what am i to do everybody knows what you're like nobody has a clue so you sing your song into the night do what you need to do
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Denouement 02:42
don't want to know your name don't want to make you mine i don't learn lessons well now i wonder why with your hand on my waist and that look on your face oh you turn around and i see what it is i've got in the new thing i've found not tonight it won't be tonight if i hold back the flames will you look in my eyes? i promise not to remember the things that haunt my mind and you'll come back to me, sweetheart oh in this sudden light you don't have to fake a thing everything seems so nice oh the night oh the night oh the night it won't be tonight oh you turn around and i see what it is i've got in this new thing i've found and the night and the night and the night it won't be tonight
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what you want to have now you're gonna get (cuz you're so good) why don't you bring it back you better bring it back (cuz, honey, i miss you) oh yes i want you bad oh yes you're gonna keep me just running and you can be alright but you've gotta leave tonight at some point, don't you? and i don't want to lie and i feel alright standing next to you
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Leviathan 02:32
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all the brave lions take fear and hide look who's got you now break that light fear for yourself there's nobody else i've been brave enough to put this shit down right well you know now what it takes how to go the wrong way now i've been going the wrong way now and you know now how it feels how to go the wrong way now i've been going the wrong way now reassure yourself everybody's dead will you write me from the other side? i finally recognize there's nothing that i can do well you've made off oh, honey, with all of it and you know now what it takes and you're wishing it all away now and we're wishing it all away now and you know now how it feels when you're asking the wrong question without reason and you know now what it takes oh to forget those magic days but you won't leave them don't you know now? how to fight? oh i wish you'd believe it but you won't even
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Remission 02:42
sometimes i'm up late sometimes i don't fall asleep and when you rush me i can't hardly think you're gone ten months of the year cuz nothing happens here "it's done", you said so we broke our bread, like father/son cuz you want to live your lie with your head held high she spreads a cancer between us oh but now she's gone i know what you said i know what you said i know what you said everyone here knows just what you said it doesn't matter to me anymore
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Nocturne 04:10
now we're safe in the den we'll think things through we won't pretend we found them out and all they conspired and i don't know you but i think you're right if all your friends leave in the end we'll tell some tales remember when remember when we had a goal? thought we had it down, we had control of all this sex and lies and rock and roll oh you've got ways you can see things and i know you're right now you see right through me now more than i can know we're finally safe inside this place found the song inside the song found this all inside your soul
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Outgrown 06:22
when there's nothing wrong you only need to be alone but i i can't decide if i'm strong enough to just step aside when i was alive only long enough to recognize there is something wrong i can't even begin to solve once i was a child i didn't understand how to fight how a feeling all of it's own reaches out beyond and leaves you alone then there comes the part when there's nothing left but what's in your heart well there's one thing you should know oh, i'd never stand and watch you go

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"Meditative and fetching, Man, Woman, Friend, Computer delivers a breakup album and overarching concept: Thomas Echols’ electronic differentiation from his guitar projects. The Austin-based Echols has mostly cut his teeth on classical projects, such as Plainte Calme, his absorbing turn of Debussy and Messiaen. Here, he ventures into a complex amalgam of analog and synth. Wistful, romantic, “Exordium” registers as an unhurried drive down a never-ending highway. Echols’ vocals sooth to surrender on “Concession Speech” and You’re a Pistol”. Standout “Nocturne” and its earlier interlude provide mid-tempo kinetics”

-The Austin Chronicle

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released December 8, 2016

All songs written, performed, and produced by Thomas Echols

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Man, Woman, Friend, Computer Austin, Texas

“Man, Woman, Friend, Computer” is the means by which Thomas Echols makes music when he is not performing various works from the classical guitar repertoire. Simple songs unfold into meandering compositions, analogue synth fetishism, conspiracy pop, polyrhythmic laments, somnambulist visions, and process music. Classically-trained Tom was a founding member of the Grammy-nominated band Devotchka. ... more

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