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The Telescopes - Butterfly
#the telescopes#butterfly#stephen lawrie#psychedelic rock#shoegaze#trip hop#of tomorrow#2023#Youtube
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The Telescopes — Of Tomorrow (Tapete)
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The Telescopes founder and now sole member, Stephen Lawrie continues his quest for transcendence through an elegantly paced mixture of shoegaze, drone and psychedelia on Of Tomorrow. Lawrie’s vocals are unusually prominent this time; they tend to a monochrome, world weary murmuring on matters both cosmic and domestic, his lyrics direct and repetitive. Beneath that Lawrie builds intricately detailed layers of spacey guitar and organ atop pulsing bass and robotic drum machines. The arrangements contrast with the simplicity of the words and the limitations of his voice to create a hypnotically crepuscular atmosphere. Lawrie also slides into baroque chamber pop and 1960s-influenced big beat, albeit smothered in electronic and production effects, without losing either the character or effect of the record.
Lawrie sequences the album into three distinct but interlocking phases. The first three tracks are medium paced, progressively less squally explorations of Spiritualized like space rock, riding on thick bass riffs and swirling guitar lines, with Lawrie waning lyrical about the mysteries of life. The groove is the thing, and he comes at it from a slightly different angle each time, locking in but happy to allow some friction to destabilize things, all the while centering attention back to his voice. The middle section is the most sonically interesting. The stately “Only Lovers Know” finds Lawrie almost crooning over a swirling organ, a bottom end twang of guitar and two note bass throb. It sounds something like Richard Hawley’s version of “Some Candy Talking,” locating a Lynchian darkness at the heart of a 1960s teen love song. “The Other Side” ups the pace and pitch, there’s a buzzing drone at its core, the guitars pulling against the rigidity of the rhythm section and Lawrie’s voice seeping into your ears, an insinuating calm amidst the maelstrom. Thereafter, Lawrie brings us back down. “Under Starlight” takes rolling Mo Tucker toms, ride cymbals, shakers, Farfisa organ and reverbed vocals refracted through the Paisley Underground and the lyrics “I’ve been found/Now that that I’ve found you” have the ambiguity and intensity that could be apply love, God, drugs or all and none of the above.
In Of Tomorrow, Lawrie sacrifices some of the pummeling noise and subterranean murk of previous albums without losing his ability to draw listeners into his twilit world. With his voice to the fore and some shafts of melodic light, he once more tweaks The Telescopes’ sound in ways that remain compelling.
Andrew Forell
#telescopes#of tomorrow#tapete#andrew forell#albumreview#dusted magazine#Stephen Lawrie#shoegaze#drone#psychedelia#rock
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Ideal work schedule:
I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks
I complete the list
I leave immedietly
#guy who is getting out of work at 1pm!!!! 📢#tomorrow is my last day but u have loved this job. i love to leave.#trb.txt#i* have
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crazy how 4 hours of work will literally take up my entire 15+ hour day. who allowed this
#text#i have Things to Do tomorrow but i also have Work and it feels impossible to do both#even though mathematically i should be literally fine
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surviving the current age of internet means saying no to subscriptions and premiums for basic features. you must endure the inconvenience of not being able to use every server emoji in discord. you must build the patience to find alternatives like NewPipe so you can listen to music on youtube while your phone screen sleeps. do Not give these corporations your limited disposable income. tiktok not letting me view videos on my phone without downloading the app? i will outlast tiktok and the execs will be remembered as dull,disgusting capitalists. listen to me, listen to me. if you do not know how to pirate shows from hulu, learn. if you can't pirate it, it is not worth the money to rent it. please i'm on my hands and knees. do not accept this form of internet.
#moon#i'm sick of the mainstream internet#i'm going to take steps to degoogle today#tomorrow?? a neocities#idk
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If that doesn't have potential for some fairytale nonsense, I don't know what does.
#time zones are a human invention#and sometimes they're downright absurd#spell components#that url for more info leads to a slightly longer article btw#among other things it tells me that someone swam between the islands in about two hours#freezing water btw#that definitely sounds like a quest challenge#'swim from tomorrow to yesterday without freezing to death'#'what???'#'you heard me'#fun facts
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#ra speaks#it’s a silly joke/pun dw#we stay silly :3#edit:#woahg. that’s a lot of notes. hi everybody o/#10k. stop clenching your jaw and drink some water.#15k. eat some fresh fruit this week! I’m having kiwis tonight :]#20k. quit sitting like a shrimp it’s bad for your neck! sit up straight and do a little stretch every now and then#25k. I’m up at 2 AM but I’ll get to see the sunrise today :] if you can’t see that I hope you admire the sunset later today#30k. do something fun you haven’t done in a while. I haven’t drawn in months - I think I’ll paint a cat tomorrow :3#40k. I just slept 9 hours straight for the first time in weeks :] remember to ask for help when you need it! no glory in senseless suffering
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the angel staying over at my house asked for a nightlight in their room and i told them buddy, don't you produce your own light? what're you gonna do with more? and they said they wanted to see why people like it so much. and also that the nightlight i own is blue and they've been trying to understand color. anyways i think they've stared at it for an hour now
#pig originals#i am going to add to this tomorrow. don't know what this means yet but it's something#unreality#<- just in case. let me know if this needs any other tags#pig pens#hello i think the title for this will be 'the angel staying over at my house'. yes it is long i know
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so embarrassing to be drawing an OC and forget to add some part of their design...like yeah i made this guy...hand picked everything about them....yeah i forgot to add the things i like about them....
#in the oakley and traver comic im posting tomorrow i forgot to color in travers lil sideburn markings my life is over#throwing chairs into the wall and breaking plates#civetspeaks
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UY! PHILIPPINES!!!! PHILIPPINES!!!!
#hatsune miku#kasane teto#vocaloid#miku hatsune#cloudy draws#my art#art#fanart#digital art#vocaloid fanart#vocaloid art#miku#ty brazilian miku artists for inspiring me i loved doing this#however it is half assed i have building due tomorrow#but this was good stress relief i thank you miku#swagapino miku we love you they will never make me hate you#miku is national been loving all the art ive been seeing recently
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good livestream and good night gamers
#thing that I'll wake up tomorrow and probably ask myself “why do I make that”#minecraft#endman#the creaking
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Plus interest!!!!
#I’ll post a full pic of nami and nojikos costumes tomorrow ;P#one piece bellemere#op bellemere#cat burglar nami#one piece nami#nami#op nami#nojiko#op nojiko#one piece nojiko#one piece#op#one piece fanart#art#my art#artwork#fanart#digital art#drawing#halloween costume#halloween
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gaddamn
#almost doneeee#should be able to upload tomorrow mayhaps#pressure#pressure roblox#sebastian solace#pressure sebastian#my art
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standard ear piercings count
each hole counts as one piercing to me (except for like connected piercings like the industrial)
*bonus points if you tell me what piercings you have
edit: accidentally skipped 19, so sorry if you have 19 piercings just round down or up, up to you
#i have both sides of my nose / septum / about to be 4 lobe on each ear / 3 helix / daith / rook / conch / tragus / and my ears are stretched#after tomorrow i'll have 18 :3#jess.polls#piercings#body mods#body modification#piercing#piercing poll#piercing polls#tumblr poll#tumblr polls#random poll#random polls#poll#polls
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ok but what if i
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