Swift-Tuttle, by Devin Bateson

Swift-Tuttle

by Devin Bateson

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lorraine This album is fucking amazing in every way. Devin's vocals are relaxed but the lyrics make you wanna rip your own heart out and bleed to death on your bathroom floor (in a really good way though). Favorite track: Piss & Kerosene.

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Your Favourite Planet
Tell me what your favourite planet is and I'll paint it for you in water colour.
My favourite is Pluto because is so controversial.

I'm only willing to do this 9 times

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1.	Smoke Quotes 01:43	lyrics	buy track
My scent is weekend Last gasp increases No longer standing But at least I'm breathing You can call this a smile If you want to Blood out my nostrils And I'm sorry to have bothered you I'm made of mistakes And fumbling molecules I'm awake But just tying to follow through My scent is secret And I dream of demons These teeth form whispers Smoke quotes and reverb And Im sorry if I sound sad I'm sorry if I come off as mad all the time Sorrow is a smoke stack London fog surrounds my mind I hate sounding so Depressed all the time I am way to nihilist to believe in happiness While I'm still alive I'm sure it exists Well I'm not sure But it would be nice if it did Wouldn't that be nice Wouldn't that be nice Wouldn't that be nice Damn, that sounds nice.
2.	Piss & Kerosene 02:51	lyrics	buy track
I' m made of stupid ideas I' m full of piss and kerosene I'm made of metaphors but I Don't know what any of them mean I'm full of shit and beans My head is swole from all my dreams each one is attainable but attainable is not in my vocabulary I could make a move but I'd never let it form out my mouth I'm really trying everything is really bugging me now Interrupted and corrupted when was young from the ground I'm standing up but its hard to muster up this I'm made of solid mass I'm fully clothed laying in the bath And I hope I don't have to try hard I'm just splashing around Years passing my by I'll try tomorrow But truth be told, I kinda hope I die. I could make a move but I'd never let it form out my mouth I'm really trying everything is really bugging me now Interrupted and corrupted when was young from the ground I'm standing up but its hard to muster up this I'm barely making it faking it while I stand here these canned conversations that I cant conceive without my mind clear Your minds eye It's more minds ear You are more fine than I And yet more molitovs than mirrors And this is motion sicknesses throwing up is limitless the motive is to float but it seems so dismissive I'm talking grabby by the throat greasy white guys with fake gang signs Struggle never real An apostrophe in the hang time I'm getting lieu hours painting abstract ponies with kids your playing video games and assuming this is it You keep eluding to a quiet life while violently lying about it assuming you are so nice but mostly you are just crying out I could make a move but I'd never let it form out my mouth I'm really trying everything is really bugging me now Interrupted and corrupted when was young from the ground I'm standing up but its hard to muster up this sound This specific sound. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. And I could make a move but I'd never let it form out my mouth I'm really trying everything is really bugging me now Interrupted and corrupted when was young from the ground I'm standing up but its hard to muster up these sounds.
3.	Summer Fall 01:58		buy track
4.	Windows 01:42	lyrics	buy track
Step into the party I look so fly Look at me, look at me I'm a cool guy I got a sick leather jacket and I chain smoke and I'm hanging out with every single one of the cool folks Who is this? Who the fuck is that? That's a bad mother fucker and he doesn't take shit. He walks so cool and talks so slow oh wait, that's just my reflection in the window. Windows I'm looking right through myself Windows I'm looking right through myself Hanging in my room pretending I'm a bird Just flapping around and feeding my young You know I'm eating up worms and barfing them in to the little baby birds mouths And then I fly so high I fly so high and then I crash into a window and then I die Windows They kill birds Windows Who's going to raise my baby birds?
5.	Sporadicocracy 02:30	lyrics	buy track
Look at these stars as they crush my head Old speckled mountains as I lay in bed These power point presentations threaten my rest Old broken laptop and my savings is long since dead I better give up now or get I am better off alive Although I am constant unrest I am begging for your Disney plus passwords As I criticize capitalism I am calling in every single favour as I Scribble down my magnum opus I am toast I am done I am hopelessly trying my own patience On non-existent rhyme schemes and poorly constructed metaphors Better place me in a fish tank so people can see me trapped in an idea doing the same thing forever I want freedom of expression and some money I don't want to give people what they want I tried, so I stopped being funny and just got weird and eccentric I depressed on a good day I am filled with lackluster life lessons I am not planned ahead I am not dead I am still here I am breakfast I am with bread I am spread to thin I am butter on bread I utter, utter nonsense under my breath take the last Make it last long I'm here as luxury Its just pure exuberance My time is spent unefficiently my hours are unsuccessful and my music is mimicked imagery I will devour my own words and give up on the worth of ever having a chorus Routine is a good thing for you mental health but being sporadic is just so much more fun.

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I could just copy and paste the Wikipedia page for Swift-Tuttle if you really wanted. But I won't and I'll tell you little about it. It's a comet.

This EP is called "Swift-Tuttle" because I had been searching for the name for my next album for maybe the last 2 years nothing seemed to stick. My girlfriend one night told my about the comet and I just liked the way it sounded. I though it sounded like a silly dance move or something. So here we are "Swift-Tuttle".

Pictured on the album cover is my Opa which is dutch for Grandfather. He died several years ago. He was a kind and gentle soul with sharp wit and always ready to tell me a joke. (even though I couldn't understand most of them through his thick Dutch accent). Really I just love that picture of him relaxing I feel it embodies who he was and the parts of him I strive to have. This picture hangs beside my desk. Reminding me to relax.

This EP was originally songs that where going to be a larger project. But that project is going to take me to darn long to get out. So I figured "let's just release these" cause really they are some of my favourite songs to date and they musically are aimed in a direction that i would like to head or at least experiment further in. They are sad. They are silly. They are full of wonder and confusion. And that's the outlook I have on life.
I hope you enjoy them.

- Devin

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released October 2, 2020

These songs were written between 2019-2020 before Covid. Some were recorded during lock-down some not. Some recorded at home and some recorded at an undisclosed location in Lowbanks .

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Devin Bateson Hamilton, Ontario

Devin Bateson is a musician, comedian and artist, from Hamilton, Ontario. His music has been described as “Spoken word over dusty samples”.
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