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From a Dark Place

by Fomosurfer

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1.
Poor Boy 02:46
some might take advantage of you don't know how they manage it maybe it takes imagination that I don't have she was waiting there for me she was waiting there and I could not see her purity I'm not a poor boy I'm just a lonely boy take my soul I'm a hopeless case a fatal love for your embrace it ain't no dream it's a submachine and you die but she was waiting there for me she was waiting there and I could not see I could not see I'm not a poor boy I'm just alone I'm not a poor boy I'm just the lonely one
2.
I'm gunning early home to get her signing a belly called placenta I'm in the dirty sphere I'm in the stratosphere I've made a strategy count all of those jolly big balloonae night was a stay-at-home with Luna I'm in the study room hey would you plug into time is a static illusion I'm in the living room without her with an impression of a flower Narcissus spinning you up in his clear balloon where is the moon at this hour genius'll never turn around her feeling her body put together I'm in the holy gown I missed the better chow and after tucking you in tight Narcissus better be up in his concrete tree howling at anything white
3.
feels like my heart is open little bit too much pretty sure i loved you better when we didn't have to rush to reach the better stuff there was no exception to our love could be the last time that i face the firing squad bought a vest and bullets fly line up to my chandelier and gently on the grass one last taste of your heavy metal, ready for the crash i just want one cigarette it feels like my heart is open spilling on the ground pretty sure i loved you better when there was no one around it's getting colder now tell the moon i'm finished bleeding out you're full of shit! it won't be the first time that i face the firing squad bought a vest and bullets fly line up to my chandelier and gently on the grass
4.
there's something strange about this boy he never let me go alone in his hometown I had to follow routes that he picked out cold eyes say nice things to me and instantly there's something strange about this dude in the nude he has no skin he's just a thin outline cold ideas nice things to me and instantly
5.
it happens every time you come down here a corner store in the middle of nowhere say "how are you" and walk to the back to shower you with infinite snack they said you were a lonely lonely lonely one but you were the only only only one I'd hire you but you're an unknown I'd steal you if you were fully grown and you weren't such a lonely nobody
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i believe in nothing but i could believe in something if you wanted me to do it i would do it without thinking i don't want to seem at all particularly mean but if you don't want to abuse it you should definitely use it saving up some money could be useful when you're older but i wouldn't pay it forward cause the Amazon's on fire pharmacy a block away next to the merry-go-round i will go down to my hometown just to throw down on a hoedown i know it's time to meet you i see you standing there i hold my hand out to greet you but i'm so goddamn scared timothy is living in the basement with his brother and their mother brings them frozen chicken nuggets for their supper pity isn't easy lemon squeezy if you pleasey but it's necessary yes if you are just a little queasy
8.
watching a pale wind over the power lines leaving at 3 am it works every time laughing and moving she's looking for good waste she comes from a dark place wish you were dinner you wish you were on her plate surrounded by candles on a romantic date forgetting the present where everything's real imagine how she feels out in the backyard out in the compost pile the thought of returning to the earth makes you smile but she lights a candle, the seasons are turning the city is burning
9.
she doesn't want to be loved she doesn't want to be touched she only wants to be someone else who doesn't need what she doesn't want he doesn't want to belong he doesn't want to be strong he only wants to be somebody else who doesn't need what he doesn't want but we don't know what he wants so let's continue the song she isn't one to forget but she will gladly admit of all the possible means to an end she doesn't need what she doesn't get he takes the opposite path when out of interest to act he will assume that the man is the man who doesn't want what he cannot have we don't know what's going on so let's abandon the song
10.
spin the baby! pass the baby around hold the baby hold it upside down throw the baby up in the air and catch it before it hits the ground I know what's best for my baby what's best for my baby what's best for my baby yes yes kiss the baby! bounce the baby on your knee take the baby out of doors so that everyone can see this baby is on FIRE! what did you do! you were just holding the baby, it was fine - next thing I know it's on FIRE! what the FUCK
11.
It's an Act! 00:09
it's an act it's fake it's an act it's not real it's an act
12.
Zombie Dude 02:46
I'm confused by the zombie dudes in this new TV show they've got no drive and no desire to thrive just look at how slow they're going if I was in their place I wouldn't eat that face just because i was hungry I'm surprised by the human guys who wander across the country if I was this guy I would have taken a bike no gas and it's good for your body I'm bemused by the zombie dudes as existential threats they seem pretty slow and they seem pretty stupid I wonder what will happen next they probably go out in the tried and true blowout of shotgun to the head
13.
weird the feeling in my chest a liquid emptiness a hole beneath my breast it's anyone's guess how I'm missing half my heart but live to play the part the rest is waiting in the darkness I'm all alone and I'm caught in a wave of sadness life is a beach and the sea making waves of sadness weird a twisting mix of music so much of it is useless for saying how i feel I don't think I like new wave anymore but the same is true for every kind of ceiling wall or floor there in your room all you feel is a wave of sadness washed on the shore carried forth on a wave of sadness
14.
things keep disappearing from my house i try to hold them back but they keep going out i don't know why i opened up the door i found a key that wasn't there before thoughts keep disappearing from my head i plug the hole with happy thoughts instead but all those happy thoughts are turning sad i let them out so i don't feel so bad i'm forgetting in the beginning in forgetting i'm remembering things expectorating from my mouth i try to hold them back but they keep pouring out i can't trust my body anymore i found a hole that wasn't there before
15.
Chamomile 03:26
the sun is gone a little while keep dreaming on my chamomile this tannenbaum is out of style I'm movin on to chamomile in parlance with your only child was it okay she stays a while this cannabis in slow decline be into this my chamomile believe in me you are defiled to dreaming in my chamomile

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Following a foray into apocalyptic bubblegum with last year's Candyhands EP, Fomosurfer returns in the darkest month of the year with a masterful return to the icy-hot synth-pop he's known for. Recorded in a period of self-isolation preceding and following international lockdown, From a Dark Place masks the material patterns of depression — loneliness, bad TV, and solitary snack runs among them — as snarky bedroom-pop anthems that bounce, glimmer, and fizz. An arsenal of synthesizers, organs, and drum machines is wielded with both comprehensive skill and wild abandon, transforming the cold New England darkness into a stoic, sunlit dance party for one.

all songs and music by Fomosurfer
cover art by Adam Bosse

special thanks to Mom+Dad, Alex, Jim, Chongo, Olivia, Scott, Angela, Craig, Lizard, MFD, Navarre, Jeff, Renee, Brown, Greg, Inspector 34, Idol Brain, Otter River, Fred Cracklin, PNDB, TV Shirt, + Wishbone Zoe

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released January 8, 2021

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