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Genuine Interest

by Continental Shelf

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standing there indignant a mountain inverted into the crust unceasingly unsaying everything i live here irregular and with urgency all memory bends to oblivion a succession of gates, all open a river of ice mirrored onto the sky you receive it, it passes on through irregular and with urgency all memory bends toward oblivion marks erase, but heat remains i still live here a succession of gates, all open a river of ice heaving out of sight the horizon fades, unneeded all despite your cage-rattling heartbeats the nagging of blood through numb-worn fingers threading to completely stop you with murderous intent
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Nonzero 03:55
i waited for the big crunch the universe’s love felt all at once collected all my belongings and mourned when their gravity wasn’t enough right now it’s a notion, it’s ambiguous will i find out now, what i’m circling isn’t anything i met you in the heat death i couldn’t tell a minute from the next you made it seem so effortless just tell me it’s not over yet right now it’s a notion, it’s ambiguous will i find out now, what i’m circling isn’t anything unique what we put on a wall, it’s irrational will i find out now, what i’m circling what i really mean is anything i heard it said we spiral forth, forever not really forward, simply out along the way, they found it it’s no circle, it’s nonzero, it’s all relative, i think i heard that once
3.
i want sleep and i want to earn it i want to rest and i’d like to deserve it i only hang onto boxes that can’t be opened you make the paintings that you want to see my tinfoil hat has a buckle and a strap and i don’t think it meant what you think -- reverse reverse reverse psychology even if i feel seen, it doesn’t mean they’re looking at me observe the failure of astronomy we know where all this leads, the brutal gap above me it hurts to claim your agency the shelves are full, there’s nothing to eat we press against the ceiling of taxonomy and I don’t believe it meant what you think i don’t believe that it meant what you think it tears away so easily oh where to find you melancholy sculptor, heartbroken scholar, golden-hearted mortar off in some new sphere, above construct above potential’s demand, the end of missing out and no longer holding onto boxes i could not open i’m more alive for the distance the living unintelligible dream my tinfoil hat has a buckle and a strap and i don’t believe it meant what you think
4.
he says he writes fiction on the weekends but we all know that what he really means is “i’m obsessed with strangers” now you’re walking away, you’re walking away you’re walking away from the north star she told me how to make a proper fist i wanted a piece of that catharsis, i was given the face of a renaissance baby now you’re walking away, you’re walking away borealis in the mid-day you own a cover for your cover for your cover you understand the distance and you understand the sharp edges of the present tense and any drop of genuine interest is deliverance you carry yourself on, without disclaimer, without disclosure out of the frying pan and into the ether, am i right? i saw you ripping up the ground like a toddler with a birthday cake i saw you dive through the primordial foam underneath, you didn’t need release and you understand the necessity of recurring themes but i don’t, i’m honestly all over the place, i don’t really go to these events

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CONTINENTAL SHELF can be understood as much through illusion as through the tangible. Their latest act, GENUINE INTEREST, sees Rob Summerhays and Nick Pitman running back and forth between levers and pulleys, animating little more than a head and an arm to cast forth intricate, tireless silhouettes. Adopting a more stream-of-consciousness approach to both lyrics and songwriting, their vivid apparitions attempt to reach beyond the conscious thoughts of the listener to tease out deeper suspicion--wait, are we connecting right now?

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released May 21, 2021

music and lyrics by Continental Shelf
recorded by Robert Summerhays and Nick Pitman
Engineered and Mixed by Nick Pitman (nckptmn.com)
Mastered by Amar Lal at Macro (macro-sound.com)
additional lyrics by Jay Hartmann
cover artwork by Jay Hartmann and Carly Hildebrant

special thanks to all the lads, to vik, to leya, and to those that make the world feel both bigger and smaller.

2021 neo-detritus - NEO33

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Continental Shelf Brooklyn, New York

Steady and unsteady hand, the living unintelligible dream. Music by Rob and Nick.

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