Apocalypse for Beginners
by Rabbit Junk
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sybersphinx
One of RJ's best albums yet; a clear work of angry passion and tender frustration. No other album of theirs quite so captures their sheer RANGE, AfB serving as a genre and influence buffet as much as it does a complete album. If you've felt even a twinge of the ever-increasing malaise that our social background noise creates from the omnipresent class war grinding us down, this album may be wholly cathartic to you.
Favorite track: Rabbit Out of Hiding.
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jbarrett_music
This album has completely blown me away! Until a few days ago I had never heard of Rabbit Junk... Stone Cold came up on a New Music playlist and prompted me to dig deeper, and now I absolutely cannot get enough.
Favorite track: Nostromo.
Mach1na
Mach1na
What a release! A great mix of disparate genres I don't think any other contemporary band could pull off. Plus a chorus referencing Alien, what's not to love.
Favorite track: Nostromo.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumIMPORTANT! THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. Because big labels are gobbling up all the vinyl out there, we won't get these records in hand until FEBRUARY 2023. Yes, you read right: 2 0 2 3 ! We apologize for the delay but also can't control the vinyl market and the demand for this kind of product. We are just an independent band, so we have to take what we can get. And that's February 2023.
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Since we don't have the vinyls in hand I posted pics of the cover art, the 4 panel design layout, and the vinyl print (the part in the middle of the record). The record itself is "color" in crystal clear (I guess that's some kind of symbolism, I'll leave the interpretation to you).
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1. |
Heavy
04:11
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It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
They want it all
Turn you out
Skin you raw
You’re done
A shadow of your former self
A husk
For what?
Dragging the world
By a chain
Up a hill
Get through the pain
Hoping I find
Through the grind
A way
To sustain
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
They want nothing
But everything
Every day
You wanna resist
Push away
But you don’t wanna pay
Step by step
A living wreck
Can’t connect
No more
Hoping I find
Myself
Alive
After this war
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
Pressure
Weight pressing down
On my chest
But I can’t rest
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
It’s getting heavy
Pressure
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2. |
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Ich sage fick dich
Ich sage fick dich
I
Wanna settle a bet
Let you back in my head
Let you do it all over again
Setzt dich, sei doch still.
Nicht wissen, was man will.
Ich fühle mich ganz verrückt,
liebeskrank, völlig kaputt.
I
Wanna settle the score
Can’t give any more
pick myself up off the floor
You don’t know when to stop (No!)
You don’t know when to stop (No!)
I’m here to settle the score
Fuck you!
Take your time, think it over
But there won’t be no counteroffer
Face to face, getting closer
Feel the minutes getting shorter
Ich sage fick dich
This is my proposal for you
Ich sage fick dich
A stone cold fuck you
Was ist los mit dir?
Du spinnst, für immer.
Dein Kern ist illegal.
Es ist mir scheiß egal
I
Wanna straighten the books
Call out all you took
Gonna make you look at everything you’ve done
You don’t know when to stop (No!)
You don’t know when to stop (No!)
I’m here to settle the score
Fuck you!
Take your time, think it over
But there won’t be no counteroffer
Face to face, getting closer
Feel the minutes getting shorter
Ich sage fick dich
This is my proposal for you
Ich sage fick dich
A stone cold fuck you
Wir sind ziemlich allein.
Vor Angst überwältig sein.
In Gedanken verloren.
Zärtlichkeit ist gestorben.
You don’t know when to stop (No!)
You don’t know when to stop (No!)
I’m here to settle the score
Fuck you!
Take your time, think it over
But there won’t be no counteroffer
Face to face, getting closer
Feel the minutes getting shorter
This is my proposal for you
This is my proposal for you
Ich sage fick dich
This is my proposal for you
Ich sage fick dich
A stone cold fuck you
Ich sage fick dich
This is my proposal for you
Ich sage fick dich
A stone cold fuck you
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Nostromo
04:04
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Sleepwalking the Nostromo
Walking in a loop down endless corridors
Awaken to a shadow cast across the floor
If I try and run, will I reach the door?
Cannot escape
A cursed vessel, echoes with the memories, machine bleeding energy
On every level, ghosts frozen in time, I’m living like I’m…
Sleepwalking the Nostromo
Walking in a loop down endless corridors
Awaken to a shadow cast across the floor
If I try and run, will I reach the door?
It’s not intentional, I’m just another prisoner, we can feel but cannot see each other
It’s diabolical, and at the same time sublime, I’m living like I’m…
Sleepwalking the Nostromo
Walking in a loop down endless corridors
Awaken to a shadow cast across the floor
If I try and run, will I reach the door?
It’s subliminal, a message buried in whispers, apocalypse for beginners
It’s a ritual, generational rhyme, I’m living like I’m…
Sleepwalking the Nostromo
Walking in a loop down endless corridors
Awaken to a shadow cast across the floor
If I try and run, will I reach the door?
Cannot escape
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Love is Hell
04:45
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They talk about it like its instinct
Find your refuge in the other’s embrace
Hand in hand like our souls are linked
One heart, one mind, that can’t break, yeah…right
Lose my self
Wretched ego world, every thought burns
Still, I retain the being
Born of a gift but fragile
Always two of our selves are seeing
One blinded by denial
Are we going far away?
I’ll fall forever to you
Are you going to fall away?
I’ll fall forever to you
Maybe I’m perfectionist
Gotta get everything right on the first try (first try)
Or maybe I’m simply just a masochist
Looking for adversity were none exists
Awaken to the cold dark horror
I gazed into the abyss
A pale light in the distance
Are we going far away?
I’ll fall forever to you
Are you going to fall away?
I’ll fall forever to you
This is one that hurts
A patient reminder that there’s more
Then the cold sting and burn
Of the price we pay for all we’ve learned
Love and death, my first and last breath
Love is hell!
Are we going far away?
I’ll fall forever to you
Are you going to fall away?
I’ll fall forever to you
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The Grind
03:46
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Grow with it, own it
I should have written it down
Or just don’t roll with it
I guess it’s fucked up now
Don’t miss it, don’t live it
But I drag it around
a splinter in my mind
I Keep on living the grind
Manic Monday, wanna make it go away
Tuesday, fascist, I wanna disobey
Wednesday like a never-ending stairway
Thursday, Friday, everyday a hell day
Weekend, pretend, like I’m twenty
Relive golden age of plenty
Weeks fly by, I’m bleeding time
No way out, I live the grind
Hustle
Forget your needs
Hands up
Down on your knees
Glorified
You think you want it
Justified
I’ll sell you on it
We won’t back down
And let you bury us
Underground, we will break free
Who can stop this? Nobody
Hustle
Forget your needs
Hands up
Down on your knees
Glorified
You think you want it
Justified
I’ll sell you on it
When the chaos does recede
And a fresh calm falls on the scene
I think about all the empty vessels I occupied today
Manic Monday, feels like a rerun
Tuesday, too much, never gonna get it done
Wednesday, maybe shouldn’t have woken up
Thursday, Friday, startin’ to not give a fuck
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Bodies
04:38
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Bodies ride the wave
Somebody gonna have to pay
Bodies
Living on the shore in their sandcastles
Bodies
Sea is getting rough and the walls rattle
Bodies
Come with the tide
No where left to hide
Bodies
Bodies
A thousand thoughts ride the waves
Can’t save nobody, I’m too late
Bodies
No one cares about the coming last battle
Bodies
Waves crashing down and the ocean swallows
Bodies
Bodies
Bodies
On the shore living in sandcastles
No one cares about the coming last battle
Sea is getting rough and the walls rattle
Waves crashing down and the ocean swallows
Bodies
Waves crashing down and the ocean swallows
Bodies
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Praetorian Aureole
04:14
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If we start at the beginning
We’ll only get lost
We’ve told ourselves so many stories
And failed to calculate the cost
These lies belongs to us
We raised them from the earth
Hidden by a masterful performance
So no one could observe
Written in our blood, this contract
We had to survive
On the scraps left to us
It wasn’t ours to decide
What life meant to us
So let’s start at the end
Sober from the fountain of youth
The wounds may never mend
Still, I wanna drink the truth
We had to survive
On the scraps left to us
It wasn’t ours to decide
What life meant to us
All the stained glass losing its color
Praetorian Aureole
Two people stare through a crystal barrier
Agnus Dei Wasting Away
A self-delusion in decay
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Rabbit Out of Hiding
04:05
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I’m in driving in our car
The rear view is black
Cuz I’m not going back
We’ve come to far
I’m chasing something that’s ahead
A shadowland
Inside my head
And it’s getting near
I had a vision
Driving east
Across the wastelands
I met the beast
I’m fleeing the scene
But taking myself with me
Stuck in-between
Life and a dream
Faith
Meet you at the Mending Wall
Reach for me before I fall
Rabbit out of hiding
Rabbit out of hiding
Fight or flight or maybe freeze
Decision fatigue
Drowning all my needs
I can’t hear me
I have a mission
Far away
It’s a decision
To live another day
Faith
Meet you at the Mending Wall
Reach for me before I fall
Rabbit out of hiding
Rabbit out of hiding
Stones will fall
Barren ground
Rains beats down
Meet you at the Mending Wall
Will fall
Barren ground
Rains beats down
Meet you at the Mending Wall
Meet you at the mending wall
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Apocalypse for Beginners
04:11
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We all see it coming
It’s an apocalypse for beginners
We all see it coming
It’s an apocalypse for beginners
Photo-real dreams
Unseeing what we’ve seen
Disassemble our belief
just another timeline in the grand scheme
We’re all in the running
To be the first to jump off the cliff
Inching closer, don’t look down
Etch a smile across that frown
Think it’s quiet when you know it’s loud
can’t see the storm with our head in the clouds
Are we just gonna let it happen
Give in to the old pattern
So obvious, a child could discern
Like an apocalypse for beginners
We know what we’ve been summoning
There is a mirror in every room
Reject the reflection
Ignore the growing tension
Refuse any lesson
Attack any mention
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about
3 of these tracks were previously released, but these tracks have been updated since they were put out as singles to sound better and so that the whole album sounds more consistent.
It's hard to describe how hard we worked on this album and the sort of sacrifices we have made to put it out. This is our hearts and souls laid bare. We couldn't do this without YOU. Every track and piece of merch you buy keeps us going and making music. We have so much gratitude for your support. I know it's cliche to say this these days, but we are nothing without YOU. Rabbit Junkie love is the best love!
It's hard to describe how hard we worked on this album and the sort of sacrifices we have made to put it out. This is our hearts and souls laid bare. We couldn't do this without YOU. Every track and piece of merch you buy keeps us going and making music. We have so much gratitude for your support. I know it's cliche to say this these days, but we are nothing without YOU. Rabbit Junkie love is the best love!
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released October 21, 2022
Art by theironparasite.com - the album art is a play on 90's "how to" computer manuals, which make this album a sort of "how to" for apocalypses lol
This is an entirely independent release. JP recorded, mixed, and mastered all tracks as well being responsible for all the music, guitar, and his vocals. Sum Grrl is featured as both vocalist and lyricist on the "The Grind" and "Rabbit Out of Hiding". Amelia Arsenic is a guest vocalist and lyricist on "Stone Cold". Check out Amelia Arsenic here: ameliaarsenic.bandcamp.com
Compact Disc brought to you by Disc Makers: www.discmakers.com. Vinyl brought to you by Pirate's Press: www.piratespress.com
Art by theironparasite.com - the album art is a play on 90's "how to" computer manuals, which make this album a sort of "how to" for apocalypses lol
This is an entirely independent release. JP recorded, mixed, and mastered all tracks as well being responsible for all the music, guitar, and his vocals. Sum Grrl is featured as both vocalist and lyricist on the "The Grind" and "Rabbit Out of Hiding". Amelia Arsenic is a guest vocalist and lyricist on "Stone Cold". Check out Amelia Arsenic here: ameliaarsenic.bandcamp.com
Compact Disc brought to you by Disc Makers: www.discmakers.com. Vinyl brought to you by Pirate's Press: www.piratespress.com
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Rabbit Junk Los Angeles, California
Rabbit Junk is a cyberPUNK and industrial metal duo based in Southern California, USA. Members = Dr. JP (words, music, producer, guitar, vocals) and Sum Grrrl (words, vocals, keyboards).
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