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Your Voice As a Cymbal

by Roman New Time

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1.
fun hex 03:42
the lights way down low it gets hard to sleep an open door i wanna know we tip toe past the sex. we're paralyzed the speakers and music are all the time the way it looks i'll be a kid for life open wings with broken homes can't break the pattern when i am alone the water's $2.50, i'm skin and bones and i just wanted to be near you i knew the last time i would break through i tried to end it but i'm still new just wait for love and it will find you in high school i fell in love every day the chapel is gold and it's scary the priests are evil it makes me so sad i walk in a circle take a plane to dad in high school i fell in love everyday the chapel it's old and it's scary the priests are evil it makes me so sad i walk in a circle take a ✈️ to dad
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all i wanna do is find my pockets and a leash i always storm out as everyone waits here patiently i fall apart every time i'm on my own she leaves she leaves another picnic party gets postponed i'm not that bad. i wait another couple months as i panic i stress! focus shifts cold feet no lust the noose is broke i get another autograph it's here and there it's here and there another epitaph ah the walls have wings and i love you
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if i wrote you would you ever get back to me? still hung up on you. would you hang up on me? and as we part ways will you still remember i am the starter and you are the ender why do we have to end so soon? my faith got popped like a balloon 🎈 you can have it any way you choose the end is not even new news i sleep so often i feel as though i'm always gone i'm scared of everyone as me, myself, and ron these mundane tasks, i always think of you if only you were certain...i know that's not true
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do you even know my worth? boy! i can't sing i got no time to explain how the pressure steams i hate slash love myself sooooo flip the coin just think of the end of it before i join i pray next week has some love before i join. you don't wanna know! if you wanna disappear just tell me so it's nothing new so i fear time to go i hate slash love myself sooooo flip the coin just think of the end of it before i join performance anxiety it pains the groin boy
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junior 03:13
tell me where should i go i'm used to it all i just want you beside me the future looks small i'll be optimistic if you give me a call just ignore the other sorrows pull down the wall tell me where the heart goes in four or five years learn of the other people okay its not clear i'll pull down the future for the one i love return your favorite horseshoe for lungs above smash the lust come home lost on the bus need the moss smash the lust God help us on the bus eat the moss
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good lyfe 02:12
it doesn't have to be a good life it doesn't have to be a bad life gotta set aside desires don't wanna preach it to the choir i'll really miss you still no need to sign the will i know that you'll go far and in the autumn days i'll wish you would've stayed i'll see you in the stars ⭐️ it doesn't have to be a good life it doesn't have to be a bad life gotta set aside desires don't wanna preach it to the choir my path disintegrates but i still have faith i'll always smile from afar i truly see you glow one day i'm sure you'll know and you'll see you in the stars #newpage

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special thank u to kellen baker at beet fat records for releasing this one :}
here's to 2022 and every mood that comes with it <3 your voice is a cymbal!

The brilliant but commercially non-viable solo project is one of indie rock’s oldest and most enduring tropes. From R. Stevie Moore’s voluminous archive of genre-bending lo-fi home recordings to Bill Callahan’s disjointed, haunting minimalism as Smog, Roman New Time’s Ron Record is doing justice to a long tradition of idiosyncratic songwriters.

On Record’s fourth outing under the Roman New Time moniker, the young Indiana native has fully come into his own. Written over the course of 2021 during a self-described “roller coaster of moods”, Your Voice As a Cymbal is replete with more charm, wit, and genuine panache than its short 7-song runtime should allow . With a penchant for lo-fi electronics and off-kilter sampling that calls to mind Panda Bear, melancholy sweet melodies that evoke early Grandaddy, lilting harmonies that would make Brian Wilson proud, and a distinctly post-modern propensity for rap-informed drum sounds,Your Voice As a Cymbal is an immediately arresting and deeply personal effort that offers something new with each listen.

Roman New Time recalls a time when indie rock still felt like the closely guarded and dearly held secret of a few music-obsessed nerds. Like a bootlegged Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy cassette surreptitiously changing hands in a college dorm, Your Voice As a Cymbal is a precious musical artifact that will live on for as long as there are still young, curious minds ready to rediscover it. ~ Grey Gordon (Demolisten Podcast)

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released May 13, 2022

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