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The Knees Start To Go

by Flanafi with Ape School

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I’ll be on in in a minute just gotta do a couple other things Leave it up to you and it’ll never get done Better head up to the surface get some air Surface level relationships with all those folks I’d rather step out into something new I love it when I win and can’t bare to be underwhelmed I’m an undercooked chicken Listen up and I’ll only say it one more time Lively lovely bunch of people Shut you’re moth zip it tight Loving all my friends Loving all my friends family friend Pleasing to my eyes I can’t watch anything too sad Even though I wanna watch all the films with you Heard that you are Ill better get that illness out Suck it out of those fat old wrinkly legs Shuffle through the deck of photos Do you remember when?! Building for a brighter tomorrow makes for a shitty today Lame lame lame lame never say that again Loving all my friends Loving all my friends family friend Loving all my friends Loving all my friends family friend Laying next to you and lying to your face what are we to do? Faced with the conflict I’m gonna hide from it all day Don’t look at my face please no eye contact Who would want to see that awful mug? False sense of superiority the only thing that gives me any kind of confidence Keep it confidential or lay down the law Lay with me
2.
Must be into you Oh oh dying to impress you Let me show you this let me show you that let me show you this let me show you Oh I see you over there Don’t want to make it obvious Don’t want anyone to know one to know Dying to impress Must be into you Don’t want anyone but you Oh oh dying to impress you Let me show you this let me show you that let me show you this let me show you Why does this happen? For times in my life thus far Wasting all the early times Early times Tell me your impressed Let me show you this Let me show you that
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Shining shimmer sign off I log in Sog the log Shining shimmer sign off Shimmer sign off I log in Lucky you to be to be Lucky you to be in the position that your in Oh yeah You come from money Shining shimmer sign off See it on your shoes Shining shimmer I log in Shining shimmer I log in Stitching together Pieces of people of a certain likeness I log in I log in Sog the log It’s just Your dis It’s just your disposition Oooo I log in I log in Sog the log I log in
4.
25 27 30 04:31
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.
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
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HABRA 04:33
Certainly I’m sure that they can promise that no changes will be made Certainly I’m sure compromise Prep to live through this yet again Litigation wear em down Sand em down right to the nub Fingerless these stubs feel around (for some semblance of a peaceful life) Fingerless these stubs feel around (for some semblance of a peaceful life) Mind suppress the tumor grows until you can no longer see yourself Mind suppress the tumor grows until you can no longer see yourself Certainly I’m sure compromise Prep to live through this yet again Bring the youth into this Bring the youth into this Bring the youth into this world Bring the youth into this Bring the youth into this world Just to injure and abuse them Mitigate the impact of the blow Mitigate the impact this will have on them down the line in there lives Yet again Prep to live through this yet again They preach to pray at night They preach to pray at night Be thankful for all gifts and talents that god gave you Compromise Yet again Prep to live through this yet again Prep to live through this yet again Prep to live through this yet again Yet again
7.
Can’t hear a thing Birds toss and turn in their sleep until you see Love the earth like me Releasing all the smells Never seen anything so week in my life
8.
Too Many 05:46
Oooo Spent some time with you from my past Someone hit my key with the flunitrazepam Pam ooooo I’m Browning and belching in post Back to where I was ooo Back to where I was ooo Too many people too Too large of a group Finding it hard to assimilate Eliminate the options I don’t wanna talk to you, idiot That’s the 3rd time So drunk I can not see Squinting to walk inside In the kitchen strangers twerk Oh no Oh no I don’t mind Can I see that again? I’m talking to you I’m talking to you There’s more going on Probably just projecting Sad sad strange little man Oh no I walked out without saying goodbye Too much interference Oh I Reign in a new month of confusion my brother There they go in the dark I can’t see Too many people Too large of a group Finding it hard to assimilate Eliminate the options Squinting to walk inside In the kitchen strangers twerk I don’t want to talk to you you idiot That’s the 3rd time So drunk I can not see

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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released 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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