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Rubicon Wall (Acipenser transmontanus)

from The Ichthyologist by GIANT SQUID

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  • The Ichthyologist 2xLP reissue - Linckia Pinwheel
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This is the 2021, remastered by Tim Green, reissue of Giant Squid's iconic double LP, originally released in 2009. Gatefold jacket with poster insert and stunning color vinyl.

    These will ship out via Media Mail (domestic) and First Class (international).

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Ichthyologist via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • The Ichthyologist 2xLP reissue - Mormon Island Merge
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This is the 2021, remastered by Tim Green, reissue of Giant Squid's iconic double LP, originally released in 2009. Gatefold jacket with poster insert and stunning color vinyl.

    These will ship out via Media Mail (domestic) and First Class (international).

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Ichthyologist via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • The Ichthyologist 2xLP reissue - La Brea Tar Pits Splatter
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This is the 2021, remastered by Tim Green, reissue of Giant Squid's iconic double LP, originally released in 2009. Gatefold jacket with poster insert and stunning color vinyl.

    These will ship out via Media Mail (domestic) and First Class (international).

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Ichthyologist via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Engineered, mixed, produced by Matt Bayles.
Mastered by Ed Brooks.

lyrics

Rubicon Wall (Candona tahoensis)

I chose this place because it has no bottom to interfere with my fall
Anaerobic beds of silt preserving still the shock of what I saw
Vivid descriptions I’d do anything to forget
But here I am crushed by a millions tons of regret

I will rest in one piece away from clawed things
That otherwise would eat what’s left of me

The world is not ready for what I saw down there

That fateful day, starting an endless autumn, words did sear my pupils
Liquid acrylic quickly will freeze a broken will in water heavy as tar

Somebody please take me to the deep where I can carry the weight of this burden
You left for me to carry in frigid waters high above my head
Surrounded by the dead, frozen like me in the salt-less sea

You can pay your respects at the shore
Goodbye, my love

credits

from The Ichthyologist, released August 16, 2009
Aaron John Gregory - vocals, guitars, lyrics
Bryan Beeson - bass
Jackie Perez Gratz - vocals, cello
Christopher Melville Lyman - drums

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San Francisco / Sacramento based progressive doom-rock, scientists, GIANT SQUID, metaphorically collide concepts of marine biology with historical human tragedy into heartbreaking stories of loss, triumph, rage, and metamorphosis. Active from 2002 - 2015. ... more

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