True Colors, by The Cradle

True Colors

by The Cradle

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50 copies total of "True Colors" on clear pink cassette.
2020-2022 effort of pazzazz and city reflection
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1.	True Colors 02:29		buy track
2.	In This City 03:27		buy track
3.	Ponce De Leon 02:21	info	buy track
4.	This and That 02:13		buy track
5.	Blip 00:28		buy track
6.	it was Medicine 01:36		buy track
7.	Fuck up Heaven 03:19		buy track
8.	Modern Parlance 01:26		buy track
9.	Modern Parlance 01:44		buy track
10.	Look Me in the Eye 03:48		buy track
11.	Scrap 00:22		buy track
12.	Reveling Time 03:15		buy track
13.	Sex on my Brain 06:02		buy track

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Released in an edition of 50 Clear Pink tapes with QR to Call Waitn coded album website w/ mood board, streaming, and downloads.

Digital Purchase also includes website access and lyrics sheet,,,

"In this City

I see you walk on Greene
In the Brooklyn Springtime
the buds are on the trees
and the rent freeze,
and unfinished dreams.

I don’t wanna go nowhere
I don’t wanna move to Philly
why you gotta go so hard
to live in this city?

an old woman watches her laundry
at the wash spot on Schenectady
“Patience is a virtue”, between you and me,
but Patience won’t turn on the heat.

I’m a hard working girl
I don’t want anyone’s pity
but why’d they make it so damn hard
to live in this city?

Open up the goddamn doors
of the empty buildings
we don’t wanna hold space for
vanity

I don’t wanna leave my home
I don’t wanna leave my family
why you gotta go hard
to live in this city?"

"Back in 1994, hardly any tenants outside Manhattan’s toniest neighborhoods were paying $2,000 a month or more. The median rent across the city was under $600. Since then, of the 860,000 apartments that were stabilized, almost 250,000 have become free-market units, diminishing New York City’s largest source of affordable housing. Most of the decrease came from vacancy decontrol.
A third of New York households now pay at least half of their income in rent, and homelessness in the city is at its highest level since the Great Depression, having more than doubled since 1994".
-https://www.propublica.org/article/the-vote-that-made-new-york-city-rents-so-high

"Ponce de Leon
I'm walking in Atlanta
Run your fuckin' gold
the Southern sky is blinking
down at us

error after error
Ponce de Leon
pain buried like lost treasure
Now lead me to the gold"

Ponce de Leon
I'm walking in New Orleans
Run your fuckin' gold
the Southern sky
is blinking down at us

error after error
Ponce de Leon
trauma buried like
lost treasure.
Now lead me to the gold"

Ponce de Leon
I'm walking in Atlanta
Run your fuckin' gold
the Southern sky
is remembering violence!

error after error
Ponce de Leon
they're gonna name shit after me
now lead me to the gold"

Juan Ponce de Leon was a quintessential Spanish "conquistador"- anti-humanitarian, a zealous Catholic hypocrite, a ravager of peoples, lands, and cultures. Early 1500s Christian Iberia was a place cobbled together through decades of ruthless power struggle and violence, and Ponce de Leon came out of that brutal world as a kind of apotheosis of the transference happening then of this caustic, anti-human energy westward, towards the exploitation of the "new world" and the people there- exploitation deemed necessary to fund further violence and power struggle among the monarchs of Europe. Ponce de Leon was the first "governor" of Puerto Rico, and was the first European to mount expeditions to Florida, where he was finally killed by the native Calusa people. Naturally, Ponce de Leon is a common street name throughout the Southern United States- in Atlanta, it is a major thoroughfare- Ponce is the name of a city in Puerto Rico. Should we be surprised that Americans today still live their lives on streets named for this evil man? Did Ponce de Leon not live the original "American Dream”- the dream of power- of exploitation, domination, rape, enslavement, and murder?

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released April 25, 2023

Paco Cathcart

supporting vox by Bridget Slattery and Lily Konigsberg

recorded at 235 troy ave bk bedroom studio + 509 maple street

mastered by Andrea Schiavelli

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