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Magic for Beginners

by Murrumur

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1.
Syzygy 02:03
In The Book of Paths, Katak's Syzygetic Rite is described as follows: 30. Coiled Fervour [Endless waiting in the falling drift The path favors patient activity Superior subtlety leads nowhere Poised entanglement Twinned tests make the way Between burning excitement and arid tension] I circle round the world Around, around, around, around, around (Around, around, around, around, around) Circling Circling the earth cleverly Back to the start to chase myself and nothing changed
2.
Murrumur: Baby, it's ok Almost 4am and you stayed up with me Let's slip away Hit the angel number, clocks at triple threes Fork in the pathway Never go to sleep, I don't wanna face reality We'll be together someday Angel wannabes always smoking on tree It fell apart, I stay ambivalent Pulling in the bag, pull me in and prove me innocent Clubbing at Cyberia with the heretics Magic honeybee, listen to the dissonance Looking in the mirror and I fall for your magnificence Center of attention cause you know that we're sophisticates Feel like I'm sober but I'm off seven stimulants They all want me dead cause they know I'm too significant PK Shellboy: So far but I know I'll see you soon I wanna stay with you with the stars and the moonlight I apologize, see you rise and you're too bright Hoping that I treat you well and everything I do is right I don't want no politic and I don't want no competition I just want you, I think I'm getting tunnel vision I just wanna cuddle with you, spend more than the summer with you(?) I just want you, love-sick I need some penicillin
3.
Ride down the aeroplane with chiptune soundust in the way False hope of swimming, panic blooms diving down the drain Cataclysm monolith to klonopin and magic brains Running out of oxygen blue rouge crawling on my face Still scanning barcodes for organic napalm every day Kicked out of Eden's garden, circle spiral out and break Making every mental picture when you're not awake In the darkest pool eternal sleeping still beneath the lake Triple spiral crawling towards a drowned land's spine Follow to the gate of sleep Travel with a sigh, soaked in goodbyes Splitting from infinity to purify Select reality and sing another lullaby The day is long, but the night's too long stuck in the dark Call the voices in my head, screaming ripples disembark Sifting all the waves down, ego stretched another arc Compounding technobabble followed by a question mark Holes through my skin punctured softly, softly with a blade We dismantle all the blocks of putting bleeding on display Forgotten dreams microdosing through a serenade Hex parade impression sacred circles interlayed Today the angels are so noisy when they're under chains Erratic rhythms wash the essence coursing through my veins Sweet faces make a wish cast to the bluest flames Changing all the clocks so we would never know the time of day A drowning metronome to keep you counting out of sync Witness sense of feeling vanishing again with a blink At least the summer brought us ego death and what to think Dream of the reality we need until we interlink
4.
Medicine 02:25
Leaving without traces Seeing scars on ghostly faces Medicine erasing I can't tell if I can take it Lying on the glass again Hold onto my only friend Waiting for the winter when You'd call me out I'm sleeping in Touch my hands, cold as ice Look for somewhere I can hide Track me down for endless crimes Nothing cures my restless mind Lately I've been so so sick Looking for a quicker fix Waiting for the winter when You'd call me out, I'm sleeping in [[You don't know what's good for you]]
5.
I depend on you for everything I cling to you like I'm a pair of wings You're still the reason that I wanna sing I think of you and I can't even think For a second, everything was perfect, perfect, perfect I hide behind you every day Breathing in the words you say Something softly in the way Reminiscing yesterday Another day another hurricane I sweetly sleep nestled in the rain Trying my best but I can't maintain Maybe it's we changed and became insane I wish we were perfect, perfect, perfect I hide behind you every day breathing in the words you say I'm bleeding out send help my way All my bullets ricochet at me
6.
Swept away by the ether On the middle layer shoot me down like a messenger Folding space I run under pressure Endless, senseless, ash falls from nowhere How do I wake up? I can't stand it Run til I can't breathe Pull me out of my lucid dreams How do I wake up? I can't fucking stand it Run til I can't breathe Pull me out of my lucid dreams You caught me frozen But I can't wait to thaw Soft devotion Coldest Poison I am pulled away Can't accept it, flowing out the entrance We just sleep all day Shadows banging on my door with bad intentions In pain day to day Always stepped on, using up my essence Spells and spirits led astray Intercepted another evil presence Copycat solstice seeking repentance High priestess hexing the attendance
7.
8.
TINYDEATH 03:25
STARVE OUT BLEED OUT FREEZE OUT DROWN OUT CRY OUT CRAWL OUT CLAW OUT KILL NOW I CAN'T DIE YET THEY CAN'T MAKE ME GOUGE MY EYES SO THEY CAN'T SEE ME
9.
MURRUMUR & ix: STARVE OUT NERVES SHOT EYES RED BLEED OUT WIDESPREAD BLOODSHED FREEZE OUT BROKEN BODIES TANK TREADS DROWN OUT CRIMSON RIVER ROTTED DEAD MURRUMUR: SO SICK, A WORLD OF HELL BURNING THE FIRES SO SICK AND UNWELL ERASE THE PAST TO DISGUISE PARALLELS NOTHING TO LOSE RIDING DOWN ON A BOMBSHELL FRAME BY FRAME NOTHING BUT LIES SHOOT BEFORE THE WHITES OF THEIR AIM TO MAIM, CARRY RED TO THE SKY PURSUE THE END THIS IS YOUR DOOMED TIMELINE BLOOD, TEA SO MANY SOLIDERS TO RUN FROM ME BUT I'LL GIVE THEM CLOSURE THE WAY THEY KILL CLAIMING INNOCENT ORDERS BUT SURGICAL MEDICINE TURNS THEM TO HORRORS A KNIFE, A HAMMER TO BREAK DOWN YOUR BONES PULLING THE INSIDES AND FILL IT WITH STONES YOUR LIFE, MY HANDS NOW YOU'RE ALL ALONE YOUR LIMBS MISPLACED CAN'T SCREAM WITH YOUR MOUTH SEWN ix: GORE TAPE HELL SCAPE SLASHED THROATS SCREAM SILENT AS JAWS BREAK AGAPE MOUTHS SEWN GUNS DRONE BULLET-BLACK SKY BLEEDS FLESH OFF OF BONE MASS GRAVES BLOOD RAVES WARFARE-BRED ORGIES BENEATH CRIMSON WAVES FLESH FLOWS HEADSTONE ROWS RIPPED APART RIPPED APART RIPPED APART RIPPED APART
10.
Dreaming of becoming flies Screamed from human hives Dreaming of growing wings Barred from warmest springs Absent Water won't retreat Boiled in my sleep Lost balance off the balcony Coiled tapestries

about

Murrumur’s debut LP is a drastic stylistic departure from her previous work into explosive, chaotic pop music.

Heavily inspired by occultism, sickness, cultural alienation, and the writer’s own fear of technology, Magic for Beginners offers listeners a manic selection of songs that are equally as blunt as they are cryptic.

In its 10 track runtime, the album pulls from countless musical sources ranging through Electropop, IDM, Emo Rap, Electro-Industrial, Twee Pop, Shoegaze, and even Sludge Metal, which are seamlessly tied together by dizzying drum breaks and Murrumur’s ghostly vocal style. Chaotic is an understatement. Pulling from so many sources, it is Murrumur’s sheer variety of influence and her ability to place them all together that makes Magic for Beginners so fascinating.

Magic for Beginners is like a ghost in the machine, thrashing trying to escape. Its wildly manic and eclectic nature is reflective of Murrumur’s being as a digital pop artist lost from time. Much like a sweet, sickly vampire, its strangely alluring charm is diabolically playful and almost psychedelic at times, but with a sinister smile unafraid to show its fangs.

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released May 28, 2021

April Weaver - Vocals, Lyrics (Tracks 1-3, 5-6, 8-10), Production (Tracks 1-8, 10)

PK Shellboy - Vocals, Lyrics (Track 2)
Willow Gauze - Lyrics (Track 4)
Luhas - Production (Track 6)
ix - Vocals, Lyrics, Bass (Track 9)

Phonebox - Mastering, Mixing (Tracks 3-4, 6, 9-10)

Neospare - Art

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Murrumur Detroit, Michigan

Ann Arbor based musician. K-Emo patchwork.

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