The Knees Start To Go, by Flanafi with Ape School

The Knees Start To Go

by Flanafi with Ape School

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180g black vinyl. Ships week of May 25.

Includes digital pre-order of The Knees Start To Go. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

shipping out on or around May 25, 2021

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Pre-order of The Knees Start To Go. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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releases May 25, 2021

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1.	Family, Friends 03:05		buy track
2.	Look At This!
3.	gjuijar
4.	25 27 30 04:31	lyrics	buy track
Lucifer he’s completely lucid another dose Lucifer he’s completely lucid another dose Loss another loss gonna get really drunk Loss another loss gonna get really drunk 40 more steps to go 25-27-30 I hear the knees start to go 40 more steps to go 25-27-30 I hear the knees start to go Manifestation of all that trash in you Could we get some menus over here for Christ’s sake ? Another dose another dose Loss another loss Another dose Leaving here to be away Visit a lake maybe it’ll ease up I’m leaving here to be away Big hoss on the premises salmon could use more lemon Big hoss on the premises salmon could use more lemon Can’t really cook so that always helps 24 hours awake 24 more to more to go 24 hours awake 24 more to more to go 40 more steps to go 25-27-30 I heard the knees start to go 40 more steps to go 25-27-30 I heard the knees start to go Too many cigs No I don’t want to come outside with you it’s fucking cold Physically running to get the potential energy out Too many cigs No I don’t want to come outside with you it’s fucking cold Physically running to get the potential energy out Energy out energy out energy out Maybe I’ll sleep now Now now Maybe I’ll sleep Oh Now now I miss eating over there no talking you’re next Go right ahead spilled again get some towels I miss eating over there no talking you’re next Go right ahead spilled again get some towels I miss eating over there no talking you’re next Go right ahead spilled again get some towels 40 more steps to go 25-27-30 I heard the knees start to go 40 more steps to go 25-27-30 I heard the knees start to go
5.	Learn How To Drive 05:30	lyrics	buy track
Ought to learn how to drive Make our lives easy Double back Long hauls would go by by quick By Oh come on Don’t lie Left without you Didn’t feel like picking you up Might be closer if you didn’t take so much Mom wouldn’t hurt her back Dad wouldn’t hurt his spine Double back Long hauls would come by quick Go by
6.	HABRA
7.	Birds Toss and Turn in Their Sleep
8.	Too Many

about

“The Knees Start To Go” comes on the fifth anniversary of Boiled Records: a combined effort by two of the label’s staple artists, Flanafi and Ape School. Flanafi is the musical disguise of one Simon Martinez, who has played with artists including Jazmine Sullivan, Marsha Ambrosious, Kiefer and Boiled’s own Pulgas. Ape School is the occasional recurrence of Michael Johnson, who has played with Lilys, The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, Daedelus and Holopaw among others in his now two decade “career." This release follows Flanafi’s “Do You Have My Money” and Ape School’s “You Don’t Listen." both out in the latter months of 2020 to a truly pandemical reception.

Martinez was a student under Johnson’s university tutelage in the middle part of the 2010s, and they developed a working relationship via many hours in a rotting old studio in downtown Philadelphia. Concentrated studies included: spelunking the value cave of absurdity, creating music while actively removing one’s own brain from the equation, and general explorations in letting one’s instincts dictate direction. Budget Eno on a private school price tag. Paradox eternal which still confuses them both. In the end, these years laid the groundwork for a very natural back and forth this time around.

This collaboration followed a relatively simple trajectory: Flanafi painted the picture and colored it in while Ape School blurred the edges and added melting palm trees and an occasional stump to the landscape. The resulting effort combines a host of approaches and influences, producing a work that should baffle and delight in equal measure. For some, these two reactions are codependent. An amalgam of synthetic and natural sound: bird calls clashing with ARPs, hiss fighting for room with gnome r&b choruses, carried always by Flanafi’s stunning musicianship and plaintive vocals. Some would some say prog, but that’s likely because we’re all musically moronic at this point. Open your ears and see what you might hear, people. The new is the old all over again, and vice versa, foreverandever, amen.

"The Knees Start To Go" will be released digitally and on 12" vinyl on May 25, 2021.

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releases May 25, 2021

Songs by Simon Martinez

Performed, engineered, produced and mixed by Simon Martinez and Michael Johnson at Dickinson Street and Big Mike’s Rave Dungeon, Philadelphia

Mastered by James Plotkin

Lenny Mobley - drums on tracks 1 and 3
Bella Martinez - voice over on track 5 (pull my strings)
Cynthia Johnson - arp 2600 on track 7
Laura Duval - keys and laughing on track 8

Album design and layout by Laura Duval

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