We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Malthusianapolis

by Tundra Toddler

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
Adumbratio 07:26
You'll make it to Paris one day By the time you roll all of your pennies It won't be there anymore Press all of your limbs into the heat Of the asphalt warped into glue This summer is 12 years deep I know you hate the city Shut up and skim the cum from my pool And shuck the oysters when told The suburbs are made of the bones Of the sad and the sick and the sour One day they'll bow from the stress We will never rest We will never rest Our hearts are flat, treadless tires But we can never rest There's a drop of blood in the sun room And it's trickling down the stairs It's pooling right under the candelabra Now it's staining your fine dishware It's bigger than the guest apartment It's washing away the doormat It's bigger than your whole estate Bigger than the cul de sac It's flowing across the sidewalks Where no one knows each other's names It's bigger than the highlands And it's flooding all 5 lanes It's bigger than this whole city It's bigger than entropy It's bigger than their pitiless doubt In anything we could ever be We will never rest We will never rest Our hearts are flat, treadless tires But we can never rest
2.
I don't know what you put in my drink But you probably found it in the garbage When you was looking for your lunch Hey! Hey! Are you even listening to me? Hey! Hey! Can you keep that landfill burning for me? They can shut out the sky This place has always been and it will always be It's been here much longer than you and me Gonna take your pretty things and throw them down in the street Melt down your pretty things and feed them to the priests in heat Hey! Hey! We're drying dogs off in the microwave Hey! Hey! We bury our heads in abortion graves They can shut out the sky
3.
4.
Wake to the gatling guns I just hope it's painless when it finally comes Take us quick don't leave anyone just Silence. Roaring hum. Silence. Roaring hum. Slow down Pile up Bridge out Fourteen horse power and four horse men Slow down Pile up Bridge out Take me by the hand until the windshield tears it off I sow these seeds on a fresh plot of land But all that emerges is clumps of oil-choked sand
5.
Arm the gates Encircling your estate After punching out all the windows Of the blood bank Every patrician needs lunch And to be served on their throne Embed it on the neon billboards And every empty womb and heart'll know Kids will keep home fires lit As they build our nursing homes Crushed by our ghosts But each failing factory needs one And each broken heart lies awake God's gift is a shallow-breathing Maggot rooting through your planned escape Wait for the clouds of black lungs To do their job when the job is aced Sealing their fates I need love Something to take care of Someone to lock all of my guns up When I'm dad drunk Storm those gates Encircling their estate Flood with kerosene all the door sills Of the sperm banks
6.
7.
The minister took us by our frail arms and He crossed himself weakly and feigned charm and He opened his eyes up to reason and Cast his bile upon procreation All the playgrounds have kudzu threaded through them and The monkey bars are flecked with chipped poison and I can swim in the river any season and If we cannot eat now then tell me when Education! Before legislation! I can't move I cannot move Education! Before legislation! I want to disappear into my phone Education! Before legislation! I can't move I cannot move Education! Before legislation! I just want wine and a warm home You move in with a satchel Of skittering solutions But the neon blurs the projects With the trash from all the oceans You move me with your pallor Architecture so unseemly, but I can't hear you over waves Upon waves of sterophonic agonal breathing When they pave Over my cleft chin Remember my charm When you foster my children And when they're gutted On hollow streets You'll know my mistakes Castration! Before decimation! Cut! Cut! Cut! Cut! Castration! Before decimation! Do it right here, do it right now Castration! Before decimation! Cut! Cut! Cut! Cut! Castration! Before decimation! Count me in don't leave me out
8.
I stole some blackberries from the last local farm But it still couldn't save us I pulled that grouse from the chimney of the world But it still couldn't save us Now your irony eyes Dart like trails of light On the sinking grid I shared every article about hive minds But it still couldn't save us I blurred the binary of our hearts and heads But it still couldn't save us Manufacturing glee From a glowing screen But you don't feel it Now your irony eyes Dart like trails of light On the sinking grid I mainlined forty gallons of truth serum But it still couldn't save us You'll never have to work a day in your life Or know that the world is worse than the movies The canvassers burn on the streets below It's all hazy lights from the highest balcony But you are next
9.
10.
I don't know where the good news ends I can't tell where the bad news begins Snatch up a kid and drink from their neck They say kids keep you young my friend The heat hits with a slow wave of doom Sweaty striptease in a hospital gown Trampled under evacuation routes The world's so old but you'll feel young again
11.
Remember that time When you had to go ID Your boyfriend by tattoos It's all buried by time All the broken glass Collects in the lowest sites Our ghost trails snag on them When it's finally night Our skulls of concrete In the ribs of the countryside Scattershot like buckshot Skin grows over in time The trees are in heat They all fuck before they feast In bulldozer bracelets And tenement bikinis Our wake is an oil-filled scar That lives for as long as the stars One starving ravine for each and every car
12.
I want to get this thing out of my body I need to get this thing out of my body Murder by flood Murder by fire Murder by any means required I need to cut the strings Woven through my body The jig is up There's nobody left to laugh with you No one is going to call the police They're all ashes They're all mold They're all meat For marigolds I want to get this thing out of my body I need to get this thing out of my body Tempered by blood Tempered by bone Anything to get you out of my home I need to cut the strings Woven through my body Get out of my body Get out of my home

about

all proceeds will be donated to The ACLU International

credits

released January 29, 2017

Adam Kozak: vox, synthesizers, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion, laptop, ocarinas, whistles, PVC flute, recorder, found sounds, programming, samples, etc

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Tundra Toddler Northampton, Massachusetts

Tundra Toddler is a splattered smear of chaotic electronics and tense, stormy pop sludge. He uses this idiosyncratic sonic backdrop to explore his obsessions of failing health, addiction, grief, and rape culture.

contact / help

Contact Tundra Toddler

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Tundra Toddler recommends:

If you like Tundra Toddler, you may also like: