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Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Volume 4 - The Animal I Am

by Rabbit Rabbit Radio

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ptitseb Since Art Bears, we should know that song project out of complex avant garde or experimental combos could be pure diamonds. This is a confirmation since "The book of Knots" and now Rabbit Rabbit, that are coming ouf from Sleepy Time Gorilla museum. Pop songs, yes, but each are masterpieces. (Oh and maybe I'm in love with Carla's voice...) Favorite track: Carapace.
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incorpxand96 Carla and Matthias continue to expand their musical universe with a fine effort that tamps down the quirkiness of previous records while maintaining an eerie atmosphere. Lovely lyrical performance from Kihlstedt.

everythingisnoise.net/reviews/rabbit-rabbit-radio-volume-4-the-animal-i-am/ Favorite track: Leaning and Falling.
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Jan Tore Skramesto Somehow Rabbit Rabbit Radio once again manages to make an album that stops my doom scrolling brain and demands me to listen.

First impression is a bit darker than its predecessors, but still with enough playfulness lurking in the shadows.

Another masterpiece from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - thank you for making the world a prettier place...
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1.
Carapace 03:59
Twist a whisper ‘round until it burns. Hush your mighty whimper. Hold it til it hurts. Carapace Bury your loneliness. Engrave it in the sand. The slow stream of love beneath the floor carves against the grain. Carapace I dissolve myself in water in a dream that hardened when I woke. I choked on air as solid as a block of ice, preserving for all time the way you curl round my arm, the fight forgotten for a while. Carapace Twist a whisper, follow where it leads. Follow underneath. Take it back. Take me back. All of the softness melts away, Carapace. The shell remains another day, Carapace.
2.
Loving You 03:10
Set a trap. Set a trap and stand back. Whistle when it springs. When it springs, i'll come dig in. Is anybody in the yard, on the roof,  in my bed, in my head? A frenzy of hunger, too hollow and blind not to follow us all home, and on the way the landmines are undetectable, predictable as air,  we're unprotectable. Is anybody in the yard, on the roof,  in my bed, in my head? Is everybody loving me, on the floor, bleeding out, lock the door.  Hover over a cloudless sky, no trigger, no tripwire,  I'm suspended just above the fray, upended anyway, so set a trap, stand back, whistle when it springs, I'll come, I'll come, I'll come dig in. Is anybody in the yard, on the roof,  in my bed, in my head? Is everybody loving me, on the floor, bleeding out, lock the door.  Afraid to look, afraid to go, afraid to ask, afraid to know - the tension makes me whole. afraid to see, afraid to feel afraid to blink, afraid to think - the tension makes me whole. Is anybody loving me?
3.
Snap back! The heat stings like ice. Time slows so we move faster underneath our skin. Inside, the path is frictionless, we slip again, no footing on this fictional device. I chase your love, a bird, a deer, my dear, I dare to hold my hand so still, and still you wince a tiny tremor travels, chases you away. Outside your fur stands on end. Come back! Retract your claws, hide your teeth in watering jaws. I chase your love, a bird, a deer, my dear, I dare to hold my hand so still, and still you wince a tiny tremor travels, chasing you. My breath betrays my body, charged with love and hate and heat and sorrow, hold my hand so still, and still you smell the animal I am.
4.
This is the silence in which things die. This is the stillness in which love seizes and hides alone So cross the sea and dance with me... So cross the sea to dance with me. This is the distance across which I pine for you. This is the darkness that harbors villains and gods and thieves. So send a boat, a scout, a sailor, a soldier, a paddle, a barrel and a small ration of hope. Dance, baby, dance! Dance til you shake! Dance, baby, dance! Dance til you break! Break on the coast, coast on the wind, wind me around and around til I’m spinning. A sail is a sheet, a sheet is a shroud, a shroud is a cloud that hides all the guides in the sky. I am lost now. I am lost now. I am lost. This is the silence in which things grow. This is the stillness in which love shivers and opens slow. So cross the sea and dance with me. So cross the sea to dance with me. Dance, baby, dance! Dance, baby, dance! Dance til you shake! Shake til you break! Break on the coast of me. I’ll break on the coast of you.
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Here in the snowfall hiding the world Days piled high, bury the lead, Years touch the sky. We only know what we have heard. The stories and the facts, absurd. The line you drew around the earth, All we have of you. Now as the time goes stealing your stories... Snow softened trees, sleep softened eyes, time soften hearts, age softened lives. a box, a cup, a yard, a tree, a quilt, a ring, a cloth, a plate, a trunk, a date, a name, a house, a dog, a recipe, a box of letters, a photograph, a bell, a spoon, a stamp, a date, a name... If I’m wrong, I’m sorry. It’s the only way to see now. If I’m wrong. If I’m wrong, please forgive. It keeps you part of me. I don’t care if it’s lies. Now you’re here. The day you led the boys to win. The box you packed when time ran out. The dress you wore, your silver hair. All we have of you.
6.
Radial Life 03:21
Go away. Walk farther away. Go. It’s OK. I’m here in my hub. Now my eyes drift farther apart. I see defensively. I am pray. I am praying. Dress the part. Look terribly smart. It’s no good. We’re paper dolls. We fall when the wind blows. Now we’re down. Feel the cool of the ground. Your fingers have eyes. You are radial. We are radial life. Go away. Walk farther away. It’s OK. I am here.
7.
Fire Flower 03:26
Who planted you? Who planted you here? Were you carried on the wind, fliers dropping from above, landing silently embedding in my heart while I sleep. Poison seeps into my veins, tendrils feeding on the fear. It grows taller by the day, hate reaching up for the sun. Open the canopy, let the sun in. It's a battle of wills. It's a figure of speech. But you hate to be wrong and you long to be loathed. And you bathe in the glow of your flame, the flame, the flame, the fame, the fireflower! Fireflower, you're strangling me! Follow the stem down and pull it out by the root. Poison sucks up in my veins, tendrills feeding on the fear. It grows taller by the day, hate reaching up to the sky. If I let it, it will come, sweet and warm, the liquid sun. Closing tight around my lungs, my hands, my mouth. Fireflower, you're strangling me! Follow the stem down and pull it out by the root.
8.
Come on, lover! Tell me you need me. Tell me you want me still. Tell me we're good... Find the end... find the end of the string and pull. Take my hand... Let's walk along and count the stars, let's count the stars, pretend they're ours cuz, baby,  we're all alone now. We're all alone together. Kill the king! King the king and the queen cuz they're just anguished and mean. It's time to beat the drums! Destroy the things we thought we loved the best, cuz baby, it's all sand. It's all sand and, oh,  we are alone now. We are alone together. Come on lover! Tell me you need me. Tell me you love me still. Tell me you want me. Let's burn it all... Let's burn it all and start again. Find the edge... find the edge of the world and jump. Close your eyes, feel your heavy body falling, we are light again. We'll never land alone. We're not alone. We're not alone... never alone together.
9.
Paradise 03:51
Step aside so I can run away, moldy copy of a renegade. Please wait, the gate is locked! The dogs will surely kill you, it's like they never knew you. Slam, slam, forgot the key to paradise. Leper colony certificate, epileptic reconnaissance bullshit. Enduring pockets of recompense, a ghoulish cipher of innocence. Please wait, the gate is locked! The dogs will surely kill you, it's like they never knew you. Slam, slam, forgot the key to paradise. Can't see the stars from the bottom shelf. Show me the scars that I made myself. Slides like butter, whisper quiet like a shudder, heart splatter, pancake matter in the frozen arcade. Please wait, the gate is locked! The dogs will surely kill you, it's like they never knew you. Slam, slam, forgot the key to paradise.
10.
Spines 04:18
Hope you're feeling better. Dreams record her terror. Winter has come. Black night, cover me. Blankets smother me. Stitches hold her, rock her shoulders. Black holes mold her. They cast her downward. Dreams record her terror. Winter has come. Put this picture in a box and seal it in between the walls so you'll find the elegance in these, my sad, pathetic falls from grace.
11.
When did I forget I know how to fall? Do you remember how we used to lean? Lean on me now. I brace myself against the black and blue I know will come. I hold my breath. I hold my hope. I hold my love away from you. I hold myself upright and alone. I used to be soft, now I'm brittle, I'm stone. I'd rather feel. I'd rather fall. I'd rather go down and break every bone. When did we forget we know how to fall?

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This album is about love. It is more thorn than rose.

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released February 14, 2021

Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, Jeremy Flower, Jon Evans.

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Rabbit Rabbit Radio Falmouth, Massachusetts

Rabbit Rabbit Radio is the song-spinning duo of Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. Collectively, they are founding members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat, 2 Foot Yard, Causing a Tiger, The Book of Knots, and Fred Frith’s Cosa Brava.

Drawing on their love of both art & folk song, industrial & improvised music and heart-wrenching balladry, their songs are raw, beautiful, sparse and rich.
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