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Plagueful Cadences (2020)

by the Allotropes

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Only Computers Are Real 04:10
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Once I thought you were the sun in our lives Put you up where only the Cloud now thrives Everything's become so virtualised Just wait until the Singularity arrives We’re not what we really feel Only computers are real Only computers are real Even our love life is an emulated retro game And all Turing machines are the same Because.. Only computers are real Computers are real Only the Cloud knows who you really are That's why I'm in love with your avatar I guess it all comes down to what you can feel When only the computers are real Computers are computers It’s always been the same moment All your memories are you (new) It’s always been this moment Only computers are real Only computers are real Computers are real Computers are real Only computers are real
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God’s Engineer 03:26
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Somebody asked me the other day How the beta test was going Hey.. all I could say with my reactions masked Was that some of the cracks were showing Well hello hello This will need more time It's 20/20 This would never work And you'll lose all your data Nobody asked me yesterday To end the simulation early But all that I could say With my conscience clear Was that some of the people knew, surely? Well hello hello This will need rebooted They think it's 2020 This seems like cruelty And you'll lose all your deity Well you know it ain't always easy being God's Engineer (Rip it up) This keeps happening every single time...
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Not Quite People 02:51
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Lacquered radiogram Plastic Beatle guitar Upside down Me? I didn't give a damn Wanna be your equal (not close not cigar) That's what you think when you are three Shattered hologram Romantic sequel to our fever dreams Bizarre to me Back to you I had to give it all up No choice but to give it all up When we met I found the Love that destroys Don’t just give up Call me now We’re not quite people Almost but so much more That’s how you live when you are free We’ve seen, we’ve seen a lot We’ve been around every block There’s al lot more time we’ll never see Don’t give up Call me now
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Urbane Foxes 04:36
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Night floats the city scum As you wash in from the sea (Time zones, like us, never seem to agree) Routine implores we’ll succumb By selecting you for me Metal boxes come alive 50/60 Hz hum Copper Silicon Quartz Data Connection… ..Failure Reset Try Again Hello? Metal boxes come alive Urban foxes some survive Urban foxes outgunned, connive Urbane foxes contrive With silicon, copper and quartz At least for now, they survive Firewalls open their ports Any old one In a storm
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RPG 02:49
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I thought about you the other night Nothing Earth shattering to behold Let's make it as real as we can, alright? Just no limits on being bold I know I know it's just role play So I tried to put that in our games today, ok? Well that got dark pretty quickly, yeah? Something love-battering did unfold We made it as real as we could, all right? There's a limit to being bold You said you said, “was that role-play?” So, just try to put that in your games today, okay?
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Cosplay Kawaii Girl 02:50
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We’ve seen a lot of things We’ve done a lot of things There’s a lot more time That we’ll never see Online cosplay kawaii girl online Online offline We’ve seen a lot of things We’ve been a lot of things There’s a lot, a lot more time There’s a lot more time That we will never get to see There’s a lot more things a lot more things That we’ll never get to see.
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Rock’n’Roll 02:59
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I thought we’d be free This time, at last If anyone had asked We’d taken back control It was time to rock’n’roll But it didn’t quite work out Like that now, Did it? The commies shut down all the world Made sure there was such a lag Before those secret reports unfurled Now all the world’s a fucking Gulag God’s taken back our souls Now who’s left to rock’n’roll? None to rock and roll
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Pylon 04:21
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The world's a nightmare A bad sci-fi movie I agree Proof from the lab in your armchair All the conspiracies you see You really believe it's all just 5G (right?) You said it's getting in instead Through your head So you joined the tinfoil hat brigade Ain't it enough just to be afraid? Don't mean to disappoint But what's the point Of getting on this pylon? Guess it's a great view to all of those that do But as you grab hold then Science will throw you back again.
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Expert Systems 01:14
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Scientists industrialists Naturists transhumanists Humorists Conspiracy theorists Astronomers Alien Visitors Conspirators Cancel-culture apologists Commissioners Operant conditioners Meatspace prisoners
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Satan Rise 03:15
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Always that sinking feeling Woke up somehow still breathing Checked the latest propaganda Taste that stinking being Always that sinking feeling About the alpha, beta and gamma Always that sinking feeling Always Should we just call this ..upheaval? it's making me dizzy or it's just all His evil? You know He must be so busy They should give Satan a rise Satan A Rise Give the poor schmuck A-rise Arise!
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One Hertz 04:37
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I once had my finger on the pulse And the liquor just made me feel bigger I tried to ignore the trail of skulls But if I’d been a quicker thinker I’d never have breached your hulls As we lay between the sheets Waiting by your breast, For some comment Well I counted sixty of your heartbeats As I waited for that moment: -“Not so fast” But still one hertz Am I really not a thrill? But still one hurts Every second I’m older Life? I thought I’d try it, just for LOLz (one second per second) Wish I’d been a quicker thinker
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Lucky You 07:11
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I don't care if you get it Just as long as I've said it And if the wit Flew over your head Then lucky you I don't care if you'll get it As long as you don't spread it And if the spit Goes over your head Then lucky you
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Degree Absolute 03:48
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My what a welcome it's been I guess I should apologise While the rest of the world cries You got stranded with me - at my place On your little transatlantic holiday After you'd finally looked me up - in meatspace I know because you'd only packed lingerie Now you're never going home again Together forever Because you swiped my face on your phone And it's not love now No it's not love Locked down degree absolute All those unplanned months together Even though it was half over in our dreams I got to fill out your real-life profile Every attribute What a time to be alive
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Mean So Much 04:11
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You mean so much to me I got that bit nearly right You gotta give me that But there's a queue who'll kiss you for free You're mean so much to me You’re mean so much to me You got that bit nearly right I’ve gotta give you that But there's a crowd who gets in for free You're mean so much to me I got that bit sadly right You always give me that Does it mean so much that We can't get out alive tonight? We gotta give it up We got that clue almost right They oughta give us that Still there's that crew Who’ll kill us for free They’re so mean so much to you and me
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Break For The Bunker 06:44
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It's been such a long time since we saw the sun I suppose we've been avoiding stuff Tinned food, drugs and a gun Everything else is just fluff Still keeping up with events While working on our prison tan The outside filtered in Yeah you got your echo chamber and I got mine We spun down the lies like a centrifuge Pieced together something just before the deluge It' s something more sickly That we're facing That comes with rain Well that escalated real quickly We're all here to share the pain we're gracing (Fish in a barrel comes to mind) It's been such a long time since we saw the sun And if you don't drive faster... we'll see another one [Time to put your foot down Allotrope Make a break for a bunker while we Drop The Bomb] Forty years ago you wrote yourself a letter About how maybe it's all for the better Putting us out of our misery Then the wall fell and our victory Well now, here's to the end of history And your little vacation At least we know now why there's no mystery About why they keep rerunning this Simulation Let's break for that bunker Let's break for the bunker Our new prison cell together We know why they keep re-running this simulation We're not getting any younger Let's try to get a little older Before we're vaporized forever

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"forty years ago you wrote yourself a letter..."

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released December 14, 2020

Steve Swales - synthesizers, rhythms, vocoder, guitar and vocal synthesis

Chris North - synthesizers, rhythms, saxophone

the Allotropes appear courtesy of ShepardTone Records
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