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Halfway Did

from Way Out West by KING ROPES

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    Way Out West, King Ropes’ fourth album, is full of open spaces and jagged edges—from “A Loser and a Jerk,” with its brooding feedback moans, to the cathartic opener “Big Man on the TV,” with its mangled arpeggios and visions of a broke rodeo flailing amidst “the great wide open.” Guitars scrape and whine. Amps rumble. Rickety pianos rattle in and out of tune. Like the Treasure State itself, nothing is too refined. Perched uneasily between indie, desert rock, and ragged americana, it’s the band’s finest record yet. At the center of it all is Dave Hollier, a gifted songwriter at the top of his game, surveying a land haunted by doomed relationships and hypocrite ideologues in his odd, quivering voice.

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lyrics

I’m stuck inside and I can’t stop moving
the thoughts in my head I didn’t choose ‘em what looks like winning feels like losing
I’m stuck inside and I can’t stop moving
hey hey hey
we don’t want your empty promises your hucksterism
we know that’s all it is
we just want something real
we can feel
that's just our deal
I want to swim out where I can't see the land I'll close my eyes and open my hands
let the tide lift me up or hold me down
I'm not going to fight but I won't drown
armegeddon
vouyeurism
zombies flat earthers antivaxers
science sceptics
holucaust deniers
right to lifers hardcore liberals you’re all a bunch of followers
I’m stuck inside and I can’t stop moving
the thoughts in my head I didn’t choose ‘em what looks like winning feels like losing
I’m stuck inside and I can’t stop moving

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from Way Out West, track released May 13, 2021

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KING ROPES Bozeman, montana

When Dave Hollier spins records at a party, he plays stuff that’s all over the map. The Meters, The Knife, Boston, Bowie, Buck Owens. It could go very wrong. But it doesn’t. Finding the thread that leads from The Cars to The Beastie Boys to Van Halen to Prayers, he tells a long, beautiful, cross-cultural, multi-generational story. Hollier’s band King Ropes is doing much the same thing. ... more

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