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Artwork by
Pilar Schacher & Complex Pleasures

Intersubjective

FERN

March 9th, 2022
10 tracks
45:56
Intersubjective
Intersubjective
առաջանալ
0:00
2:40
առաջանալ
FERN
2:40
Simulacrum
FERN
I can't breathe and my sore throat can't speak any word. I won't sleep still my numb limbs will slip through the earth. Everyone seems close but is moving further away. Everything that's whole is gone, i'm leaving this place. I will not give it up. Render the shell i drop underneath the surface Silence within Reborn Retinal detachment I don't feel and my soul just can't comprehend drifting into the unknown. Everyone is close but moving further away. Everything that is whole is gone, i'm leaving this place. I will not give it up.
4:06
Hyperreal
FERN
Start a war on yourself and make the soil burn through your skin. Unapproved amnesty, undecided within. Light the sky with fireworks. Blood-red, undead enemies crawling up the alleys of your battlefield again. Monochrome haze spreading like a disease, your monotone gaze on the colourless streets. Cord up the bottleneck, the veil is turning black. This is hyperreal. Everyone is just a copy of myself. Omnipresent fatigue. Drip-fed sleepwalkers on their feet. While it feeds on your soul, while it devours you awhole. These futile words carved in stone are so miniscule. This is hyperreal. Everyone is just a copy of myself. Omnipresent fatigue. Drip-fed sleepwalkers on their feet. This is too hyperreal. Everyone is just a copy of myself. Omnipresent fatigue. Drip-fed sleepwalkers on their feet.
4:40
Exnomination
FERN
Run, down to the river. I must drown into the river. I set free thought as a revelation. I'll set it free under the river.
4:56
Rupture
FERN
Silence in the water, below the darkened body of the sea. Mirrors in the ocean. Down into the comfort of the deep.
4:06
I Am A Transient
FERN
6:56
Intersubjective
FERN
Connected for eternity, hidden in the dark. Insignificant entity trapped inside the center of a heart. And we are intersubjective, falling through the stars. And we are intersubjective, fractions of a whole. Illusions of reality, this is what we are. Surrender to affinity, trapped inside the center of your heart. And we are intersubjective, falling through the stars. And we are intersubjective, fractions of a whole. Intersubjective.
3:28
Shadows
FERN
Tides and waves and the shallowness climb up our feet How did it end up so low? Any sound advice just bounds off of me. Fear and concern in this dull surrounding i seek, while they stare, you drown on your own. And the fire sears our skins, when i say: Fool me, show love, hold it low. Break out, don’t go, i’ll get along. Pour that shadow over me. Kill me, show love, hold it low. Night and day when i see your face. It's so cruel to know that your light will become my shadow. And you... well you know, when i need that space it's your deeds unknown that anything you want, i'll say: Fool me, show love, hold it low. Break out, don’t go, i’ll get along. Pour that shadow over me. Kill me, show love, hold it low.
3:57
Emanation
FERN
Forgive the lie calling for you. Calm down. Unleash the self. Now.
6:54
Afterlife
FERN
Move your head upon my shoulder. Pour your heart into my soul. I will carry you forever. Let it come and let it go.
4:13

On the first full-length album under the FERN moniker, drummer Paul Seidel serves his dark poetry with deceptively catchy tunes and chunky grooves you can step to. Balancing between the emotional experimental pop music of Björk and the punishing industrial rock of Nine Inch Nails,

FERN explores the fast-changing nature of reality in our digital society through a filter of moody synths, painfully precise drumming, and a fearless vocal delivery.

Credits

Written, performed and co-produced by Paul Seidel.
Produced and mixed by Jan Kerscher at Ghost City Recordings.
"Exnomination" co-produced by Peter Voigtmann at Die Mühle.
Digital Master by Joe Joaquin at Custom Mojo.
Vinyl Master by Philipp Welsing at Original Mastering.
Duduk in "առաջանալ" composed and played by Hayk Karoyi.
Cello on "I Am A Transient" played by Marie-Claire Schlameus.
Cover art photography by Pilar Schacher.
Layout by Complex Pleasures.