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DISTRACTIONS

by beloved elk

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1.
Cold 03:02
Argh I’m not over it yet It’s all an upward climb And you said I’s keeping you down A stake into this ground You’re so cold You’re so cold You’re so god damn cold And it’s time we had this out You’re running The last bath in this house And I’m watching by the door So jealous The water, your skin Falling like I’ve been It’s just a cold It’s just a cold It’s just a god damn cold The water thins our blood
2.
Hide 04:03
Walking past these houses I don’t know I can’t stop I can’t look inside I’m going home to listen My home phone dial tone Ah Looking in This baby’s eyes Feel like she is judging me – she’s eighteen weeks What the hell is wrong With my mind So go on rip The skin from its bones If it makes it unknowable – makes it easier On the eyes, the eyes You’re right – it’s not you, it’s me It’s me Did I choose the bitter life Did I choose the bitter life Do you think we could spook ourselves right Out of the house - or else Could we hold our breath Until just // Nothing happens… Walking past these houses, I don’t know I can’t stop I can’t look inside I’m going home To 3/3 sherbourne road To hide
3.
Ninety-Nine 04:19
One by one, they’re running And we’re laughing hysterically From first to last, they’re all placing And we’re hardly even noticing it They know them and them know they this way Four five six, seven eight nine The time of the night you would call me up Almost every night Ten twelve eighteen, twenty-one Don’t think that I’ve forgotten The number of your house On the street where you used to live Twenty-five The year of my life You call me up For the very last time To invite me to a house warming party – oh You’re moving out? Oh You’re moving in with Mr. Ninety-Nine Mr. Ninety-Nine How could I compete? He’s got digits on me One by one I’m running, I’m coughing Up these old lungs From first to last I don’t care anymore I just want a place – any place One by one We’re all making names for ourselves Letters in stone On top of graves And I’m counting Its distracting Me From Uncountable things From Immeasurable things Unscientific things I’m counting It’s distracting Me You used to know these things No You used to share with me these things
4.
Distractions 03:39
Steady sinking of my heart when left alone Saved only by the lifeboat; my language Imagine the raft As I climb aboard Words, like wood Pull it together Distractions Are like people Distractions Are like people Keep talking Pull it together Pull it together Pull it together
5.
At The Gates 05:43
Just cause you have power over someone Doesn’t mean you should Use that power over someone Especially, if supposedly, you love them You knew, you knew You knew I loved you I said, if you ever did that again I would leave I would drive away But this is the only home I’ve ever known And the car’s yours anyway Just cause you have power over someone Doesn’t mean you should Use that power over someone Especially, if supposedly, you love them I remember crying In the tiny space between The bed and the wall Does this make you powerful? Does this make you powerful? Does this make us equal. Rush the gates of the mansion of the man I did not like when I first met him and it turns out I was right How I’d like to wipe the smile off of his aging face Oh I know Oh I know Oh I know I’ll rush the gates I’ll rush the gates I’ll rush the gates Pretty sounds They make When the gates fall Onto the ground 
And I like Watching people Get caught In autumn storms, in nice clothes And I like Watching people Get wet, and embarrassed And uncomfortable Pretty sounds They make When the gates fall Onto the ground
6.
HSP 00:34
7.
Vomit at the border Of Vegas and Nevada I’ve been stung By a snake In the holiday sun I could yell for help But it’s all going on and on and on and on It’s just you and me now Thinking up some common words To carve into my goodbye dirt But your damn snake tail Is going round and round my skull Come on Quiet down now Come on Quiet down now Its vomit at the border Of Vegas and that dull as shit Nevada I’ve consumed enough And I’m spitting it back up There’s nothing at the border There’s nothing waiting, nothing waiting Wrap around me You’re hungry, I’m weak We get the bad wrap Wrap your jaws around my body Nestled in your gut Your stomach squeezes my eyes shut I feel your heartbeat I feel your heartbeat Its pumping Hard Its celebrating The feast of me Nestled in your gut Your stomach squeezes my eyes shut I feel your heartbeat I feel your heartbeat And I begin to pray to your heartbeat pray to your heartbeat It’s like any other heart It wants to live But could you let me out? Let me out! I’ll fix this city By dumping it in the sea I’ll fill up the desert I’ll do anything, anything I’ll fix this city By dumping it in the sea I’ll fill up the desert With buildings Buildings Buildings Buildings Buildings Buildings Buildings Buildings Buildings Buildings Buildings Buildings Coated By the snake’s insides He shrivels up and dies And – he looks at me With those dead snake eyes “Don’t screw this up” I’m vomit At the border Of Vegas And Nevada I’m the vomit At the border Of Vegas And Nevada
8.
Old coastline Circa 1999 Having a Good time Everything is all alright Its like the ballet All delicately balancing And when the big wave comes we’re all gonna be dancing COASTLINE SINKING
MY MIND SWIMMING By On a Monday Playing poker With prescriptions Im going all in Cause I feel like losing COASTLINE SINKING
MY MIND SWIMMING
BY A QUOTE ON THE CLIFF
WORDS IN THE SHIT By Jiddu Krishnamorti Its all been said But no one was listening Build a loft To dry out me head With Jiddu Krishnamorti With Jiddu Krishnamorti
9.
I have spent so much time of my life Feeling less Than the lesson itself And I’ve spent so much time With my neck cranked up Feeling small And I’ve given it all up To you – what is left? What is right What is left in my life Nowhere to be And nothing entirely I’m the dust I’m the dust in the air I’m the dust in your eye When you brush your eyelash You brush me away You brush me away I got in to bed with you Cause that’s what I thought You wanted me to do If I’d stopped for one minute Before turning off the light I would have seen in your eyes Not the hunger for my body But for something – anything Of real beauty Nowhere to be And nothing entirely I’m the dust I’m the dust in the air I’m the dust in your eye When you brush your eyelash You brush me away You brush me away I’m just the dust in your eye And you can’t even cry I’m free, certainly That’s what it must be Being everything For nobody
10.
Together 02:03
Length of barbed wire Holding my heart Together And you want to pull it straight Out of me Through the middle Its holding me Together Its holding me Together Its holding me Together (Don’t wanna be bitter Like my father) You’re holding me Together You’re holding me Together And you want to pull it out Do it now You’ve got me under You’re holding me Together You’re holding me Together You’re holding me
11.
To End 04:20
I can try to love And I can try to sing And I can write, alright I can do alright Living in And breathing in And in, and in And in between Our foreheads And our eyes Touching – I want to end No, do not let me go Slow sounds, deep sounds Damage my hearing They shout this They shout this But I can see Better than I hear If I’m going deaf and I don’t listen Least I can see You You slow down The loss Do not Do not Do not Let me go I want to end Wrapped up In your black coat I still feel cold Please Let me go Please Do not let me go Please Let me go Please Do not let me go

credits

released February 20, 2017

beloved elk is Amy Wright and Tina Nguyen.
All songs and music on DISTRACTIONS written and performed by beloved elk
Amy: lyrics, vocals, guitars, keys and bass
Tina: drums, bass, keys, guitars and vocals

DISTRACTIONS was recorded in the shed by Amy Wright and Tina Nguyen.
Mixed by Amy Wright and John Lee
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Nina Hassall
Design by Diana Galimova

Thank you to LISTEN Records, Chloe Turner, Danny Cox, Holly Pereira, Locky Beresford and Brittanie Chandler for the support. And thank you to everyone who crowd funded this record and to people for connecting with the band in writing and at shows. It means everything.

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