Little Wars
by Thunderbird Divine
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Times Gone Bad
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05:55
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Includes unlimited streaming of Little Wars via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.ships out within 3 daysPurchasable with gift card$10 USD or more
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Pony Express
02:19
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Times Gone Bad
05:55
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So many times
Lost your way
Frozen inside
Now you’re astray
Something you have turns to something you had
Now out the door
Good times gone bad
Alone in your mind
Every day
Fake it in stride
Broken away
Something you have turns to something you had
Now out the door
Good times gone bad
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Last Laugh
04:58
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When it’s all done
Who lost, who won?
Call yourself king
Fat lady, she will sing
Laugh last, laugh best
Laugh best, laugh last
Loose talk, weak words
Trash mouth, so spurned
It’s a sad state
Now seal your fate
Yeah, I’m still laughing
And I’ll keep on laughing
See the finger that you’re pointing at me?
It’s pointing back at you
1,2,3
Four fingers pointing back at you
It ain’t pretty, but it’s oh so true
See the finger that I’m pointing at you?
Four fingers pointing back, it’s true
Four fingers pointing back at me
It ain’t pretty, and it don’t come free
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Black Rhino Mantra
03:01
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When the passage goes bad
You need a meteorite surgeon
To talk to the stars
And the caucusoid creatures all leap for the sun
It’s a goddamn shame
And we’re all sad
And it’s all gonna land on you
I got a black rhino mantra behind my eyes
Nobody’s gonna save you now when you cry
The end is coming, and there’s no place to hide
I’ll never be your catcher coming through the rye
Take a break in the sand
Hope the sun is gonna free your mind
You’re the only blood there
But you just don’t have the time
So I’m telling you
You gotta let it go
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5. |
These Eyes
06:05
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Sell your soul
For those cheap thrills
I got proof
These eyes got hills
What’s more is less
Now down those pills
Choke ‘em back
Citrus for sale
Likes ain’t no skills
Good luck with that
These eyes got hills
What’ll you do next?
What do you need?
Will you be vexed?
Or sow those seeds?
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Celestial Tides
04:41
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Highway Dawn
05:30
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Highway dawn, I’m riding into your light
Before my eyes, you’re breaking through the sky
The sun aligns, the moment, the moon still shines
Bright alight, the time we share the divine
Alone, alive, into the sky I drive
Highway dawn
The reds, the greens, all that I see feels like a dream to me
At peace my mind, my soul at once alive
This sliver of time, impossible to describe (but I try)
Flying away, mist becomes the day
Alone, alive, into the sky I drive
Highway dawn
It’s all too much
It’s all beautiful
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Old Black Crow
04:42
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That old black crow
Been haunting me
He sees where I go
He knows where I’ll be
Way out back
In that old screw shack
In the darkest woods
That you ever seen
Old black crow
Been haunting me
In the cellar with the spiders
Is where I’ll be
It’s the curse
Old scarecrow
Way out in the field
One million miles
Too far from here
When the cold wind blows
It chills my bones
So light up a fire
For that old crow
Curse
Curse of the crow
Screams echo
All through them trees
The end is near
Doom and fear
Old black crow
Been haunting me
He sees where I go
He knows where I’ll be
It’s the curse
Old black crow
Has haunted me
In the cellar with the spiders
That’s where you’ll find me
‘Cause if it’s life or death
It’s death for me
Curse
Curse of the crow
It’s the curse
Curse of the crow
That fuckin’ crow
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Carousel
03:15
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about
"Little Wars" shows the natural results of a rock band operating beyond the constraints of traditions and genre-specific limitations. Musically, the album plumbs the depths of psychedelia, stoner rock, doom, pop and experimental sound textures in order to present a sonic tapestry woven from the inner thoughts and emotions of these four musicians.
Lyrical themes cover the metaphorical hills we're willing to die on daily in the course of maintaining our own senses of legitimacy and morality.
“The process of creating music has to be organic, and it has to come from a sincere place devoid of fear,” says Erik Caplan, the band’s guitarist/vocalist. “At least, that’s what works best for this band. So I find it essential to trust my co-creators and have them trust me. We have to be willing to wander into curious musical rabbit holes together just to see what we might find. I think we did a lot of that kind of stuff with this album, but the foundation of the entire effort is songwriting. That has to be solid. If you don’t have good songs at the core of your album, adding funky textures is an exercise in pointlessness. And I think we’ve covered that base as well. These feel like good songs to us.”
“Our recording process was very involved,” Caplan says. “We demoed every song in our rehearsal space, sketching out all of our ideas from the ground up. We took those basic demo tracks and embroidered them back at Josh’s (bassist Josh Solomon) studio. We threw a lot of sounds at those demos, and we started getting a strong idea of what worked best to our ears.
“Nothing was off limits. For example, if I said, ‘I think I can hear a sitar in there,’ the response was almost always ‘OK, let’s hear the part you have in mind.’ It’s inspiring to work that way.”
Lyrical themes cover the metaphorical hills we're willing to die on daily in the course of maintaining our own senses of legitimacy and morality.
“The process of creating music has to be organic, and it has to come from a sincere place devoid of fear,” says Erik Caplan, the band’s guitarist/vocalist. “At least, that’s what works best for this band. So I find it essential to trust my co-creators and have them trust me. We have to be willing to wander into curious musical rabbit holes together just to see what we might find. I think we did a lot of that kind of stuff with this album, but the foundation of the entire effort is songwriting. That has to be solid. If you don’t have good songs at the core of your album, adding funky textures is an exercise in pointlessness. And I think we’ve covered that base as well. These feel like good songs to us.”
“Our recording process was very involved,” Caplan says. “We demoed every song in our rehearsal space, sketching out all of our ideas from the ground up. We took those basic demo tracks and embroidered them back at Josh’s (bassist Josh Solomon) studio. We threw a lot of sounds at those demos, and we started getting a strong idea of what worked best to our ears.
“Nothing was off limits. For example, if I said, ‘I think I can hear a sitar in there,’ the response was almost always ‘OK, let’s hear the part you have in mind.’ It’s inspiring to work that way.”
credits
released October 22, 2024
Erik Caplan: vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitar, lap steel, banjo, electric sitar, synth, harmonica, theremin, sound urchin, waterphone, zils, drone machine
Jack Falkenbach: B3, Wurlitzer, Farfisa, Rhodes, Melodica, synth, violin
Micheal Stuart: drums, lead vocals on “Old Black Crow”
Joshua Solomon: bass, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, synth, bass VI, kalimba, waterphone, drone machine, stylophone, zils, additional percussion
Backing vocals by Nia Primus, Emily Boland and Sarah Marie White
Written by Thunderbird Divine
Produced by Thunderbird Divine
Recorded by Jake Hoffpauir at Retro City Studios and Joshua Adam Solomon at East Airy Recording
Mixed by Joe Boldizar at Retro City Studios
Mastered by Andy Clarke at Retro City Studios
Album Design by Michael Stuart
Special thanks to Armen Koroghlian, Flynn Lawrence, Adam Scott, Scott Harrington, Tommy Stewart, Mountain Lion
Erik Caplan: vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitar, lap steel, banjo, electric sitar, synth, harmonica, theremin, sound urchin, waterphone, zils, drone machine
Jack Falkenbach: B3, Wurlitzer, Farfisa, Rhodes, Melodica, synth, violin
Micheal Stuart: drums, lead vocals on “Old Black Crow”
Joshua Solomon: bass, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, synth, bass VI, kalimba, waterphone, drone machine, stylophone, zils, additional percussion
Backing vocals by Nia Primus, Emily Boland and Sarah Marie White
Written by Thunderbird Divine
Produced by Thunderbird Divine
Recorded by Jake Hoffpauir at Retro City Studios and Joshua Adam Solomon at East Airy Recording
Mixed by Joe Boldizar at Retro City Studios
Mastered by Andy Clarke at Retro City Studios
Album Design by Michael Stuart
Special thanks to Armen Koroghlian, Flynn Lawrence, Adam Scott, Scott Harrington, Tommy Stewart, Mountain Lion
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Thunderbird Divine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Thunderbird Divine comprises four Philadelphia musicians who came together in March of 2017 to collaborate and create riff-
heavy psychedelia/stoner/doom in the spirit of artists like Monster Magnet, Hawkwind, Flower Travellin' Band, The MC5, and Grand Funk Railroad. The band has performed for audiences from Maine to Maryland and has been a featured artist at several festivals.
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