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Moon Stand Still - Us Fools Prefer Darkness

by Kreeps

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    On their first album proper in seven years "Moon Stand Still - Us Fool Prefer Darkness..." sees Kreeps return to the surf inflected, doom-laden hinterland inhabited by their previous release 'Spirit Clinic'. Echoing, sixties girl-group rhythms pulsate alongside swooning tremolo guitars and droning strings, as ghostly choirs carve out spiritual hymns of dissolving nightmares.

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1.
Ressurrecto 03:04
Instrumental
2.
Houdini 04:07
Now the spells are cast there’s nothing left to say You cut my tongue out - with every step of the way Oh my kingdom - my kingdom for a hearse or two I was so good at being alone until I ran into you And did you want to try and dig my grave Let the witchcraft and the chants begin Light up the candles for the conjuring Dig a hole from the land of the blood to the west I’d walk a mile of broken glass Just to watch you undress And did you want to try and dig my grave Now every morning brings a dream of death Tried to save it all for my very last breath This next trick - next trick will deceive yr eye Slip the chain off my wrist on my very first try
3.
Gail Russell 04:41
I knew It was over on the day that I saw her A silver screen actress gone undiscovered She’s walking on water She’s emerging from a dream A ghost without a haunt Her insides bursting at the seams I said oh Please don’t look my way Oh years ago they simply tried to burn her at the stake She said - ‘I gave my life to Jesus Christ at such an early age But the lord don’t give as much as he truly takes away And now I’m never gonna crumble under anybody's gaze’ I said oh Please don’t look my way She was just standing there in her vampire lingerie Oh this’ll be the last time that I bail you out of jail And breathing plumes of spirits staring out the window pane She said - ‘My daddy always told me I'm the reason it rains…’ Well I knew there was trouble in those Gail Russell eyes And the scars along her wrists piled high with cemetery bites As that long black flag of death well It Just waved into the Night She said ‘…these crucifix blues - they never ask for your advice.’ I said oh Please don’t look my way Please don’t look my way
4.
Fixed 04:05
All the Street lights fade as I walk by I sucked all the colour through the hole in yr eye With bad luck and Yesterday's grease in my hair I can fix anything - but I couldn't fix her I've got a cold death rattle It can feel so cruel I've a got a beautiful satin lined coffin for two You know they caught us making out in the back of a hearse I can fix anything - couldn't fix her She had a mouth like a scar and broken wrists I had a hundred-one days of amnesia stress And on our wedding day it rained black tar I can fix anything - I couldn't fix her I can fix anything I couldn’t fix her
5.
Instrumental
6.
Like a dead comedian or a villain come undressed Spending all my time sleeping in the west Until my skull pressed firmly to the bed Into a dream reserved strictly for the dead I'll go Sleep's the mortar in which everything gets crushed Mixed with memory and dread, desire and lust And I'm only slightly sad to cause you all this pain Cause some mistakes they take a whole lifetime to pay (And since there’s no witness to any of my crimes How could anybody say I'm truly not divine) Now I'm losing all my dreams Let the morning come Well I learned it all but I learned it all too late Now I'm too drunk to be afraid of my own fate And I got to tell you with my last dying laugh All the things I used to hate - now they don't seem so bad (And since there's no witness to any of my crimes How could anybody say I'm truly not divine) Now I'm losing all my dreams Let the morning come
7.
Maya 04:37
I left a book of ghosts on the bed I had to start all over again My minds a hall of mirrors But I can tell the scenery ends And oh honey we love yr hair Everyone loves the names you wear It's such a curious feel To see a wolf reject its fur You took a cobra for a tongue So you can kill us with your song The way you hold that mouth You never laugh yr Jaw just crawls The desperation hangs so thick I can't stand your siren schtick So when I walk in the room I really hope it makes you sick I know my breaths held too tight to scream I’m drilling holes in my skull - I hope my spirit can leave I know my heads screwed too tight to sleep I’m drilling holes in my skull I hope my spirit can leave Speeding in a haunted car I can't believe I got this far How could I have some love to spend When every fuck is for revenge That's the way the story fits Around yr silent movie hips I’m at the end of the reel I guess yr blood is too damn rich I know my breaths held too tight to scream I’m drilling holes in my skull - I hope my spirit can leave I know my heads screwed too tight to sleep I’m drilling holes in my skull I hope my spirit can leave Oh you can never come back home You can never come back home
8.
Well I cut the devils head off but you know it grew right back My insides turned to jelly like a cave of nervous bats I was levitating - hovering around just like the dead And that skull beneath the smile was always living in my head It’s all divining with my fingers and my broken x-ray eye Remember me to them before I die inside yr mind There’s no money in the cure - no there’s no diamonds in the mine Just a magnifying glass above the skull beneath the smile Yr crucifix is hanging upside down upon my wall And those bible girls keep coming round and knocking on my door I’ve been covered up in cobwebs - been exiled for the last time And I tell you I can recognise that skull beneath the smile So what’s the use in drinking poison? What’s the point in endless dreams? Yr sufferings just echoing a terrible reprise You can try to fight against it - fill your belly full of bees But you know that sticky blood was never truly worth the squeeze And dreaded though she was she had to choose a sacrifice I was drinking from a jar as I handed you the knife Are you gonna leave me baby? Are you gonna take your Life? Are you gonna cut a hole down to the skull beneath the smile? Yr crucifix is hanging upside down upon my wall And those Bible girls keep coming round to try and steal my soul I’ve been tangled up in spiderwebs - cast out for the last time And That skull beneath the smile was always living in my mind So what’s the use in drinking poison - what’s the point in endless dreams? What’s the use in drinking poison? What’s the point in endless dreams?
9.
In yr drug store makeup Breathing in the smoke of burning hearts In the church of sleep Serving grief til everybody dies I know you speak in riddles I know you think the world’s yr pyro thrill Crosses in yr eyes But ain’t it strange how the sea is never still In yr congregation Slipping into any skin that fits Everything’s just tightening You can’t go on but you know y’ll never quit See the looming shadows Take a good long look and bid farewell It doesn’t mean a thing to me It doesn’t matter if we all go straight to Hell Can you feel my hands around yr neck While we wait here for our turn I’d even set myself on fire If I get to watch you burn And we could all stop digging If just for once you could only tell the truth Hidden from the eye Wrapped up in flesh like a swallowed tooth Over towns of widows Fresh blood prescribed for yr decline We can see the guillotine Like a tattooed noose along yr spine Can you feel my hands around yr neck While we wait here for our turn I’d even set myself on fire If I get to watch you burn
10.
There’s no love for the driver of yr spiritual wheel No silver for the bandage where the bruises never did heal Take off yr dress now honey - and let’s begin I’m gonna shake those demons right outta ya And I’ll drown ‘em under my skin Everyone’s a broken frame with the oil leaking out of the scene Frozen ashes - hopes deleted Reflected from inside a screen Go ahead call a priest Or conjure up some lies to cover all your sin I know you’d love to call the doctor But the doctor’s never in In the hour of the wolf We all bless our lucky teeth There’s no grace for the carver Once you’ve seen an animal dream Play that song at my funeral Play that song at the snake factory Play that song at the witch trials As we all come apart at the seams The ghosts in my blood (feels like a house falling over a hill) I don’t believe you ever had them I don’t believe you ever will Don’t that sun look good Casting shadows all across your cruel shoes Don’t it feel so fine When the bats crash into the moon

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On their first album proper in seven years "Moon Stand Still - Us Fool Prefer Darkness..." sees Kreeps return to the surf inflected, doom-laden hinterland inhabited by their 2013 release 'Spirit Clinic', as echoing, sixties girl-group rhythms pulsate alongside swooning tremolo guitars and droning strings, as ghostly choirs carve out spiritual hymns of dissolving nightmares.

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released March 2, 2020

Written by Dominick J Kreep

Performed By Kreeps

With the divine talents of

Chip Wickham - Saxophone
Kevin Incroyable - Double Bass / Banjo
Rev. Michael C. Manning - Musical Saw
Jesse Parce - Cello
Seth Warren - Violin

and

The Sisters Of Providence Community Spirit Choir



Recorded at Saltair Chambers, WA

Produced, mixed, and engineered by Dominick J Kreep

Mastered by Russ Russell

Art by Moon Patrol

Design by Robert Nixon

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While Dazed and Confused described Kreeps as "the best of the dressed in black bunch", Loud and Quiet magazine hailed Kreeps' doomed surf pop as "the best soundtrack to a Pulp Fiction that was never made or David Lynch's next feature". A real best-kept secret for longer than most bands sustain entire careers, Kreeps are an enigma wrapped up in a ball of dark, dark wool. ... more

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