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Australian PSIcho

by Mono Nucleus

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1.
Summer Falls 02:05
Summer Falls is coming home Summer Falls is here again Summer Falls must be coming home 'cause all I hear is talking in the streets and how I wish I was the one that she had wanted to be hers I would have let my hair down and how I'd dreamt of being by her side I simply would have died if she had said no I met Summer Falls in the city mall she had hair like fiat currency I would've gone home with her if I could but somehow, Summer Falls, she thought I was no good at lunch with Summer Falls by the riverbank we ate chips and talked about music from years ago I swear I would've told her if I could but my gut said Summer Falls was outta my league for now and how I wish I was a punk rock girl specifically a girl and you can't take this song down and how I wished that her and I could be so beautiful that we could make it spring forever
2.
Climax Café 01:26
welcome to the Climax Café, how can I help you? I can be your maid today, yes sir or no sir? ooh, you're touching down on Airstrip-One and tempting fate, it could be fun I know you say you've got a reputation to keep but here's to hoping we can wake the nation asleep sitting in our humble café, can I get you a menu? we hope that you're enjoying your stay, will you order the special? ooh, you know we never dis-ap-point “perfect pleasure” is the term we coined I know you said you never take your coffee with cream but here's to hoping we can recreate your wet dream
3.
Girlfriends 02:00
well there must be someone you'd rather be seeing this kindness you're doing, oh, nobody's worth it we're moving in green through a meadow of medley identical cities with different dreams remember you're here now, right by my side, girl and nothing can hurt us in the cool of the night when we're together, the one-legged sign will tell us to yield, but we grow stronger with time if a girl like you can just trust in me we don't need to tell right from wrong and I wonder if, when we find the fifth, you'll sing along I can't think of someone I'd rather be holding the fall of your eyelids, the scent of your hair it's almost like gold, smells like flowers in spring and mine's just like auburn; we make a good pair I give you my gift now, tied up with red rib-bon it's so very fragile, so handle with care we won't be defeated, so long as you keep it I'd give my last breath just to see you survive if two girls can conquer the world, I feel we don't need to tell good from bad and I stop to think, it's the longest spring we've ever had
4.
I was born in a white machine I was raised in a sea of green barely prepared, life was out of my reach a waste of good meat in a house at Bar Beach I was a loser, I was a loner used to bruise easy and always cut corners I was an insect, but never a flower all the potential but none of the power daydreams consumed me, reciting aloud scenes from my fancies as if I were proud hardly impaired, but I acted the part a waste of grey matter, intestines, and heart now I'm enslaved to the sound of wheels I just want to ride once to see how it feels the girl of my dreams could be driving that car but all that I know is I want to go far rituals wearing me down every day maintain appearance, remember to pray I wish I had someone to always call mine I wish she could save me from drowning some time
5.
she's a musician who sleeps where I'm staying she comes back kissing; taste vodka, I'm paying she asks me the German names for fruits and goes to the shops on her own she's not coming back, and I realise my mistake can't be undone she keeps a lock of my hair in her locket she says it's safekeeping; as long as she's got it she won't have to mourn my death when it comes ‘cos she’s always got something to clone me from she won't let me go, but I wonder if someday I'll be free she holds my hand on a bridge in the moonlight it seems like the games that she plays might be over she tells me, "the moon in the water's so nice - don't you wish you could hold it yourself?" before I can answer, she lifts me up over the rail
6.
Michael 02:12
ich bin dir etwas schuldig noch, Michael setz das mal nieder, kopf sei hoch, Michael seh mir's nach, was ich auch muss, Michael vergib mir seinen blaugrünen Kuss Michael, wer kann wie Gott sein? wer sonst kann mich erziehen? Michael, wer ist wie Gott? I know you're not waiting anymore, Michael I gave in like a careless whore, Michael I hope you don't remember me, Michael my sins will be forever in stone Michael, wer kann wie Gott sein? wer sonst kann mich erziehen? Michael, wer ist wie Gott? [I still owe you something, Michael, please set it down, and look up, Michael forgive me, like I have to forgive myself, Michael, and forgive me his turquoise kiss Michael, who can be like Gxd? who else can teach me? Michael, who is like Gxd?]
7.
I walk like you do I look just like you but there's nothing going on inside a zombie, it's true there's nothing that it's like to be like me the same way there is for you we don't make no sense receive no sense data just superficial automata but a zombie like me thinks a being like you is equally unthinking too 'cause even in a coma you're still working overtime I'm a thought experiment, baby but I know how to rhyme
8.
nervous and suburban, my virgin glyptotheque shudders in the sunstruck street, hides armless women from the heat and the skulls that stalk me sense my moans and smell the strength of my milk-white bones wrapped up in rice-paper, unshod in trauma ward they labelled me a waste of time, I strive to show them I'm worthwhile I draw my ideal self on the clipboard by the bed the cure for my disease is femininity
9.
I fight a losing battle against the world I fight a losing battle against this girl you can't ignore me, I play the quiet game you will remember my name I fight with tooth and nail against the tide until the salt and shale spread far and wide you can't escape me, nor can I be erased you will remember my face and all the witches in the world all at once turned into dust and all the riches that you've earned all at last began to rust all the frail and gentle people who you crushed began to rise and, growing wings and shining beaks, pluck out your eyes
10.
Too Young 01:54
he's too young to know anything she's too young to start up screaming and crying in a social life back to front he's too smart to stay up all night tiring himself out before school in the morning I just wanna play my synthesizers and piano all day (chorus) but she's too young to be saying things like that and he's too young to be sure of things like that he's too idle to think about the way we feel about the fact he never goes out she's too dense to even make cereal it's such a shame he's far too young to be lying in bed crying his eyes out after school in the evening maybe if she told us what was going on we'd understand (and not kick her out) (chorus x2) he's not going to test us he'd rather lock it all away I always tell him not to bottle up his feelings but in this case it's okay ‘cause he’s too grown up to be questioning now never mind the fact that he's been doing it his whole life I don't want to call her my daughter right now but I guess that could change (I hope it can change)
11.
come and see us at the Valis the one and only Valis Hotel and we'll greet you when we meet you and humbly take your order as well we've passed all our health inspections and all of our employees are fully ensured we're hoping we can make you happy and maybe win a Barry Award come and join us at the Valis the one and only Valis Hotel we're the only pub in Australia with a Michelin Star
12.
endlessly baying in the night, they scratch at the windows, calling your name - “please let us in!" you draw the blinds and the afterlive sing their confused melody as they wait for the day they can finally be free drifting in under the door, you feel them chilling your ankles and causing you to complain - "isn't it cold! feels like the grave!" and the afterlive just go on singing in silence those most constantly present whom no-one can see

about

"Following up on last year's chaotic and experimental 'Websites', Mono Nucleus, a solo project of Newcastle multi-instrumentalist Page Alana Maitland, comes out with 'Australian PSIcho', a further journey into deep psychological territory. Where 'Websites' prioritised business and heavy production, songs seeming to constantly collapse under the weight of their own arrangements, Page seems to find her footing a bit more on 'PSIcho', with tracks such as 'Michael' and 'Losing Battle' seeming positively glacial in comparison to the majority of her previous outing. That said, she knows how to write a tune, and peppers this album with borderline radio-friendly pop tracks like 'Climax Café', whose shiny guitars and peppy rhythm soothe the listener to its flirtatious lyrics. 'Philosophical Zombie Blues' delights with its Randy Newman-esque playful jaunty rhythm & tickles the ear with its constantly-shifting key centre, and 'The Valis', according to this month's interview with the artist, imagines the theme tune to an Aussie sitcom portraying the bumbling management and employees of a humble pub kitchen with lofty aims. This one earns three and a half cowbells from me." – Grigorj Ljubidanuš, "Strolling Bone", January 20th 2019

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released January 15, 2019

Page Maitland - standard 8-stringed guitar "Vino", standard 5-string bass "Desiato", AEF#GAD lap steel "Gabriela", GCEA baritone ukulele "Barry", DGBE tenor guitar "Evelyn", microKORG XL+, KORG monologue, misc. keys, drum programming, vocal makeup, harmonica choir on "Summer Falls", mixing & mastering

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