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Angelus

by Pop Pistol

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    Angelus
    Released January 2008

    Recorded at Rhapsody Street Sutdios, Sixth Street Studios, Hollywood Studios (all in San Anotnio, TX) by Jason Ybarbo

    1. Angela Awake 4:51
    2. Triggers 4:07
    3. All Heart No Head 4:08
    4. Calm Little Center 3:41
    5. Purple Eyes 3:41
    6. Jelousy Dance 5:44
    7. Urban Hope 4:16
    8. Influential Devil 3:47
    9. Angela Asleep 3:48
    10. IO 3:50

    “This album took two years to create and has changed into many beasts along the way,” read the liner notes (aka the sheet of ultra-thin printed vellum the CD comes wrapped in) for Pop Pistol’s debut album. If you listen closely, you can feel the prolonged birthing process in the music and begin to get the sense that every measure’s been fretted over, each note tweaked until it resonates exactly the way the band wanted it to.

    Live, Pop Pistol’s firepower comes mainly from frontman Alex Scheel’s meticulously noisy guitar-playing. Scheel generates feedback with the same precision others play a glockenspiel and mashes effects pedals like his guitar’s hiding out from the mafia. On several songs on Angelus, however, the guitar sounds more like a second fiddle to ethereal keyboards (played by Scheel and bassist George Garza) and glitchy electronic sampling (credited to Scheel, Garza, and Gonzalez). “Purple Eyes,” “Angela Asleep,” and “IO” match Scheel’s emotive voice to unfeeling bloops and malfunctioning drum machines for an effect reminiscent of Thom Yorke’s Eraser. But the ax (wielded more like a scalpel) cuts through the more visceral tracks: “All Heat and No Head,” “Calm Little Center,” and “Influential Devil” all rock like they predate the PowerBook — studied, melodic guitar playing and knotty low end. The best songs on Angelus, though, are cyborgs. “Angela Awake,” “Triggers,” and “Jealousy Dance” meld live instrumentation with technology to form a cogent transhuman whole. Most impressively though, all of it — Scheel’s overdubbed guitars and multi-tracked vocal harmonizing, Garza’s intricate bass lines, two guys playing keyboards and three guys twiddling knobs — serves the songs. There’s not a sample out of place or a superfluous effect to be found. Those two years sound well spent. — Jeremy Martin, San Antonio Current

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1.
Angela Awake 04:50
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Why do all these feelings stay when your hands slip away it eats me everyday nothing lets this beauty stay this love wont find a way good cant live today oh angela awake sing this dark away a short song for lust love away my hate all my dreams they turn so wrong but its been so long such a hopeless sung try to live this night alone my mistakes wont let go pure sleep still says no oh angela awake sing this dark away a short song for lust love away my hate alarms in my chest ring for you ring for you all day long aftershocks nothing new nothing new and all these colors burned your eyes out cause you seen too much to say your sacred eyes are wide and now your naked and all this noise will drown your heart out cause you heard to much to let you fake hold it close and listen let go
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Triggers 04:07
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We are aware of our lives and the actors we make we trace movements of our eyes cause everything else is fake you blow smoke rings in my mind but you're not really there just an instant surprise just imagining you are the perfect reflection of everything that i need i'm a lost child with no direction tangled up in something so new embraced by chemicals i want to run with you again and again embraced by chemicals i want to die in you again and again we search for wars in our selves and everything that we see you found noise inside peace near the center of me you pull triggers in my mind but you're not really there just an instant surprise just imagining you are the perfect reflection of everything that i need im a lost child with no direction tangled up in something so new embraced by chemicals i want to run with you again and again embraced by chemicals i want to die in you again and again
3.
All Heart No Head 04:08
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All your beating hearts hearts keep me alive all these beating hearts beat me alive all these fixations on paper thin skin get me through the surface of pretty sin friends ill never tell tell whats in my heart ill never tell its tearing me apart all your warming souls burn a fire all your broken hearts melt away and all your perfect skin goes strait deep deep in this isn't real this is so real this is you and me and all thats in between all your beating hearts keep me alive backward crooked thoughts beat me alive taste the air around freshly bruised skin eat the salt around really close friends ill never tell tell whats in my heart ill never tell its tearing me apart all your warming souls burn a fire all your broken hearts melt away and all your perfect skin goes strait deep deep in this isn't real this is so real this is you and me and all thats in between
4.
Calm Little Center 03:41
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home again free from your sin please don't let this city girl drown rainy days she knows please don't let this city girl drown oh alive as we watch our bodies float downstream oh alive please don't leave me don't leave me leave me alone again with an old friend please don't let this city girl drown this gap . it grows please don't let this city girl drown oh alive as we watch our bodies float downstream oh alive please don't leave me don't leave me leave me
5.
Purple Eyes 03:41
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this so warm space will fade away oh don't go this soft soft touch will soon turn rough all don't go stop the noise inside oh this beauty lies stop the voice inside constant conversations these smiling eyes will so soon die all don't go stop the noise inside oh this beauty lies stop the voice inside constant conversation this pleasure stains your heart remains all don't go
6.
Jelousy Dance 05:44
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Tease all the cracks in me with all your fake fake needs and all our throats closed shut and all these words wont rush and were still best friends push away all my angels pull yourself a little deeps and all were a jealous tease and oh were restless restless but were still best friends its all my life life life not yours its only love love love get over it you keep your secrets ill give you gold advice for the greatest price steal away all my safety with all your fake fake needs and we could never be never be best friends its all my love love love not yours its only life life life get over it
7.
Urban Hope 04:16
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All inside my handcuffs kiss the lonely girls their pretty lush live the night till its over lost inside you don't grow caught up in small talk you never know and you find out nothing and we'll fool our world by ourselves cause our selves are so perfect and we'll take the night for ourselves but our selves will never need it teenage god life cant wait let me feel some love and some hate ill give in when i need to pretty city girls move so fast crash into your life no nothing last what a waste it was worth it and we'll fool our world by ourselves cause our selves are so perfect and we'll take the night for ourselves but our selves will never need it
8.
Influential 03:47
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Revolving thoughts that linger and cuts that you remember eyes eyes eyes eyes will never die spinning words to feed you thoughts that make you real see see see see what you mean to me its miles aways think of all the lives you saved she smiles away safety from the lives you changed you cant see what it means to me our thoughts collide into beautiful things a toothy grin that i believe bites at me when i don't see tears at soft hearts when i don't see spits out blood and blames it all on me its miles aways think of all the lives you saved she smiles away safety from the lives you changed piercing eyes see strait through me pull me so close its blurry glazed and shifty painted and deep tap into me and you'll see rushed in dreams tricky choices always trapping me selfish needs all my life pulled up from under me its miles aways think of all the lives you saved she smiles away safety from the lives you changed
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Angela Asleep 03:48
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lets sleep inside the past hold air and make it last we finally see it all hide grins as we fall for so long the earth becomes our sky dream is our alive a pocket full of air the moment that you're there the last point of light our hearts will blind our eyes with no wounds no scars only distance from your start
10.
IO 03:50
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Don't let it stop just go in a million directions just fall to fade away and stay awake this night is a prison inside your head this is buried in my body instant shyness this is buried in my body surface regrets you are my one way to shelter 8 second thoughts that fade with a million reflections blow away blow away this is buried in my body instant shyness you are perfect lost inside me running down my neck you are my last way to shelter

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By Jeremy Martin

“This album took two years to create and has changed into many beasts along the way,” read the liner notes (aka the sheet of ultra-thin printed vellum the CD comes wrapped in) for Pop Pistol’s debut album. If you listen closely, you can feel the prolonged birthing process in the music and begin to get the sense that every measure’s been fretted over, each note tweaked until it resonates exactly the way the band wanted it to.

Live, Pop Pistol’s firepower comes mainly from frontman Alex Scheel’s meticulously noisy guitar-playing. Scheel generates feedback with the same precision others play a glockenspiel and mashes effects pedals like his guitar’s hiding out from the mafia. On several songs on Angelus, however, the guitar sounds more like a second fiddle to ethereal keyboards (played by Scheel and bassist George Garza) and glitchy electronic sampling (credited to Scheel, Garza, and Gonzalez). “Purple Eyes,” “Angela Asleep,” and “IO” match Scheel’s emotive voice to unfeeling bloops and malfunctioning drum machines for an effect reminiscent of Thom Yorke’s Eraser. But the ax (wielded more like a scalpel) cuts through the more visceral tracks: “All Heat and No Head,” “Calm Little Center,” and “Influential Devil” all rock like they predate the PowerBook — studied, melodic guitar playing and knotty low end. The best songs on Angelus, though, are cyborgs. “Angela Awake,” “Triggers,” and “Jealousy Dance” meld live instrumentation with technology to form a cogent transhuman whole. Most impressively though, all of it — Scheel’s overdubbed guitars and multi-tracked vocal harmonizing, Garza’s intricate bass lines, two guys playing keyboards and three guys twiddling knobs — serves the songs. There’s not a sample out of place or a superfluous effect to be found. Those two years sound well spent. — Jeremy Martin

It was a long process that took over two years to make complete. When we started there was an image : shaking cities and running through walls and moving focal points and square purple rooms and dying cities riding on skin and slow waltzes and moving red lights of youth and ambition towards thing expansive and giant valleys and tiny radios and distant voices and bloody fingers and knife eyes and last days of teenage and fear of closeness and distance and weak screams towards death and singular perspective and fast inside something slow inside something fast and wrapping around of each other and Japanese dreams and invisible cities and emersion. And something not understood and escape. These were just ideas and we just played music. The music changed and fluctuated and we moved away and near . I don’t know why it took so long but it was all those things and we couldn’t and shouldn’t escape from those things. Now we want to put it out to float in the world like tiny paper ships in a sea of consciousness. They are small and mean nothing and can barely be seen from distance, but they are outside us and inside someone else which is worth the jet streams. We hope to make many more of these ships much more naturally and with more speed through time. Here are images of what is going on right now. Images of shadows and fabric and light speed and distance and dirt floors and fire and circles and spirals and hexagons and foggy mirrors and skies scraping and luna dancing and mars squinting and multiple perspective and outside living and points and waves and movement and girl circuits and mitote and pink noise and rose lenses. , and things I forget. Thank you to everyone that has helped us get any of this done . If any of yall didn’t exist we would be still kicking cans waiting for our lives to start.

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released October 31, 2008

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Pop Pistol is a Band from San Antonio that embraces it's roots. All the music cultures that have influenced us are present here and all realities of present day are expressed here. We are three brothers who play music together.

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