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Alter

by Pleasure Forever

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Levrikon Another set of killer goth-rock tracks from Pleasure Forever. The production is a little thicker and richer than it was on their self-titled album, though one distraction is the weird vocal effect on Andrew Rothbard's voice on much of the album.
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1.
White Mare 03:55
Sunrise Ultraviolet divine Seeking apex Peaking Slip the laughing gas To the sirens down below Reduce myself Into a newer soul Lit the holy match Threw the fire in the hole Shiva’s son will never grow so old Into the sunrise.
2.
Czarina 04:48
Black picket fences Mistaken for a mystic Nervous cursing hexes Spirals spinning spineless Haunted down To the boundless ground Glory bound crucible crown Czarina caught a chiefess Red handed with a pink slip Magnificent benevolence Says go ahead, make the myth Noble savage digging Through the garbage Hands clasp at the mission Spinning apparition This is my ghost town And if you think you can take it back…
3.
Aeon Flame 06:01
Angels in the snow I heard where they go Paradise comatose This place is some kind of hospital Fallen angel in a lonesome place Seething smiles falls about the place Headstones in the snow Shadows trade for souls I want to know where I put my halo Fallen angel in a lonesome place Seething smiles falls about the place Gideon in aeon flame Licking hits of window pane Blanking slates and empty plates Tethered to the temple gates Drunk again, looks like rain In the water mirror Don’t recognize It’s animal Easter Numb surprise Gideon in aeon flame Licking hits of window pane.
4.
Draws An 8 03:17
Howling through the walls Fell on his face by grace it broke his fall Effervescing effortless Thrust the rushing crush that turns to dust Flowers through the fields Rips the roots that sever cuts to heal Solarized resonates Lucid petals cross to pollinate 27 colors monochrome Only seven wonders in this world That we called home And this line draws an 8.
5.
Gumdrop Venus honey drip Red Sea parting cherry lips Black bead sockets electric bliss Telekinesis is flipping the switch Wash away Born one mile high Wicked shivering columbine When he died, wash away Rainy day, wash away Butterfly poison spiking the punch Sugar slipping on the tip of the tongue Monolith Moses is the white widow priestess, An heiress to Isis, and the heir is two Time saturates forever and a day.
6.
Spies and charlatans, stonewall scribes Conquered came to tame us The fire surrounds all sides Punching touched Slipping clutched Rusting dusk Whispering hush, hush, hush Iron lungs as catalyst to arch the aching sky Any volunteers from the audience? As the fire surrounds all sides Timeless expired hat tricks from rabbits past Tempest swirl the vestal chaste Betwixt ruse and song muses fall.
7.
Rider’s roost seduced with the juice Asleep on benches Nine of a kind, a nowhere mind in open trenches In a five walled room sooner swoons With cloudy clout In a gravity well the tattle tells what it’s all about I am what you ain’t March in the saints Climbing a moonbeam Wound’s still deep Climbing a moonbeam Monsoon swells deep Time divides faultless lines Digging a hole where seismic slides False starts heartless be stilling Purity’s finally free from distilling Shanghai surprise same old gun shy.
8.
Snapping fingers hypnotist Olive branches in a ditch The trees are breathing A little louder than 1000 lions Clutching the text for so long Day shine Night shine Old time hard line Around, around we go In your tracks you froze House is not a home A friend in need is a friend indeed Walking around with my halo off Around, around we go.
9.
Indigo speeding slow Closer than a stone’s throw Tremor tones in afterglow Clear as the coast’s ancient echoes Caressed solace of oceans sinking Liquified sky of fishes drinking Sea swallowed whole never diminished Driving drifts to flash flood finish This is the zodiac speaking Hollow flow obsidian Invisible meridian Rippling, crippled, and tame Pushed through the veins Slipping further away Locked inside transparent skin Delicately flickering Spoke on the wheel Spook in the wind This is the zodiac speaking.
10.
Axis Exalt 04:22
And we’re swimming in symmetry Silver shoveling cemeteries Blind sighting signals signing Search is missing in tides left ripping Song less swan has gone conjuring Charms to chime for listless listening Earth of salt spinning to a stall Axis exalt a flawless fault Walking through the fields And what I cannot take I’ll surely steal; Fake; real, think versus feel Everything = nothing Versus/vice.
11.
Tempest II 02:13
Peacock curls in a white typhoon Spun 33 degrees Tigers trapped her in Neptune's tomb Back at the barrier reef Deceptive scepter of his scion’s rule Who shall soon be buried The spirits protect her never to be fooled Judged by royal decree Shimmering shiver deliver quicksilver Living down river ne’er a for giver Shivering timbers tongue of silver Shackled to carry me home Eclipsing this world and all of its fortunes Shooting straight to the sea In a vapor trail with the nom de plume, ‘Finally free.’
12.
Seasons in the sunset breeze Deep is freezing, come in from the heat Dawn spreads its golden wings Waxen idols of waking sleep Seasons in the sunset breeze Fever’s thieving fasting’s feast Reap sewing stitch-less seams Finger-less clutching free In the kingdom of the blind I only need but one good eye So I can see through this Seasons in the sunset breeze Clamor clinging with sharpened teeth Voice of reason's treason speak Secret silent cults mystery I'm going back to the scene of the crime Dearly beloved clearly spied One way ticket on a merry-go-ride Bleeding red all over I can hardly see Why they call it Murder Back and down around again...

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Second and final official Pleasure Forever album. Released in 2003.

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released May 6, 2003

Andrew Rothbard - vocals, piano, keyboard
Joshua Hughes - guitars
David Clifford - drums, percussion

All songs by Pleasure Forever. All lyrics by Andrew Rothbard.
Recorded during the rain in Portland, OR in 2002.
Engineered and mixed by Larry Crane at Jackpot Studios, Portland, OR. Produced by Pleasure Forever and Larry Crane.
Mastered at RFI Mastering, Seattle, WA.

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Pleasure Forever San Francisco, California

In the late 90s, after the break up of legendary synth-punk band The VSS, 3 members regrouped in San Francisco as Pleasure Forever.

In 2001 the trio joined Sub Pop Records and released 2 albums before disbanding.

On 5/5/23, on the 20th anniversary of the release of Alter—catalog number Sub Pop #666 —the band announced their return with Distal, a 7-song collection of all new songs.
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