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BYSTANDER (2020 single)

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100% of Roommate's share of proceeds to benefit The National Network of Abortion Funds:
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Hello. I'm very pleased to share this new single, a collaboration with my childhood friend John Hampton. In the stomach-churning wake of the 2016 election, a poem John had sent me in October jolted me from my stupor and I quickly set it to music. Luther Rochester added some sci-fi synths and I put the song away until this spring, when Nick Broste took hold of the mix and made it soar. For me it's a song best fit for the dark heart of winter, or perhaps for the most dreadful of Augusts. I hope you are holding on.
-Kent
August 7, 2020

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We can not hear the hush of drones in flight.
Nor taste secret sigils traced on night tongues.
Oh, can not touch the screams of bombs delight.
We smoke foul words, silent tumors on lungs.
See, not we, through this web of spider's might.
Pie-daggers cloaked cut out their slice on rungs.
Our own tasty drones sigh out in dud-bombs.
Secretly, secretly we have no qualms.

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released August 7, 2020
Lyrics by John Hampton.
Kent Lambert: programming, synths, vocals.
Luther Rochester: synths (Buchla Music Easel, Deckard's Dream).
Additional synths by Nick Broste.
Mixed by Nick Broste and Kent Lambert.
Mastered by Nick Broste.
Recorded and mixed sporadically in Chicago, IL, December 2016 through April 2020.
Artwork by Dean Rank.

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Roommate began as a Kent Lambert solo project in NYC in 2000 and has been an ever-mutating Chicago band since 2004. The band's 2015 album MAKE LIKE was described by [sic] magazine's Tim Clarke as "astute, economical, meticulously performed and produced, and deeply affecting, both lyrically and musically." ... more

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