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II

by Loveshadow

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    Includes a double sided insert with lyrics.

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1.
Last Room 05:01
couldn’t beg you one drop and internally i agreed to accept it hurt me too much to show so lost so lost finally something i can’t fake can’t fake can’t fake it’s surely gonna break me i can’t stop when i give it i’m going so i’ve been pushed to the limit on and on what’ll it take you to say you felt it at all? and in the last room i’ll stay till you call me yours i’m gone so gone so gone shrouded as i dreamt your face your face your face a beauty that could stop my heart my heart i can’t stop when i give it i’m going so i’ve been pushed to the limit on and on i wouldn’t claim you take back something from me: a certain need to dissect what makes it so hard to feel you now so far fading as you find your way your way your way out of this confusion
2.
Undone 04:36
in a prayer, don’t i know? i’m a player, a pawn, a king i hold a little charm in my teeth so sing to me now we cut to the scene: a palimpsest, a color i can’t see but the strings come undone can’t help but try... two hearts can’t fail, say so say so too strong to fade, i know i know too late we can’t let go let go one break love shakes away away i awake in this place memorize the lines across your face it’s the price that i’ve paid i hold my tongue i still sing now and then closed my eyes to see you on those steps my colors left to bleed but naturally two hearts can’t fail, say so say so too strong to fade i know i know too late we can’t let go let go one break love shakes away away
3.
take me over i’ll forget my own out from under starlit blush at dawn walk me to the water cross the earthen track sun stares and i stare right back walk me to the water follow where i go listen till you cant anymore nothing moves, nothing counts pictures find their way back out nothing’s wrong- all the same drive me home, forget my name nothing breaks behind glass drive into the wall take me away on the fringes backlit in the fog on that highway blink and i’m unknown i was just a figure corner of your eye i’ll be still if you say goodbye i was just the driver now i’ll never know where the highway goes nothing moves, nothing counts pictures find their way back out nothing’s wrong – all the same drive me home, forget my name nothing breaks behind glass drive into the wall take me away it’s a test i’m sure to fail heaven’s all gone off the rails sweet as sick and held to blame i’m an angel only by name heaven’s bare, we’re down here drive into the water take me away with you
4.
i’m turning around to a feeling won’t you bring me back to some meaning? but that’s another person’s dream ascending a floating stair i hear the breaths between footsteps see you offstage, to the left stage, i heard you heard you in my thoughts i saw you ...what was that? closer – not within reach touching never feeling walking all alone again, my dear walking without fear no fear or anguish of moonlights once past a silhouette i’ve just missed your call a door opened to nowhere i’ve seen you before, dear it’s better to forget now don’t hold on i’m locked in this way of being to see what escapes me you chose me to be your fool oh, i know a warm wind surrounds us – a mystery i write you to find you, i chase sleep but that’s another aureate truth down to where the ocean crashes i hear the steps fade into slow sand will you know me like i’ve known you known you all along but will you ...what was that? anything – abject nothing touching, never feeling walking all alone again, my dear walking without fear no fear or anguish of moonlights once past the consequence: i won’t sleep it off i’m lost in a verdant maze lush garlands of dew drops iknowifiwakeupnow you’ll be gone desireless as you cry out: “it’s not supposed to end here” i look back to find no one follows me
5.
turned your face away once more furthest star from anyone could this be the curtain call? and this one hurt the most telling how the evening goes the subtle brush, a whispered prose faintest signals bloom in full as i carry you home left my world to find you, icon and you just gave to me a silken string and instantly i see left a kiss on winter’s door pages strewn across the floor i remembered what you won’t as the sun withdraws now you pull the branches back the secret place we used to dance i can smell the lilac still as i trace your eyes left my world to find you, icon and you just gave to me a task of faith as you dissipate appear to me i’ll hold you dearly i’ll never lose you now your right hand raised to take me home again
6.
Mirage 04:45
on a blue night it will come and faith is not enough out of my hands i can watch the shadow of the host sunday and a solid wall the only sign is vanishing so give it all and give again keeping still and innocent on my eyelids beads of snow a house where none will go you come quietly, so composed the cruel light’s vapor glow your laughter cracks, the symbols wave it’s a mirage we disregard a vertical that’s taken in the images unfold in sin and in that moment comes a spark a boat passed in the dark a moonbeam escapes on command my breath clutched in your hand sequences that close the fates desiring what broke away your reeling flame is going dim revealing what you kept within
7.
bring it to me in pieces torn apart i can feel the heat in the dark another night of waiting for your call i can hear the voice through the walls would you leave with the wind? stronger now, back again i am drawn to the force i am quick like the night all i missed was the light i will not be the one curtains pull back so slowly as we wake i can feel the earth begin to shake as golden as an hour spent within dont you know it’s how the story ends? would you lead me again to the road with no end i am drawn to the force i remove like the night all i miss is the light i will not be the one i can’t give my heart up don’t know what you take me for i’m not her at all i can’t get my guard up not enough to be turned on lights that flicker low when i’m alone painted with frozen colors in a dream nothing was just quite the way it seemed watching in pink slow motion as you dance power melts away in my hands would you lead me again to the road with no end i am drawn to the force i remove like the night all i missed was the light i will not be the one i can’t give my heart up don’t know what you take me for i’m not her at all i can’t get my guard up not enough to be turned on lights that flicker low when i’m alone and i can’t let you go in the stillness i know i am drawn to the force on the wall where it hangs in the stillness remains i will not be the one

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Bay Area DIY pop duo Loveshadow join up with Dark Entries to release II, their sophomore LP. Anya Prisk and Izaak Schlossman met in Oakland in 2016, bonded over their love of ‘80s sounds and immediately began building their musical world with lush synths, funky basslines, and irresistible hooks. The past is always in their palette, but Loveshadow’s nostalgia doesn’t trace to any single locus; it’s more like a cloud, and it’s through this haze that they breathe new life into the music they love. Their debut album was released in 2021 on Music from Memory to acclaim. II presents a more subtle and refined statement from the band - laser-focused on the vaporous expanse. Album opener “Last Room” saunters with the confidence of Sade, while “Earthen Track” feels like Kate Bush covering a forgotten city pop anthem. The album is largely focused on club-friendly material, but mellower pieces like “Winter’s Door” and “Mirage” are sophisticated stand-outs that would make Ryuchi Sakamoto proud. Italo funk groover “Power Melts Away” closes out the album by upping the energy into fist-pumping territory. Anya’s lyrics on II use the unreality of dreams as a lens to examine the realities of change and personal growth; illusions made material. Loveshadow elegantly smear the lines between past and present, pop and avant, immanent and transcendent.

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released November 17, 2023

© 2023 DARK ENTRIES RECORDS
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY ANYA AND IZAAK IN SAN FRANCISCO 2021–2023 ADDITIONAL GUITARS BY LUCAS DELEON TURNER
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION BY BRIAN FOOTE
MASTERED BY FRÉDÉRIC ALSTADT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY LOVESHADOW
DESIGNED BY ELOISE LEIGH

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Loveshadow San Francisco, California

Currently based in San Francisco, the duo of Anya Dross and Izaak Schlossman bonded over a track by the ’80s disco and almost immediately their separate journeys in music became interwoven. They soon began to write music and creating their own work would become a way for the pair to get closer to the sound they were searching for, as well as enabling them to discover the healing power of music. ... more

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