

A straight up hi-fi rock album!
November 19, 2015, 3:17am
“I always wanted to produce a straight up hi-fi rock album that parallels the era of The Blue Album”, Shunkan’s frontwoman Marina says, about the band’s latest release. So here’s where we would usually tell you how Weezer’s debut album was great, and wow wasn’t that record angsty, and didn’t they suck so hard in the decade afterwards, and blah blah blah. But fuck that! Y’all know that shit already.
So now that’s out of the way, let’s focus on Shunkan’s The Pink Noise. The record is a “love letter” to Marina’s “teenage self”. Recorded in a week, it’s a record that’s about darkness as much as it is about the light at the end of the tunnel. A song like “Our Names”, which narrates the age-old transition from drinking to snorting coke at a house party, catches the whirldwind of often alienated teenage emotion, yet polishes it with a sheen that promises to have you smiling through the tears. “I just want people to feel understood and less lonely when listening to the record because that’s what music has always done for me”, Marina says. Obviously this means we’re gonna have it on repeat 24/7 from now. Listen below.
The Pink Noise
sinking slowly down to the sand
breathing bubbles in my hand
I can’’t feel anything at all
my limbs are like a sticky tac
pull me right off of your back
I need to learn how to crawl
CHORUS
we’re sittin’ ‘round to hear those words
that we are nothing like our slurs
that everything is beautiful
(x3)
I fill my pockets up with stones
at least they make me feel less alone
all I want is the sky
bed & breakfast with some bread
always seems to clear my head
the pink noise is a lie
CHORUS
ba ba da da da
ba da da da
da da da~
Everybody Wants to Die
CHORUS
well! if everybody wants to die
then I’ll see you in your dreams but
I don’t want to live the life only
of the boy who would scream
(oh)
if everybody wants to die
then I’ll see you in your dreams but I don’t want to live your life
I’ve been sinking to the bottom
scraping skin right off the barrel, breaking
bottles hear your doorstep all alone
it’s a constant cloud of chaos,
no man could ever save us
and we’re the ones we pick up after tears
CHORUS
I see the signs of flashing lights
blinking eyes, tears so bright
flashing stars in the niiight
Sister Mary, pure and kind
reaching out to hands so blind
“heaven’s kind of cute,” she laughs
CHORUS
*shred solo*
Anything But Love
miracles are left uncharted
as we’re watching The Departed
falling from a push that came to shove
bitter babies keep the cord but
I’m the one that you adore
you wanna call it anything but love
watch with both eyes w i d e
I’ll defend you anytime
even if you’v crossed the line
all my friends they hate me anyway
Christmas with the candle lit &
all the lips that I have bit you
now say you should’ve made me stay
watch with both eyes w i d e
CHORUS
I think it’s so messed
I think it’s so messed uuup
but I can’t deny, I really tried!
(x2)
countdown to the millennium
our self worth in one lump sum
I would cry with laughter if I could
leave me by your champagne glass
I never knew you could talk so fast
but you never do what you should…
Here With Me
I walked to the bottom of the hill trying to figure you out
I shook my head ’til my brain filled up with doubt
all I see is you here with me
now I need to get my things before I start to unwind
I won’t be able to drive if I’m losing my mind
all I see is you here with me
all I see is you here with me
here with me
here with me
ba ba ba da da da
ba ba da da
dada
all I see is you here with me (x2)
*initiate crying sequence*
Paleontologist
Memories die out I’m a paleontologist
I’m digging up bones
this one is hollow, she was eaten &
swallowed, all alone
she was tough and she chased you
she laughed & embraced you
but the sky would keep her down
we’re all gonna waste here, it’s my biggest fear
when it’s so loud you can’t hear a sound
I don’t want to explode now
I was brought here somehow, by true love
I could tear you apart now
U beed ti eat somehow
before they eat meee up above
so don’t forget me
while you’re brushin’ up my better pars
we tried our best there
I had to keep myself from falling apart
{x4}
I’M A TYRANNOSAURUS SOMETHING
WON’T YOU CARRY ME HOME TONIGHT!
SAD
she called it an illness
said it was sad to see me go
losing sunshine from the on-ramp to a worn out pillow
{1}
and I like to remember
how a morning felt in the snow
unobtainable thoughts are fresh air through my window
[bridge]
{2}
and I kicked all the puddles & mud hit my shoes
I stood there still wet & not knowing what to do
but a rat then went home to something
better than I had ever known
ooo aahhh~
he said I won’t help you
you’ve already shot me dead
too tight for the fixtures but open enough for lead
REPEAT {1}
REPEAT {2}
ooo aaahhh~
Blue
We sit around dodging the bullets
wasting your mother’s time
keeping life old secrets under beds
as they drip with slime
and nobody will ever notice
that they were never there
creeping into your consciousness
with a jolt in your empty stare
CHORUS
oh (so) will you ask me out against the
fireplace in light
no one else around us will know
anything about tonight
will this BE
one of those times you talk about in a year
or two
laughing with your friends explaining
what was I to do~
CHORUS x2
Holdin’ To Your Breath
I had a dream that you took my love away
You were dying on the phone like a high school play
He confessed his love to me through symbols and texts
But to me he’s still my pre-pubescent ex
CHORUS
And dreams don’t tell you, darlin’
that you’re still dreamin’ away
Anything that you’re thinkin (feelin’) gets erased anyway
And in the morning! you’re hung over with regret
Still shakin’ from the set
Still holdin’ to your breath
I catch myself starting up a sweat
grippin’ tighter to your skin wishin’ we had never met
You walk right in my mouth with a comfort undenied
Pickin’ up the shrapnel with a sense of pride
CHORUS x2
Peter
In the city I tried to make myself feel big
but when I went outside I just went right back in
nobody knows how to cope with anyone else
everybody’s worried about how to save themselves
CHORUS
OH Peter, your brown eyes aren’t boring
OH Peter, I’ll always be your ghost
nothing seems to keep me away from my bitter end
you can try to catch me from falling and falling again
even if I tell you that i’m okay, you know you
won’t be that far away &
nothing stops what’s meant to be
NOTHING stops me NOTHING stops me
CHORUS