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Gather + Scatter

by Gold & Shadow

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Scatter 00:36
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maybe we can run into the night maybe we got bored? maybe we’ve been running all our lives maybe we got bored? maybe I’ve been running all my life, maybe? could I slow it down or hit rewind? maybe not... but I’ll try to run away before too long maybe I got bored? maybe I could sing a different song, but this one’s for sure maybe we can make it out this time, maybe? maybe we’ve been running all our lives, maybe maybe we’ve been singing this too long, maybe not can i start the tape again and just relive? Maybe? would it be the same as I recall? Maybe? maybe I've been running all my life, maybe not! boredom’s always been my greatest fear maybe that could change but all the unproductive time this year, was it all a waste? maybe I've been running all my life maybe this is it and I've expired maybe I'll get bored and just rewrite, maybe not, maybe not!
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Slow Fade 03:51
i just don't feel the way I used to anymore i just don't feel the way I used to anymore turns out i don’t always like this knowing more when the mysteries leave out the open door, and the wonder follows cause it just got bored well, you've heard that before i just don't feel the way I used to anymore what the worlds that lived within me held in store sold out to buy things i needed to move forward i look around and none of it means very much imagination left around the time i grew …to forget about you i just don't feel the way I used to anymore now a day can leave me lying on the floor when a cycle of recycled thought presides and i don’t know what i want or what i like and i’m trapped in tiny corners of my mind …can i just hit rewind i just don't feel the way I used to anymore i’ll grow used to ‘even keel’ before too long maybe its a thing to heed and than move on maybe highs and lows can’t sustain what i want maybe i’m the problem, holding on too long maybe fighting to recapture is the point maybe art and life depend on this pursuit maybe everything that’s lost inside the void will then one day be discoverable anew …when we all follow you
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Gather Me Up 06:43
when you come to me my life ceases to be dull cause you are a rising sky and you are the one i love, the one i like when you call to me my life ceases to be mine but you always give me time cause you always knew i’d somehow fall in line and we always, always we will know bound into the bone (would you gather me up and hold me close?) when i’m at the end my life falls into your hands cause you’ll always set me straight but i’m scattered till you gather what i’ve made cause i’m always, always i’ll be yours (would you gather me up and hold me close?)

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Nanaimo, BC art-rockers Gold & Shadow deliver a set of both boisterous and meditative reflections on restlessness (“Greatest Fear”), growing up (“Slow Fade”) and settling in (“Gather Me Up”).


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in a dream I saw us scattered to the wind
in Belgium or in some northern part of Sweden
we floated without purpose or place
hoping to find meaning in the race to escape

some moments I can't take what I am seeing
moving is the simplest way to shake the feeling
and in those times I feel my mind unreeling
I am not everything I was believing

everything is incohesive
everything must be divisive
until I learn to shut up and live
take the time for what it is

something's happening right now
not perfect pain or perfect bliss
not gone astray or yet amiss
just all we've got and all we are allowed

in memory I visit what I shouldn't
pieces of the past I assign meaning
but maybe this is how we tell our stories
in the present there's no time to worry

if anything I am backwards leaning
can never process things as they're unfolding
but as I reminisce I miss the story
bought and sold on living for the memory

happening in life, the real thing
and to myself I'm back to scolding
growing gray hairs to mark the passing
making this about my lacking
selfish to a fault and counting
gathered up and loved a lot
writing this to tell me off

credits

released July 20, 2018

Written, arranged and performed by Gold & Shadow

Recorded at Monarch Studios + Midnite City, May-June 2018

Engineered + mixed by Tom Dobrzanski at Monarch Studios

Mastered by Brock McFarlane at CPS Mastering

Cover artwork created by Matt Lineker

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government
of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters.
Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement
du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

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Gold & Shadow Nanaimo, British Columbia

Gold & Shadow was a 5 piece art-rock group from Nanaimo, BC. Influences include The National, Radiohead, Everything Everything and Half Moon Run.

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