From its inception, The End and the Beginning was meant to be the most hopeful and acoustic-sounding Drownbeat album yet, and that is exactly what it has become. Unlike the first two Drownbeat releases, which utilized many different songwriters and vocalists, The End and the Beginning was written by only two people: Dan Milligan and Bill Acuña of Chicago’s Despotic Hall of Fame. In addition, the lengthy list of performers was replaced with a small group of musicians, giving it a much more intimate and band-like feeling than the first two albums. And while it’s not necessarily a “concept album” in the traditional sense, the songs on the album are very tightly bound together with a common theme. The result is Drownbeat’s most consistent musical offering to date.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
A VERY limited edition signed CD copy of Drownbeat's third album, The End and the Beginning
Includes unlimited streaming of The End and the Beginning
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lyrics
White beads that whistle thru the sylvan sparkle dust
Vermillion shoots that scatter scarlet sand and penny rust
Dead rot on roots with crusted muddy filigree
The frantic fingers feel the holy entropy
They reach up toward the sun, grasping toward its shape
Awoken by above, nostalgia in the stains
They reach up toward the sky, confused by sleeves of light
That echo back the shine, renewal by design
Unraveled slips that chase their place below the melted moss
They whisper tales of secret lies, pathetic loss
The sting of separation and of phantom pain
shake the burden of the murders with the nascent gains
They reach up toward the sun, grasping toward its shape
Awoken by above, nostalgia in the stains
They reach up toward the sky, confused by sleeves of light
The wonder and the shine, renewal by design
Recorded and engineered by Dan Milligan and James Scott
Produced and mixed by Dan Milligan at Smoulderman Studio
Mastered by James Scott at Populist Studios, Wheaton, IL
Artwork by Dan Milligan
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