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from Light Mirror by drowse

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    Overcasts contains four short stories and an essay written by Kyle Bates of Drowse between 2019 and 2023. The stories trace the boundary between solitude and self-isolation. Reclusive, occasionally semi-autobiographical characters wander through movie theaters, lakesides, churches, and unfamiliar cities. They drift in substances, thoughts of family and death, and reflections on artists such as Low, Tsai Ming-liang, Max Neuhaus, Louise Glück, and more. These ruminations are frequently punctured by sublimely eerie events.

    The essay, initially written as a graduate thesis while Bates studied at the renowned Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, continues the theme of being alone. It addresses works by experimental electronic composers Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, and Éliane Radigue, examining the various forms of memory at play in self-recording. While often bleak, together these writings reveal an always curious experience of the world through slippery contours of self.

    Overcasts includes the stories “Cloud Light Over Obsidian” and “Second Self” that were originally only available with limited editions of the Drowse records Wane into It and Light Mirror.

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lyrics

Free in narrow alleyways
that block out sun.
Portland
in air,
(question:) “evil” on tongue.

Darkthrone in headphones,
climbing stairs
to the gallery
Phil sang about in “Soria Moria”.

I prefer Balke, Stetind in Fog:
no humans,
it transports me back
to that mountain.

(Outside Astrup Fearnley
sun shines down.
A book in the grass
while people laugh nearby--
a storm hits,
we all run,
plastic chairs fly,
and I smile.)

Later at Helvete I’m further back:
thirteen years old, alone with headphones,

sound blankets my mind.
Like pills now.
In that basement chills come,

feeling stronger than art.

Youth and memory--
that sound once spoke to me, it said:

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from Light Mirror, released June 7, 2019

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