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You Are Love And I Am You

by The Parlor

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    12” black vinyl [33 rpm]
    Twelve track album recorded in the parlor of The Kirk Estate.

    Full color jacket featuring psychedelic collage work by Aaron Smith. Full color sleeve insert. Download code included. Experience this album the way it was intended. You Are Love And I Am You was written specifically for the vinyl experience.

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1.
NOW 00:26
2.
sail away to the stars / and love is what you are / like dust in the light / both the dark and bright / In the earth in the sky in the heart and in the eye / in the wind in the flow / through the cloud of the unknown / letting it go, and it is gone / until there’s nothing to stand upon / floating in space / floating in time / into the dark of the sublime / I am here and I am now / I am all and you are how / You are love and I am you / I am yours / You are true /
3.
OCEANS 03:13
telling lies all the clouds in the sky are white and moving on through / it never hurt but neither did the truth / sit around on a a rock on the ground and meditate on nothing / cleaning out and finding I am you / finding I am you when I see the sun go down / when I see the earth spin round / when I keep calm and when I lose my mind / when all of you is all of me / when all of you is all of me / so carry on / the oceans pull us out into the open / feelings are the curses of emotions / and you never were any one different than everyone you’ve always ever been / so carry on
4.
SERPENTINE 03:41
I feel like a fool / I feel like a feather floating down / I feel like I’m standing here with no feet on the ground / you know that I’ve said things that I wish I could take back / they’re stuck inside your mind in self-attack / if I could you know I would but it’s no good / time’s a line it’s serpentine / I’m genuine I would / if I could take it back for good / time’s a line it’s serpentine / genuine I would / I crossed a line it’s serpentine / genuine I would
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until the restless life / until the restless life ends / until the clouds come down / until we hit the ground and / until the siren sounds / until the money’s found / until my searching stalls / and I forgive you all / until defenses fall / until you bear my pall / the birds and the bees take us / the leaves on the trees take us / the sun and the rain take us / the look in your eyes take us / forget you all take us / find myself take us / until the restless life / until the restless life ends /
7.
when I was a girl I thought I had to know everything / impossible for somebody to sustain / but I fought like hell to hide any tell when I didn’t know / I see now how I was putting on a show / and you my only ever lady / you got caught up in my crazy / sitting at the ocean causing a commotion again / all the words I heard were spoken like they’ve always been / you know what you want and you want it like a thunderstorm / but if you want to heal my heart start hearing me on how it’s torn / you my only ever lady / I got caught up in your crazy /
8.
REMEMBER HOW 04:15
while the sun’s coming in through the window there’s a river rolling blue through our pillows / it’s washing away every fear we relay / forget why remember how today / the time of daffodils will find us / they stand up in the cold with no mistrust / they know the goal of living is to grow / good news is somewhere between us / like a river rolling blue to redeem us / it’s washing away every hope we pray / forget why remember how today / you know you are now everything you’ve ever been / even that scared little boy forever chicken / afraid he’ll never say a damn thing true until the end / so let it come down now like fire from above / to burn up all you’ve ever dreamed of / and leave you free to let go / forget why remember how today / the time of flooding rivers found us / we’ll let the waters rise up around us / be the death of all the dreams that bound us / because we know the goal of living is to let go
9.
it’s nothing so new / gets its fingers into you / touches your truth / until you let it through the bones around your chest / letting go the best the best the best / letting go of that and all of the rest / letting go of that too
10.
ECSTASY YOU 05:53
ecstasy you are a flower / petals dripping wet with dew / breathing deeply your perfume / tasting all of you / melt together with the water rushing like the fallen leaves falling softer than the snowfall opening like budding trees / I feel you / ecstasy you are a raven / you are black with memory / you remember things forever / hover over me / slide together like the mud ground / tangled thickly in the vines / we are of one single body delicate divine / I feel you / I take you in my arms / I taste you in my mouth / I see you in my eyes / I feel you in the night showing all the colors that are in life / ecstasy you / ecstasy you are love / I feel you / you are flower wet with dew / breathing deeply your perfume / I love you /
11.
LOVE TONGUE 03:56
drink in the light now swallow it in and shine as the person that you’ve always been / drink in the dark now swallow it down and feel your heart feel your feet on the ground / hey you love let’s find out is there something else here to what we’re about / hey you love there’s no doubt / I want you to put your tongue in my mouth / I want you to put your love in my mouth / no hurry no worry no feeling bad or blue it’s time to follow the flow that feels like truth / be real be you be fully certain it’s true there’s time for us now to feel our way through / if you and I keep spinning round and nobody hears it do we make a sound / hey you love let’s find out / I want you to put your tongue in my mouth / I want you to put your love in my mouth /
12.
in the shadows in the back I will wait for you / to open your window and climb out thorough / and I’ll call to you like an owl in the night / who are you can you take flight / and you’ll come to me in silence in a flash of light / like a revelation oh my my / you are beautiful in your radiance / pure as love can I have this dance / underneath the universe / I want to be love / we tried to get away we tried to be real / we tried to be true about how we feel / we lied to each other like we lied to ourselves / tossing wishes in a well / why are we here when we have no choice / where there is no sight and there is no voice / you are beautiful when you’re mystified / take my hand I’m along for the ride / underneath the universe / I want to be love
13.
TRUTH LOOP 01:13

about

You Are Love And I Am You is a dreamy psychedelic bedroom-art-pop record about the ecstasy of catharsis and cosmic imagination. A response to The Parlor’s most recent long player; the 2018 album Kiku which chronicled the band's experience of grief and loss.

Meant to be listened to as an album, front to back. Loud, with artwork in hand. In an altered state of consciousness. With influences from The Mamas and the Papas, Tame Impala, Broadcast, Fleetwood Mac, Warpaint, Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins, Trip Hop, New Wave, anti-folk, George Harrison, Velvet Underground, Khruangbin, Grimes, Cults, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

It plays in a loop, an ouroboros. The cycle of birth and death. Touching on Jungian archetypal symbols. Contemplative meditation. Profound self-acceptance. Sung as the sum total of all we've ever been.

"Like dust in the light // Both the dark and bright"

We hope you find something beautiful within that reminds you of what you've always been at the deepest recess of your heart. You are the universe manifesting, right now, aware of itself, shining.

You Are Love And I Am You
c 2023 The Parlor
www.theparlormusic.com

sail away to the stars / and love is what you are / like dust in the light / both the dark and bright / In the earth in the sky in the heart and in the eye / in the wind in the flow / through the cloud of the unknown / letting it go, and it is gone / until there’s nothing to stand upon / floating in space / floating in time / into the dark of the sublime / I am here and I am now / I am all and you are how / You are love and I am you / I am yours / You are true

PRESS
“A mighty new record....one of the year’s big standout releases.”
- Week In Pop

The Parlor brings us the gospel of a special system of order that arrives out of the continuous storms of chaos that contribute to the extravagant beauty of the self and spirit.” –Week in Pop

“Shimmering…simultaneously dreamy and effervescent...” -Obscure Sound

“psychedelic meanderings” // “dreamy” // “empathic” // “haunting” –Austin Town Hall

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released May 19, 2023

The Parlor is Jen O'Connor + Eric Krans
Recorded in the parlor of The Kirk Estate
written, recorded + produced by Jen O'Connor + Eric Krans
mixed by Eric Krans
mastered by Scoops Dardaris
album art by Aaron Smith
album design by Jen O'Connor + Eric Krans

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The Parlor Albany, New York

Neo-psychedelic dream-pop. A project by husband and wife: Eric Krans and Jen O’Connor, named after a room in the 19th century farmhouse where they live, farm, and create. The multi-instrumentalist, producer-composers make immersive art-pop soundscapes through which they share their lived experience. ... more

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