RENT STRIKE's groundbreaking folk-punk-rock-opera IX, presented and packaged with a fully illustrated lyric zine, featuring art from talented mid-Michigan artists
Includes unlimited streaming of IX
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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IX Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Limited edition (everything is limited, be real, this is DIY) cassette of RENT STRIKE's groundbreaking Lord of the Rings concept album IX. Remastered for cassette.
Includes unlimited streaming of IX
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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12" Vinyl - Black
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Finally on Bandcamp:
Black vinyl record of RENT STRIKE's 2018 Lord of the Rings concept album IX.
Art reimagined by Levi Coven (@2headedcoralsnake).
Haunted by ghostly images on the back cover.
Limited quantities remain. Unlikely to receive a second pressing soon.
Includes unlimited streaming of IX
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about
This is for my cousin, dead to the world, shapeless and formless. Love you.
lyrics
III - Family Graveyard
Where are the stars tonight?
They’re far, far away. I cannot see the light.
Oh, nothing will grow.
In the deep, deep places where the light won’t go.
And I’ve been dipping my toes into the darkness.
Close my eyes. Pretend that I’m somewhere I’m not.
I followed you.
I had lost my way. You seemed to know what to do.
But I lay on the family grave
Yesterday. If it can be called yesterday.
And they said, ‘We will never get out, we will die in the darkness.
Close your eyes. Pretend that you’re somewhere you’re not.’
And I watched the last bit of light drop down into darkness.
Close my eyes. Pretend that I’m somewhere I’m not.
Where is our god tonight?
He’s far, far away. He left us behind.
credits
from IX,
released January 11, 2018
John W - banjo n vox
Nicole G - bass
Dakota P - percussion
Connor M - viola
Grey Matter is really doing something that no other band is doing. Ska (I know, stay with me) + Jazz + Hardcore and a little bit of something else entirely. Lansing MI based RENT STRIKE
The first time I saw Peter play, we had already been friends for a couple months. I cried listening to him, for everyone else I've met whose gifts I didn't know. RENT STRIKE