Drab Majesty - "Long Division" (Official Audio)

From Drab Majesty's 'Modern Mirror': https://www.daisrecords.com/collectio...
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“Long Division points to an elusive impasse one may face in a personal relationship; a fundamental difference whether it be culturally, physically, or emotionally, that reaches a tipping point where both people involved have ultimately lost sight of their own identities through the futile act of trying to accommodate one another. It’s about a crafted dissonance in an attempt to harmonize.”

Blowing the dust off the antiquarian myth of Ovid’s “Narcissus”, Drab Majesty uses its premise as groundwork for a modern reinterpretation. Each song tells a piece of the story, in which the listener’s own self-identity has become warped and dissociated through rapidly expanding technology, losing touch with the origins of their own personalities. Setting the stage as a romantic saga of antiquity, “A Dialogue” asks the listener if they are truly in love amid a building wash of guitars and reverb. Elements of classic tragedy weigh heavily in the reflection of Modern Mirror in songs like “The Other Side”, possessing a fundamental sound that is energetic, luminous and hopeful. Fusing the sonic aesthetics of predecessors like New Order and The Cure within the cautious instruction of Greek mythology and modern science fiction, Drab Majesty has birthed a hybrid of dreamy malaise, captured for a future moment.

The first single “Ellipsis”, romantically plays up the distorted concept of courting through modern technology in a world that has yet to adapt, while on “Long Division”, Deb’s resounding guitar cascades around the chorus shared with No Joy's Jasamine White-Gluz, wistfully warning us against our vanity and self-obsession. Even when hope for everlasting love peeks through in “Oxytocin”, a sparkling and stoic track sung by Mona D., we are firmly reminded our fleeting existence.

Modern Mirror is a journey of self-reflection, nostalgia, love, beauty, and heartbreak told across eight addictive and emotional synth pop anthems – a seemingly classic tale delivered unblinkingly through the frame of the modern world.

Produced by Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel-Aviv) with guest vocals by No Joy's Jasamine White-Gluz

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LYRICS:

MADE A YOU A LONG DISTANCE ISLAND IN MY HEAD
I COULD FIND THE TIME TO GO.

YOU WERE QUASI-EXCITED THEN SILENT
I WOULD LIKE SOMEWAY TO KNOW.

A PLAN IN OUR HANDS AND A MAP OF THE LAND
THOUGHT WE COULD FIND OUR WAY WITHOUT IT
BUT YOU DOUBTED.

LONG DIVISION
TURNED YOU INTO SOMEONE
THAT I HAD TO RUN FROM

LONG DIVISION
FALLING DOWN A DRAIN HOLE
DOESN'T FEEL
DOESN’T FEEL ALL THAT PAINFUL…

HATED THE LONG DISTANCE SILENCE IN MY HEAD
I WOULD HIDE BEHIND THE SHOW.

FUTURE SO CAUSTIC INSIDE YOU'RE A SIREN
I WOULD’VE LIKE SOMEWAY TO KNOW

A PLAN IN OUR HANDS AND A MAP OF THE LAND
THOUGHT WE COULD FIND OUR WAY WITHOUT
AND I DOUBTED.

LONG DIVISION
TURNED YOU INTO SOMEONE
THAT I HAD TO RUN FROM

LONG DIVISION
FALLING DOWN A DRAIN HOLE
DOESN'T FEEL ALL THAT PAINFUL

LONG DIVISION
TURNED ME INTO SOMEONE
THAT I HAD TO RUN FROM

LONG DIVISION
JUST NOW STARTED SEEMING DULL
FIRST IT WAS SO MEANINGFUL