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Outlive Your Body

by Firesuite

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1.
Deadbeat 03:42
2.
You can follow my regret This is all a waste to me This risk is all I need To bring you back again To wear your armour down Too much is lost, too much is gone Where are all the things we built Where have all our loved ones gone too This is all a waste to me The risk, the risk is all I need To bring you back again To wear your armour down I'm failing, failing now The trees don't burn the same When oceans call my name You lured me away, and I can't come back to see We broke this way before We knew we took it all We're saved We're saved for now The trees don't burn the same When oceans call me in The trees don't burn the same The sea forgets
3.
There were times we saw the rivers dry out So we fortified what little we'd won The little sacrifices we would have to make The little sacrifices brought us here Now the mountains represent what we've lost So drink on consequence to balance it out Whoever told you nothing matters anymore Is just as terrified as you We were more than what we are It's too much, too much you mustn't let it in You'll find yourself, you'll find it in the ether I gave up on hope, and understanding There were unfamiliar ways to get out There were choices that we made to survive Whoever told you nothing matters anymore Is just as terrified as you We were more than what we are It's too much, too much you mustn't let it in You'll find yourself, you'll find it in the ether I gave up on hope, and understanding
4.
Even Hand 06:46
The last even hand, burnt this place to the ground All this loss, you needed it If all you see is decay, is decaying You're under the wolves The last even hand, burnt this place to the ground All this loss, you needed it In a way we were lost with you Innocence, innocence with you The little things we buried them for you
5.
Harbour 05:21
Tonight I am lost The harbour seems far behind But we've been here all the while We were torn tonight It's so much just to begin I'm waiting, waiting fast to the end
6.
SJVL 04:18
7.
Wolves Below 03:07
I was not the first, with the broken harm Were you lost before, as you never were So they took me out, just to turn to stone And the wolves below, were the open door I became the thing you want, I got tangled in the earth There's a distance in your words So they took me out, just to turn to stone And the wolves below, were the open door I was not the flame was I When the ending came I never was There's a distance in your words I was not the first, with the broken harm Were you lost before, as you said you were I became the thing you want, were we ever torn When the opposite is wrong will we ever know If this is all we feel Then I'm a junkie too We're friends until the end Friends until we're dead
8.
Oh the way you used once to get here's overgrown And now snow covers everything Everything's cold And the house we lived in, has the curtains all pulled closed I mislaid for you, and I died for you I won't let you up, I won't let you die So blindfold me, gag me just stop me somehow And you're worrying so I will fall off the edge of the earth By the time we came to All the worry we fought We were so far off course we didn't even care at all Please don't look back, the damage is done There's so much for you here but all you do is run You don't deserve a lover again Just burn out my features don't think of me at all
9.
Spaceport 01:39
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Eulogy 07:12
Like a fool I let you in You've made a mess of me, you've made a mess of us And the truth will have its end When you changed your history, there was no question Time will overwhelm You've tried to trade in sympathy that wasn't yours And the truth will have its end We wondered just how many years let you become Even though I am the son - I've let you go Like a ghost we can't forget You're now a faded memory without an end You want forgiveness for the crimes That you can no longer recall, that you can no longer recall Time will overwhelm You've tried to trade in sympathy that wasn't yours And the truth will have its end When they read your eulogy, we won't be there When they read your eulogy We won't be there When your home life is a war If you're strong then you can leave Strong then you can leave When your home life is a war Do you remember it at all? It's too much
11.
Womb 03:38
I get the strangest fever when you walk into my head Turn the wild into the womb, and walk into the sea again Like you know
12.
Lights 04:49

about

*** OUTLIVE YOUR BODY ***

Firesuite was started as a tribute to my little brother, Daniel. That's him on the front cover of You're An Ocean Deep, My Brother. That album was written as a way to reach him somehow. Much of the material on it was written in the immediate aftermath of his death. Outlive Your Body is still very much infused with his memory, but was written more as a way to make him proud.

Daniel introduced me to so many bands, bands I love to this day and were integral to my musical adolescence. He brought home Jeff Buckley, Deftones and Breeders albums all within a few weeks and that was that. Mission complete. I was obsessed.

I have always approached everything we have done as a band with a sense of fatalism, like it will be the very last thing we do. On this occasion, that turned out to be a self fulfilling prophecy. It became clear recording the album, high up in the hills of Sheffield, that this would be the last thing we would ever complete as a band. Given that, it became that much more important that I put everything I have into it. We made the album during a number of sessions at Old Pig Farm spread across a number of years. The project began without any clear direction, we thought we may record a couple of EP's perhaps. As time went on though, it became clear an album was forming. Slowly.

So this is the record. It was pieced together with John Sephton, who became a friend and ally throughout the process. He guided it to completion, along with a few helping hands along the way. We recruited Dave Sanderson to assist in mixing several songs, in no small part due to his incredible work on the 65 DAYS OF STATIC discography. Caroline Cawley came in to add vocals to Little Sacrifices, and Matthew Pronger added layers of brass to swell the end of Harbour. Lucy Revis and Chris Endcliffe lifted Edge Of The Earth and Lights into the upper atmosphere.

The songs are about lots of things. They are about wanting to escape (Harbour), about mine and Daniel's experiences growing up (Eulogy), about close friends (SJVL). They are also about the band coming to an end. Lights was intended to be the soundtrack to this.

I am so proud of this record. We have worked so hard to build it into the thing it is. I am very happy to share it with you, and would love if you would share it with others. I am heartbroken about the end, but if something has been worth doing, then this should be how it feels when it ends.

Chris A
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"something like a cross between early Smashing Pumpkins and Oceansize...there are moments on this album where they transcend both of those bands; especially on the closing run of four tracks from ‘Spaceport’ through to the epic, heart-rending instrumental ‘Lights’. It’s a sequence of songs as good as you will hear on any album and a sublimely fitting way to bow out as a band" ECHOES AND DUST

"This is something truly special, set aside an hour and let this album take you over. Astounding" ALT DIALOGUE

"this album will unquestionably be amongst my favorites of 2017...Outlive Your Body found me at precisely the right time" AVERSIONLINE

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released November 17, 2017

Outlive Your Body

Songs by Chris Anderson
Music recorded by Firesuite

Firesuite are Chris Anderson (guitar, vocals, synth, piano), Chris Minor (bass, guitar), Stuart Longden (synth, noises) & Richard Storer (drums)

Additional vocals & guitar by Sarah Griffiths on Sea Forgets My Name, Harbour, Wolves Below, Edge Of The Earth, Womb & Lights

Additional vocals by Caroline Cawley of Dystopian Future Movies on Little Sacrifices - dystopianfuturemovies.bandcamp.com

Cello & violin on Edge Of The Earth & Lights by Lucy Revis & Chris Endcliffe - www.studioorchestralstrings.co.uk

Brass on Harbour by Matthew Pronger

Additional programming and piano by John Sephton

Recorded at Old Pig Farm Studios (www.oldpigfarm.co.uk) by John Sephton & Steve Goodison
Produced by John Sephton & Chris Anderson
Mixed by John Sephton, except SJVL, Lights & Harbour mixed by Dave Sanderson - www.davesanderson.com/oms/
Mastered by Dean Honer at Bowling Green - thebowlinggreen.org/about/

Art by Janet Sung - janetsungart.com

Thanks to everyone that has supported us over the years. If you came to a show, bought a record or played our music to a friend or loved one, it means everything to us x

Special thanks to John. Without him this really wouldn't exist & SJVL for your love & support across the years (have there really been that many? I think there have).

This album is dedicated to Daniel, always, Jane and to our children, whether human or animal.

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Formed by Chris Anderson, with Chris Minor, Richard Storer & Stuart Longden. Firesuite are an ongoing musical endeavour, born out of the desire to create something loud & hugely affecting.

Combining polar opposite dynamics, from total white noise, to moments of striking beauty, Firesuite are as complex a unit as you are likely to find
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