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Stumbling Through the Walls

by HIRAKI

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1.
Common Fear 02:27
COMMON FEAR To all the bitter slant ripe Backs sowed to the sofa Marbled eyes Cutting corners with a dull knife Pulling rooms down one by one And letting all animals loose To all the bellicose bigots and jingoes Flagging back and forth Back and forth Parading behind the elephant With their holiday grin It’s not the rope that hangs the man It’s the man that hangs the rope To all the unyielding Just let go Just let go Give away Give away It’s not the same It’s not the same To all the heavy-hearted Corroded by the weight of things Watching the days thru the hourglass Gnawing away Gnawing away Gnawing away On the gospel of trust To all the future gens Don’t let bygones be bygones Forget not what’s easily forgotten Tilt the structure Tilt the structure Tilt the structure It’s gonna be alright It’s gonna be alright It’s gonna be alright Everything is fine Everything is fine
2.
WONDERHUNT Chasing goals with cellophane Strings through your neck Breaking bills from day to day From market to man Repent and Repent and Shut the fold Let it in Haul it in Cellophane Blackened tongue Wooden knee Blackened lung Push back and bend it Chasing ghosts Confident Floating back Gutter bed Blackened eyes Push back Push back And creep in Confident Confident Shut the fold Let it in Confident Confident Shut the fold Let it in No one said nothing to all the decay burning your bridges may just lead the may Medic! Medic! Medic! Medic! Shut the fold Let it in No one said nothing to all the decay burning your bridges may just lead the may Medic! Medic! Medic! Medic! Shut the fold Let it in Chasing Playing Broken wealth Precious me The need
3.
Proto Skin 05:04
PROTO SKIN Feeding the passengers with a garbage link I’ll be here all year Tongues licking backs for a better tomorrow Mouldy trust makes for season cuts Just Selling Selling I’ll be here all year Bruises come easily but dents makes it all worthwhile Proto Skin Exoskeleton at your own benefit Hearts and lungs sold by the dozen Proto Skin Just selling Selling I’ll be here all year Painting the way You Paid it / You Paid it Waves make you stay You weighed it / You weighed it Slip through the back leave no trace on the mat You made it / You made it Lead the way with a broken arrow in your chest Maybe someday you’ll find the head stowed away Ten thousand miles between the backs in the sand Just a thought for the comments Ten thousand miles between what’s makes you stand up again I’ll be here all year Just selling Selling I’ll be just right here Proto Skin Proto Skin Painting the way You Paid it / You Paid it Waves make you stay You weighed it / You weighed it Slip through the back leave no trace on the mat I’ll be here all year I’ll be here all year Everyday All-day
4.
NEW STANDARDS Does this come off Wash n’ grind Rup it hard With peroxide and brine I did the dirty deed All thoughts unkind Eternal shitstains of a spotless mind Take out the trash Clean up this mess With a clear vision I see so much less Get out for once Take off the shoes Step into the filth No matter who's Tear off the bandaid Shave off the hair Scrub off the dirt Till the skin is red More… Till the skin is raw Till the skin falls off Don’t think about it I just thought about it Chase it in Melt the grin No rest / Chase it in No rest / No rest / Melt the grin Straight ahead This is the wrong way you have been misled Don’t think about it I just thought about it
5.
Blossom Cuts 03:27
BLOSSOM CUTS Work the hosted Future relief Give them the speech Future beliefs Blend in Strife the blameless from Early age Make way Distant space for the vast No matter the transit Brace yourself Visionless Singing through all of the faded Hunt the flesh Visionless Decent now The vision for the voiceless You’ve made it just wait Combed through silence Sundown the spread See the neon-palm flash them all Let your squalling free Edit your feelings precious degree
6.
MIRROR STALKER Mirror stalker Mirror stalker Bringer of hope Bringer of glory shaper O’ retainer front and center front and center front and center It's not yours to keep Mirror stalker Mirror stalker It's not yours to keep But go ahead it’s free Delete it / Delete it You bleed it / You bleed it It's not yours to keep It's not yours to keep Delete it / Delete it You bleed it / You bleed it All is, All is, All is carved and served carved and served Delete it / Delete it You bleed it / You bleed it looking for happiness with a stiff neck Evolution tipped over by an elbow in The eye You say you can’t or you won't? I say you can, but you won't Delete it / Delete it It's not yours to keep It's not yours to keep But go ahead it’s free Delete it / Delete it You bleed it / You bleed it All is, All is, All is Mirror stalker Mirror stalker Delete it / Delete it You bleed it / You bleed it
7.
Peach Lung 02:42
PEACH LUNG Your face is a bit too long My fault / Your fault Your face is a bit too long My fault / Your fault I’ve been sinking on your face My cap falls off on your bend razor I can’t love my favorite all saint You’ve been down and I’ve been All by myself Your face is a bit too long My fault / Your fault I’ve been running / You’ve been running
8.
The Alarmist 04:26
The Alarmist Shaping with cold hands The perfect relay Daunted by mirrors of faith Chrome bash your well being Catered thread Forget it Forget it It’s late No need for cashing out Call someone / Call someone Shapeshift through content Just wait Chasing the perfect the perfect distress Call someone / Call someone Just say it It’s okay Spread the word It’s okay Hanging the thin thread Of moral decay Daunted by mirrors of faith Chrome bash your well being Catered thread Wait / Wait Say / Say it you're late Bleach the sun thru faded Just say it / Just say it Where’s the moral when you need it

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"The album’s contorting but just about relentlessly driving rhythms feel jarring, like fiery psychological unease. Overall, HIRAKI expertly interweave punk abrasion with disorienting synths, and the group’s venomous onslaught could be compared to groups like the avant-garde metal powerhouse The Body, who HIRAKI cite as an inspiration." - New Noise Magazine

"HIRAKI don't exactly sound like The Armed, but if you like that band, you'll probably like this one too. Both bands are punk in spirit but genre-defying in sound, and both make genuinely killer, fresh-sounding heavy music. (You also might like this if you're into current industrial punk stuff like Uniform and Street Sects.)" - BrooklynVegan

“Danish progressive synthpunk band HIRAKI pushes themselves to the absolute limit in their new single and music video ‘Wonderhunt.’ Seriously, the guy playing The Stumbler in this video deserves a nap and an award for going this consistently insane within 24 hours.” - Metal Injection

"The bar is already set pretty high for what HIRAKI attempt on Stumbling Through The Walls, especially if you look at a band like DAUGHTERS. With this record though, the trio don’t feel that far off. It’s definitely an evolution from its predecessor, and if the band can build on this further going forward then we can safely expect to hear their name come up a lot more in conversations alongside the boundary-pushing acts that so clearly inspire them." - Distorted Sound Magazine

"With HIRAKI, both sides of the synth-punk equation feel strong and vibrantly developed, and the elements seem quite organically interwoven. The urgent music feels raw and desperate, with hard-hitting melodies blanketing the release with emotive passion. The trio unite their powerful creations with their consistently pummeling performances — the record, as a whole, is grueling, as though vitriol is seeping out of it." - Captured Howls

"In the satellite station of Aarhaus, Denmark – 166 cosmomiles north-east of Copenhagen – a young band by the name of Hiraki corrupt data by producing an abyssal synth-punk noise that takes influence from the likes of Daughters, Street Sects, and The Body. [...] Stumbling Through The Walls is certainly an acid trip down a crooked alley of blood stained neon. Disorientation is at HIRAKI’s core." - Angry Metal Guy

"Denmark’s HIRAKI occupy a brutal but hard-to-define space that might best be summarized as “noise rock.” And it would be true. More or less. Yet their cacophony echoes a similarly punishing if aesthetically distinct din as those of Uniform or The Body than, say, The Jesus Lizard, particularly once they fire up the EBM beat machine on dancefloor beatdowns like “Peach Lung.” Any number of subcultures could probably, plausibly claim Hiraki as their own, from hardcore to industrial, and they’d still seem just that much more belligerent and hostile, their throat-searing screams and screeching feedback riffs sharpened instruments that aren’t elegant and lethal, but often quite painful. You feel every scrape, every scratch, every burn. But because I knew this one was gonna be a brute, I’ve also brought along some ice for that ache…" - Treble

"Climb through the walls, tilt the structure; our putrid, morally bereft and bilious systems need to be taken out from the inside. This is the gist of what Danish synth-punk noise trio HIRAKI want to convey in Stumbling Through The Walls, their second album. It’s a bit more aggressively put than your usual punk message and given that the vehicle of delivery was honed, thrashed out and produced by the band themselves in their ‘Cube of Eternal Doom’ studio in Skødstrup, central Denmark, it begins to feel like the plot of a dark yet ominously realistic science-fiction novel." - Über Rock

"Stumbling Through The Walls is a noisy and aggressive record that doesn’t care about growing on you. It consumes, dominates, and demands that its message be heard loud and clear: the world is fucked up and we are complicit. [...] The band neither imitates, nor emulates their most-cited influences: Daughters, Converge, The Body, Street Sects. There is no consensus on the genre, either. HIRAKI have been called synth punk, noise rock, industrial or progressive punk so many times that those labels barely retain any meaning. But, perhaps, it’s not that the Danish trio operates in some obscure subgenre, it’s just that they have created something different. Something that hints at all of those styles but resides in none." - Good Because Danish

"If you're into music that's abrasive, erratic, and noisy, yet emotional and intelligent, it would be downright criminal to overlook this release." - Rockfreaks.net

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released April 9, 2021

Catalog ID: NEF-68
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Composed, recorded, and produced by HIRAKI at Cube of Eternal Doom Studio, Skødstrup, Denmark
Mixed by Klaus Q Hedegaard Nielsen (Oxx, Fossils, Beta Satan)
Mastered by Emil Thomsen, ET Mastering
Artwork by Jon Gotlev / NO HEROES

Jon Gotlev – vocals/synths/noise
Tue Schmidt Rasmussen – guitars
Tim Frederiksen – drums/backing vocals

Guest vocals by:
Cara Drolshagen (The Armed) on “Common Fear”
Rikke Fink on “New Standards”
Anders Jørgen Mogensen (Gullo Gullo, KLoAK) on “Peach Lung”

Funded by Aarhus Kommune - thanks!
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HIRAKI Aarhus, Denmark

As a part of Denmark’s flourishing underground scene for dark and heavy music, the HIRAKI trio deploys an aggressive style of progressive synthpunk from the edge of the abyss. The band presents this sonic assault to accompany the inevitable fact that our world is sick, and we all take part in maintaining the fucked up systemic structures. ... more

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