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Shut Up and Dance

by Wildeyes

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1.
dance when my bullets fly on your disco a chance to show us what you know dance when you're flying high like a missile friends will multiply is it a lovers quarrel? is it the fall of man? is this a holy world? is it the final stand? just dance when the ballroom burns and you're billowed a trance so let your body go dance when I hold a knife to your sharehold friends are hard to find is this a priceless pearl? is this a holy hand? is it a hell bound world? is it the promise land? just dance is it a woman's love? is it damnation? is it a light a above? is it the hand of man? is it a chosen world? is it an accident? dance when the stage is stormed and you're zero'ed a chance to show us what you know
2.
one more night if only love could last till morning light one more time you've gone away and I'm not surprised who ya gonna call? who ya gonna run to? who ya gonna love? who ya gonna trust? who ya gonna lean on? who ya gonna love? who's gonna love you? you're my friend I wanna say id wait until the end one more breath until you use up all that we have left on the floor its getting late I could help the pain
3.
Lone Wolf 04:14
pull me in faster make my love new I'm a disaster when you're in the room liquor and laughter half summer moon I'm a little sadder when you leave the room so don't leave, don't leave without me Lone Wolf don't leave, don't leave without me Lone Wolf fish out of water you're a diamond to see I stand a little taller when you're next to me smoke and old carpet a bowl full of keys I'm an easy target I need to breathe
4.
Heartbeat 03:10
if they found life on Mars would the answers be strange? could the tell us who we are? unfolding our fate would they know why love goes astray? a million miles away in a heartbeat I might be coming in a heartbeat ill be running your way fell upon a dying star where a portal was made it pulled me in the dark on a sonic wave through the walls of time and space a million miles away
5.
Everchanging 04:04
you haven't changed tell me my friend, how have you been you haven't aged what world are you in, tell me again Cuz I'm ever-changing yea I'm everchanging we find our way to the top but its never enough we find our way to the top but it really doesn't make a difference why do we wait in passionate state, caught in oblivion cryptic and fossils and wilderness places are all we are given passive exchanges blurry and aimless, what are you feeling? there was a day you used to say, you're one in a million
6.
Lets Talk 01:06
in the end I see a bright light looking over me pulling me up to a never ending lets talk lets talk lets talk surrender to the outside of you surrender to the outside of you she used a quick to keep a buzz and a cigarette lit
7.
is it too late to have an honest open conversation will you unlock the door before we fall apart did time make you righteous, a holy head storm but you're jumping overboard ill be damned if I didn't try will you open you're eyes will you open you're eyes will you open you're eyes before you look through me
8.
I'm on your lap modern day oh Lord how I'm gettin you paid I'm American made loving tough love and hate oh Lord how I'm eating the paint I'm American made I wanna rock and roll! I wanna rock and roll! blood of a cult blood on the blade I'm not the sinner or saint I'm American made run of luck running late how long I been eating your bait? I'm American made take me out to nowhere I be lonely hour I know where I belong
9.
Angels 03:46
angels, you send angels to surround me but I couldn't see em and the thing is, you are only a man with only the strength of your hands places, there are places I gotta be and I've waited my whole life to see em but when I'm gone, it feels like its wrong the highway sings an old hollow eyed song i've made it this far but I won't make it alone so may your angels bring me back home chasing, I've been chasing a dream like a hero on the old silver screen and there's freedom when I'm out here on the road again but the night falls and the lonesome set in

about

Wildeyes tracked seven original songs from what would become Shut Up And Dance in one take— a tried and true specialty from the band that thrives on live performances in remote places. 
“The core performances (bass, drums, guitars, lead vocal) were all just that,” says Daniel Kohavi. “Performances in a room with no click track. This matches the way the first record was made, and is a big part of the ethos of the band. Capturing a moment, a performance, with all of its imperfections is what we have built Wildeyes on. For us, it’s all about the performance and the real musical interaction that happens within a collective of musicians."
Even with the bulk of the work done, bringing an album to fruition is complicated. Add in a front woman who spends the majority of her year globe trotting on other artist’s world tours, and the process is downright painful. Add in a global pandemic, and it is sheer torture. 
“We’d spent two years on a recording hiatus between [Emily’s] tours with Hozier and Phoebe [Bridgers], and then covid added all of this extra uncertainty,” says Daniel. “The band wasn’t playing any shows, sitting on an unfinished record with no future release dates in sight.
They say idle hands are the devil’s playthings, and that is especially true for career musicians. With an abundance of free time, Wildeyes was forced to sit with an unfinished album, nitpicking every aspect to what felt like the point of no return. The Sound Emporium session had brought them one step forward, and the pandemic took them two giant leaps back. 
In an effort to see through the fog, Wildeyes reached out to Hozier musical director Alex Ryan, stepping back into the studio with Spears in mid 2021. In that time, Wildeyes was able to record two brand new additions, “Angels” and “Let’s Talk,” and add thematic string elements that breathed new life into already existing tracks.
“Alex brought a new energy and excitement to some songs that we had been in the studio with for far too long,” says Kohavi. “[The album] gets her name from the title track. Shut Up And Dance is a sentiment that has been building up in the band’s ethos, and seemingly in the world it inhabits.”
The album finds the Kohavi’s and Hoffman writing about personal matters— their frustrations with a lack of touring (and therefore purpose), loneliness felt within a relationship, questions on self-identity as both a band and as individuals— as well as musings on the modern world outside. The songs are laced with layered strings, entwined electric guitars, and warped feedback, driven forward by ethereal hooks that lend a touch of nineties nostalgia. Gluing everything together is the band’s collective pent up energy, a palpable reminder that for Wildeyes, the time for talking about it whatever it is has come to a close. It’s time to Shut Up and Dance before the music shuts off and there's no one left on the dance floor.

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released May 20, 2022

Emily Kohavi - vocals, violin, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, synth
Max Hoffman - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Daniel Kohavi - vocals, dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

Ed Spear - Producer, Mix engineer
Alex Ryan - Co-producer, bass, piano

Terence Clark - drums, percussion
Calvin Knowles - bass
Mike Hicks - keys, Wurlitzer
John Radford - drums
Emily Nelson - cello

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