Get all 18 Sam Arnold releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Logical Path, Animaphage Principia, Melt Don't Walk, Somnamulonimbus, Sgt. Paneer's Amphibious Mechanical Adventure, Earth's Majestic Wetness, Daytime Drama Themes, Gentle Downward Stream, and 10 more.
1. |
Ink Attack Plan
02:50
|
|||
|
VS 1:
Funny head man with an ink attack plan
rings hanging bells with eight of his hands
has a beak behind a fin
funny head man does the thing again
stands the man in the waterway shaking
execute the plan in any way he can
be the best man. be a handy man
VS 2:
funny head man. with a territory mexican
goes hiding in the middle of cds by sam
has a plan malevolent
where he’s gone is where he went
winds the man in the waterway stalkin to
execute the plan in the way he’s walkin to
be the best man. havin grabby hands
Funny head handsome man
with a hanging bell waterway ink attack plan
Solo
VS 3
stands the man in the waterway shaking
execute the plan in any way he can
be the best man. be a handy man
has a beak behind a fin
funny head man does the thing again
stands the man in the waterway shaking
execute the plan in any way he can
be the best man. be a handy man
|
||||
2. |
||||
|
I been around the world 11 times
And I can still see the edge
when I squint today
this place is like the mideterranean
built like a castle and has a cafe
I’m not asking you to trust my judgement
I’m not asking for obedience of any kind
Being a ringer is exhausing
getting windy is a drag
but I like the attention
it gets a bit cold when you’re always cleverly disguised
as a winning guy a winning guy
although it would be nice
although it would be nice
wouldn’t it be nice
if I were made of stone
and I were a natural satellite
wouldn’t it be nice if you followed me and all my decisions turned out right
I been aroudn the world
seven thousand times and I can still see the edge
maybe you heard that I died
in the late heavy bombardment
|
||||
3. |
Stone Heads and Jaguars
03:01
|
|||
|
colossal mask looked at me with stony eyes
3000 year old face. green pixel disguise
she suffers for my lies she watches their demise
the mariposa
the matador
stone heads and jaguars
watch what you do
stone heads and jaguars
they’re influencing you
mouth of the jaguar and the banks of the Coetzacualcos
san lorenzo the mother culture
they’re high on frogs they live with dogs
and turkeys and enormous stone heads
the mexican screw
the killer kool-ade
collosal heads and figurines are all we got
plus feathered serpents, sacreficial artifacts
they’ve gone away so
we go to Jacalito
|
||||
4. |
Machine Made Boy
03:08
|
|||
|
Born in factory generally sickly
artificially kept alive
his life only possible by high technology
Grown entirely underground
lamps of sun and learning pills
his ambitions shaped by forces you and I cannot relate to
machine made boy
more powerful than you’d expect
grew so fast
now he’s the man who leads us
Full size now and fortified
he was not designed to die
his affections for the unaltered are keeping us alive
He loves you and you’ve been chosen
machine made boy has chosen you
I’ll assist in caring for your improbable child
|
||||
5. |
Building Up My Nerve
02:03
|
|||
|
Bones in your head make it hard to touch your brain
and nothing’s ever going to be the same
skin on your flesh makes it hard to see your veins
sometimes blood is not so easy to contain
I’m building up my nerve
it’s time for you to be cured
cottonballs in my ears. so I don’t need to hear the cries
but I can see Anteitam in your eyes
after this you’ll go. if you survive, you’re going home
but I’ll be here with meat and blood and bone
|
||||
6. |
Checkers in the Rain
03:30
|
|||
|
All your armies love to play checkers in the rain
reverb reflection’s got me excited
you’re invited to my play
I’ll be the Dog
All your armies love to have parties during their wars
Sea bird call has got me excited
you’re invited to stop your shaking
Come into my house
All your armies but one love to face their scariest fears
whites of their eyes got me excited
you’re invited to my show
I’ll be the drummer
All your armies love their mommies
the letters they wrote are so exciting
and I’m inviting them to my play
I’ll be the dog
I’ll be the dog
|
||||
7. |
Fin du Monde
02:49
|
|||
|
ants awaken. flood’s receeded
live inside a tiny moment
over and over. over and over
set fire to the dead old building and run away
no one knows the carbon it holds so tightly
it’s all done being talked about
nothing lasts forever
Fin du Monde has many names
espere le monde reborn in flames
Pour accelerant on the fiber and run away
no one knows the trouble it holds
but everyone’s about to
It’s all done being talked to death
I’ve come to regret my choice of words
|
||||
8. |
Eat
04:22
|
|||
|
hey I’m and eagle with a mouth full of mouse
looking at the people sitting in the house
spending all my days x3
Eating
Hey I’m a rabbit chewing on a leaf
nervouse and escapey I’m scared beyond belief
burning up the calories
reproducing anyways
spending all my days
You were made to know how to get what you need
from the environment around
such a vclever beast if nothing else at least you’ll eat
hey I’m a stereo playing all the livelong day
vibrating cones and magnet currents alternate
spinning all the EP’s
spinning all the longplays
spending all my days
Eat
Hey I’m a planet filled with gas and gravity
perturbing all the orbits of the asteroids around me
pulling in the comets
orbiting the big suns
spend my revolutions
Eating
|
||||
9. |
Hunger Artist
03:16
|
|||
|
Look at her she’s busy scattering several artworks on the
hillside.
She’s attending details real well.
I can’t believe the detail. I can’t believe the detail.
She’s super scrupulous. How do you like that?
How do you like that?
How do you like that Hunger artist?
How do you like that now?
Look at her, she’s wearing sweaters. All the sweaters at the
same time
She is athletic in the hot sun
I’m impressed cause I think it’s difficult. I’m pretty sure
it’s really difficult
Look at her she’s singing loud.
She’s growing bigger on the hillside
She’s a man and she’s a man and she’s angel
I can’t believe the concept. I can’t believe the concept.
Look at my man, she’s an artist
Concepts flowing freely from her hands to the tall clouds
I can’t explain the situation. I can’t explain the situation.
Look at me I’m up the hill now, soaking up the cloudy
moisture
I’m not the boss of anyone.
You are not something other now. You’re not something
other now.
|
||||
10. |
Navy Seals
01:33
|
|||
|
The Navy Seals got Navy Blues they heard the news it broke on their faces
On top of spaghetti with commendations they lifted weights in lots of hot places
I want to thank them dearly but I don’t know how to reach em
We are going to solve your problems with stealth and rock climbing. We’ll be double timing.
Baby angels rhyming over beats for which they paid no licence fees.
Ordinary Times
The Navy Seals got Navy Blues they heard the news it broke on their faces
|
||||
11. |
I Need Leverage
02:04
|
|||
|
Rolling down an inclined plane
A pulley in a weightless space
A sail in a vacuum in the backroom
With a beverage
I need Leverage
All I can smell is debt
My order is not in yet
Hard to chew with just top teeth. What should I eat
with a beverage?
I need Leverage
I never met you baby
Do you like me at all? That’s a maybe
Fall asleep watching TV
drinking a beverage?
I need Leverage
|
||||
12. |
Best Bread
01:02
|
|||
13. |
The Ways of Being OK
02:57
|
|||
|
If you don’t believe me
You wouldn’t want to be me
You’d probably leave me
If you want to pay me
With all your pennies
I’d be yours anyways
I been unruly
Need someone to school me
In the ways of being OK
I been unruly
So listen closely
We indicate mostly
What you ought to not to do
If you want to be a fool hey
It’ll be a long school day
And all your bad dreams will come true
|
||||
14. |
Fixed Hearted
03:33
|
|||
|
In the teeth of the dragon overlooking te ocean of extreme size
Splashings intoxicated
Smells like a greying sky
Sounds like a troubling sigh
The salty songs under my skin like a broken academia
Followed the hairs into my pores
It's all about the details
The oceans in the background
Lazy drive in your scientific car
Crashing into stews and going super very far
Hey traveler you're in another place from where you started
You've become fixed hearted
When you're trying to do a good thing and it hurts like dirty wound
When the fluid in your head has a negative charge
When you hated it when it's really all right
I'll fix your heart with a medicine hat that you an wear In a marathon
In a place with nested irritants
Clean hide and seek
Seratonal harmonic techniques
|
||||
Sam Arnold Austin, Texas
(photo by Matt Silaski) Metal, Jazz, Art-pop Americana singer-songwriter, electronic and experimental composer/instrumentalist Sam Arnold is a musician living in Austin TX. Sam generally collaborates to varying degrees with some of the best creative musicians and engineers in the Austin progressive art-music scene, including from his bands Opposite Day and Stop Motion Orchwstra. ... more
If you like Sam Arnold, you may also like:
Suburbia Space Program
by Wolf Collage
featured on Bandcamp Radio Jul 23, 2013
go to album
An album about the process of breaking things down that sounds like it comes from another planet.
go to album
Marjaa: The Battle Of The Hotels
by Mayssa Jallad
Inspired by a battle that took place in contested land in Beirut, Mayssa Jallad creates beautifully haunted folk songs.
go to album
The Australian art prog trio departs from their previous sound and lean into a mellow and surreal soundscape.
go to album
Hold The Door For Strangers
by Labrador
Philadelphia-based Labrador make unfussy and empathetic alt-country meant to sincerely bolster the downcast in times of strife.
go to album
There’s a mighty cinematic sweep in the songs on the latest from Badlands, the big and imposing orchestration with dreamlike vocals.
go to album
Fall Into Me EP
by Social Union
Dark and gothy synthpop from a New Zealand duo.
go to album
