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Joys of Kin EP

by Esbern Snare

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1.
Joys of Kin 07:00
That train, the hounds, your core— what bellows out trying to figure out what's before? With your head against the glass Do you ever tend to wander out, and be gone? Come now, the joys of kin as the warmest sound ever heard in your lasting years For in my family's glow I will not be ashamed of us I've not let go of us, they found a way to burn through the nerve until we've never had and they've come to speak in tones, like I have faced the facts, when anymore I I still wonder how it will work itself out where we're fine and the headlights will turn through the snow in the blinds The light shoots through the marks like a million stars splintered out with a flash and flurr To the specks of distant worlds such a smallness, life existing now on the glass, you watch But I've not let go of us, they found a way to burn through the nerve until we've never had and they've come to speak in tones, like I have faced the facts when anymore I I still wonder how it will work itself out where we're fine and the headlights will turn through the snow in the blinds You came through my room, yet you were withdrawn How's your hope? Do the lights lie unstrung because it just seems wrong to ever be fine? When the man you returned is the boy you refined And all the days that crept into your smile withhold from you the severance of time And rid the town of every vacant sight to be alone with you one more mile
2.
Orpheus 05:23
You were some course that offered me miles a friend in my trials. And her, what she stirred, well it hurts if worthwhile What if I stayed 'til old and I'm swollen in my veins? Where you could trace the man I've been, who wore you thin. I love you, the girl of my youth Don't you wonder how And the mornings that broke you down, you search for the boy you seldomly found. If your arms could just pull him out, he wants you still yeah I always will I'll miss your soul, the moment it goes, but i should have known just how much I've kept from those I know best How selfish my crown Out in their lores for hours, I've had my fill I took the worms for cowards, but how they kill I look forward to life as the father of kids Have you reserved my heart for this? Could you show me how? Have I told you my honest doubts? Well I'm still not sure I'll ever dry out Because you'll be hard to do without I'll want, but still, what is there until? I'll miss your soul, the moment it goes, and slips through these folds But how long will death take to make sense? When none can be found.
3.
Shiftings 07:42
Watch for despair has followed you out so fast upon your heels Your staggering work to grip the earth has left you struck to every nerve And you returned for whom the strangeness lurks and is a commonness Said "Come on down, the wind blows heavy now and you are overrun." The strength of a woman to walk this yard, when at the door you can't explain how something's changed, the walls awake with shiftings of a wandering ghost And the billows rose, in asking where you'll go now should it all remain? For what has begun nothing's won but you can learn to cope this way And now your stretch yearns to find the breadth of relief that anyone can just leave and be gone A solemn mender, the final hold of release and when it's gone I will need it again I wish for dreams, the glow of lights at sea I wish too many things But I will bring that coast what's left of me, and I will dream Darling, relent your restless arms, come along just leave his room He is strong, his mother's strong, nothing's wrong, the morning's soon he'll be home, he's on his own, he is grown, just let him loose He is strong, his mother's strong, nothing's wrong, he's just like you bent to heave a clambering heart, rattled son, you have been harmed But you're strong, your child's strong, it is wrong, but carry through everything your every part felt much more of hurt before any car the metals tore, you were gone, you have been wronged Careless the ropes that wore to bone Calloused my hands that never learned how to let go Careless to kill the stars, a son Calloused my will to never forgive what was done If I could start to be someone be rid of tries to ever become anyone While any fervence takes its time I don't touch mine, it seems less alive when you hold
4.
No Measures 04:40
You look to the storm with a shuddering, back from farther days that you might have been through and yet you lose the path which you came from And the obvious part you've learned, is she will never fold for your worst has shown But you bore your mistakes with another that you offered to always find You always tried It comes from the north as a hollowing the chimes that shook you first The times when the coffee takes so long to ever be raised to the muscles beneath your face They left you old somehow like the kids who had pulled your sleeves and wore you down as they led you unmade But you look farther out, to the holds of a state And I could not get over it Have I offered an honest life? I always tried Somehow all worth comes passing by before you rush outside to say "Once I'd known it, even owned, yet chased for my whole life" And every ounce was you So get up Just get up! I can hear the bells stop—and bonds forgot No measures must you ever take to find me here, still under the arbor Well you're such a precious sight

about

As a follow up to our debut album 'A Violent Peace', we hoped to create a more bare-bones experience of our music with songs in their most original and true form. To do so, we sat down in a small room with producer and artist Jake Hull, set up a few microphones, and captured the following: a live, one night recording of new material from Luke Jones of Esbern Snare.

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released April 25, 2016

Artwork design by Alec Mangum
Recordings captured live by Jake Hull
Mixing and mastering by Jake Hull
All original songs by Esbern Snare

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Esbern Snare Norfolk, Virginia

We’re Esbern Snare, a five-piece from Norfolk, Virginia. We are independently releasing our sophomore album 'does it feel like i'm not there?' early 2023, and are so honored we get to share it with you. Thank you so much for listening and for your continued support of what we love to do. ... more

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