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1.	"never saw'm" by tongue depressor 16:50	buy track
2.	"why should not my spirit be troubled?" by gateway 17:12	buy track
3.	"never saw'm" (excerpt) 03:08	buy track
4.	"why should not my spirit be troubled?" (excerpt) 02:49	buy track

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FLASHES ON THE PAST PARTITION

Tongue Depressor - “never saw’m”

And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Mark 16:17–18

Gateway - “why should not my spirit be troubled”

But Job answered and said, Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 21:4

I’ve just heard some of our neighbors think we have injected the mark of the beast as soon as we set foot into a CVS. Poison ivy grows someplace new every day in America. The sun is red. Most days our house is covered in flies. The question is: What dark lord here tests Gateway and Tongue Depressor? As Job wept among the ashes of Uz, the duos Filer & Gick + Birdsey & Rowden scrape the strings and freak the saxophones of late capital, making scrap-metal occult music both into & out of something sacred. If there is chanting, it feels like a recovery or recovering, as if voices that once held serpents had emerged from graves still green. Gateway’s side I imagined howled through a megaphone at a tent revival outside an abandoned Circuit City; Tongue Depressor grows down by the river leaking from a dishwasher, a rattlesnake-ivy covered by nematodes, growing in the shape of a satellite dish. They worry & they worship the sounds these places make.
- Jacob Sunderlin

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released November 12, 2021

split lp by tongue depressor and gateway

forward program
"never saw'm"
by tongue depressor
Zach Rowden - double bass, bowed banjo
Henry Birdsey - pedal steel, 1/2 sized cello

reverse program
"why should not my spirit be troubled"
by gateway
Jason Filer - electronics
Tim Gick - reeds

mastered by t.g.
layout by t.g.
design-z.r./h.b./j.f./t.g.

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