Spook Du Jour
by Ex Norwegian
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No twenty, no
Take it to go
A single whoa
Down, boring sound
All day aloud
So predictable
Have a mystery charity
You can send it off all you wished for
And your bling, bling, bling
Bling, bling, bling
In a teen bakery scene
Melting away
Rip currents sway
Teen bakery scene
As past glory fades
Past glory fades away
Slow order show
Make it all count
Not impossible
Squeeze, pastry squeeze
Hate when it snows
In the afterglow
Have a mystery charity
You can send it off all you wished for
And your bling, bling, bling
Bling, bling, bling
In a teen bakery scene
Melting away
Rip currents sway
Teen bakery scene
As past glory fades
As past glory fades
Fades away
Fades to gray
Melts away
Demented delights
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Vicious Cycles
02:36
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Ignoring life
It’s a simple journey
When it’s back to basics
Hark the angels
Enough of flights
Coming in outta here
If the simplest of all deejays
Play the best tunes to hear
You can invest all of your money
With nothing in return
Yet you can invest all your weekend
With happenings every turn
Know what’s right
In the middle of wrong
Just a vicious cycle
Turning round and round
Heavens above
Hells fire soujourn
It’s a miracle
A miracle we could still burn
Vicious cycles around
Vicious cycles around, oh
You can invest all of your money
With nothing in return
Yet you can invest all your weekend
With happenings every turn
Lalalala
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Ciancia
02:27
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Ciancia, it’s getting tough
Down on faces, outta luck
Ciancia, you’re getting out
You’ll find a way somehow
Ciancia, oh anyway
It’s a tough crowd I gotta say
Gonna find you out when you least appear
To disappear
Into the shady shade
Of winters grey
Osterstrauss, it’s wonderful
Host you here, with the crowd
Osterstrauss, so you’re getting out
You’ll find someplace somehow
Oh, Osterstrauss, how did you know?
When things got bad
You hid the lot
It’ll come back full circle stop
If you believe in me
And take charge of situation
It will be all taken care of
Thru the hard times
You go straight, straight to the show
Ciancia, it’s getting tough
Down on faces, outta luck
Ciancia, you’re getting out
You’ll find a way somehow
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
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Burn It
02:03
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Talk about what you can
Talk about love
Talk about forever
Everything under sand
Whats about this
What about the other
Talk about what you plan
What you plan
Everything under the sun
In the desert lots of fun
Everything under the sun
You can burn it once you’re done
Talk about what you can
Talk about love
Talk about forever
Everything under stand
What about this
What about the other
Everything seems so grand
So grand
Everything under the sun
In the desert lots of fun
Everything under the sun
You can burn it once you’re done
Everything under the sun
In the desert everything’s done
So done
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Airlash
02:37
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When I see you smile
Makes the class worthwhile
Passion at a high
Sense a new advance
Sentimental chance
So down to freestyle
Slip around again
‘Till the very end
Sunshine all over
Cryin’ at the chance
Keepin’ up your stance
Everything so loud
And I see the cloud
It is always wow
Hunting for a single glance
But I feel no pain
It’s all over again
Then I see you come around
Make your maker
Shake your taker
Everything is turnt around
If you need a way
To reach the edge of day
Gonna make it nickel bound
And I feel no shame
When you’ve come again
And you hear me hold it out
But I feel no shame
Coming ‘round again
Everything is where it’s at
Said where it’s at
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Thot Patrol
02:41
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It’s fitting to know
How the old thoughts go
Away into shade
Of direct oblivion
Good speed done time
When you’ve picked the rhyme
Destruct, devour
Your religion
So late in the game
We’re doing fine
Painting a name
That sits on our waist side
Thot control
On patrol
Mindful of day
Shortened coats of play
Hoping for once
Choice in opinion
Way by your side
Exactly as assigned
It’s late in the game
We’re doing fine
Painting a name
That sits on our waist side
Thought patrol
On control
Oh, thought patrol
That’s how thots go
Thought control
On patrol
Turn old, lose glow
It’s return of the same old show
Thot control
On patrol
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Paging Lisa
02:19
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Hiding faces sunshine almonds on my back
Simply put I fail to shoot
My belongings in your shack
Were gone by the time I was here
It was much too late I fear
Symbols all green and red
Turn out wherever I appear
The happening you invited me to
Is now just a simple excuse
To get away
Stay away
From you
Your tiny mazes locked up safely in a pouch
Eight-thirty where have you been
I’m waiting to announce
It’s fall by the time I was here
It was much too late I fear
Symbols all green and red
Turn out wherever I appear
And the happening you invited me to
Is now just a painful excuse
To get away
Stay away
From you
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Crazy Paving
02:49
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We’re the seven low ride
Look good in the sky
Saving graces aside
Which we’d rather not hide
Sending postcards back to the staff ladies
He’s travellin’ through time to make up his mind
Pluckin’ feathers from ghosts
Arranging ducks in a row
Focused on ‘em all night
It startled up in a fright
Sending postcards back to the staff ladies
Telling them all the wine is just fine in rhyme
Walking out to a park
Sneaking nascent to die with the fires burning bright
Still the seven low ride
Still look good in the sky
Wingman says she’s alright
As he flies into night
Sending postcards back to the staff ladies
It’s ok we found time to write some line
Walking out to the dark
Crazy paving is all that I got, isn’t a lot
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Fresh ATM
02:36
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What you got are stories
Stories not often heard
What you got are real stories
Of the absurd
What you got are stories
Stories not often heard
What you got are real stories
Of the absurd
What you got are stories
Stories not often heard
What you got are stories
Just like above
What you got are stories
Stories not often heard
What you got are real stories
Of the absurd
What you got are stories
Stories not often heard
What you got are real stories
Of the absurd
Of the absurd
Of the absurd
What you got are stories
Stories not often heard
What you got are real fine stories
Of the absurd
What you got are stories
Stories not often heard
What you got are real fine stories
Of the absurd
Of the absurd
Of the absurd
What you got are stories
Stories not often heard
What you got are real stories
And sense of the us
Get fresh!
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For Your Conveniences
02:27
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For your conveniences I’ll tell you what you don’t wanna hear
For your conveniences I’ll get you before your flowers my dear
For your conveniences you’ll never know what it takes to get going
For your conveniences you’ll never see another show from me
Taking changes that are so plain to see
Predictable like them and me
It’s all a gas light to some extent
For your conveniences you’ll never know what it takes to get going
For your conveniences I’ll get you before your flowers my dear
For your conveniences I’ll tell you things you don’t wanna hear
But not here
For your conveniences you’ll never see another show from
Show from me
Show from me
Chouffer me
Taking chances that are so plain to see
Predictable like them and me
It’s all a gas light to some extent like fuses, like fuses
For your conveniences I got your fuses
For your conveniences I won’t tell you anything
For your conveniences
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Save For No Future
02:44
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You’re a star taker
Kidnap them to trustees
Such a heart ringer
Doing just as you please
You save for no future
Save for no future
Ain’t it the way it goes
You save for no future
Save for no future
Anyway that it flows
Don’tcha know
You’re a spy taker
Writing on the white wall
Such a heart breaker
For the rest of us young
For the rest of us young
Save for no future
Save for no future
And you know (save for no future)
No future
No future
Just a star taker
Kidnap them to trustees
Such a heart bringer
Doing just as you please
Doing just as you please
Doing just as you please
Doing just as you please
Doing just as you please
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12. |
Center Mario
03:05
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Have you seen hairy legs at your best
Took it in a way, take it away, it’s a little shiny
Over summers night it’s a rest
Waking now waking now walking out just fine
So out of your mind
Well looking so for looking lost
With your Vespidae spiked bottle of wine doing fine, fine
Center Mario center stage, exist left
Audience roar, storm the stage, whatever’s left
Another day another life to begin
Working out fine, fa-fa-fa-fine
Working the plan to the neck
Next day when summer sets legally blind
Center Mario center stage, exist left
Audience roar, storm the stage, whatever’s left
Hope doctors orders, orders are sent
Via layered complex algorithmic signals their black car front view
Bending the shades for a common due
Do you? Do you?
Center Mario center stage, exist left
Audience roar, storm the stage, whatever’s left, left
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about
Thirty minutes. A dozen songs. Ex Norwegian's album No. 13 brings it. The aptly titled Spook Du Jour, faithful to its tuneful and irreverent brand, features the moody art rock of "Thot Patrol," alongside songs like "Burn It" and "Vicious Cycles," which have their roots in Bowie and the Velvet Underground.
Ex Norwegian, created by band mainstay Roger Houdaille, has provided quirky lyrics combined with an eclectic approach for 15 years.
With a wide variety of songs - from the driving glam-meets-Krautrock of "For Your Conveniences" to the Bolan-esque "Ciancia," and "Teen Bakery" which could perfectly fit on an early 90's alt rock mixtape.
Its straightforward instrumentation and organic arrangements create a vintage rock vibe that has enough freshness and individuality to stand out.
Melodies flow effortlessly and chords fall where they should. The album also breaks out of the expected formula with compositions like "Paging Lisa" and the album's finale "Center Mario", which remind listeners that the band is not immune to strangeness.
Ex Norwegian, created by band mainstay Roger Houdaille, has provided quirky lyrics combined with an eclectic approach for 15 years.
With a wide variety of songs - from the driving glam-meets-Krautrock of "For Your Conveniences" to the Bolan-esque "Ciancia," and "Teen Bakery" which could perfectly fit on an early 90's alt rock mixtape.
Its straightforward instrumentation and organic arrangements create a vintage rock vibe that has enough freshness and individuality to stand out.
Melodies flow effortlessly and chords fall where they should. The album also breaks out of the expected formula with compositions like "Paging Lisa" and the album's finale "Center Mario", which remind listeners that the band is not immune to strangeness.
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released February 18, 2022
Produced by Roger Houdaille
Produced by Roger Houdaille
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