Portola

from Haunted World Of Mirrors

February 7th, 2025
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Haunted World Of Mirrors
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Portola
woundlicker
a train departs on a schedule but it often arrives late and if it doesn’t come at all how long should I wait? there’s mileposts and signals that say we’re going nowhere should I be resentful of the way you’ve conducted yourself? oh, Portola I was content to be a fun object on the outskirts of your life but I didn’t expect to be disposed of so abruptly I hoped we had more time in the intersecting orbits of our lives but what brings us together will tear us apart again I don’t believe that it’s malice that’s made you act this way but you’ve left me to guess, so what the fuck am I supposed to think? in yr radio silence I will sing a song of static on an unknown wavelength broadcasting my heartbreak to the spectral oh, Portola you cut me out and deep was it because you knew exactly how I feel? is my love a curse that is too painful to be borne? I wish you trusted me enough to let me know that it was time to leave I would have accepted it, you know I would have understood.
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Credits

Performances:

Melora Cayce - found in the machines

Marya Alvarado (FLCOY - https://xflcoyx.bandcamp.com/) - drums and vocals on Haunted World Of Mirrors, drums on Splinter, A Strange Crow, Dead Of Night, and drummer for all live performances

Primrose - woodwinds on Three Years

Omen Rose Astéri - backing vocals on Haunted World Of Mirrors and vocalist for all live performances

Production:

recorded and mixed by Melora Cayce and Marya Alvarado

mastered by Bootsy Aldo, who also provided invaluable mixing advice and is delightful generally (Sleeping On Stardust - Sleepingonstardust.bandcamp.com)

Special Thanks:

Aki McCoullough and the rest of Nu House Studios for mastering and including an earlier version of Dead Of Night on the compilation Trans Rights Or Else! (https://nuhousestudios.bandcamp.com/album/trans-rights-or-else-2)

Food Desert Recordings for including an earlier version of Pressed Petals on the compilation Please, Just Let Me Breathe (https://fooddesertrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/please-just-let-me-breathe)

Microdose Monthly Mixtapes for including an earlier version of Girlfangs on Monthly Mixtape 9 (https://microdosemonthlymixtapes.bandcamp.com/album/monthly-mixtape-9) and Pressed Petals on the Hurricane Helene/Milton Charity Relief Fund Mixtape (https://microdosemonthlymixtapes.bandcamp.com/album/microdose-charity-mixtape-hurricane-helene-milton-relief-fund)

friends, family, favorite ghosts - I love you all <3

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