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Leftover Paradise: Crumbs & Gems (Live​/​Demo Cuts 2005​-​2022)

by J-Lobster

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The Sleeper Awakes When all your towers lay in ruins You chose not to conform Got your share of disapproval And dived into the storm It’s no time to play a hero now When crisis sets our needs I’m all broke, please call the police Now you’re on your own You managed to get out of here No-one thinks you’ve won And they can’t stop laughing But you still carry on Somewhere under the radar And you still carry on… As I flip through countless pages Old paper reeks of blood And all of those who perished nameless Seem to return from dust We’re just a swarm of clumsy characters in this eternal quest With something precious to protect My nefarious relapse Always leads to different traps As I gather pearls with fellow swine Typing comments, spreading sloth Computer-voodoo human dolls We don’t have to stop, just drive in line Falling like a stone You become untouchable A separated zone Where everything is possible And you still carry on somewhere under the radar You think that you broke through But a small eye is watching you While they update the database You think that you broke through But someone is watching you And it won’t stop until the sleeper wakes
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Southwest Elegy Oh please be patient, I must explain my shaky state This conversation could be taped and stored for spooky days ahead Can I rewind this moment and leave no stone unturned? Coz I’m a glitch in a perfect story And you’re the one that never learned to fly Liberty, girl, is my religion Climbing skyscrapers like a ninja A thousand feet – I can reach that high and find me a creature to defy I’m a modern Da Vinci, son of Nietzsche Give it a go, I’m gonna teach ya Follow my lead and we’ll occupy The Babylon Tower in the sky Two horny spiders, entangled in our sticky lair The borscht-colored sunset crowns the busy day of slow despair You say I dodge the nature, unfit to play Tarzan But you know nothing of my ventures Just wait until I share my Zen It’s time to burn some bridges and find our Xanadu Now learn from the original gourmet of all the doom and gloom And so you hate this city but you live in this city And all the sins you inhibit make you wallow in pity The killer smoke rising, drones recognize you Old fears emerging, you could die a virgin Become an insurgent in sunny paradise land Boning angels, back with a vengeance Back in the dark army of loser freaks This is your final fix Climbing skyscrapers like a ninja Give me that old-time religion Follow me girl, I really need ya, babe Top of the world, we can reach that high Desperate eagles in the sky I wanna take you to my village now Safe place, Olympic I wanna take you to my people now Cool place, Olympic
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Ghost Extra Baby, I slept through bouts of turbulence on a shaking plane Forgetting volcanoes and the vast terrain of oppressive pain An anonymous extra lost at a giant set for the epic never to be made Unless you change your mind I love to be in this film I feel like we’re making history Reveal to me the missing reels, deleted scenes Apply your alchemy Eliminating all enemies Reborn together as the closing credits roll Baby I slept through a killer crash, dreaming of your flesh All cameras failed to record the incident, so let’s shoot again I feel unstoppable longing for my private infinity, concealed behind the silver screen At last, I’ve got the leading part The audience is raging, bitter tears in their eyes As we slowly fade into the mouth of the sun The audience is raging, total void in their minds All the hipsters clapping as we melt into one
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Femdomorama Don‘t you lose it, when you look at sex-terrorist Lucy She’s got an Uzi and a serious reason to use it Time to baptize your little brain In Elixir Baudelairean So she could call you Mr. Vain Windows explode as you escape the ministry Whisper farewell to your quiet life as it used to be Permanent hijacks, deviant agents, the critical mass of bad mistakes You’re on the highway, falling ahead into the luminous void between her legs Lucy moves like a hippy succubus harassed by the Stasi You’ll get bruises if you mess with her furious posse She’s out to nullify your world and have your ego redeployed On behalf of Dr. Freud Oh, you are so smart, Lucia Bury my heart, Lucia Pick me apart, Lucia This is your art, Lucia Bring the beat, yo, maestro With the music of space orchestra Santa Muerte el melody All I desire for is your body, Lucia! Family values disintegrate as you unzip Squeal on your belly, let her punish that ass with a metal whip Permanent hijacks, deviant agents, the critical mass of bad mistakes You’re on the highway, falling ahead into the luminous void between her legs You picked me up from the primordial swamp I don’t believe that men are superior Purify, baby, purify Put your heartbeat next to mine Keep on dancing, Salome Take the head of a blasphemous priest See the light, baby, see the light Now that justice has arrived
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Airborne Punk Squad Your psychedelic coat feels like medieval armor Dark eyes Illuminated by neon lightning bolts Hysterical ko-gals revel in teenage drama You got your tickets, naughty kids, so welcome to the show! Now everyone feels like a warrior The sumo patron saint of Tokio needs your soul to devour So let’s make war instead of love tonight We came to see your golden suicide Poor Miyuki plays her koto And prays for reckless pilot punks To deliver her from boredom of this mini-Alcatraz You doze off on your throne, untroubled by desire And geishas wrap your loins in supernatural glow Enjoy the quick decline and fall of the Late Pagan Empire Gigantic raves for happy slaves keep booming far below The streets of Ginza brim with monsters Mishima’s prophecy was true And it may take another comet To recreate 2-0-1-2 The UFO is on the roof Wake up, Miyuki - they’re here for you! Fly away from brutal riots and rotten struggles of mankind Join the children of Utopia Every day is a day of wonders as we approach remorseless stars Clever girl, you’re on of us Forever lost in schizomanga wars You must forget that previous life of yours The final flood took over Tokyo
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Сутенер Мордочка Коренастый мачо с бокалом вина Томным взглядом ласкает тебя Ему нужна лишь твоя плоть, и он сумеет ее взять Обольщенная улыбкой, ты нырнешь в его кровать А пока он лишь танцует, выпивает и флиртует Современный Купидон Мутным глазиком мигает И девчонок выбирает, навостряя бурбидон Все будет хорошо у нас Ешь виноград и ананас Я кое-что еще припас Вечеринка до утра Много женщин и вина Все без нижнего белья Это – молодость моя На нем зеленые очки и галстук в стиле «семафор» Курит кубинскую сигару, роняет пепел на ковер И смазливая брюнетка в его руках Словно креветка, извивается, крича Чуя запах силача А коренастому мальцу настучал он по лицу Агрессивный Дон Жуан Этой ночью ты король, mazafucka Aнатоль Своею гнусною игрой ты причиняешь людям боль Вечеринка до утра Пляшет пьяная шпана Эти девки и бухло Вы – сокровище мое
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CIA You see, I’m jobeless with no electricity Honey, now let’s cross-dress, and by the way I spiked your tea Sometimes I wonder if there’s a meaning to it all We’re going under the wave of evil Let it roll Disgrace to the nation, lost in cheap 3DMT Spend my days hallucinating Doctor Cameron, let me be! Don’t wake me as I trip Along the Moebius Strip In every system I remain the weakest link No citizens missing but me The butcher in the rye holds your body tight Your brows go up like hairy umlauts La Danse Macabre by the moonlight Sometimes I’m frightened of liquid soldiers with laser eyes Obey the orders, it makes you stronger, then you die Don’t wake us as we float Inside the drunken boat The system crumbling and we know the end is near The final announcements, the closure of history
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Go Grim Rotor This primitive song will break your soul tonight The fairy is gone and her body collapsed You sit and cry as lights go out in mirrors Whatever vistas she might find, you’ll be there Let strangers explore your chameleon skin, let them bite your tongue What’s wrong with being a whore when you're an orphaned twin with your needs unsung You've terminated all the traces of that fateful embrace But still the trauma ate the sun and exploded in your face A blueprint for happiness A shadow of empathy Did you cancel her requests? Did you fail to keep her near? The stream of Lethe flows away Brace yourself, it’s time to leave You choke on love mixed with betrayal You reap the benefits of guilt So greet the night with a hopeless prayer And a handful of black pills So you approach the greatest height of all with no safety net, Chekov’s Gun in hand Eviction roaches decorate the walls, such a graceless end, exactly how you planned it All sound outside is Satan’s bark now that fireworks fizzled out The neighbor lady tells her son: «That’s how denial ends in blood» Into the night, slide freely The rotors ceased to hum You're out, out, out
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Nightwalk Pencil thin Edward Horn Forever leveled up along Some twisty dangly West-End streets (That evening Jane came back to him) Polychromatic skits prevail It makes pedestrians clear their throats As foreign toilers take their way To the whole-mill bread with caraway With faces paled by floury hoar Three bakers pass, they’re looking sore Suppose supporting common needs Still don’t produce much salary Never get abound to pick some fun Easier said than done
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IFKFC My mind’s a box inside a bigger box Full of imaginary sex Plus delusions of scientific bravery And total social success They took my emperor flag down And my lifeboat slowly sank She says I’ll end up just like my dad Trapped in an isolation tank Within your libido limbo You’re too naïve to be completely deceived My motivation is simple To build a bridge to the distant fringes of sanity I could be your pocket Napoleon Hooked on a beautiful drug Suburban prince in a golden DeLorian But all my glory is holed up in the dark Can you hear my glory howl? Once you redeemed me from the pit I was on fucking fire! Now I’m a Morlock apologist in full Eloi attire Oh let me peep into another world and locate the truth Yeah, it’s the greatest story ever told Listen: Such a lucky day for the universe Can’t you see, my mind goes blank This time she won’t play my sweetest nurse Enter the isolation…
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Epic compendium of partisan recordings from the heyday of the legendary Moscow indie band. Rarities, unreleased cuts, rough demos and live versions, done with the outmost respect to the original artists.
Feel the HEAT, SWEAT and POWER!!!

"I always envied the beasts, their hard, adequate claws, their resonant hooves, their glittering, phosphorescent flakes, heir deep mantle – especially their horns.“
Leonor Fini, 1975

“Psycho killer! Qu’est que c’est! Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa…”
Frank Black, 2001

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released June 14, 2022

Recorded at various Moscow venues, 2005-2022. Live sound – Eugene Lastochkin. Editing - Tikhon S Kubov.

Music by J-Lobster, lyrics by Tikhon S. Kubov, except: 3,4 (with Alexander Ermakov), 7,10,13 (with Vadim Bayrash), 14,16,19, 20,25,22,27,28,29,30

Sergey Frucha Mironov – bass, backing vocals
Alexander Bocha Bochagov – guitar, synths, mixes & arrangements
Tikhon S. Kubov – vocals
Dmitry Vicha Vichev – drums (3,5,7,8,12,13,14,15,20,21,23,25)
Pavel Kovan – drums (2,4,6,9-1,11,17,18,22,26,28,29,30)
Konstantin Polyakov – guitar (9-2,10,16,27)
Olga Dolgopolova – drums (16,19)
Alexey Savelyev – drums (9-2,10,27)
Dick Valentine - vocals (5,12,20,25)
Andrey Gankin – guitar (18)
Philipp Rukavishnikov – poetry (1)
Roman Kostyuk – spoken word (31)

Cover art by Philipp Rukavishnikov

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