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Robokiller

by Thing Mote

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Robokiller 04:35
Robokiller - Thing Mote This is Robokiller and it’s the new way To protect and serve your life everyday This is Robokiller and it’s full of A.I. You can take the three laws and throw 'em away This is Robokiller and you got to know It can’t be programmed and it can act alone This is Robokiller and it can shows How a machine can decide if you have to go This is Robokiller and it seems to know How to take a life by dropping a bomb This is Robokiller and the future wars Can be delegated to simple show More wars, more peace it’s the equation Less deads, less risks and no education A show to assist in every nation C’mon and see the celebration The day is burning The wind is coming The die is cast Stay low go fast The wind is burning The day is coming The die is cast Love first, kill last I was just following the orders I was just following the orders I was just following the orders I was just following the orders
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Stillness 04:18
Stillness - Thing Mote The people want something from you Your eyes are wide open starring the void Reality shakes you while you are at home Apathetic to life Finally comes the night Breath slows down Eyes would close Fog covers everything how do you feel Time is still Humanity is a fake planning Be more productive and buy many things Your hands are so ready your mind is too clear Tight smile on your lips Take on all the tips Growth slows down Firms would close Leafs cover everything how do you feel Time is still Perhaps the people shows The things you're hiding from Stillness in the time Stillness in the mind Perhaps the nature falls But you still need a job Stillness on the trees Stillness in the fees But please don't take your stillness too much seriously So shake my hand proudly like the first time we met But please come down that tie is too tight-fitting So get your feet on the ground - and grab my hand... Like the first time we met Like the first time we met And please don't be so still And please don't be so still
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Redroom 06:58
Redroom - Thing Mote Meet us, where the things were real Meet us, where the things were real A woman, a man, laying on a red sheet bed. Disarming power, from the creature before Bleak walls and body snow Black thoughts and honey moans Meet us, where the things were real Meet us, where the things were real The Treasure, the sin, savouring the white pure skin Recalling flowers, from the days of yore Bleak walls and body snow Black thoughts and honey moans Things were real Things were real Things were real Things were real That gaze without time Makes waver human mind Makes waver human mind "I want you" Whisper between the black walls. Crack the magnificent perfection Pushing ambitiously in lost regions Hardly bridling emotions Hardly bridling emotions Shot, rumbling between the red walls Brain blows out from the place Shiny tinkling corrosions Shiny tinkling corrosions Rain of electric buzzing flashes Gaze motionless and everlasting Lonely dreadful outstation Lonely dreadful outstation Meet us, where the things were real Meet us, where the things were real A human, some leds, laying on a red sheet bed. Black again Between the walls Bleak walls; body snow Black thoughts; human lost
4.
Memories 02:46
Memories - Thing Mote I can not let you go I can not see your ghost You’re inside me, I’m inside you, No one knows You don’t be afraid I’m here to kill your pain Share your memories, Let me be your guest before I go If I forgive you I have to forget you And I try to hate you So I could see you again From what is not yet Through what has no length, It passes into What is no longer It’s time to move on It’s time to let me go These are memories Of a time that will be These are memories Of a time that will be
5.
Awake 05:53
Awake - Thing Mote "Part 1 - The night of the dying minds" I’ve lost my own key My brain connectivity You need a recharge It’s too late to let you down Am I led by myself? Are there other people here? You should focus on you It’s not easy to way out I don’t think I’m free I heard a noisy simphony You need a restart It’s hard to get out of here I’m fading away What is reality? You should take control There’s not time to take a break "Part 2 - Better safe than sorry " Actually I don’t know where I am. I don’t know where I've been. I don’t understand what is real and what is not. I’m on the run but I don’t know from who or from what. Those voices. Those damn voices. I can hear them. The screams. I can feel them. There they are. What is all this? I seek shelter. What’s happening? Better safe than sorry. Better safe than sorry. "Part 3 - Realize" The involution of species Humanity against nature Cain and Abel We’re all brothers Will we be forever bloodstained? Is this oblivion that I wanted? Is this oblivion that I wanted? Is this oblivion that I wanted? "Part 4 - Raise up" The sunset is gone. The dawn is born. Time to wake up, again. Time to raise up, again. The moon is up. The sun is dark. Take off your shoes, again. Take up the route again.
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Auckland and You - Thing Mote Take off Let me go Keep me here Stay home Waste land Runaway Leave with me I'll be back Hold me tight I can be your light Would you be mine? K Road CBD Far as hell Close as sea Cut loose All the sails Trapped at shore Mapping you Hold me tight I can be your light Walk in Walk out Write me more Write me now No text Slow tear Cut me off I was near Hold me tight I can be your light Would you be mine? I’ll be always here Even if I’m gone There’s no peak of snow There’s no waterfall Auckland got me once Auckland let me go I’ll be always here Even if I’m gone We are always near Now that we are old All it is so bright With this perfect light We are always near Now that we are old There’s no dark at night There is only light Light that makes you laugh Light that makes you blind We are always near Now that we are old There is only light Light that makes you laugh Light that makes you blind We are always near Now that we are old There’s no dark at night All it is so bright Now that we are old Wrap around us All the beauty Time of light now - light Only Light
7.
Her 03:39
Her - Thing Mote I can't control my attitude I'm addicted to the new I can forget how hard it is To be left but I've a fix I never really met you I'm not sure you are so good I really want to try the update It’s like a sign of fate I need someone that'll help me I don't care if it is her or him But she’s my heroin I can’t talk without you I’m in a constant deja-vu I can be jealous if you want But maybe it would be my fault I never really felt you I’m not able to be cruel I really want to kiss your lips But what I got it’s a bunch of bits I need someone that'll help me I don't care if it is her or him But she’s my heroin Leave me here Hold me near Let me be My own king Keep in touch Don’t talk too much Let me feel A real queen
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Machines are coming - Thing Mote You don't have to worry of the beating You don't have to worry of the breathing You don't have to worry of the feelings You don't have to worry of the dreaming And soon the noisy feeling become a beating And soon the noisy dreaming become a noisy breathing And soon the noisy feeling become a beating And soon the noisy dreaming become a noisy breathing It's just the evolution that brings us to perfection here we can control you no feelings no reaction It's just the evolution that brings us to perfection here we can control you no dreaming no expression Our revolution brings to you protection Erase the question Delete the profitless There won’t any exception Be normal, be oppression Bit is ciphering now Bit is ciphering now Bite is closed in mouth Bite is closed in mouth Bit is ciphering now Bit is ciphering now Bite is closed in mouth Bite is closed in mouth And it comes out And it comes out And it comes out And it comes out
9.
Hoax 04:19
Hoax - Thing Mote In 1879 there was a meeting of great minds Michel Foucault Edgar Allan Poe Wittgenstein Welles G. Orson Talking about An issue of great matter The crowd was there To hear the resolution The conference was about “the medical danger of using the palm oil” I don’t know there’s something in that lotion I’m now in this fabulous location I’m right here but I need something better I like most the multicolor pixels I can’t hear the noisy voice of grandma I don’t care, this cat is more important I’m not here to fight the global warming I just want to take a pic of vultures I don’t like the violence on the tigers And you are I’m scared by the fog they put in airplanes I am sure that’s why my auntie’s dead now So she was I don’t like the tweets of politicians I don’t get the language they are talking If they will Try to swim Try to swim Hold your books tight And Try to swim In this ocean made of numbers Try to swim Try to swim Try to swim
10.
Wasteland 06:36
Wasteland - Thing Mote This is what I see And I can’t believe Blood and flesh Fear and sweat It's time to go back This is what I see And I can’t believe Hide with sick Clicking quick So many many leaks Kids are old men Herd is so packed They stray alone They watch the bowl Where we're on Talk to me please Crowded London Bridge Truth on the net Philosophy, help! It’s time to go back Now All their eyes fixed Counting electric sheeps Screens are black Poetry is dead Time to go back now It's time to go back now It's time to go back now This is what I see And I can’t believe And I can’t believe Gathering around the fire In this waste land Shrinking in the wire In this waste land Which of these gods Will lead us to polls How many smears Will lead us to sneers Gathering around the fire In this waste land Shrinking in the wire In this waste land These ancient ruins Are here for the fluids While engineers Fuck up all the fears Gathering around the fire In this waste land Shrinking in the wire In this waste land Shrinking in the wire In this waste land

about

Robokiller è il primo album della band veronese Thing Mote. Dopo vari EP, la band decide di racchiudere la sua poetica in dieci canzoni che seguono una sottile linea rossa, un unico comune denominatore.
Questo filo che tiene le canzoni ancorate l'una con l'altra è una riflessione sulla perdita progressiva di umanità, del rapporto che c'è tra uomo e tecnologia al giorno d'oggi. Viviamo in una società ormai incentrata sulla comunicazione digitale, ognuno di noi ormai ha una vita reale e una vita virtuale, con il rischio di non riconoscere più quale sia quella vera. La tecnologia quindi, invade il nostro quotidiano, mutandoci nel profondo, anche inconsciamente. Attenzione, l'album non vuole essere una sorta di manifesto luddista, ma anzi, vuole essere uno spunto di riflessione, estremizzando talvolta alcune situazioni: Robokiller rappresenta quindi una sorta di "Black Mirror" musicale, ovviamente in chiave rock.
Il rock è il genere che i Thing Mote da sempre usano per esprimersi e sperimentare la propria idea di musica. Un insieme primario in cui variare e spostarsi, mantenendo comunque un'idea chiara della propria visione. Sicuramente il grunge e il post-rock sono due sfumature, due basi, presenti sia nella storia dei Thing Mote che all'interno dell'album Robokiller. Le chitarre distorte, il noise, i riff accattivanti e i ritmi "pieni" della batteria generano un tappeto sonoro di grande impatto. Grande risalto e importanza è stata data inoltre ad un altro strumento, spesso non considerato tale: la voce. Le melodie e armonie vocali infatti, scritte e cantate dai due cantanti Giuliano e Tommaso, si fondono perfettamente sia all'interno delle canzoni che nella testa di chi le ascolta.
Il tutto è stato sapientemente confezionato dalle mani e dalla mente di Jacopo Gobber, che ha saputo trovare l'amalgama giusto per accomunare le canzoni anche dal punto di vista di sonorità. La registrazione e la produzione è stata eseguita infatti presso il Flaming Studio di Verona, studio fondato e diretto dallo stesso Gobber.
Le sonorità sono profonde, a tratti cupe e suscitano sensazioni di ombre e luci, catapultando l'ascoltatore in una dimensione quasi cinematografica, come se la canzone stessa fosse un perfetto connubio tra trama e colonna sonora.
Le canzoni non sempre seguono la classica struttura pop/rock ma anzi, sperimentano nuovi orizzonti, quasi come fossero più canzoni all'interno della stessa, lasciando sempre chi le ascolta con la curiosità di scoprire cosa accadrà dopo.
Alcuni testi sono semplici ma d'impatto, altri più complessi ma quasi poetici, il tutto per poter descrivere al meglio i concetti da esprimere sia tramite le parole che tramite la musica.
Insomma, Robokiller è un album che si presta ad un ascolto su più livelli, sia per quel che riguarda i temi trattati, per il suono espresso e per la struttura delle canzoni.

ENG
Robokiller is the first album of the italian band Thing Mote. After several EPs, the band decides to enclose its poetics in ten songs that follow a thin red line, a single common denominator.

This thread that keeps the songs anchored to each other is a reflection on the progressive loss of humanity, of the relationship that exists between man and technology today. We live in a society now focused on digital communication, each of us now has a real life and a virtual life, with the risk of no longer recognizing which is the real one. Technology therefore invades our daily lives, changing us deeply, even unconsciously. Attention, the album does not want to be a sort of Luddite manifesto, but rather, it wants to be a starting point for reflection, sometimes taking some situations to the extreme: Robokiller therefore represents a sort of musical "Black Mirror", obviously in a rock key.

Rock is the genre that Thing Mote has always used to express and experiment with their idea of ​​music. A primary set in which to vary and move, while maintaining a clear idea of ​​one's vision. Surely grunge and post-rock are two shades, two bases, present both in the history of Thing Mote and in the Robokiller album. The distorted guitars, the noise, the captivating riffs and the "full" rhythms of the drums generate a high impact sound carpet. Great emphasis and importance was also given to another instrument, often not considered such: the voice. The vocal melodies and harmonies, in fact, written and sung by the two singers Giuliano and Tommaso, blend perfectly both within the songs and in the head of the listener.

Everything was expertly packaged by the hands and mind of Jacopo Gobber, who was able to find the right amalgam to share the songs also from the point of view of sonority. The recording and production was in fact performed at the Flaming Studio in Verona, a studio founded and directed by Gobber himself.

The sounds are deep, at times gloomy and arouse sensations of shadows and lights, catapulting the listener into an almost cinematographic dimension, as if the song itself was a perfect combination of plot and soundtrack.

The songs do not always follow the classic pop / rock structure but rather, they experience new horizons, almost as if they were more songs within the same, always leaving the listener with the curiosity to find out what will happen next.

Some lyrics are simple but impactful, others more complex but almost poetic, all in order to best describe the concepts to be expressed both through words and through music.

In short, Robokiller is an album that lends itself to listening on several levels, both as regards the topics covered, the sound expressed and the structure of the songs.

credits

released June 5, 2020

Fabio Dai Prè: drum
Pietro Donnarumma: bass
Giuliano Fasoli: voice and guitar
Tommaso Zanardi: voice and guitar

Produced by Thing Mote and Jacopo Gobber
Recorded, mixed and mastered in 2019 by Jacopo Gobber at Flaming Studio (Verona)
www.flamingstudio.it
info@flamingstudio.it
Published by Cabezon Italy

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Front cover graphic design and concept by Giuliano Fasoli


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