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A Promise To Keep

by The Laughing Chimes

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Abandon comes on At every pace Your looks that cut through Stomach's of lace Kiss the trees of golden disease You can only watch The window melts and you breathe of strings Off The Top To wonder why the world goes silent While you sleep Cocooned in twilight rooms with things I could never keep Whatever murmurs first Will move my mouth And hands the color Of one's lips The fading painted across your voice And fingertips I wish I knew just have those words You talk about To wonder why the world goes silent While you sleep Cocooned in twilight rooms with shapes of wings I've found too bleak I'll never ask what you meant I'll let you leave Scratched across my arm in blue A promise to keep
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Her world came crashing down And all that it contained A million pieces of dreams Coming apart at the seams But she twists and she whirls Dismissing it all away, Wasn't quite the same as it was Yesterday Her night begins the day Why think when we can play "I find it so hard to find, A certain dress of that kind" As she twists and she whirls And she dances it all away, The problems persist, they won't Go away She twists and she whirls Dancing it all away, Would rather see the night Than the reason of the day I find it so hard to find Any reason to this kind As she twists and she whirls And she dances it all away, The problems persist, they won't Go away She twists and she whirls Dancing it all away, Would rather see the night Than the reason of the day

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The newest Laughing Chimes single, "A Promise To Keep," expands on the band's now familiar jangle-pop sound with blooms and echoes of Southern Gothic rock (think Fables-era REM or the second Pylon album) as well as the ambitious grandeur of late 70s UK post-punk forebears. "A Promise To Keep" blends lyricist Evan Seurkamp's vision of countless abandoned towns of Appalachia with cavernous vocal poeticism, moth-wing guitars, and the lyrical bass of new band member Avery Bookman into a haunting anthem of decaying houses and moonlit fields.

On the "b-side" we have the band's version of "Ballerina Out of Control," a deep cut from 80s jangle/dream-pop band The Ocean Blue and a formative influence on the Seurkamp brothers. The Laughing Chimes' version is stunning, evoking a mood of melancholic ache that makes a perfect complement to the dark drive of "A Promise To Keep."

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released October 27, 2023

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The Laughing Chimes Athens, Ohio

Jangly post-punk from south-east Ohio.

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