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Banished Adonis

by Grooming

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1.
Bell Ringer 00:21
Please put your hands together and join me in welcoming, The Banished Adonis. 2019. And now, Track 1, “Weakness Policy.”
2.
I descend I return Coming back I return To Earth Banished God’s last Banished Final Final I return I return To Earth I return I return To you Mock turtleneck Lit candle Licking melatonin From your fingertips And stepping onto rosin Our bedside shrine Don’t laugh at me Three more sets of fang marks In my night guard Show me the light in your bedroom I promise it did not hurt that much Another wet reflection End of an era The end of an arrow Great big wet reflection Weeping out a blast beat In the grocery store Another wet reflection Another wet reflection Another wet reflection Merritt was right Weakness policy
3.
Radical Love 01:14
I exist in deep time now 
I bloom like magma
 In centuries, not seconds 
Time will leave its shadow 
And I will remain 


Back on Earth 
S***** C***** 

Transforming in secret 
Traveling, becoming 
In secret 
Madame Butterfly 

And I 
Caterpillar 
Dead beside the chrysalis

4.
Out in the garden
 Resting among the cucumber vines
 No one understands The hangman’s despair 
The servant and the service rifle 
All pain, no feeling 
All hurt, no healing
 Another perfect day
 In Rumpelstiltskin’s grotto
5.
I swallow your handful of earth 
I prepare for our correspondence
 My gut full of soil
 From the ground beneath your colosseum 
One arrow to betray me
 One thousand to destroy me
 
I make the battlefield my home 
Saint Sebastian 
Bolted into place 

Cursed, poisoned and shot full of a thousand arrows
 I shamble on 
G-d’s personal pincushion 

Fall on your knees! 
O, hear the angels laughing
6.
Ativan 01:41
Burning your wrists 
In the fire pit 
Dressed in all jet black 
With contact mics
 Talismanic bottle opener 
Ice cream stegosaurus 
Illuminated for no one 
A week without poetry 
I hold you in my hands For three lines a day All them tweets And all them likes Mean nothing Without you I pieced together the slivers 
I’m admitting this to you now 

I hope my water shoes
 Rot through the floorboards
 
Call me Deacon Power Electronics
7.
Water Weight 01:34
Slow honeybees in winter
 Broken man on display 
For all the children of the world 
Do you see me falling apart?
 All this
 so you can live the way you live 

Staring into one another 
Souring the bath water Together 
And watching the mystery Run down the drain
 
Do you see me falling apart? Just another afternoon 
Watching the hornets 
Invade the air conditioning unit 

We all heal through a hole
8.
There is no longer any reason for me to be alive. Goodbye
9.
Halo Jump 01:27
Time rolls out before me 
Rising and falling 
Crashing down in a new city 

I fall to earth at night 
I pray for the death of everything in my life 

No one is waiting for me
10.
One day 
Years from now 
When they finally drag the LA River 
They’ll use you as a net 
Just as I had dreamed
 
And one day 
Many years sooner than that 
They’ll drag the East River 
And find me there 
Waiting for you
11.
I plunge my battle-battered hands 
Into your geranium garden
 I tend to our memories 
I cultivate them like hobby trees 
Maintaining the joy
 And in return 
They bloom for me poison sumac

 Another perfect day 
In Rumpelstiltskin’s grotto
12.
Caligula and the Colosseum
 Joan of Arc on trial Sisyphus and the boulder The chastity of Saint Agnes Saint Agatha and her tits Saint Sebastian and the sewer Stephen King and the Listerine™ bottle Yukio Mishima’s reflection Dracula in his castle Dr. Frankenstein and the lightning bolt Anna and her lover Mark and his pistol Perseus with the head of John the Baptist Mozart and the standing ovation Pasolini and the automobile Truman and the television Mother Nature’s long overdue revenge 

The rope of time 
Is burning at both ends 
Choose carefully 
Which end you snuff out first

about

Grooming, 'Banished Adonis' LP
Recorded July-August, 2019
Gehenna Digital, 2019

Recorded over a two month period, but in gestation for years, 'Banished Adonis' is the most complete harsh noise and power electronics document from Grooming to date. Ferocious self-defeat and laser-guided concussion electronics collide to eulogize the forsaken dipshit in ruin.

Twenty-four minutes of earbud collapsing, tweeter shredding harsh noise and stacked vocals in the tradition of American power electronics shot straight from the heart of Queens, NY and out into the silence of the global graveyard.

A spiritual mag dump for all terrestrial life.

Thank you to Mia Schwartz, Aurora Vincent, Natalie Snitzer, Iris Everill & Nora Isabella

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released December 28, 2019

Grooming Is Alec Lambert
‘Banished Adonis’ Copyright Grooming/Gehenna Digital 2019
Album Design By Alec Lambert
Album illustrations by Aurora Vincent

"Weakness Policy"
Incorporates a field recording from Johnny Weiss
Recorded July 23rd, 2016

"Rumpelstiltskin's Lament, I"
Features a reading by Mia Schwartz
Lyrics by Alec Lambert

"Eating My Feelings"
Includes a field recording featuring Natalie Snitzer
Recorded June 20th, 2018 at Coney Island

"Ativan"
Features a sample from Love Live! School Idol Festival

"Halo Jump"
Features a manipulation of 'ASMR| BIG SISTER LETS YOU KNOW IT WILL BE OKAY RP (UP CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION)' from mads asmr

"Urgent Caring"
Includes a field recording captured at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City on April 12th, 2016

"Rumpelstiltskin's Lament"
Features a reading by Iris Everill
Words by Alec Lambert

"Every Kilo A Teardrop"
Features a reading by Aurora Vincent
Words by Alec Lambert
Also included are excerpts from an answering machine cassette tape found discarded in Rochester, NY

'Banished Adonis' is intended as the second part of a five-tape release cycle:
GRMNG-001: 'BMI' (Available Now)
GRMNG-002: 'Banished Adonis' (Available Now)
GRMNG-003: 'Kyo' (Coming Soon)
GRMNG-004: 'Active Lifestyle' (Coming Soon)
GRMNG-005: 'Calorie Mate' (Available Now)

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