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Forever in May

by Lanayah

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1.
i had time to remember every feeling every shiver never leaving borne on the back of your affection gazing upon its movement across strange valleys you gave your language to me gaze at what lives you’ve lived in dry air grimoire of endless unsettling scratching its arms with every step no ode to the warmth of blood its body was cold (in mania and in misery tandem with every sigh and my frailty my mental burns and my wayward days the grand wanderer your great span and when your stride renewed you stopped following A great being taking something away and in your absence the warmth came back don’t return)
2.
Lyra 07:40
my voice changed felt my softer skin a myth of mine they who vanished and in time tripped down twigs, climbed new trees and thought of becoming nowhere skies run away together off to follow more spirit tongues pointing at constellations to show where it used to hurt gray alight without destination (muscles bleeding into the gravel and clear eyes hundreds of miles away gazing at the hunters belt crimson shrieks billow through invisible cleanings of an empty shell two lights staring straight ahead and a waist laying where this thirty foot journey began) (never to be pointed at and exclaimed that’ll be me up there some night after moving away and I’m never anywhere else and when the day comes conversations aren’t easy back as oneself its expected, I've been nowhere else)
3.
(The worst moon rises understands the leaves, the old things and Their rooms of birds It feels Like a disgusting art when he waves goodbye and moves closer to the place where Memories end Fallen introductions And being that small Quietly humming in the dark away with flesh soft skin and Bone Daughter in the eyes of the vanished One of the many, Ever loving Horrifying grips on ones day The stare burdens beyond belief)
4.
It awoke and with red hands its cry fell trees and with its morning walk began one last day twenty candles and the green ablaze dripping bitter onto crushed bones that Stifling ventral fire raging at his door blood on the back of my shirt; your wail strong and reaching, lamenting new maelstroms of bruises the first of many to come when your stride reaches my window
5.
Alone Year 10:26
Touching holes into the earth with the great silence And then the noise that the spirit shudders: “Im more than what I notice in you And you’re nothing to what you’re compared to You’re only something with me and you’ll die in the coming breeze.”
6.
Labyrinth 06:26
I didn’t leave tonight The ghosts didn’t exist The stars and dreams were in a mind Thoughts held it together But the evening was holding your hand And I changed when you looked at me So did my voice when I talked with you but the evening was looking at me And I pushed it to the back of my mind Where the skies would not creep back And I was here at last Memory left To be found someday In terrifying future
7.
exist/exit mask in the morning mirror in the rocks and the sea offerings to what was lost another parent’s son stride moving on the slowest it can walk give up and retreat to its one house fences where It went and its fresh chords ringing out ill haunt someone new now layer of blowing wind no town beneath it for chasing stars for wispy black hair a banshee type of sound ghosts language felt my skin it says its ok with my picture taken now im a new horror now: in the closet hangs my head and my arm hangs in your hall mother hiding her tears grendel after all injuries of time instead nettles spurning new fall great being after all
8.
Fresh sour-sun air the pinion burnt in recent flames winter blue in pine sun orange marks still there of broken youth and of stained stone forever torn like your name and home replaced with natural beauty, over time obscuring crumpled legs and a shattered spine snow melting and rivers carry a breath away a not-yet dawn, a maybe day one night at a time flies by
9.
a goodnight in malice phrases basked in evergreen hate rising with the moon demonic identity only something with me swaying life in the breeze everything stings like it should tell me new things like ill never be real like the ground below swaying with the knife in my favorite tree pine sun words and a loathing beyond compare written on every face starting with yours and after all I think its fine never seen someone so angry ground beneath feet to sleep on dead blue paint for new writings and one less person to tell

about

Material written between the summers of 2016 and 2018

"Pulling from doom, folk, post-hardcore, post-metal, screamo, shoegaze, and more, Lanayah create the sonic embodiment of Forever in May‘s album cover: rooted in organic compositions that are accented by color, atmosphere, and massive musical results." - Scott Murphy, heavyblogisheavy.com

"There are the hardcore sections that carry a debt to Envy, wounds as gaping maws roaring until they bleed out. “Wind Chimes” is the post-hardcore I want to hear, treading close to classic emo before sprawling out into liberatory anger. Sometimes they crumble into doom, sometimes they crumble into synths that come from college dorms on Eno and second-wave black metal benders." - Andy O'Connor, vinylmeplease.com

"Don’t be led one way or the other by the serenity and simplicity of the album art, Forever in May is packing some evocative power." - Andrew Rothmund, invisibleoranges.com

credits

released July 19, 2019

Lanayah on this album consists of:

Will - vocals, guitars, bass, synthesizers, samplers, organ, tape loops
Lynn - guitars
Ethan - drums
Ari - synthesizers, kyma, organ, tape loops

Additional vocals on tracks 4 and 5 by Max Dickenson

Recording, mixing and mastering done at Atomic Garden Studios with Jack Shirley, with additional recording done at our homes and with Max Dickenson

Album art and packaging by Collin Hughart and Arius Ziaee

Thanks to Tina for letting us crash in her dorm during recording, Max for lending recording help and vocal talents, and all our friends for providing unconditional love and support

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