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Spider Mountain

by Dani Lee Pearce

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Bonus items with digital download include:
    *PDF of Spider Mountain zine
    *artwork of singles
    *promo pictures
    *bonus songs

    Artist receives 75% of all proceeds of digital only sales. The remaining 25% supports Grimalkin's label and mutual aid fund and helps us towards sustaining our work.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $13 USD  or more

     

  • Limited Edition Cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Please note that Destined Not For Land is not included on the cassette version of this release. that track is only on the digital and lathe version of this release.

    Digital download of Spider Mountain included with each cassette purchase, as well as:

    *Handwritten thank you note

    *a couple surprise stickers & pins from Grimalkin Records

    Bonus Items included with both digital & cassette purchase:

    *jpeg files of single artwork

    *pdf of Spider Mountain zine

    *jpegs of promo pictures

    Per Dani, all proceeds from the sale of this release go to our label and mutual aid fund.
    grimalkinrecords.bandcamp.com

    Includes unlimited streaming of Spider Mountain via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Special Limited Edition 10" Lathe
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Please note that this is an EP version on lathe and features the tracks:
    (Lathes are in stock now and already made and will ship after February 18.)
    Side A
    1. Foxhood and Twink Lucifer(single version)
    2. Star Pee (early version)
    3. So Passeth Corvid Son of Jackdaw
    Side B
    1. Destined Not For Land

    Digital download includes the entire album in full.

    Digital download of Spider Mountain included with each lathe cut purchase, as well as:

    *Handwritten thank you note

    *a couple surprise stickers & pins from Grimalkin Records

    Bonus Items included with both digital & lathe cut purchase:

    *jpeg files of single artwork

    *pdf of Spider Mountain zine

    *jpegs of promo pictures

    All proceeds from the sale of this release go to our label and mutual aid fund.
    grimalkinrecords.bandcamp.com

    lathe cut records made by:
    groovyduderecords.com

    Includes unlimited streaming of Spider Mountain via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
take it every step every square bare feet on concrete never stop never turn back never again will you crack walk one way till you hit nowhere and your brittle legs plant you elsewhere never seen fireflies are you okay as i limp on by where will i cease i move im still headed that way where will i get so lost that i pray Faceplant on the lake never drown never wake spider mountain spider mountain
2.
sketch out a game plan of 300 years or so look at life like another new dimensions hiding just around your frame of sight and act like you would on the one you stand on three snakes become six tentacles and each becomes three giant centipedes and each giant centipede becomes a whole batallion close off every opening and steel plate the stallions are you to play god with me moving on treads while moving on legs while moving on quadrupedal lateral configurations slide on your stomach slingshot with your beak blast like your cocks of metal roll like a slinky make your rules on space and time your world is now both flat round and dime-sized seize every tentpole that dare get pitched come mysteriously prepared to make this dirt your bitch are you ready to play god with me and all this time like a fool you were woefully unprepared for me to be prepared for a threat like you S is for slowly and also for success while F is for fast and also for failure this is how we move and we must be five-faced must be everything at once at a snails pace we can agree that the true god is change and the change is the change from a checker to a chessboard we turn the board sides shuffle up the suits one side’s Poison Ivy, the other is a slicked up boot are you to play god with me one of these days im gonna blow gods head off with one of his own bolts of lightening hold me to that
3.
jennifer wife of jiminy christmas could you be any stronger barking in life with sycophant kingsmen could you be any longer with your departure you have great fortune with demeter as the Lord of Misrule is yet to be crowned it is the best of days so does Catallus say in the worst of times so once said Dickens and now say I jennifer wife of jimminy christmas you know so much more than snow given good life by blessed true christians oh what does old jimmy know litany on the fringes dare i say its time to go its not unspeakable lets go and keep the mortal a memory give their boredom a memo from thee jennifer wife of jimminy christmas better raised a post-standard girl finnegan knows he isnt a straight one your husband will do fine there kick back for teacher this mirror the dust and the shade and the way it will dance youve got the best of ways in the coldest of winter sway through the evening lantern light you stay jennifer jennifer jennifer
4.
worn and withered you attempt to learn to take oil then cometh holy water from a belmont voice above you grow vines from their pocket bloom buds around his waist cling tightly to his legs through the extended silence of the day maybe you were never told love the thorns that do protrude and pierce the unequipped to handle you the fuel changes yet again thick and viscous, blinding vicious smelling sweet of a butchers cleaver hatched in brick, slick with grease old and hungry their vision a pixel mess cut with the smallest finger the celery tendons of one of your many chests how bloomed your berries how quickly they devoured never ripe enough never round enough it was a simpler time it was the sampler time the sample must duplicate and so must your stem divine
5.
foxhood hunting twink lucifer armed with a small stick and speaking loudly cooing and chattering and flickering xir ears spots a dripping leaking from the thick of this willow peak foxhood pursuing twink lucifer fallen from two types of grace one of angels, one of a saved face foxy xe cooed your massively a few gems in my pocket i wish i had more friends like you i wish i had more gems that danced like you a rich mans a bitch man this we know a rich man is a snitch man this we know too and a rich man can never be a witch tran no no this is the ancient law the only one we follow were hopelessly smitten by the things we used to think we were soaking words electric spells leave me barely conductory yr all soft rock and blissful sapphic country round me a wild foxhood appears what will twink lucifer do? what will twink lucifer do?
6.
Corvid XIX 04:40
an old birds dynasty made its name in pleasantry’s autumn dove down deep and plundered all the silver from their neighbors willing treasury fell one by one in greek vase patterns from the sky down the hill nearby the old king always a young king in thinking peace with the monkeys and trolling upon the dinosaurs of their kingdom always invading always stirring up fun to keep kingdoms active and the pheasant folk entertained gather they do where the train makes their stop leaving on the same crusade and coming right back marching in circles or perhaps patrolling that which theyve made their fortress xe collects the mass grave of yet another dynasty generation passed on Corvid XIX pleasant and ruthless dyed in the slaying of eight hostile birds of prey meals of plenty for the children dances of entry for the layers xe uses the bones to line the boundary of where the roosting where the next kingdom comes to be
7.
Star Pee 02:18
messin around and fuckin around in my very tidy forest playground under the star pee the stars got structures raining all over me i love the plants that its growing waitll the apothecary sees i hope the seeds and the fragments make a fuckin wildin tea i wanna see what kinda tea it is i wanna see what kinda tea it is and market it my patented star pee tea at the farmers market in town thats right did you know the stars just peed these herbs out of the ground out of the ground with a very loud sound from my private forest playground got hit with a good dose of star pee strange growing star structures whizzing all over me i guess this means that the good stars like me i hope there are no bad stars with no bad kind of star pee that hurts more than it heals that patches up less than it causes to peal and blister and blister please mister this storys none of your concern i was talking to this cutie here she is my very best friend and she was curious about the fact that stars do pee and its lovely the fact that stars do pee when the scenery pleases them so and all the plants that star pee grows either making fascinating fruits or vegetables or even tea these things so satisfy me my star pee apples and star pee peaches make a good tasty snack with my star pee tea and crumpets i remain astounded that its only founded within my forest playground star pee just the first ounce and a half coughed a finished sweater out from me star pee star pee star pee
8.
Fuzz 06:34 video
yr fuzz yr fuzz yr breast yr soft pools yr sprinkles in the tangles yr soft smoky voice blowing through my ears yr expanses you meet me face to tired face yr cave of warm wind clinging walk through my house like a candle all of your wax is bared to the dark leaving a path of solid puddles down my hallway cradled in your tentacles resting my head on pillows of skin basking in your campfire scent and bathing within i run my hands in yr forests through your vines and up and down your cliffs making my way to the rose garden where i am spring i am your spring you are my autumn i burrow in the holes of every tree that smells like you clinging hanging on yr piercing stuck in the maze of yr earring i sneak through the wild brush of your sandy hair this is where the water acts frozen flowing so even and undisturbed when you run your fingers through you feel every little quiver fuzz fuzz understand this is a sacred place non dare enter here except for me for you fuzz fuzz stung stung into wet wet into worm like speak soft and tender carry all with you that is big fuzz Fuzz
9.
they first flew in twilight with wings folded clumsily and some in albatross, ostrich and loon and the crafters beside her were hungry like spiders for her end she dirtied the sky with things that could barely fly and even took pride in it the cutters dance that this crafter danced was too improvised her footsteps her fingers not one with her scissors when paper crane crafters perfected their slice then nary a cut til the paper was earth, and each fold a mountain and in the cutters eyes the presence the essence the movement of that cutters god On high as the masters left slowly behind they left the Nasruddin the sky is a plague that is yours to continue and ours to abandon our care now grows nothing our harvests turn empty the lone cutter left now feels she must shift focus and do so to fix the dirty webbed bloody twine that blankets the sky when the cranes were loosed they snipped away the barriers and bared forth the clouds and the rains of autumn and spring so long did she live in the wrong cutters dance now to pivot to the right step lost in the knowledge she now must learn with no one but herself to glean snip away snip away the more little traces of brightness are shown to beaks that grow sharper and wings that grow more respectful
10.
i am a lonely painter i live in my satchel of paint bags using bases that are all thats available to me the statues that tower have burned all the arts away except for me day by day the soldiers come and i replenish supplies thankfully they already come with red deoxidize to make blue draw from a different place for yellow dig deep in the thick of the heart if you dare and youll find the black aplenty apply it to dry ice and now you have white i wont run out for a lifetime my pieces they line the way to draw my replenishings in when stories spread i see that they no longer destroy them
11.
EveryForm 04:39
and every form i took i was hurt and every form i took i was told i didnt hurt enough and every form i take i am told that it is fake and every form i took i cried out harder when nothing hit me so any instance was a new question i could not help but place myself inside the villain line i never find myself defending (worthy) i just drop to my knees and try to manifest all the money i can make do not intend to keep a penny for myself im intending to be sending every penny straight to you i break myself and make myself work something of an oxen doesnt matter if im broken so were you cause every form i took i was hurt and every form i hurt was a form that you were hurting too and every form i took i was wrong and every form i took that was right, it took me long enough every form i took i was caged like a bird every form i took i found myself speaking one less word and every form i took i got a little larger and every form i took i added one more piece of armor clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang and every form i took i was hurt and every form i took i was told i didnt hurt enough and every form i take i am told that it is fake and every form i took i cried out harder when nothing hit me clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang and every breath i took i felt impressions of a set of knuckles in the gut and i blew it back up every form i shaped like a festive amber cake and every breath i took i blew the candles out for me
12.
grieve now so the burn doesn’t spread grieve now even though no one is dead be thankful you grew in ways you were never promised dont be spiteful or maybe be maybe be all the vileness within you from the moment of its out its out no need to fester no more if im a child cause i dared to foster anger for one second get out get out if it dwells you know its a spell theres more to the brain of a wishing well and maybe the thoughts that you really think are deeper in complexity and maybe the things that you wonder about are really worth forgetting and maybe the things that you wish had happened weren’t supposed to be you were destined not for land but for sea pour me another glass of skullcap basil tea destined not for land but for sea destined not for land but for the fingers of the circuitry destined for the glow of a screen sleep now youve been staying up since 5am again sleep now see the morning. see how positive the day feels then say hello to the girlfriend over the border you’re desperately working to try to see listen to how she admires you you’re everything that she’s ever dreamed let that be your focus let it grow you into grey hairs softly sit down once in a while maybe try one sip of this coffee and find the peace in these new surroundings never flatter, never wider never softer, never lighter never rougher, never kinder lay down onto the deck on your ship footsteps on all sides let her find you and lay next to you and rediscover the clearness of the sky and maybe the thoughts that you really think are deeper in complexity and maybe the things that you wonder about are really worth forgetting and maybe the things that you wish had happened weren’t supposed to be you were destined not for land but for sea pour me another glass of skullcap basil tea take that step face the world awoken take that next step its been spoken keep taking more steps now the world gets to turn over at the speed of your feet take a step up and another step up now your somewhere higher than the gullet of the street and maybe you can stay up there maybe you fall back down maybe you break a foot on the way and have to just hop around maybe someone builds an elevator especially for you maybe you become a roller skater put that one good foot to use all you know is that when you stop you’ll look around and notice that you’ve since waltzed into another country’s borders and maybe you want to exit but theres no way that you can one day the walls will crumble but for now you exist in the place you stand and maybe the thoughts that you really think are deeper in complexity and maybe the things that you wonder about are really worth forgetting and maybe the things that you wish had happened weren’t supposed to be you were destined not for land but for sea pour me another glass of skullcap basil tea
13.
assimilate me give me a home assimilate me give me a home voices i hear for the first time immediately recognize come well sip tea darker than night foxhood goes running for a bite feel your comfort on all 8 legs spider mountain a cable runs over us and trailing upon it a wayward carriage carrying the rust of a populated place and with it some curious names finding home in the ghiblis finding hoods of their own fauna come well partake in this potion make our bed in the stream feel your comfort on all 8 legs spider mountain warm as ember voice so soft and so low touch so lush in liquid cotton singing quietly with me in long unbroken soothing tones everything blurs and all that is is you and the mist from the river outside i become a washing wave over you inhale exhale with eyes closed laying together nose to nose in the hum of the air dont need to do more we can simply be there manifesting you waiting for you to find me singing out your name in a breathy whisper from spider mountain singing out your name with the crickets and cicadas in spider mountain singing out your name sleeping under my tree on spider mountain whispering your name sleeping under my tree on spider mountain

about

February 18, 2022: Dani Lee Pearce (she/her) is a Pacific Northwest-born nonbinary trans creature currently living in the Midwest who has been releasing music online since 2011. Many of her songs were written during a 5 year period she was homeless, and lyrical subject matter ranges from that experience to drawing from dreams, fantasy, folklore, witchcraft, mythology, history, intense emotions, the spiritual, the mysterious and the macabre.

Her music has ranged across a multitude of moods and textures, beginning with very loose and experimental compositions and transitioning through keyboard-based prog to synth-rooted progressive pop with a distinct queer ethos. She became connected with Grimalkin Records in 2019 and her 16th and newest album, Spider Mountain, is her second release with the label.

When asking Dani what this album is about, she replied "The president should be on fire. This album should hopefully set him on fire."

Artist receives 75% of all proceeds of digital only sales. The remaining 25% supports Grimalkin's label and mutual aid fund and helps us towards sustaining our work.

Per Dani, proceeds from tapes support Grimalkin Records and will go towards artist and release development.

Lathe proceeds go back to Grimalkin and we break even if they all sell.

Huge thanks to Liam and Various Small Flames for premiering the single Foxhood and Twink Lucifer and the pre-order for Spider Mountain for us: varioussmallflames.co.uk/2022/01/21/dani-lee-pearce-foxhood-and-twink-lucifer/

Huge thanks to Bathory Zine for getting out the word with our press release for this album: www.bathoryzine.com/2021/12/dani-lee-pearce-has-new-single-out-on.html?zx=7e40c223e3e58132

Really rad of Wire magazine to feature Dani's track Foxhood and Twink Lucifer on their Virtual Office Ambiance 456 playlist: www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/virtual-office-ambience-456?

Massive love to The Wire Joe Stannard, and Claire Biddles for this amazing spread and review of Dani Lee Pearce's Spider Mountain in their March issue: www.thewire.co.uk/issues/457

Huge thanks to George and Astral Noize for premiering this album for us: astralnoizeuk.com/2022/02/18/album-premiere-dani-lee-pearce-spider-mountain/

credits

released February 18, 2022

All Songs written, composed, recorded and with vocals by Dani Lee Pearce.

All Album Artwork and photos by Dani Lee Pearce.
Production and Mastering done by Maddie Tourmaline and Dani Lee Pearce.

Composed and recorded 22 September 2020 - 21 January 2021 in Milwaukee, WI

Many thank yous to:

Maddie for being my ears during production.

Grimalkin for remaining amazing family!!! I don't ever wanna leave!!!

My small cadre of fans who post about me on places like reddit
and RYM in attempts to spread the word about my music and
support me on twitter and patreon. You all are so good and
have definitely helped me keep going through rough patches!!!!!

Special thanks to my Patreon supporters:
Geibuchan
Ivy Michaels
Maddie Dohmen
Renere
Ember
Joshua(Nineroe)
DoomZappo
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Kamani
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Jessica Redfield
Avery Robinson

Maddie
pagefortysix.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/page-fortysix
twitter.com/madstourmaline

Dani
danileepearce.bandcamp.com
www.patreon.com/danileepearce
soundcloud.com/dani-lee-pearce
twitter.com/danileepearce
blog.spacehey.com/danileepearce

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