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PareidoliaNur Ein XVI
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Pareidolia
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Entry from Pareidolia in Nur Ein XVI.

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Pareidolia - Heid
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This one was fun and a bit challenging to put together. I ended up with this story about hurting someone you care about and going mad trying to process what you've done, seeing reminders of that person and the pain you caused them everywhere.
My field recordings were sounds of frogs on a lake at night that I collected on two different occasions while walking with my mom.

I can't take back
Last year's impact
Althe ways I left you scarred
It takes patience
Time and space
To start to take away the marks

Said "I'm sorry"
And I meant it
Now I've got to let you be
But I still see
Wounds I caused you
In the static on TV

Classic pareidolia
I see you, but I know it's just
Imagination
My creation
Of your face
In empty places

I swear I know it's
Pareidolia

Wicked whispers
Trickle inward
Tricking listeners like me
Friends assure me
Time's a fixer
"just keep wishing, they'll recede"

classic pareidolia
I see you, but I know it's just
imagination
my creation
of your face
in empty places

I swear I know it's just
pareidolia

Here in darkness
echoes starkly
beckon me toward recompense
cracked reflection
of transgressions
whose effects I cannot mend

Oh jesus, oh god, I am not going crazy
I know what I did, and I dealt with it, baby
and yet I can't seem to get your image out of my head

it's classic pareidolia
I see you, but I know it's just
imagination
my creation
of your face
in empty places

I swear I know it's
pareidolia

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j$

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What's not to like? Apart from the length, of course. But you're not the worst offender on that front, and French chanson style cafe music happens to be something I really go for. Though either your interpretation of the challenge is incredibly subtle and nuanced, or i've gone deaf cos i can't hear it at all. I jumped around the song after listening to see if it was my cloth ears and all I could find was a 10 second silence at the end of the track, which makes me think something went wrong in the mixdown. Or I am remarkably dumb. Probably the latter. [Edit: Ignore that last bit. It's the latter. I heard it. Twice. That effect is too subtle for me, trying to review 25 songs]

Pigfarmer Jr

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Lovely voice, melody and vocal performance. If I sung "lissssteners" it'd sound awful but you make it feel imperfectly perfect. The doubled vox at the end is a nice touch and a needed dynamic. The layered night sounds work well as a pad under your simple arrangement and as an outro. You pronounce pareidolia wrong in the most beautiful way.

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