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Wings That Shouldn't Be

by Vertigo Fox

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1.
Forgotten Paths 03:18
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2.
Nature of War 05:04
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Lost in a maze with your foes all around Flaring new wings as I face them all down And we keep on going through this web of change we've spun And I keep on fighting till all the battle is done, and … All we’ve got left Is the wild sky and wind All we’ve ever been We’re blowing on the wind Gain a lot lose so much more Such is the nature of this war How can any of this be real When nightmares are what I know I need to feel? ... All we’ve got left Is the open sky, and the wind See all we ever could see Playing on the wild whirling wind Whole self chafing as we're locked in this bubble Tail flicking as we’re hunting for trouble
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Existing 05:00
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Existing… Constant precarious You often fail to see This aspect of you and me Exciting… Thrill up my tail and spine Life, dark, shifting grey line On this midnight lake of mine … Only constant, the drumbeat of peril That plays upon our flaws, or that we cause by existing You don't forget your first end they want you to live yet they can't let you slake that thirst Night vision... We don't make for cover Claw the first incision Distorted rhythm of the driven The hunter... It's too late to escape So be naked danger At least, till the dark spell breaks [make something up] … ... Existing… Constant precarious Claw the first incision To hunt them down, you just listen
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Of The Mist 04:55
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A cat came to me in the evening Said he needed a warrior friend The horn on his helm was shined spotless But the claws on his hands, stained with red Said they required a strong-willed champion As his tail coiled and nervously twitched And, as he named his foe with a hiss We set off to join the warriors of mist ... They fade into the mist, I seem to fade with them Seems I will fight For their honour their way The claws come out Fight begins with the pounce Never need armour’s hold So long as world’s shroud enfolds You quickly learn how to become one with the clouds As long as you share their smell and shape And if the spines on their backs mark this place for attack Then my fangs will find all their foes' flanks And fight cold things away From this dark jungle city Now under enemy sway In the fur and flesh, singing … Floating up with the fog Till we coalesce Winged Wolf came back to me in the morning This is their essence …
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SciLab Escape 04:43
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Castle in the Clouds 06:52
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As the world draws from me I fly from it, in turn, in dreams An escape from a place Know not the danger I face Flee into the sky In a form that’s not mine Mutation, it’s not right Imagination seems my only way to fight Wondering what my wings have cost While updrafts hold me aloft Rising to the sky on borrowed wings With feet kicking, tail flicking Rising too high on my borrowed wings This dream still has more to show me … Thermals lifting me up Catching under these wings The air lifts me towards A dark fortress, terrifying Thermals pushing me up As I see this is no dream Rising air closes, enshrouds The castle within my clouds The rows of hollow spots, And wings, on soft-coated body They're all things that couldn't be The castle in dark clouds, Pushing into my reality, Something that shouldn't be The fortress in the night Drawing closer all the time I know I need to fight I don't know how [SOLOS] The power in my shape I don't know how to tame Just a beast hunting naked in the dark Strength beneath claw and wing I can feel everything I am this thing, can't be this thing I don't know what I am … ... Backwing to a blackened battlement I- oh... It's here
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Dark Ones 03:25
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Lost Sky 06:16
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Lost, in the midnight sky I’m left to wonder, wander Into the clouds Try not to look down Thunder and crosswinds, were calling I think I’m falling, falling Diving, fast, down Pull up just before I touch the ground Flesh and the attack, are calling And I’ll be leaping, mauling … Never was made to fly Now it seems the sky is my life All these pieces of land Only ever break up the flight Lost, in the midnight sky But I think I’m alright Feel the curse is taking me again So quickly? Naked need, to fly, hunt, and defend This body … The dark light takes hold And these wings unfold I am in control of This vastness I roam Hear no warnings call Though they fear this soul Lifting, with my tail held up Blood, wind and claw, would I give that up? … … Lonely in black night sky Hunt wander, for now It's alright
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Reclaim 04:49
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You think you’re small but your voice is loud You taste starlight and you touch sound So rarely meet either sky or ground Live between, in these liminal lands And when your feet leave the branches It feels like life When wings catch the wind, for just a space of seconds Fail to feel unmanned... ... You’ve felt ground’s solidity, strength and support When you touched earth on two limbs Later licked the sky, and though you liked the taste Was where others belonged in Though none would now know it, existing here In this land of long falls When that long tail lashes loose in the wind You feel it all ... And when your feet leave the branches It feels like life When wings catch the wind, for a matter of moments The feeling's like being... Naked and lost in the lands you invented Alive on the living, the lonely and hunted … Touch the fetid wind Ruffling body fur Your feet leave the branch And it feels like an answer

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Another Covid Lockdown Album!
This is kind of a concept album, largely based on the idea of flight as a metaphor for locking yourself away from the world. Hence the character theme it's named for -- creatures who were never meant to fly find themselves with wings anyway.
On the musical side, earlier this year I got a seven-string electric guitar, and found an interesting little piece of free software from google called "tonetransfer". The album is largely based around those two instruments, and tonetransfer is used in some way, large or small, on every track.

I also included three bonus tracks on the bandcamp release that each have something to do with the way the album was made, but didn't fit into the concept of the album proper.

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released December 26, 2020

Vertigo Fox - Vocals
Vertigo Fox - Keyboards
Vertigo Fox - Guitars
Vertigo Fox - Synthesizers
Vertigo Fox - Drum Programming
ToneTransfer - Putting up with all the weird crap I shoved into it :)

A special thanks to CoTeCiO and VagrantCandle from their respective discord communities, for helping out with the cover.
And a special thanks to the planet Jupiter for Existing :D

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Vertigo Fox Winnipeg, Manitoba

Vertigo Fox is a band made up of one mysterious, probably catlike creature.
A mysterious creature who, tired of hearing the same themes in music year in and year out, decided to create something altogether stranger.


Vertigo Fox enjoys long walks and hikes, though the cats he inevitably encounters always tell him they're prowls. ... more

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