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Alcohol & Darkness

Flowʍolꓞ

October 13th, 2023
11 tracks
47:54
Alcohol & Darkness
Alcohol & Darkness
Clockwork Apple
0:00
2:40
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Clockwork Apple
Flowʍolꓞ
Whole hearts seem to have shaken the darkness The calmed waves dread my willing to open eyes Fearing what’s behind to turn over the The signs of the night fueled by turquoise lights Distressfully slumping from places to events The flame in blaze yellowish ambassadors Gazing at me Gazing at me Gazing at me Gazing at me Gazing at me It’s the flattened lying at the scenes of the night
2:40
2
Alone
Flowʍolꓞ
Thoughts are coming While I just watch them Waging war against my mind. Empty boxes like bugs Crawl around me Rain dripping out of their eyes. They weep because I Filled them With past memories of nothingness. Imagining that someone Else is in love ‘cause It helps to make the time pass. Then confusing impatience Shouts at them with rage ‘Scatter and hide away from me’. Wires please keep my Heart together So it can survive one more beat. (Don’t) go away Just leave me be Hanging onto life threatening sway Falling around and Tightening inside I wish… I wish I had something to say R: How do we fight the Hurricane…
4:13
3
Alcohol and Darkness
Flowʍolꓞ
Drinking water to wash my feelings away Drinking pain to water my feelings Rain from dreams and songs Bodily shaking, swallow Damp spirit, flowers to grow Or fungus, out of teary eye But don’t ever be sorry for what you are Then flowering nerves come out n Sit on the grass Without names they’re like drops on my glass Drinking just to make the time pass Then fungus grow out of teary eye But don’t ever be sorry for what you are
4:41
4
Boldogság
Flowʍolꓞ
Lazul a szín És lazul a száj. Ütemesen veri a szív Ha nincs hiány, Odaér… Odaér. De fele a szó Sem odaadó. Szakadozik, oda sem ér Csak elhaló. Peremén… Peremén R: Tiszta Boldogság, Mindig kettő között Áll. Keretezett Boldogság, Mind a kettő ezen áll. Karon a fej A fele emel. Lesüti a kezenehéz De nincs ma hely Hova érsz, hova lépsz De hasad az ér A szerelemér’ Kerek e delírium A tegnap ért. Odabenn a szó megél R: Tiszta Boldogság, Mindig kettő között Áll. Keretezett Boldogság, Mind a kettő ezen áll. Outro: Benn a szó…
5:24
5
Pearl Diver
Flowʍolꓞ
Leaping alive in nobody’s dive, Bringing up pearls with not my breath held But the upside, the life drowned (it’s) just me underground, My biggest tragedy, that it’s not happened to me Watching while the silent streets sink And shells call crying their beads Collecting them, much as I can Even if I can not breathe Not even sure, but can’t remember Why was it so important. But the string is too tight choking you and You can only save yourself. Looking for shine-in, quiet and thin Remembering past lives that’s never happened But there’s water in the eyes And someone behind Your life’s so sad I wish I didn’t envy your misery Watching while the silent streets sink And shells call crying their beads Collecting them, much as I can Even if I can not breathe Not even sure, n can’t remember Why was it so important. But the string is too tight choking you and You can only save yourself.
3:02
6
Simple
Flowʍolꓞ
Enormously noisy snow-globe town Behind rainy wind against the eyes Walking past many with urge to show wrath, Compressed, so tiny slices of life. Noisy but could you please be quiet Smile and simple and kind Sitting on tiles of red-brick stonewall I just want to go home If crying, but that way it’s not different at all With all the others around. Itches the brain, Oh if just God would Turn off the rain (x7) Not here, but it doesn’t feel like away…
5:13
7
Never Assume
Flowʍolꓞ
Never assume, a wise man said once. He died because he believed in people. Yeah, but I’ll never make this mistake again. Choking from life, never stop to extend Unbearable geed, everyone is tested again. Kind words from dear friends, Lines never to be forgotten. I believe in people, now, that’s what makes me cry Till we meet again Shy greatness, velvet dressed, kind Fury told truths, torn apart by Silence and nine. Strumming emotion where it shouldn’t be Feverish love to one, from many Unprecedented and there won’t be Anybody again. Kind words from dear friends, Lines never to be forgotten. Almost gone nights improvised from the deathbed Not comparing so I’ll never assume Almost gone nights improvised from the deathbed Not complaining but I’ll never assume Love, we will meet again!
4:39
8
Do Boys Cry
Flowʍolꓞ
Tell me Dad, do boys ever cry After swimming through joy-filled nights You taught me how to be tough You taught me how to speak love Your eyes reflected so much pride. You told me if my actions were out of the line But told me how to make them right Told me to drink, but don't drink too much and Seek for the beauty and art. You made me understand that family is The most important in a man's life That’s what makes us strong and That's what keeps us warm Even when inside it’s dark Oh but you never had a chance to Teach me how to handle the cry of the soul And now you’re gone and my eyes are dry So please tell me Dad, Do boys ever cry? Tell me Dad, do boys ever cry After swimming through joy-filled nights…
5:12
9
I Don't Want to Grow Young I Want to Stay Old
Flowʍolꓞ
The outside has curled up on the bursting inside Not to hurt anyone Waiting for something to wait for Falling, failing to fall smashed face on a wall Craving for, hateful darkness Is worth living for Waiting for time, tired of drinking the cure Green, cold eyes pouring down Waiting for something to wait for Bigger than ever, Hunger ‘n terror And we’re just lying on the ground Heartbeat the lever And no one would suffer If we could stop pushing us around Mutated force-fed words Blackened teeth from purge I don’t want to grow young, I want to stay old Dancing in fever Spiderly thicker Subscribe to religion at once Wonderly shimmer In eyes of the river Poisoned to poison our own guts Burden in the curse To lay down these words Only suffering bears real value Bigger than ever, Hunger ‘n terror And we’re just lying on the ground
3:55
10
Drop
Flowʍolꓞ
Endless lap on plain Closing on me Under tears, above Pulsating memories Huge stone face of his Motionless, smooth Turning away to hide Emotionless truth. Bridge-steel feels the pain Jump in its limbs Leaning on the air Clearing cloudy thoughts The bliss of the water’s kiss Clearing everything Goodbye, goodbye Goodbye...
4:19
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Somber
Flowʍolꓞ
Window-looking orange the sky time all spilling on my hands, dry. Sleeping the restless eyes wide awake longing the before what the heart cannot take. Floating the water paints with my pain, drawing up walls to help me keep myself contained Somber the sunset, water-coloured eyes waving away our never-ending goodbyes All blue phase/fades to shadows blink of the dark brings our doomed horizon to a brand new start. and While the night wide awake domes over our free souls hand cannot erase these prints left by our soles Floating the water paints with my pain, drawing up walls to help me keep myself contained Somber the sunset, water-coloured eyes waving away our never-ending goodbyes
4:36

“With a perfectly blended fusion of numerous musical styles and ideas, the Hungarian band Flowʍolꓞ (interview here) elevate consciousness and open the spaces on their debut album Alcohol & Darkness. The infusion of progressive rock, acoustic and psychedelia help to make this particular set a true joy to experience—it’s hard not to bliss out while this is playing.

With themes dealing with substance abuse, isolation and the search for meaning in a chaotic world, Flowʍolꓞ are defying every attempt to pigeonhole them as one thing or another—the best approach is simply to abandon all categories and go with the gut. That said, this 2023 release treats the music with great respect, and sounds fantastic.

Listening to Alcohol & Darkness can result in the feeling of one’s consciousness going into a cosmically vast spin-dizzy state with, interestingly, no chemical or visual stimulation required to generate the effect. That shift of consciousness is certainly an immediate side-effect of this release, caused by the painless move between pyrotechnic instrumentation, drifting musical structures where languid dancing with lighted incense sticks seems called for.

The band comfortably evades pigeonholes by dint of the fact that what begins at the first note is delightfully unlike that which ends with the last note. Remarkably, it all makes sense and there is never a sense of getting lost in the (alcohol, and) darkness.

Follow Flowʍolꓞ on Facebook and Instagram.”

ProgSphere - 2024

Credits

Domonkos Gera - vocals, rhythm guitar

Frigyes Koncz - lead guitar

Elod Juhasz - keys

Marton Zsiboras - bass

Tamas Almasi - drums

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