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Hot Apparatus

by Hot Apparatus

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1.
All I Feel Is Yes (free) 05:03
The sound of that makes me inspirational It makes me want to build something beautiful, Then I’ll burn it down; I’ll burn it up I’m inspirational when I’m inside of you You make me want to go outside of my mind I’m going places I don’t even try All that’s left of me is a far away texture, That’s why: All I feel is yes, yes, yes (3x) I'm positively... All I feel is yes, yes, yes (3x) I'm absolutely certain I’m inspirational when you’re inside of me You make me play a song that goes like this I’m all tongue-tied, I mean unplugged from my mind The verse is meaningless and the chorus even less That’s why: All I feel is yes, yes, yes... I've got nothing left, well isn't that something? I've got something less than feelings left I've got an urge to scratch, I've got a scratch to give, I've got something, something, and it feels like, feels like yes! That’s why the sound of inspiration makes me want to...
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Sweet Meat Hook (free) 04:50
Paint with chemicals in the sky, Cross your eyes, expand your mind All the bad notes have gone to heaven, Turn the volume up to eleven We’re gonna sing to you like a rock-n-roll station (2x) Tweak the knobs till the hook is sweet, Then we sell it like a piece of meat Boots on the ground, take a vacation, Palpitations all across the nation We’re gonna sing to you like a rock-n-roll station (2x) You was lonely at the Starky's looking too long, A BK log, lickin' on a corn dog, Singin' this song, watchin' your John Cougar Melon-shake, Waitin' on a take-and-bake ice cream cake (Sha na na na) That's a sweet hook (Sha na na na) It's a meat hook (Sell it like some meat!) Now sell it like some meat, yeah! (Sha na na na) That's a sweet meat (Sha na na na) For the sweet beat (Make that hook so sweet) Makin' that hook so sweet, yeah! (Sha na na na) Ah now, sha na na (Sha na na na) And a na na na Out in middle America We're gonna sing to you like a rock-n-roll station (4x)
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Cascadia (free) 05:54
Cascadia Just leave us all alone Cascadia We’ll log the rich and carve them poor with jobs and industry We love thee for thy indie-rock, strip clubs made of weed Cascadia… We’re not a part of them, we could be on our own We’ll stab the children of our foes and drown them in our ports Cascadia… We’ll blind your wife and lead her, to our endless wilderness Within our borders sacred waters precious rain reserves Cascadia… Guilty skies of grey, hang ever over head Our mighty dams of native blood, its shocking how much blood there was! Cascadia Just leave us all alone Cascadia Our home sweet home
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Disconnected (free) 02:51
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Cleared For Takeoff (free) 03:33
I’m standin' on the tippy top, Up above the sky The view from here is so pure, I’m the chemtrail in heaven's high I’m reaching for the glory, Reaching for the silence, Something untouchable, Something for each of me I’m cleared for takeoff, At least my windshields clean I’m cleared for takeoff, In a moment I’ll be free If I can come back, I didn’t go far enough To touch the glory There's no glory in coming back I’m reaching for the -shhhhh- Reaching for the silence, Something unknowable It’s the silence that kills you I’m cleared for takeoff, At least my windshields clean I’m cleared for takeoff, In a moment I’ll be free
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Astronaut (free) 03:21
Well I wish that they had heard me say It was possible that the ship could fail today, But the calculations I prepared Were too late and stayed undeclared Now the sunshine's twice as hot, My dear astronaut Well I wish I had known your wife Though who knows how well I'd eulogize your life, And would the calculations I prepared Be too little to say I cared? How come math sometimes makes me feel so scared? And now the sunshine's twice as hot, Yes the sunshine's twice as hot, And the sun shines twice as hot, My dear astronaut And when you said I was too smart To let a major break my heart, At least then I could say I was prepared To double check your programmed track, And change your mind when you got back How come math sometimes makes me feel so scared? And now the sunshine's twice as hot, Yes the sun shines twice as hot, And the sun shines twice as hot, My dear astronaut
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Where's The Line? (free) 05:53
Can you taste These textures? Can you see With eyes swollen? Can you feel What I’m sayin'? Can you feel Yourself? Can you taste A smell? Can your eyes? Can you hear What I’m sayin'? Who are you To know? Who am I? Who are you? Don’t ask too many questions Where’s the line? Something to bend Where’s the line? Something to blur Where’s the line? Who wears the mask? Stepping o-, stepping o-, Stepping over the line Where’s the line? Where’s the line?
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But Not For Us (free) 05:01
The cat’s in the cold cuts, she’s resourceful that way There is nothing I can do, the world is her footpath The brakes on my bike just gave out in the rain, So I decided to hold on for dear death, ‘Cause the best minds have been bought, Then destroyed, then laid off, Then replaced with less expensive models The best we can do now Is watch waters rise and then Laugh at our obsolete goals The cat’s in the pantry, and the fish are on their own, Adrift in this world, with no corporate sponsor The stakes got so high that they toppled to the ground, Now we’re alone in our fight to stick together ‘Cause the best minds have been bought, Then destroyed, then laid off, Then replaced with less expensive models The best we can do now Is watch waters rise and then Laugh at our obsolete goals I bet we’ll miss being human, Miss our power of language, But some DNA must linger As life carries on

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An eponymous debut album

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released October 5, 2014

Recorded by Hot Apparatus and Benjamin Franklin Freeman in our practice space and BFF's basement
Mixed and mastered by Benjamin Franklin Freeman
Cover art by Alison Dennis

Jacob Anderson - Bass
Mike Chastain - Drums
Alison Dennis - Keyboards, Vocals
Alex Deussen - Violin, Percussion, Vocals
Jason Ferris - Guitar, Vocals
Benjamin Franklin Freeman - Sampler, Melodica, Theramin, Sound Effects, Vocals

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Hot Apparatus Portland, Oregon

Hot Apparatus is an Improv/Pop group from Portland, OR that performs psych-pop compositions as well as in-the-moment fits of improvisational euphoria.

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