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YOU WILL PAY FOR IT

by AE Bridger

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Yes we can! We are the pupil of your pupil of your mind's eye turn on your Omnivision open up: commercial(ize) "we nullified the competition! there is nothing left to advertise! two birds, one stone! how convenient!" (antibioticism grows, antibioticism grows) dots dots we got lotsa dots we got lots these two dots do not form an E.L.I.P.S.I.S! they do not form an E.L.I.P.S.I.S! these two dots do not form an E.L.I.P.S.I.S! two dimensional is the new three dimensional (give us one eye) there is no light there is no tunnel (and we'll show you a way) the tunnel is a wall it's flat it's on your retina (life and death) we got lots of little black dots for sale "two birds, one stone! how convenient!" (antibioticism grows, antibioticism grows) dots dots we got lotsa dots we got lots these two dots do not form an E.L.I.P.S.I.S! they do not form an E.L.I.P.S.I.S! these two dots do not form an E.L.I.P.S.I.S!
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every one by one buy one every one by one buy one every one buy on buy one I shit money I shit power I shit money you will pay for it you will pay for it you will pay for it you will pay for it you will pay for it you will pay for it pay to have your mind sucked through your nose going once going twice going three times going once going twice money money money money you will pay for it you will pay for it you will pay for it you will pay for it you will pay for it you will pay for it pay to have your mind sucked through your nose
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here comes the weather man here comes the acid rain here comes the cop car to pick apart my brain i can't wait i can't wait i can't wait i can't wait i can't wait here comes another job here comes another job here comes the cop car you know I just can't wait i can't wait i can't wait i can't wait i can't wait i can't wait
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in the back of y'eye theres a little piece of skin that's so incredibly thin and so incredibly clear (like a mirror) that when you look up in the sky when you look into your eye when you look into the mirror you know that something just ain't right vision is an inside job vision is an inside job vision is an inside job you think some people in a cave made all this happen?
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no mo logs fo no mo logs fo the fire for the fire for the fire for the fire for the fire for the fire for the fire fudda fah fudda fah fudda fah fudda fah we are gonna burn we are gonna burn the grandfather clock he's a liar he's a liar he's a liar he's a liar "hey mom! hey dad! I thought you were dead! you thought I was alive! well, I finally am now!"
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There's a sign that says "YOU'RE GOING TO GET IN SHIT" but you're already in it There's a sign that says "YOU'RE GOING TO GET IN SHIT" but you're already in some serious shit, man. They took us out of our homes they cut out of eyes and a hose was inserted into our collective esophagii they confiscated our souls An intricately cut arrangement of holes is the only face you're ever gonna have the only face you're ever gonna have from now on...

about

“This music has been kept a secret for over five years. It was recorded in 2010, and the band had already been slaving over every little nuance of the arrangements for a couple years even by then. So why, in an era over-saturated with self-produced individualistic musicians and wannabe lo-fi legends, is YWPFI being released now after a half-decade spent gathering digital dust, doomed to fizzle out in planned obsolescence in the dark recesses of a worn-out Macbook Tyler loaned me? Partly because the vision of a world completely overrun with cables, where privacy is lost, where people are dehumanized by their parasitic relationship with media is more relevant now than it was in 2010, partly because it is certainly the most ambitious and personal concept I have ever come up with, but mostly because, for the past four years, I was pretty confident I would never release it.

Starting in 2008, the band would spend over a year decoding several cryptic "demos" and esoteric concepts I had imagined for an schizophrenic prog-rock album with heavy noise elements and dark humour. We were gigging constantly and refining some of the jammier stuff in live shows, all to render this paranoid vision in angular and vivd clarity. In 2010, we were finally ready to record YWPFI, but by then, things outside the band were getting complicated for me on a personal level. I was so stressed out that I hopped on a plane and ran away from St. John’s (and the band) in August 2010 on a whim.

In search of clarity, I did what any white suburban Canadian would do; make the pilgrimage to Montreal to reenact generic North American hipster culture in a ghetto with a bunch of other white suburban Canadians. At that point, I still had every intention to finish this record… and then a year went by. The guys in the band back in St. John’s asked me about the record. Friends and appreciators of the band asked me about it. As I searched for ‘clarity’ in my life, I still tried to pick away at the record periodically, but after a couple years, I realized that YOU WILL PAY FOR IT had changed from 'a particularly tough project I'm working on' into ‘The Unreleased AE Bridger Record.' This saddened me because of the years of work that had gone into this music, but even by 2012, completing this ambitious music, which by then I had come to associate to a particularly stressful time in my life, was too daunting of a task. Not to mention that each song had over 30 unlabelled tracks and was largely consisting of fuzzed-out, densely constructed noise-prog! Expectations had grown too high, and I was intimidated by the personal implication of what I heard in the music; the message, the sonic landscapes, the politics, the paranoia, the ANGER. It was (maybe still is) the most deeply personal and angry thing I had ever come up with, and the musicianship of Steve, Josh, Tyler and Dylan gave this nightmarish vision three dimensions. A bit too real for me in my confused and panicked state in 2010-2012? Yeah, maybe.

Mythologizing aside, after not even thinking about 'The Record' for a year, me and Steve listened to a few of the songs at his place in September of this year. It sounded good, so I finally worked up the courage to brush the dust off the decade-old Macbook to retrieve and 'remaster' the tracks, and was delighted to find that what I remembered as an unfinished, terrifying mess of feedback and distortion was actually a funny and electrifying teenage mess of feedback and distortion that is BRIMMING WITH AWESOME ANGST. And most importantly, the other guys sound incredible! This is their record and, after half a decade of waiting, it is my pleasure to honour their work by putting YOU WILL PAY FOR IT out there for anyone to listen to. Here it is, in all it's chaotic teenage glory. Thanks so so so so much to my brothers, Dylan, Tyler, Josh and Steve. You have given me a massive gift in being my friend and helping me bring this music to life. I’ll never fucking do anything this insane ever again!”

- Alex Bridger, October 21, 2014

credits

released October 21, 2014

All songs written and produced by Alex Bridger
Performed and arranged by Josh Bourden, Alex Bridger, Dylan Bridger, Steve Cowan and Tyler Lovell
Album Art by Ken Bridger and Alex Bridger, with assistance from Fani Claire.

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