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Modern Love

by Whitehorse

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1.
Prototype 03:13
There goes one of a kind There goes the neighbourhood There goes a prototype There goes a house of sun Here comes the second wave Here come the aftershocks Here comes the Rodeo Here comes the cannonball What of the missing link What could we never know he looks just like you do but not his brothers though Dear Maggie was it right Did you see the things you hoped you might I’m sorry that we never got you there Havana City in the April night
2.
I wanna make promises that I can’t keep I wanna make promises that I can’t keep Let’s argue in Ikea make a scene, go home and fuck On unassembled furniture fresh off the moving truck Let’s rifle through old photographs after the basement floods black and whites & polaroids on clothes lines up above I wanna make promises that I can’t keep I wanna make promises that I can’t keep We’ll sign up for wine of the month play drinking games for old folks sick the cat on kitchen mice feign laughs at your old jokes In the Eastern Townships with your old man on the porch steps Knowing that we slowly die With each and every breath I wanna make promises that I can’t keep I wanna make promises that I can’t keep I wanna make promises that I can’t keep I wanna make promises that I can’t keep
3.
Nothing here is built to survive They’re claiming that a man, he walked on the moon Well, maybe I could fly or even love if I try But it’s a long shot If I dare to make it a thing You’ve got me by the barcode Baby I know I’m just a demo failed But somehow I prevailed It’s evolutionary Now you’ve got something better than you had before Something beautiful, something more It’s something insatiable You don’t know what for Now I’m just a relic in the new age Im just a relic in the new age Wandering the streets in the night Looking for a warm body to hold tight I’ve got a tin man heart and all these cromag parts have long rusted Now you’ve got something better than you had before Something beautiful, something more It’s something insatiable You don’t know what for Now I’m just a relic in the new age Im just a relic in the new age Oh I’ve been drinking every night Oh but I just cannot feel the fight There’s no life for livin But I just keep on tickin’ Wires tangled in a noose But even that I can’t do Now you’ve got something better than you had before Something beautiful, something more It’s something insatiable You don’t know what for Now I’m just a relic in the new age I'm just a relic in the new age Now I’m just a relic in the new age I'm just a relic in the new age Now I’m just a relic in the new age I'm just a relic in the new age Now I’m just a relic in the new age I'm just a relic in the new age Now I’m just a relic in the new age I'm just a relic in the new age
4.
Radio silence, radio silence Radio silence The future of violence I am a cyborg C127-AI15 and I have a mandate To multiply My heart is tick-tock-tick Hardwired to the mainframe My breathe is just wifi But I am alive Radio silence, radio silence Radio silence The future of violence So who do I turn to Where do I go When I need some contact Someone to hold Do I have a mother and who is the sire Are they Ripley and Bishop Did I inherit these wires Emergency Contact not something I need I’m meant to self regulate I’m not meant to bleed Radio silence, radio silence Radio silence The future of violence Radio silence, radio silence Radio silence The future of violence
5.
Middle Earth 03:00
Where you gonna go When you’re done with me baby I don’t wanna know oh who’s on the call when you lose my number I write it on the stall in the middle of the earth what you know but never see it’s a violent birth to be free one day soon maybe you look back under cover of the moonlight see my silhouette a shadow in the park with the cherry of a cigarette It’s burns, no less and you were mine in the centre of the mess in the middle of the earth what you know but never see it’s a violent birth to be free in the middle of the earth what you know but never see it’s a violent birth in the middle of the earth what you know but never see it’s a violent birth To be free in the middle of the earth what you know but never see it’s a violent birth To be free Where you gonna go When you’re done with me baby I don’t wanna know, Ohhh
6.
Liar Liar 03:07
I’m down Like mercury, in old ‘Peg city. Out Tap the matt, pack your bags. Goodbye I gave you all I had to give. Get lit make the call, chop it up, get high And now my hands are shaking And now my stomach turns so Kiss me on my face dear And watch me as I burn———— Liar liar, there’s no fire. You got drunk but I got higher. Liar liar, there’s no fire. You got drunk but I got higher. say what? i think i heard you say just what you want come sit here, no go away. You’re sad i see it in the way you hold your glass outstretched in hopes of more wine And now my hands are shaking And now my stomach turns so, kiss me on my face dear And watch me as I burn———— Liar liar, there’s no fire. You got drunk but I got higher. Liar liar, there’s no fire. You got drunk but I got higher. Liar liar, there’s no fire. Liar liar, there’s no fire. Liar liar, there’s no fire. Liar liar, there’s no fire. Liar liar, there’s no fire.
7.
Best Bet 03:33
Third times a charm at the Three Speed I twist your rubber arm to take me home with you And oh these rows of dominoes that line the bar then stumble home Are nothing but trouble and I want some My eyes begin to dance when I’ve had a few It doesn’t take too much this will be good for you And hey I made it plain as day My baby said that it’s ok Do you smell trouble Do you want some Let me be your best bet For a little bit For a little while I can take the hit When it really hits I will go out in style Let me be your best bet For a little while Romance is alive and wandering through Parkdale You stand there like a bullseye for my fantasies And oh I know the best before Can waft the hurt a mile away But it’s still love if you look at it sideways Let me be your best bet For a little bit For a little while I can take the hit When it really hits I will go out in style Let me be your best bet For a little while Love was not made just for you and I And I’d say it’s less cupid and more samurai And I have seen the break of day from both sides now And either way It’s only a goddamn beautiful sunrise Let me be your best bet For a little bit For a little while I can take the hit When it really hits I will go out in style Let me be your best bet For a little while
8.
Interlude 00:30
9.
Run Run Run 03:07
10.
Tell me what you’re doing with him I can only imagine, I can only imagine making him surrender to you it’s a trick you’ve mastered I can only imagine first of all he’s gonna lose his breath yes we all know it too yes we do like you did it to me and I hoped I did you stare into the backside of his soul leave him defenceless i can only imagine Later when he’s all skin and bones, just a hollow carcass, I can only imagine second time, he’s gonna think he’s tough like his skin won’t bleed like he’s seen enough to know how to stop you just before you sink your teeth in and draw the blood out pick himself up off the bathroom floor can you dust a man off, I can only imagine
11.
Pollyanna 03:32
Pollyanna who do you think you are put your coat on honey get the car stare out the window till you’re home sometimes dreams are better left alone everybody’s talking about us like everybody’s got something to lose hey Cassandra put your flare gun down They can’t see they’re too far out of town blow a kiss before you leave a tornado of you to be set free everybody’s got some secret running through their veins oh let it bleed Pollyanna You’re not made for these parts You tick in tandem with all the bleeding hearts let’s make a matchstick symphony oxygen to fuel the melody everybody’s full moon fever why don’t we just roll the windows down everybody’s hot and bothered why don’t we just burn it to the ground everyone’s got bad ideas maybe we’re just thinking out loud
12.
Outro 00:36

about

A bullseye for fantasies.

Introducing Modern Love, the latest edition from dual-booted songwriting CPU Whitehorse. Designed for life at 25,000 frames per second, Modern Love offers premium processing and emotion-capture capabilities. Optimized for low-light conditions, Modern Love's intuitive UX creates a fully immersive experience of interpersonal harmonics in ultra rich waveshape sonics. Each Modern Love OS comes complete with experiential FAQ database, ex.: Do you smell trouble? Do you want some?

With life's burst bubbles and crossed wires detailed in hi-def, Modern Love launches with "Prototype," an atmospheric tribute to DNA one-of-a-kindness, strung with Lonely Hearts Club swells. Coded with themes of human glitches and emotional reboots, the beach tones of "Relic In A New Age" and ballad-type "Radio Silence," interface between machine-enabled and machine-resistant human relationships. Modern Love is Whitehorse's blueprint for love in the Digital Age.

"I Wanna Make Promises (That I Can't Keep"), a loping, laidback fantasy 404, buzzes with electrostatic escapism for jolted, jilted ideas. Delivered with an official video shot in Phantom Flex4k ultra slo-mo, "Promises" exposes all of the micro aches and urges that go unseen in reality's standard frame rate. Rare duet "Best Bet," and all songs after that, further expose the collections' emotional motherboard, a nest of circuitry carrying the curses and cruxes that muddle our signals to one another. Album closer "Pollyanna," channels Greek mythology to modulate a chorus of unheeded disaster warnings.

Assembled at Taurus Recordings, a professional facility in Toronto, ON, Modern Love was hardwired by Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland, with additional component parts by Thom D'Arcy (string arrangements), Fred Eltringham (drums), Gus Van Go (bass on "Promises"), Robin Hatch (wurlitzer, mellotron) and Drew Jurecka (string performances).

With Modern Love, Whitehorse continues to tell their love story, if not the one they expected.

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released March 19, 2021

Written by Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet
Produced by Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet
Mixed by Gus Van Go
Engineered by Thom D'Arcy
Mastered by Nik Kozub

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Whitehorse Toronto, Ontario

Ethereal folk, Space Cowboy twang. Psychedelic spaghetti western. Intergalactic blues grooves. Pop noir. Since their debut in 2011, Whitehorse has evolved from magnetic folk duo to full-blown rock band. In truth, Whitehorse is never fully either one or the other, but an ever-evolving creative partnership that challenges both artists to explore new instrumental & lyrical terrain with each project. ... more

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