Mermaids Don't Exist, by Coo Coo Bad Brains

Mermaids Don't Exist

by Coo Coo Bad Brains

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1.	Dad God 00:54		buy track
2.	Vanity Plate 03:31	lyrics	buy track
wait in the car i'll make a call wait in the car i won't take too long you won't remember who we are we don't talk much it's not the same we take too much everything's the same i forgot his name again i was leaving for a good reason when it is over it will start again there is no difference it never ends
3.	Chunk 03:03	lyrics	buy track
tampering with my legs shaved shelter in a pillow room i'll gently rage bedfellows in my dreams tell me not to leave i beg you please frantically changing thought run to the basement door my sight is gone i fell down i fell down it all went black as i stood up no medication for me please i'd stay away from drugs I like to be breathless in the other room melt in the silence of our conversation blanket pattern of stars run to the basement door my sight is gone i fell down i fell down it all went black as i stood up
4.	Soap Scum 03:51	lyrics	buy track
a broken down saturn approaches me with the smell of cigarettes and weed take a seat lets go to your second home away from here cause we can't stay i'll blend in today no one noticed me feeling hard to love feeling weird above i want to stay inside i'll never figure it out a cavernous personality and you can't sit very comfortably separate yourself from you so-called friends cause they don't care for you today i'll blend in today no one noticed me feeling hard to love feeling weird above i want to stay inside i'll never figure it out
5.	Toyotathon 04:42	lyrics	buy track
shut the blinds in the room enough to walk, but not to run cast the line, spark the flint puff a smoke, don't say shit i wanted her, but she said no more ignore the bullshit, sorry i swore can't maintain under pressure find the comfort in the liquor cowboy boots, and tarnished glasses sing the chorus to the masses i wonder if i'll ever feel right though about it through the whole night vicious cycle, untold pleasure tantalizing beyond measure faint breath, stale air make it stop. i can't bare. teeth clenched, spit out blood find a noose in the mud tell her things to make her feel bad all i want is to stay mad make her cry, tears of paint this is why she cant relate can't compare, don't compare to the life you can't share let me go, let her go, let it go fine, fine, fine, fine, fine time to die.
6.	Friends 02:39	lyrics	buy track
in the morning i won't make coffee i'm tired of talking when they don't know me the time we crammed 6 in a hotel you promised not to lose me in the crowd i'm left out of plan's with my friends everything is fine, i'm melodramatic when i'm high, i'm not that social happy i'm the only one i take care of
7.	Cooper 03:23	lyrics	buy track
i'm an asshole i fucked you over come over red rover i'm an asshole i fucked you sober red rover come over

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A collection of bummer tunes found in a chest smothered by the stench of smoke.

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released August 5, 2016

ANNOUNCING, from your favorite Boulder-based independent cassette label, the debut EP from your ex-girlfriend’s new favorite band, Coo Coo Bad Brains! What started as a “solo project” some several months ago by a very bored man sitting alone in his bedroom one day has snowballed into a legitimate music playing gang that’s already undergone several lineup changes, and we all know you’re not allowed to call yourself a band until you’ve kicked someone out and/or they’ve left of their own discord. (We kid – the bassist moved to Seattle to pursue an internship with Sub Pop and the drum machine just couldn’t hang.)

Mermaids Don’t Exist will strike into the depths of the soul of any listener who’s a fan of the following: jangly, warbling guitars. Obscured vocals, pitch-shifted and often hidden beneath layers of musical nostalgia. Cheap whiskey. Shitty wine. Found footage. Smoke. More nostalgia. If you’re an introvert who likes talking about your problems, if you hate meeting new people but still go out just to feel awkward and complain about it later – THIS RECORD IS FOR YOU.

The process? Allow everyone contributing complete freedom to express whatever they happen to be feeling at the time. The outcome? A combination of ambient, spoken word, and chaotic noise sprinkled atop a lush mountain of bummer rock. CCBB lulls you in with their tempting, incandescent and boyish charm only to slap you in the face and drop you off a cliff of distortion, leaving you wallowing half-drunk in your own waste of emotions. Coo Coo Bad Brains gets you. Nobody else does, but they do.

Friends was recorded in a bathtub. The rest was recorded at the radio station where the band works.

Coo Coo Bad Brains at the time of the recording consisted of Colton (vocals, guitar, noise), Adam (vocals, guitar, bass, synth), James (bass), and Lazlo (drums). Donato now plays bass.

Rest in pepperoni James. Donato will never let your flame die out.

Mastered by Liam Comer
Artwork by Niko Kuklin

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