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fyz1ks​!​1

by Other Families

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Lex An old fan of this band. Love this record, it's so eclectic and carries itself like a beast. Favorite track: The Spontaneous Combustion of a Tranquilized Lion.
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1.
Interpreter 01:33
all all strung To the bears beneath me and the buzzards on high, burn my body. Monsters stepping down from the moon, where are your priests and valentines?
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Track 02 Get a FREE DOWNLOAD of the Other Families album "Fyz1ks!1" at: otherfamilies.bandcamp.com facebook.com/otherfamilies soundcloud.com/other-families twitter.com/otherfamilies When you know how we rose. When you know how we rode. How we raise and how we fold. When you know. Has your castle of cards started tumbling? Oh baby do you know about dating? Oh honey do you know about chastity, destiny, daring? When you know you just remember, we are wolves and this is wolf weather. We are wolves and this is wolf weather. Rise when you know it was me, sheriff where baby made a scene. And there were always ways to find you, you are my queen of spades. In the morning milk and honey and you’re sure you’re near the end. Look over your carnage baby if there’s sunlight in your head. In a room with your two-timer and she drags you by your feet from under the bed where you been hiding a thousand leagues beneath the sea. At night in bed you’ll feel the sea again if there’s moonlight in your head. A sea, indeed, cause if baby wants to bleed then we’re painting the town red. But you know that through friends or through fire, I will be taking your hand. Hands strike high noon, your two timer Draws from the moon. You reach for the sky, and the star of the law loves the land, like a tar sand. Take a walk on the Western side. Don’t tell me to go. Don’t, don’t, don’t you know? I’ll lay you out on the West side. Maybe you won’t. Bethlehem’s too big for the both of us babe. I’ve been going all night, all star! And I’ve been going cookoo! As a weathervane, where the bird hangs, it’s a sign to me cash, oil, potpourri— Runaways, we are kings of Orient all! What are we waiting for? Nightfall! In the morning back in Vegas and you find you’re on the street, swinging arms with a young lady, sister to a slot machine. In the land of milk and honey you must find a gambling man. Look over your carnage baby when you’re hung up by your hands. Go back jack, do it again Wheels turning round and round you go back, jack, do it again. ’cause your son is set. Take a walk on the Western side, the neon signs there will be quoting the bible on fire on the air. I don’t know if we’re guilty, the red’s changed hands so many times, my black suits are all bloody. But if it’s a baby, if it’s bare, I will raise, bet the farm for the manger, take your father’s name. And we’ll play house in Vegas, a house of cards. Curled, we’ll take our walks on the West side, so remote from the Western world.
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Houston 04:52
Engage, delay. Distance molehills of mountains make, blind as bridesmaids. I stand a planet’s shadow. Once I lifted my hand in a room to block the light coming in from the window, to look at the way it made you. It goes with us when we go. Once I lifted my hand in a room to block the light coming in from the window, look at the way it made you. All the furniture was pushed to the front of the room, like a photograph at a strange focus. This was the apartment just south of the launch-pad, where he could watch shuttles take off. A fly figure-skated it loops just above the surface of the white walls, and the slow light of evening coloured the room with a kaleidoscopic brilliance, making strange shapes as it caught in the drapes doily design. A dog-lazy radio leisurely scanned. The ceiling fan turned slow circles, the clock ticked, a bulb buzzed, and the fly executed its figures, un-interpretable as crop circles or the similar shapes left on surfaces by coffee mugs. Now at our last meal together, saucers sing through our place. You say if you go, don’t come back. I’ll let you lick the plate. You say if I leave go in full view, with a tin can clenched in your hand. But don’t you have your ways? You will pay for your holidays. This afternoon I woke in crested sweats, and wanted to put a fishbowl on my head. A rocket ship magnet pinned a note to the fridge, the fridge an empty sabot shouldering the freezer’s shuttle, an old grocery list, commitments are like rocket ships, I think, then read the newer note, “your mind is a place where everything swims, and I hope you don’t forget that I’m leaving.” All my days in the sun have come back singing. Shadows eat the moon. Your urgency made numb. I don’t know what item of frozen food I’ve forgotten, but I wrote you a new note, in fire, on the front lawn. Everything you said had such gravity, as if it could hold, and hold fast, like “opposites attract,” you attracted me, but in square rooms our love grew oblong. So I’ll wander wherever streetlights make constellations, thinking of you, for I am a lost astronaut, and Houston, we have a problem. My wall’s a blank sheet all day. At night it goes black as a bomb. The world turns on us always. Which side are you on? You’ll watch the rockets as they take off. I’m strapped to an argument. You count it down on a digital, T minus 2, 1... Only 24 but the lord’s got it out for me. Paint spilled on the floor in my bachelor, I’ll still say it’s you. It speckles the drop sheet, so I clean it up, I spend my days doing nothing, watching TV. You’ll always fulfill what you perform. Pick up, pick the damn thing up, yes the phone. Paint a Jupiter spot like Gorbachev’s head. How could I refuse? I’ll tell you what. All the ways that you loved me were all the ways that you held me down. Now I’ll paint holes in my house, look down to the badminton courts. The key: I put my arm round the back of your chair and you put your hand on my knee on the meat of my thigh I look forward to spring hearing the cordial moans of the un-satisfied.
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Single 03:05
like butterfly kisses being laid on the starch stricken faces of pillowcases by terrorists. In other words intentions were good but I think you should face up, face the music, no wind up toy won't turn to the knife in it's back and accuse it, turn and face her, itself fear, for if there is betrayal here I don't see it, just the equitable taking to task of two people searching for mirrors. Listen closely and you too could hear it, listen close enough, you never know what you could hear. Well now you say you didn't mean what you were saying. I hadn't thought you'd said much anything of note. I'm neither your man, nor your mannequin. It's a Freudian slip, right down your throat. Young beautiful one what you wanted. Sweet, pretty thing, smooth to the touch. Smile, stay for a while, don't you want it? Know there's a line but it won't mean much. (Notice me, notice me: a young pretty thing and so supple.) Lips like lilacs, you plucked the petals off of a Lie! Don't even try. Don't your morals tell you otherwise? (How could it be, how could it be? How can one make three into the couple?) Mirror, mirror. Can't reflect my innards. If you could see my guts would I have thought that they'd be bigger, bigger, bigger. (And, for every night, I don't sing, I sleep my solo: horoscopes, and a hand in mine) Hand in hand. Oh! The circumstance! Clean the dark right out of my mind. We two are twins, we're Gemini, which is to say we're twin infants. (I know the feeling is more than fleeting,) When they say you're underage, I say you're underpriveleged. (but I,) So take me back to your impoverished village, (but I) at the city limits I'll wait. (but I) can't. I can't. Sometimes doing this means heading home an hour before the party ends. To get what you need and make an uncareful retreat, to have a turtlish love for your own personal cave deep. It means getting acquainted with your own apartment, and so, your own head. Yes, I know you know a few futons that would leap, as puma, into leopard print beds, inviting your hips to be organ-grinder to the accordion of their springs, but better to know your own music: whiskers rubbing out their rhythms on your chin, flies dropping with a plunk into the fluorescent light's casing, your unopened love notes a silent letter's stress-able rest. so your house is full of instruments. Yes, they pile up on the kitchen table with the government assistance cheques.
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Widower 04:18
Laid down so long. Lay down on the floor, on the floor, on the floor, your leprosy, where all your friends and all your faults are all received. The muscles in my arms and legs are growing long, but not as fast and not as strong as all the hearts on cards pumped out for the people: Valentine’s Day babe, disease receipt stapled to the card, through the heart, my skin is an able thing to stretch across the floor, walk all over me Katherine. If not a transplant, you needed something new. The doctors were patient, how patience could move in you, and make your chest listen, this Valentine’s Day, a card and corpse opened: you opened your shirt, and lifted my heart away. You opened your shirt and lifted my heart away. We parted, me with a stitch in my wrist, you with a gaping hole in your Hallmark, so lifting the card to your lips, you say “you opened your shirt and lifted my heart away,” then added the heart to the punched card, and had a widower deliver it to our street. Your sympathies and doctor’s fees with it, saying this is your disease receipt. Say you’re relieved to have it out in the open your heart’s on your sleeve and what’s more, in weight, you are a songbird but all they say is take her to the floor with the other girls dancing but I will stay, I will stay. I cannot break it off, no I will not love you. Another man mentioned was your breakout, what you started to say when I started to shout sour in your mouth babe, sour my name. Lovely and timid. Oh babe, your heart’s about to break. Praise him for healing if your heart’s about to break. Hands up for healing. the rabbit and the snake. Just stare into the ceiling. Lay your hands across your face. You and me, we go at it until sweat collects under your breasts “mad sex,” “gotta have it.” I draw my hand across your throat, Son of Man, open the apple. The maple has been irresponsible, dropping its robins like sperm— we bent over birds, their beating red breasts in our woods as they were dying as if their deliverers, their wet nurses. I abandoned two human infants on the place where a bird was where you found them, and thought of you as that first nurse— and so you were a girl who nursed wolves. I open my shirt, so you may admire my moles, lay your finger on my chest, over the place where the heart is, while I carve a heart in the bark of a sycamore and your finger uncovers a porous, ventricled, warm lump of ore the size of a fist while a widower, senex iratus, stands on your porch holding a valentine, I throw my hair back at the hips and suckle at the globe’s canopy, which descends like a sheet where stars weight it. So have I said it all or should I say again, you were laid down so long, now you’re married to an engine. You are married to your chest’s new fruit, you are married to an engine, you are married to a man’s most absolute invention. The false heart's in your body the real one’s in your name: you are married to an engine, you will be widow to the same. For even as your heart stopped honey, and as you were revived again I danced on the floor, thinking it your grave, thinking I was a widower.
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The Mare 04:30
No hangings here, so I thought if I build it could it hold for a year and a day? Three-hundred-sixty-six lynchings in history will live on always. If I plant the bones will the graveyard grow ivory teeth again? Those tombstones, they may not talk that much, but they say their own names. They rise to say Rallies, round the gallows go, swing low. Swing your partner. If she doesn’t know, I know. You’ll be crying, I’ll be singing, lets go to the rallies. Things hanging: the wind-chime’s in a tizzy. It rings. Squid limb knots are knotting to a thing I think is its heart, bird small and shallow. The breathing in the trees are also busy, flinging leaves fall like flares, falling fires, fall trees. Some fall leaves linger, blood tipped yellows, I’m a sharper singer, cause I cut my finger, Lizzie. It stings. When they come they come sickle swinging so swing. Swing your partner. He is hallowed. Our names are on the gallows. Smile, sidewinder. The noose swings like a metronome: cats playing with ribbons, two shows for the children on puppeteer’s row. The noose swinging like a metronome. Swing left, swing right, with the wind at night. That’s the rhythm of a dead man dancing his jig. He put his best to rest in the ringing of a taut rope. A dropped call never said so much. Swing left, swing right, that’s the rhythm. 1. ______________ 2. ______________ 3. ______________ 4. ______________ On and on and on and on: I carved my name on the wooden wall, the signature in your swansong. Swing low, sweet chariot, coming forth to carry me home. I am playing hangman. Can you guess the words? Men are made of mistakes. Bad medicine? Marble orchard? Dead man dancing? He lost his footing for the last time. I am playing hangman. Can you guess the words? Men are made of mistakes. Ringing rope? Chariot? Or your manifesto? He lost his footing for the last time. I am playing hangman. Can you guess the words? Men are made of mistakes. Shoulder forest? Harvest? Harvest? Hallowed is the Lord. He lost footing for the last time. Ropes, tremors, circle the wagon. The devil’s in town.
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Come down, the underground’s saviour can’t sleep. A day with no face a day with no face. They said that you would have something for me. You slay me you slay me. Like a snake kissing a sprinkler, a pair of scissors, spreading its legs. We deal in desolation like real estate agents, make homes in the hay. Hey. Hey. Rolling our holes towards oceans, do you think we’ll rust? Damascus unmasks us. This is the place you will Rest until morning. This is the bed you will lie in. When I was just a child I saw a lion catch fire, it was tranquilized. My 17th dream, and these seminal questions to solve, why don’t you consult your magic eightball? With the right music, you can make car washes Kubricks. My lady married a hedgehog, and lay in his bed of nails. What strange valleys we’re passing on our way to the sun. This is the bed you will lie in, lion. I just want to lie down on your lawn place my hand on my tongue. An angel considers its palm. How do we live? I just want to fall back into the pool, its blue math, a blue school. Progress in project How do we live with this? Come to. Bloodhounds will pour out of alleys. Scuba divers will excavate our sunken houses. Come to. They’re looking for you, in the valley. Therapists spreading dead fish out on their couches. So bring out the guns, we are the ones, We’re going on sa-fucking-fari. Who has blood on their hands? Yeah we are the ones, so bring out the guns, We’re gonna blow holes in the sun. I’m in the kitchen, snapping spaghetti strands. Lab Rat, I’d like for you to have to bank around it, like meeting a whale, or waiting tables. Meanwhile, sea trade is improving celestial navigation. Algebra and zero are imported, with the rats in the grain. Watching the planets, we realize heliocentrism. England becomes a hub for the trade of exotic animals: parrots in the backs of pubs like pool tables. Meanwhile, Galileo’s working out inertia, not purposed, but moved by external force. I look to kings, apartment buildings, see orders of ascending strength, endlessly increasing, while you move the wheel turns taught you, elegant as proof. At home I flipped backwards, drew rivers under lines of text, irrigated letters. When I called you “Solve,” you came, around the ledge, your tail a curl closing question marks. I came across a rodent in the gutter (a little white number knows its name).
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Hi Low 01:27
The girls are doing acid upstairs, their long hair in the fan. Be there if I can. Hit me high low.
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Middleweight 05:39
Service. Silence. Scene: Last night I woke and you were screaming like a bat. The hallway empty but for four red doors, each an esophagus expanding, the light under them playing silent monster movies on the floor in milky pools of black and white relief. Something moving, something drew me down the narrows between two lamps’ sleeping sentries past the closet where the umbrellas’ webbed skeletons lean like the shadows we lack. I opened the fridge, and out flew a thousand bats. The furred fruit of their bodies samples of night’s black punctuation, they left their screams ringing in light, their crumpled face flesh, black glossy beads of the eyes set in their horror, and everywhere wings. They roost, heavy ones hanging like speed-bags with features, light ones like lost winter gloves, their stalactites all grouped, blood bags black loot tuned to the mouse of my movement. My mouth waters, late at night, it is drops clinging to the ridged roof of its midnight snack. You came for me. My prize, fits me perfectly. Your size, leave it in my middleweight. Middleweight. We drive, tonight I feel afraid just to be alive. Why would I eat your imitation, ring round the middleweight. The Middleweight. Here’s a marked part: there's a lot ticked off on your donor card. So you bought her salt water, but could you bother a blotter for your daughters to drop. Walking in the dogs simmer, boil up. They empty down hallways like echoes, as in the kitchen I’m making you mud. Moaning Pipes in the walls where moles may lay clogs like cholesterol. Blind, they finger futures in lint, history’s folds— The way we live, knowing not newness nor prizing the old, lay in our beds cold as cutlery. Last night I did a bad thing. Tie tree a willow all week, withering, My rooms grow red with the morning— that last night I ate a bad thing. tonight TV movies take children, chewing their lips, they thin out like bulimics, a boarder, older we know this boredom as horror, the strange crick in your neck, as if always looking over your shoulder, I jiggle the sand from a sock, the dustpan leaves it a mountain range, it is swept under a sea, I beat that rug: in other words I love the lamp, it is lovely. In a directory please find me Under A, as in “a book,” like all those that I close, then walk away, then fall sideways. Hey. How’d you get there. I don’t know where (I am). I’m lost. Trees with lights in their lofts. The freeway that foxed me. When you want a bout, you find me, Not hard to put a face to a hammer’s hen. You can be my fortune cookie for a few teeth that you can keep up in your mouth ‘til then. All the hands that we lay through the round I am sorry but proud, you will hunt me down. The fist I kissed, the cross, the dogs barking, So count me out, flat on the ground I hear them calling— My lawyers add that You’re wrong, Justice Hutchinson, I’ll still say that I didn’t know what I was doing. A splash of rifle, a psycho like Michael. Approach the bench again. It fits with a modern decay. I bruised my brother’s brain, Cain, the middleweights still waiting in the land of Nod, he sleepwalks, til they bang my head in. … I woke up and took the long walk to the bus stop, pushed through the people gathered by the driver like a clot. A man ate a jelly filled donut and it dropped heavy blots on his breast pocket, false brooches. I can’t shake it off, shake it out, something nocturnal that won’t rest, behind the back wall, smoking short cigarettes by the dog house. Shuddering bus, square drop of blood, heading for red mountain camps…
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Keeper 01:03
Obliterating angels like explosions in snow. Physics. It was one of those could of's but didn'ts.

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Fyz1ks!1 ('Physics') brings Other Families maximalist, genre-busting aesthetic to new and terrible heights. The experimental electronic album is an audio extravaganza with influences as wide ranging as hardcore punk, 80's funk and avant-garde performance art. Featuring vocal appearances from artists across Toronto, the collaborative work is a monster that represents itself as such. Available now as a free download, Fyz1ks!1 follows their 2012 debut Quit, three singles, an experimental audio podcast available online and cassette, The Other Families Radio Show, and a chapbook, Slay.

credits

released November 22, 2014

Jesse Manou: DJ, Synth, Bass and Drums
Pavan Brar: Guitar and Synth
Josh Johnston: Bass, Synth and Vocals
Zach Buck: Words and Vocals

Nicole Cain played additional Bass Guitar on tracks 1, 5 and 10.
Lukas Witmer played additional acoustic drums on track 2.
Lucas Manou played trombone on the last half of track 2.
Matt Vultaggio played additional bass on track 10.
Kat Baggio leant her voice to tracks 4 and 5.
Theo Kapodistrias screamed on track 7.
Other voices on this album include Adrianne Daigle, Kiel Mac, Izabella S, Tristan Barrocks and Kameron Gordon.

'Interpreter' features audio from the LP Themes Like Old Times as well as a sample of 'Alcohol in the 1920s' by Other Families.
'Rise When U No' is based in a sample of Steely Dan's 'Do It Again' and a vocal sample from 'California Love' by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman.
'The Mare' features a sample from Chuck Wagon Gang's rendition of 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot.'
A sample from Cyberpunker's remix of Toxic Avenger's song 'Toxic is Dead' is in 'Single.'

Physics was produced at Other Families Recording Studios. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jesse Manou of Other Families. CD design by Theo Kapodistrias of Other Families.

Other Families extends deep gratitude in the making of Physics to:

Families, ours and in general. Emily Power and Jessica Rock. Lee Mobin. Metcalfe. Lucas Manou. Morakoza and Pretty Odd. Mark Thompson. The Butler. Young Cesar. Karen Augustowitsch. Hailey Power, who helped the same night. Matt and Teymoor. Blair Hammond, cooking from the heart. The inhabitants of the apartment across the hall. Andrew Whiteman in Montreal. Brad and Tambra. Harmonica Guy (RIP) and wife, who live in the apartment above and never made a peep. Keith at Alpha Electronics. Dras 'Bullneck' Rotundun and the Rotundun sons. Rob Lee. Gene of that miraculous crack-den, 'Cesspool Castle' where we played with Dharma from LA. The drummer talked about fucking a stripper the night before, 'apparently. I was too drunk to remember.' Isabella S. Jay Colbourne. Matt Vatole and Paul Geldart, who are not related in any sense. Tobias H[e]art. The 806 in Amarillo, TX. Alexandra DiFlorio. Nick Brewer of Flagstaff. Bruce McCroon. Dr. Reverend Andrew Human.

During the course of the making of Physics, two members of Other Families departed the band. Josh Johnston and Pavan Brar have been replaced by Theo Kapodistrias, Chris Harry, Lukas Witmer, and Nicole Cain. OF's sincerest thanks to each of these 6 for sharing our journey.

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