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The Infirmary EP

by D.M. Rice

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1.
Epidemic 04:34
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The world is sick sick sick to death We're all sick sick sick to death When will we earn our day of rest I'm sick of waiting There's no time for me to mourn my friends Worked to death begging for the end Under heat lamps pass out from the strain Wake alone in the hospital insane Human stain my epiphany erased It was all of everything you ever made Won't forget the nothing that you gave from the hospital, or from the grave I don't think that I'm over it I hear my voice on the tv Figure eight I don't even recognise the name With my love just might make our great escape Digging deep and fall into the waves Nothing but time here trapped inside the cage Peeling paint a voice without a name Bright lines blurring away I don't think I'm over it
2.
Quarantine Haircut 03:20
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Cut my hair Just to feel like I have changed Paint my nails Calling out your name Who needs isolation? Who needs isolation more than me? We can be irregular Drink till we hit the floor Wrap me up in distance until I can't take no more The anthem of your effigy the crowded, quiet streets Where do you go at night when the shit gets mean? I shaved my head because I know I don't belong Hanging out the window I am still singing your song Who needs isolation? Who needs isolation more than me? Tyrant of another world Just an ordinary girl That I kept just to give away Prison jumpsuits, red balloons Shoot up in your living room Despot of a sacrificial lay Who needs isolation? Who needs isolation more than me? Never ever ever ever gonna get it Never gonna get away
3.
No Time to Die 04:53
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Through the window 
looking glass A mirror in my mind Feel the water rise above my head No time to die Shadow people huddled what light reveals to me I know that they're listening as the wind runs in between The day to day that falters In the rising tide you kept Under your pillow while you sleep The body that you left 

 Hercules alone lamenting all his tragedy
 To mourn the price of greatness 
 The questions power brings
 Upon the mantle of the shelf 
 Against your dilate eye
 Reason lost, conceited, wrought 
 By these unwilling signs I force myself another day of gloom Sleeping with these Lords of Misrule Agent bound to chaos With a counterfeit tool Under the bleachers Concrete cracked A chasm opened wide Sink into the shadows From which I’ll never hide Light pollution carried From the city out to sea In the brightest silhouette You hide what you're revealing When the deal goes down We stitch the heart attack and vine Pull the ripchord open In your mind 
Anneas will you tie me up 
With your golden bough 
Descend into commitment 
 Rise up through the unknown 
For I have tarried through the years 
 As useless as the task
 To transcend death, the widow left Here wailing what has passed 

Persephone 
I yield myself a fallow fortune 
gained 
But all wealth is corruption 
 To destroy my mortal name In the light of these Elysian Fields
 My pomegranate breath 
Linger after the moment
 Always chasing my death
 I will fix myself No matter what you do Waking up alone In this dark room Watching the film develop Watch my love turn cruel
4.
In the Beginning 03:42
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In the beginning was your word Your every word... In the darkness of the deep In the night that you can't sleep In the abyss you can't breathe Your picture in a frame The depths of your decay Covers everything So it looks the same Softly you are speaking Softly you are breathing Multiply your meaning And dance Pass the water that was wine Around the rehab centre Make no excuse for time We won't even remember why we came But we will sing your name Fade softly back to gray Melt the night away

about

These four songs are centred around the pandemic and illness. As an experiment, I did most of the recording when I was recovering from the perfect storm of sickness, and it shows in the roughness of the process, as much as the subject matter. A full-on, clipped vocal presence grates against the mundanity of the electronic beats which uphold most of the tracks.

I'm also quite happy to include 'No Time to Die' here, the most recent song that I've written. It is normally the case that I have to wait months or years between writing a song and releasing it, but this was turned around in just over a week or so. If there is a little bit of roughness to this track in particular, it is only because I was running fast and loose, and my orientation around the record in general was disability and illness. I think the song should benefit from a different arrangement at some point, but for now it stands out as the most listened to track from the album, with the greatest critical reception. I guess one can't plan for these things.

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released August 9, 2023

All songs produced and recorded by DM Rice except for "In the Beginning," which was produced during the Feral Angst sessions. A lead vocal layer was added for this release.

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D.M. Rice England, UK

Founder of Holy Island Records, a DIY label based in the UK––inspired by the beauty of its namesake.

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