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Empty EP

by William Ryan Fritch

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Tend 03:06
tend to what you wish to grow it will only burgeon with your love
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what a tired pitiful thing all the noise made overselling a debased and devalued trade under whelmed and oversate how far will we bend to make ends meet? abundant disposable things in a world that is ever-drying there’s no fleeting intangible thing that will make this dry riverbed flow but when every well has been drained and each mouth is raw and parched where will we draw vitality from? how far must we bend to make ends meet beaten down and bowed to the breaking point there is no defeat I will find a way to make ends meet
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oh how it rains down, heavy as lead over lands bloated and drowned and that very sky seals up, not spilling a drip over lands cankered and bone dry though it is not fate, nor a curse, or a streak of bad luck it is just the world with us too little and too much wars hell fires may burn, burn, burn through valleys of lambs while savage hearted men reside in these safe and dull, policed utopian dreams while some may claim it’s a god that favors our clever cruel touch it’s just the world with us too little and too much
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You Remain 03:44
when you were new to me our love was a blind and electric thing it would make my hair stand on it’s end and leave me buzzing for days and though the fiery rush of each loving touch has surely changed there’s no surface heat that can warm like the pyre of enduring love and with the way you fan and feed the flame nothing burns like you you remain new to me when you were new to me you were a rare and mystical thing and though you’ve revealed your most humanly traits your magic remains there is no celestial power that can move me like your fleshly frame you remain new to me
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with bodies stiff with scabs our hold on life is so tenuous for each impact leaves nothing intact and it’ll all spill out molten and red such a fragile and finicky thing that holds us we are born short of sight, dependent and in debt and that's how we'll surely return crawling to a backwards birth

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'Empty' from composer William Ryan Fritch, is an album of deceptively simple songs that, with their raw and unrestrained conveyance, emanate persuasive warmth and candor. The stripped down and restrained arrangements of these tracks are brought into extreme focus, saturating each note, thud, and pause with an expansive depth of field. These intimate songs proudly show their bruises. They offer stability in their numerous creaks and rasps, find clarity in common disillusionment, and celebrate loving and morbid tangents in the same breath.

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released November 11, 2014

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Originally released on Lost Tribe Sound. See Catalog: losttribesound.bandcamp.com
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"Fritch’s prodigious output is evidence that he is pouring his heart into his work, and by extension, into a deeper philosophy." - A Closer Listen

"Empty shows Fritch at his most heartfelt and, surprisingly, vocal." - Exclaim!

"At first blush, the songs seem straightforward enough, but an undercurrent of dread and disillusionment can be gleaned beneath their surfaces, an impression sonically reinforced when so many of them are animated by plodding rhythms." - Textura

The song "Tend" was featured in this epic GoPro: Descent Into the Lava of Marum in 4K. Check it out at around the 9:50 minute mark here: youtube.com/watch?v=toxDDERtvOY

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All songs written, performed, and mastered by William Ryan Fritch
Published by Settled Scores LLC (ASCAP)
Copyrighted by Lost Tribe Sound, LLC
Recorded in 2014 near San Francisco, CA
Artwork by Joao Ruas

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William Ryan Fritch is a composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer currently based in Oakland, California. His compositions are characterized by his unique range as a multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer, allowing him to realize large ensemble arrangements found in folk, Indie-rock, electronica,
Hip-hop, World and orchestral music as a solo endeavor.
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