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Flightless Birds

from Discography 2012​-​2014 by Svalbard

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    Svalbard are a great example of a band who have done things The Right Way. Existing as a band for approximately 4 years before releasing their debut album, Svalbard played the slow and steady game, holding their cards relatively close to their chest. This enabled them to finely hone their craft over a number of 7”s, EPs and split releases, each time improving slightly on their songwriting and recording methodology, allowing themselves to experiment and push their sound in different directions along the way. This plan of attack enabled the band to consistently improve without the stringent spotlight, or pressure thereof, of an album. It also, rightly, seemed to keep people wanting more…

    Remastered in full by Brad Boatright (OFF!, Sleep, Converge) this double LP, 15 song, set contains the bands debut self-titled 7”, ‘Gone Tomorrow’ 10”, ‘Flightless Birds’ 7”, the split LP with Pariso (including collaboration songs) and a Victims cover that appeared on the ‘Cover Buzz’ split 7” with MINE, Let It Die and Pariso. This is everything that Svalbard recorded prior to seminal debut album ‘One Day All This Will End’, collected together in full for the first time, with new, enhanced, sonic punch.

    Looking beyond specifics, this collection provides a fascinating insight into the growth and growth of one of the most unique bands around right now. Combining post-hardcore, crust/d-beat, post-rock and black metal atmospherics and intensity, Svalbard are a genre unto themselves, rather than a bizarre blur of styles. This release only goes to cement that ‘ODATWE’ was no fluke – here are another 15 tracks charting the evolution of one of the best and most fascinating bands today.

    Released in conjunction with Through Love Records (Germany) and Halo of Flies (USA).

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lyrics

Our human ways
how they betray
the controlled perfection that machines create
So desperately preferred like fantasy
So tirelessly pursued like God
But the race of desire will never finish
Because discontent prevails in us
Against reality
Against love
Against the hope that this would be enough
But delusion remains to tantalise
and to nurture your distracted side
until life becomes a destruction site
You tear the truth apart to find
A single shred of hope outside
Outside reality
Outside of love
Into dreams of what we 'could' become
Outside reality
Outside. Of. Love.
I burn this flame for you
A light that holds no hope
A flame that gives no heat
I burn this flame for you
A spark that goes unnoticed
A pain with no release
Keep within your clouded sight
a bird in flight
a burning light
that never gets closer
that never arrives.

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from Discography 2012​-​2014, released October 28, 2016

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