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The Answer To Nihilism Is Volume

by Friko Braun

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1.
Safety's Out 04:28
Now what'chu done And who's to say They pull the leash They want to say Too heavy here There's nothing to fear I'm too blown out Why did you pout I'm too relaxed Police on fax Light harder than stone And hotter than air Now what to do There's 'nother shoe I feel nothin' I feel heaven Lows today I lost my way Noise to die Now I could cry Safety's out Safety's out Safety's out
2.
This one's for the birds Tweet-tweet motherfucker (gibberish, laughter) You're a fool! (laughter) - You don't know, but mother nature hates you (x3) You don't know, but mother nature hates you (x3) You don't know, you're probably better dead (x3) You don't know, you're probably better dead (x3) You don't know, I tell it all to you (x3) You don't know, I tell it all to you (x3) - You don't know how I feel, oh yeah It's for the birds (x4) You couldn't handle a day of being me (x2) It's for the birds (x8) - You don't know but, mother nature hates you (x3) You don't know, but mother nature hates you (x3) You don't know but, No one fucking cares (x3) You don't know, But no one fucking cares (x3) You don't know but, Someone else is better (x3) You don't know, But someone else is better (x3) You don't know but, It's all for the birds (x3) You don't know but, It's all for the birds (x3) -- Oh fuck yeah, lemon flavor I love lemon flavor
3.
Atari bit player with a deathwish Coin engaged, kill all players with a simple trick Keiji Haino plugged into satan's omnitrix 1-800-sick kicks, drew this gore in kid pix Burn it down, play pickup sticks instead Some ideas i have could be better off dead Take one or two from ten and it'd think it'd be eightteen Flint water drinker, son Polystyrene pinkertons With a flipped synth anthem Nihlists at volume playing at life with the king's ransom They put me in charge They put me in charge - I don't feel that human after all After all I don't feel that human after all After all - The only answer to nihilism to volume (x8)
4.
Breakbeat #1 04:17
5.
The blind gnostics demand novel enlightenment, In the hovel of empty idols of specific design, With faith in nothing but their allies and concepts, I'm not one for such things, For I was raised by combative snakes. - Faith needs hope but they demand results; This, the shared experience, Is the greatest ritual of man, Who's to say it's metaphysics? Who's to say it's simple? The only way to tell is application and practice. - My anger at the world doesn't solve anything, My predilection of what's to come changes nothing, All I can do distance and resist the urge To throw stones at enemies who don't amount to anything, To decipher any meaning from a contrail above. - As if one could explode and disappear with no legacy behind them, To come and declare everything different and incorrect, Just to lift an atlas stone like a feather, And argue the sciences of physics and it's gravity, Then leave and disappear with everything but the bolder. - Having all the answers and none of the tools is foolish, But to swing the hammer blindly by faith I can respect, For one has failed to acquire, and one has failed to realize, But neither form a tempered craftsman, Whose silverleaf gild will stand the rest of time. - Closed into that steeple of assumption are the borrowing, Who must have an account of what is just to them, But do not have the spark of sprit to epiphanize, Answers may be logical but unless they did the calculus, They will not know if their wisdom checks out. - You could know if you did, And everything that comes from the doing would help you, But even then, would it even save you? Or would the doubt obliterate again? And would you stand to come back stronger? - I am on my way home now, To cherished workshops of chordal paces and fear, To drag out the truth from the unsure and uncaring, Without being able to see quite myself, So I can polish the next class of iconoclasts, As little as I can
6.
Oh, yeah (x2) I know the game you're playing And it ain't gonna fool me twice And it ain't gonna work on me twice Oh, yeah I know the game you're playing And it ain't gonna work on me twice (x2) - Heavy metal keytone in mind Can you relax? Will you be found? Heavy metal keytone in mind Can you relax? Will you be found? - Anytime but here and now Any place but here and now Anytime but here and now Any place but here and now - Wow I know the game you're playing And it ain't gonna fool me twice Oh, yeah (x2) And it ain't gonna fool me twice (x2) - Heavy metal keytone in mind Can you relax? Will you be found? Heavy metal keytone in mind Have you no place? Have you no time? - Anytime but here and now Any place but here and now Anytime but here and now Any place but here and now Anytime but here and now Any place but here and now Anytime but here and now Any place but here and now
7.
(Who's to blame?) That kind of thing can't come down to just one person (Say their name) I don't know, probably the world at large - Love is I don't have to Believe in now Don't 'chu Want to Believe in anything? Let me tell you how - (Bright new face) I've never seen this person before in my whole life (Same old place) But I've been here a million times before - Strawberry crush I don't give a fuck Strawberry crush No, I don't give a fuck Strawberry crush I don't give a fuck Strawberry - I don't think so You can never really beat that sure out You can't go way Too late to ever recall the time - (In my mind) I'm 24, but I can't count to 25, I think (You can find) It doesn't really matter that much anyhow (Breathe it out) The invaders are coming down, and they're coming down now (Don't you pout) They're gonna beam me up and take me out - Strawberry crush I don't give a fuck Strawberry crush No, I don't give a fuck Strawberry crush I don't give a fuck Strawberry crush I don't give a fuck Strawberry crush No, I don't give a fuck Strawberry crush I don't give a fuck
8.
Minho 03:40
You got the monkey bunch For the funky brunch, yeah You took to me, girl - You're the oedipus Of the prarie grounds, dude Fated mac and cheese, man - Electric tater tots Hamper mayter toss king I'd like to see Japan, man - Alabaster's cruel Every day's the same for me Alabaster's cruel Every day's the same for me - You got the monkey bunch For the funky brunch, yeah You took to me, girl - You're the oedipus Of the prarie grounds, dude Fated mac and cheese, man - Electric tater tots Hamper mayter toss king I'd like to see Japan, man - Melanoma Tom He gonna hit the bong, yeah He gonna smoke some weed, wow - Alabaster's cruel Every day's the same for me Alabaster's cruel Every day's the same for me (Every day's the same to me) Alabaster's cruel Every day's the same for me
9.
Echolocator Don't misunderstand me Echolocator I don't need nuclear - Tugging, and chewing, At the strings And the rope That keeps me bound Down here - Tugging, and thinking, And heaven, And thing, De dah dadda da - Never seen a wise man, And a dumb man, And a hump, And a dump, (muttering) - Never been one To understand What it meant To be a man - Echolocator Don't misunderstand me Echolocator Don't misunderstand me Echolocator Don't misunderstand me Echolocator Don't misunderstand me -- On, and on (x8) It goes On, and on (x4) It goes - Is there anything left? Is there anything left? Can we do it again? Oh, see/yeah Can we do it again? Oh, see/yeah - Get the good vibes out of your system The beach boy days are over It'll stay cloudy for ever And the dunes will roll on as far as the eyes will see It's the only thing some will ever know (x2) - And I... Is there anything left? And I... Is there anything left? Can we do it again? Oh, see/yeah Can we do it again? Oh, see/yeah

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After 3 years, Friko Braun returns with his third full-length album, and the first one in 3 and a half years!
After taking a hiatus to write and record with The Electric Motherfuckers, he returns briefly with a solid conceptual sequel to Divorced From The World that demonstrates what he learned in the time away. Distorted vocals and fuzzed-out guitars as a palette to paint his sparse, thick songs in bright, aggressive colors. Listening to the finished release feels like living in the inside of a nuclear reactor that hates you and loves sarcasm and atonal noise walls.
WARNING: This album may cause hearing damage if played at maximum volume/with earbuds or headphones.

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released May 16, 2023

Special thanks to:
Zach, Jacob, & Charles - for being the boys
Fuck Chip - I'm pretty sure you aren't looking here but I still appreciate you!
Jozef Kodrix (of No Coast Noise) - info plugger and taoism 101
Joel Damon and Josh Powell (of Project Project) - for the pancakes and coffee
The OD Gang & Big "D" FODCOM - great input, love you guys

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