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Negation

by Haldol

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1.
Triangle 03:06
UNDER LOW LIGHT I CAN KISS THE JACKAL RIPPING MY INSIDES; SUCKING ON MY FINGERS, SWEET, DRIPPING POISON THAT BLINDS STRANGERS' EYES. I LASH MYSELF IN REMORSE- FRESHLY PEELED SKIN LYING IN SENSUAL BRUISES. A MELTING CANDLE DREAMS OF BURNING THE HOUSE. A SICK, GREEN LIGHT FALLS ON YOUR THIGHS, AND BURROWS IN MY ARM. LET ME SMILE BEFORE GOD LODGES IN MY THROAT.
2.
LEFT VENTRICLE BURST LIKE A NIGHTMARE RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES. POSTURE DESPERATELY ON A TIGHT ROPE UNTIL YOU KNOW WHICH WAY TO REACH DEMISE. LOVER TRANSFORMS TO MOTHER AND BROTHER, AND YOU'VE NEVER LOVED HIM MORE. DIG INSIDE HIS ABDOMEN UNTIL YOU FIND A SORE. LIFE DRIPS INTO YOUR EYES FROM THE CEILING AS IF IT CAME FROM THE SKY. YOUR ANGER'S A PYTHON NESTLED BESIDE YOU THAT WHISPERS IN YOUR EAR ITS DESIRE TO DIE. HOW MUCH CAN YOU HATE BEFORE IT LOOKS LIKE LOVE? YOU'VE SEARCHED SO LONG FOR AN OBJECT THAT FITS JUST LIKE A GLOVE. ANTS DEVOUR THE FLY YOU'VE CAUGHT. DIVINE DESIGN- LABORERS DO WHAT THE SPIDER OUGHT. CAN YOU EVER FEAR AGAIN? CAN YOU EVER FEAR AGAIN?
3.
Bull's Blood 04:20
WHILE THE SUN TEARS MY HOUSE IN TWO, I BECOME ST. FRANCIS- DUMPING ASH INTO MY BREAD, WHILE YOU GIVE YOUR SERMONS, AND OUR PRAYERS TURN LIVING TO DEAD. SUCKING THE COLOR FROM OUR FACES AND TWO YEARS STOLE A DECADE. LOSING APPENDAGES, WE GIVE PUNISHMENT A NEW NAME. I'VE BECOME A ROCK THAT BLEEDS AND YOU A SCREAMING MOSES- YOU TOOK MORE THAN WATER FOR BELIEVERS LURED AWAY FROM THEBES. THERE'S NO WAY EITHER OF US FEELS ANY MAGIC; PERFORMING THE SAME MIRACLE OVER AND OVER. MY SPIRIT NO LONGER SHAKES AND NO HOLY GHOSTS GIVE ME COVER.
4.
I SPENT SO MANY YEARS WAITING FOR SOMETHING I CAN'T EAT; THESE MORSELS OF PATIENCE COME TO ME- TO KEEP ME IN MY SEAT. AN ORANGE ROOM DRIPS LIGHT ON YOUR SKIN. YELLOW-GREEN EYES PEER FROM THE BOWL WHILE YOU TAKE YOUR GLASS OF GIN. YOU WISHED YOUR MOUTH COULD KNOW PLEASURE, BUT YOU FORGOT THE TASTE OF PLUMS. WASH OUT IRON OF YOUR BLOOD FROM WHEN YOU GNAWED OFF YOUR TONGUE. I'M TIRED OF YOU SITTING IN YOUR CHAIR AND I HATE THE WAY YOU STARE; I'D FEED YOU BLOOD AND ORANGES, BUT I FORGOT MY DESIRE TO SHARE. TOUCH MY TONGUE- EXCITE MY MOUTH, SING IT SONGS TO LURE IT OUT. WE'RE EMBARRASSED PIGS NOW OBSESSED WITH BEING CLEAN, STRICKEN WITH HUMILIATION, WE NEED A NEW WAY TO BE SEEN. I FOUND SAFETY IN MY LOATHING TO LIVE, EAT, SHIT, AND EXPEL BLOOD. TONIGHT YOU'LL DROWN IN MILK BEFORE I LEARN TO LOVE.
5.
LET ME CARESS YOUR HAIR WITH MY BROKEN HANDS WHILE YOU LEARN TO LIKE YOUR VOICE. PRACTICE YOUR SINGING, AND I'LL KEEP THE HAMMERS OFF MY WRISTS- TANGLED IN YOUR HAIR, HANGING BY MY HANDS BROKEN INTO HOOKS OF BONE, THE WORLD BEGS US TO GIVE IT A NAME WHILE THERE'S PROXY BOMBERS IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE. BUT A LOVER'S ONLY A DANCING FRIEND STEPPING CALMLY IN A BLOODY FLOWERBED. THINGS THAT SWIM WILL DROWN. A FLASH OF JOY- WE WASH AWAY. CATATONIC FRAME- FLOATING UNTIL IT LIES ON LAND.
6.
The Garden 03:21
I SAW YOU IN THE GARDEN AFTER A NIGHT IN THE ARCADE. YOU CURSED THE FLOWERS AND DROPPED THE SPADE. I TOILED IN THE SOIL, AND ONLY GOT DIRTY HANDS. WE'RE BOTH SO TIRED OF OUR LABOR ON UNLOVING LAND. I DROWNED THE SUN IN THE BATHTUB WHILE YOU DROVE OUT IN SEARCH FOR LOVE, AS I SEARCHED FOR MOONLIGHT, YOU HAD COVERED THE PLANTS WITH BLOOD. I LEFT OUR HOME WITH A HEART FULL OF LOVE THAT NEEDED TO BE DRAINED. WE HAD TO TAKE OUR OWN PATHS BECAUSE WE COULD NOT TAKE THE STRAIN. YOU SET OUT FOR THE CITY OF SWEAT, I STAYED AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD; BURNING WITH PASSION - THE RETURN OF A SOLAR GOD AND I'LL AWAIT MISSING THE GOLD.
7.
Taphonomy 04:05
THE AIR WAS SO STILL, THE CLOUDS STOPPED MOVING THE SUN ROSE TO ILLUMINATE THEM RED, AND THERE WAS NO WIND TO TAKE THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD AWAY NOTHING TO FILL THE VOID GROWING IN MY HEAD THE GIRL HUNG HER NOOSE FROM THE SKY BUT THE NOOSE STRANGLED A CLOUD AND SQUEEZED SORROWFUL RAIN OVER THE FIELD THE FLOWERS WILTED FROM LAMENT THE LONGEST SUMMER'S SUN BURNT THE AUTUMN LEAVES AND A BLIZZARD BLEW THEM AWAY THE FALLEN LEAVES WON'T RETURN NEXT SPRING AS WE DIG A HOLE TO ESCAPE THE SUN LET THE UNCERTAINTY CONSUME YOU TO NOTHING BUT A SHELL THE GREAT TAPHONOMIC EXPERIMENT. THE EARTH'S DESTRUCTION AND THE AIR SMELLED OF BURNING FERMENTATION.
8.
Negation 04:46
TAKE AWAY MY EYES, I DON'T WANT TO SEE MY FIRE CAN'T PUT OUT THE NIGHT. AND MY WARMTH COULDN'T PUT RED TO YOUR BLUE- NO MORE OBJECTS IN MY SIGHT. I'VE STUMBLED IN BLACK FOR SO LONG AND THIS IS THE END. BRING OUT OUR COMPOSTABLE BRAINS. MIND AND BODY- BACK TO NATURE, FUCK MY MIND, UNTIL I CAN NEVER BE THE SAME. THE HEAT OF MY HEAD TURNED YOU TO A DESERT AND THE RAIN OF MY HEART MADE YOU FLOOD. SHRIVELED HEART NOW EXPLODES; TAKE AWAY AND RETURN REAL BLOOD. COLOR THE SAND AGAIN, IS A BODY ENOUGH? FALL FROM YOUR SKULL, FALL THROUGH THE FLOOR, CRAWL UP THE WALLS, SLIDE THROUGH THE DOOR. GIVE ME A FIRE I CAN FEEL, SO I REMEMBER THAT I'M REAL. DANCING ON MY BACKBONE; YOU'D LOVE ME TO STAND. EYES GOUGED OUT, THE MOON IS GONE, I HAVE BECOME ONE WITH THE LAND. I'VE FOUND MY HORIZON, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM. I'VE FOUND MY HORIZON, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM. LIVING FOR OBLITERATION, WAITING TO BE DAMNED. LIVING FOR MY DESTINY- ANNIHILATION IN MY HAND.

credits

released March 5, 2021

Recorded by us winter 2020
Geoff S. - Guitar, vocals, recording
Andrew C. - Bass
Aaron M. - Drums, artwork/layout

Inner gatefold painting by Arielle Coupe

Mixed by Geoff S. and Alex Nagle
Mastered by Alex Nagle

Play Alone Records, 2021

"Negation is the fourth 12” from this band that started in Nashville, Tennessee, but has spent most of their time in Philadelphia. I’ve listened to all of Haldol’s 12”s, and I’ve liked them all. Their self-titled 12” from 2015 is a phenomenal record, and predated the current death rock revival by several years (there’s currently a death rock revival, right?). While I was lukewarm on their previous record, The Totalitarianism of Everyday Life, Negation recaptures the fire of that self-titled record by pushing past its sound rather than returning to it. While Negation still has death rock-isms like chorus on the guitar and tom-heavy drumming, the guitars are janglier, the singing more expressive, and the songwriting more pop. Once again, Haldol is ahead of the trend; while everyone else is going Christian Death, they’ve gone full 4AD, sounding more like something you’d see on 120 Minutes in the late 80s than a band on a flyer for a Madame Wong’s gig. That seems to imply a softening of Haldol’s sound, but that’s not the case at all… they play with the revved-up energy of bands like the Cult and the Jesus and Mary Chain… it’s pop music as much as it is art project, and listening to it provides all the immediate pleasure that pop music is meant to." -Sorry State Records

"Love in the Time of Corona " Haldol's latest offering NEGATION. (Review by Richard Brown of The Proletariat)
Under normal circumstances the writing, recording and production of an album is at once exhausting and exhilarating/ wish fulfillment and catharsis. To record an album in 2020, in a time of pandemic, heightens this dichotomy and incorporates elements of isolation, self doubt and the feeling that you're playing in a vacuum. In addition to being stud musicians, Haldol fearlessly tackle these obstacles with ease and precision. Shifting from Pornography era Cure to Miami era Gun Club within a single song ( Taphonomy) they totally blur the concepts of punk, post-punk and goth until none of them matter, till none of them can lay claim to the song. Taphonomy is the best song I have heard this year and has replaced Universal Leash as my favorite Haldol song of all time. The mid song drum break that sends Taphonomy careening into another direction is brilliant.
Despite the difficult times, or maybe in stark contrast to them, I find Negation to be less dark ( not necessarily lighter ) than previous Haldol releases. Bull's Blood uses vivid religious imagery to describe the end of a relationship. Once the facades are removed its easy to see why the break up occurred and why it serves as a release.
Because I adore the band, I have tried to be as objective as I could possibly be. Given the material, given the musicianship, given the times we live in...I find Negation to the perfect tonic. 95/100. -Richard Brown, The Proletariat

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Haldol Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Current members:
Aaron M- drums
Geoff S- guitar, vocals
Andrew C- bass

Past members:
Tiff Cheng
Matt Martin
Joey Cantrell
Ryan Saito
Trey Stallings
Sean Flint
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