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Enjoy The Ridge

by The Quelle Source

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1.
Climateers (free) 02:49
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Grab your keys and your coat and I’ll tell your friends we have to go ‘cause we can’t stand a minute can’t stand a minute can’t stand a minute can’t stand a minute We’re the newly-crowned Climateers and we’re far too old to stay here We can’t stand a minute can’t stand a minute can’t stand a minute can’t stand a minute How did I create this, and how did I forget this part, and how can I erase it?
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That's What Bees Said 02:22
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I was standing on the corner thinking I’d had too much to drink swaying waiting for you to come and pick me up and take me back to my place so I can wash my face and shower and kick on my new heater in the mirror say, “You can do this, man,” put my arms ‘round your waist but you’re just telling me to stop But I can’t stop I can see two Indians standing on my hillside smoking watching me tying my shoes and mowing my lawn outside of my big house with my big heater Just ‘cause there’s a fire doesn’t mean the firemen are on their way and I’ve got eight arrows in my back And I wish she’d just Stop stop stop but I can’t stop I was hiding out in my garage waiting for the moon to fall so I could put it in my copybook with my transcripts, manuscripts, documents and dialectics Centuries-old tributaries You look OK in that dress Did it work out alright for you ‘cause it didn’t work out so hot for me Stop stop stop but I can’t stop Well I got myself a nice little red one-seat bicycle I can ride around through charred remains of everything I’ve ever known and everyone I’ve ever loved even ‘til their dying day were pulling on my shirt sleeves screaming they can’t stop well, me neither I can’t stop I can’t stop I can’t stop I can’t stop I can’t stop I can’t stop I can’t stop I can’t stop
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Hi-Fi Glasses Crush 03:47
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Do do do do do I was The Breakfast Prince, I lived in a blue school bus with an eternal headache, I was right on the cusp of becoming the one that no one wanted caught, singing I was the button pusher for the nuclear waste The inappropriate eye-undresser of the chaste In a city where the old told the young to be brave I knew better I held my breath between every new song that I wrote while the criminals lined up outside of my home screaming, “Please let us in! We heard you were the last ones with hope for us!” Well you heard wrong You can try to call you can try to write You can pretend to bawl your eyes out over nothing tonight Oh, but fake tears never hurt anyone especially when your face is the center of the sun They’ll melt away into the hand of nearest guy But that’s alright It’s one less thing that I have to deal with tonight Do do do do do Guitar solo! I took poetic license and put my hand through a wall And fell asleep waiting for you in the hall but you just stepped over me, to go off drinking alone humming After I preached to the choir, I set fire to the lawn while everyone that I loved drowned in their half-finished songs There’s the way that things are supposed to be and the way that they are That’s just the… Oh, oh, oh! You can count your steps if you’re scared You can ask someone to comb your hair You can devour a million news reports But when those colorful ticker tape parades, when they don’t make you feel safe, you’ll wish we built up a bit of a better rapport But that’s alright ‘cause all of this is just nonsense anymore Do do do do do
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Scratch Your Fast Forward 04:01
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Scratch your fast forward Stay on the floor of your parents’ house Just know that if you want to leave, it’s going to cost you, son No, you’re not welcome No, you’re not welcome Here at all Scratch your fast forward Stay on the floor of your parents’ house And be our William Blake There’s nothing for you outside your door No, you’re not welcome No, you’re not welcome Here at all
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OT5 05:06
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Feel it all the shirt and the bottle, the floor All this spinnin' surrounding I’m begging for more And it feels a lot better to be me And it feels alot better to be free
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The State Line 04:20
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The Foreign Inadequacy Project was just six months behind and The League of Divorced Daughters were getting high in The Empty Room at the top of the stairs And I’ve been telling myself this is the year I’m going to have to try to smoke out my impurities and just fry my insides Yeah, and hey you, Backseat Lovers promise me you’ll take care of each other it’s a rough world you’re living out there ‘Cause Cheap Love Martyrs are lamented but forgotten Is it a net or a noose that you’re looking for? The cellar door of the seventh floor? A lonesome twin bed or Dad with a stroller? The Glass Club met four times a day and I tried to teach myself how to lie, to Cooper-off, to smile, to sleep in my car and re-learn how to ride my bike Until the uneasy truce between The Parents Coalition and the Pink Cup Connection was broken when The King of Uncomfortable came and drank everything and that was me And they say, “Hey man, I mean you should just try to take it easy In a crowded room or out to sea, you’ll succeed” Yeah, but anymore it comes down to a question of company A shadow or a ghost I can stabilize? Her inviting neck or your vacant thighs? Did I cross The State Line or did I just step outside? I woke up when I sobered up and spent the morning thinking of you with your trash bin full of wedding cakes and ceiling of "Feel Better" balloons And I thought of The Romantic brooding in his white-washed room pissing his last best years away on a Steel Mill Girl who’s the permanent symbol of the one thing he wishes he could change So—shit Let’s get dressed up so we can go out and get fucked up ‘Cause if I can still see straight I’m just wasting my time Straight through the atmosphere or to my backyard? Did I sleep with you or did I just dream that that morning wasn’t one more excuse for you to leave? A ruse, a mistake, a delusion, a guise? ‘Til her whisper: “Treat me like dirt tonight” Now the invisible war with the past, now and future me I should have done something ‘Cause all I ever did was sit around and watch everyone doing nothing
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Wives' Tale 04:27
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Well baby put a sweater on and dream a bit of me The hours they’ve been dragging on with you across that sea So put your little head tonight in a pillow of the wind And I’ll pretend I’m really not in the kind of shape I’m in Perhaps if I sit back Relax my shoulders Maybe I won’t shiver through the night Not sure that’s a fact what her mom told her Thinking that it might… So quit your fooling out ‘round there, I’m coming oh so soon it's awful cold and lonely here, the corner of my room I’m pale and thin and weary-eyed and I’m missing you to death The fact that you ain’t coming home has stolen my last breath Perhaps if I sit back Relax my shoulders Maybe I won’t shiver through the night Not sure that’s a fact what her mom told her Thinking that it might worth a try Not sure that’s a fact what her mom told her Thinking that it might…
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Escalation (free) 02:38
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I don’t think she understands the repercussions of her actions An empty room, an empty glass, a dress of gauze, your cough’s a natural reaction Step step step Escalation Well aware that she’s insecure Dead dreams and malcontentions hold her to the floor And all of this has added up and now it has dialed in And it is running up my bill, in fact, I think that I am through with it Step step step Escalation
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The Silence Is On 06:47
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If you grow tired of us don’t let us hang on Put feet to our fingers A laugh and we’re gone Because you’re adored by everyone And this is the race that’s already won Hit in the kitchen The silence is on Asleep with your own words A shrug and we’re gone And does this happen to everyone? ‘cause there’s too many people holding on And if you see just what you want to see, you’ll be looking through everybody else looking through... And if you see just what you want to see, you’ll be looking through everybody else looking through you We are the week’s pay Don’t tell me I’m wrong The pride and true frayed The drink holding on But I can’t stay mad for very long ‘cause you’ll line us up and count everyone
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Creepy 03:18
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I looked up and it was wrong The pale light The sun was out, way out of line I said, “I can’t” Hand at my throat And then Quiet I was opening my eyes and saying...

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“If you're into fast, keyboard-heavy melodies and guitar riffs ranging from 90s alt-grunge to indie to punk, chances are you'll dig the Quelle Source. Enjoy The Ridge ... has a crisp, professional sound that goes back and forth between an Incesticide-era Nirvana and the reverbed foolhardiness of Deerhoof. ” Randy LoBasso - Origivation Magazine

“On Enjoy the Ridge, The Quelle Source incorporate rapid drum beats, loud electric guitars, and screeching vocals to create songs with as much adrenaline as a first kiss. Lead singer Kevin Ryan’s vocals sound like the Decemberists' Colin Meloy on four hours of sleep and a few adderall pills.” Katie Bennett - The Deli Magazine Philadelphia

“The Quelle Source's energy makes them awesome, plus their super cool guitar riffs (“OT5″) ... their proven ability to slow it down (“Wives’ Tale”), the lead singer’s sweet voice, and their angsty lyrical genius.” Kristin Garrett - The Indie Handbook

Released on December 12, 2009, “Enjoy the Ridge” finds The Quelle Source abandoning the sheen of their eponymous EP in favor of 10 tracks laced with lengthy guitar feedback and pop hooks alike.

Unlike the band's 2008 EP, which was recorded in three days, “Enjoy the Ridge” took 11 months of home recording to complete, including one total erasure of the album five months into the process. But recording at home gave the band all the time they needed to pepper songs like “The Silence Is On” with coordinated double-guitar solos, host a party with 60 of their closest friends to provide group vocals for the jubilant “Hi-Fi Glasses Crush,” and use singer Kevin Ryan's high-ceilinged bathroom for the vocals on slow burner “Wives' Tale.”

“Enjoy the Ridge” contains no love songs. Why would it when it hits on so many other more interesting topics, including the irrational fear that all the oxygen on Earth will suddenly and violently disappear (“Creepy”), why living with your parents may or may not destroy your creative muse (“Scratch Your Fast Forward”), and what you might be thinking about as you ride a bike through a post-apocalyptic metropolis (“That's What Bees Said”)?

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released December 12, 2009

Dan Comly: keyboards
Brendan Lafferty: drums, backup vocals
Kevin Ryan: lead and rhythm guitar, vocals, percussion
Chris Wafer: bass
Dan Wisniewski: lead and rhythm guitar, vocals

All songs written by Dan Wisniewski except "OT5" and "Wives' Tale," written by Kevin Ryan, and "Escalation," written by Dan Wisniewski and Kevin Ryan.

All songs arranged by The Quelle Source.

Recorded at home on Ridge Ave. in Philadelphia, Pa, January - November 2009

Mixed and mastered by Cody Cichowski at Milkboy Recording Studios in Ardmore, PA

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