Salt, by Half Moon Run

Salt

by Half Moon Run

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faustarp Great Album. Again. If you liked the previous ones you'll like this one for sure. Favorite track: Hotel in Memphis.

kadees Großartiges Album!
Weiter so.
(July 16, 2023)
> Favorite track: Goodbye Cali.

Supercompressor Another great release from this Montreal outfit. They nailed their sound early on and each new release from them is delightful. Favorite track: Gigafire.

Julie Martineau And then Salt saved the fire season... Total love. <3 Favorite track: Everyone's Moving Out East.

Nick Cook Great album guys. Well done :)

Marie P Half Moon Run truly never miss 🙌🙌 Favorite track: 9beat.

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1.	You Can Let Go 03:06	lyrics	buy track
self medicate self deprecate self help books on the shelf help, meditate hard on myself friends can’t relate time is your friend can’t reciprocate times up come on out now i’m trapped in the grass not gonna laugh not gonna go home not ready for the crash heavybodyfrozen hand on my wrist hand on my cold shoulder skies open up i think i got a little older sweatin’ on a page sweating through the maze getting out the keys to the place that i thought i put away million dollar days innasortaway i had to get away to come back time’s up come on out the river ran clean as a dream so i swam in its fountain the fast went/was hard in the jungle on a mountain fast was the beat of my heart in the back of my mind was a beautiful truthful shouting you can let go that weight you carry with ya Once and for all Once and for all welcome back that’s at least one big monkey off my back knew i’d get around to it i can’t forget the sound of it but six feet of snow in the snowbanks? no thanks time’s up come on out now i’m on my side i’m on my side livin life right dark was the night but you know what brighter is the light as above so below and through you can let go that weight you carry with ya Once and for all Once and for all
2.	Alco 03:48	lyrics	buy track
I’m sure you had it right down in that foggywood but we’re turning ashes into gold here don’t you go and get annoyed with the mercury risin’ the fire just started now you wanna switch the song well we don’t have to get along it’s hard to sing it looking down on mirrors I see it playin’ back again w/ little pieces of the boy i’m out of pocket non-co-operator Hold that thought for a minute you just want me to jump both feet down into the bottom of the river with you it’s not a question you can answer and the second you believe it, it’s true I guess you got bargained down oh, oh, by the time I saw you it was clear Did you let it out at all? Did you let it out at all? you want me to jump both feet down into the bottom of the river with you it’s not a question you can answer and the second you believe it, it’s true I’m already gone, but I’m looking forward to singing along I’m already gone, but I’m looking forward to singing along an open silence held in vain you want me to jump both feet down into the bottom of the river with you it’s not a question you can answer and the second you believe it, it’s true you want me to jump both feet down into the bottom of the river with you it’s not a question you can answer and the second you believe it, it’s true
3.	Hotel in Memphis 03:36	lyrics	buy track
something rushin’ my blood again guess i gotta start the breathe-in’ head moving in all directions singin’ night of no sleep, wakin up wet I fell into a hotel in memphis come down with yellow eyes nearly every night came home to a war, man it was senseless callin’ out darlin’ damn now I’m up at the first light looks just like i’ve done it again down forwards and backwards this time i've done it for real but there's nothing like a secret ship’s steaming off in the distance left myself here on the beach keep dreaming up new horizons i stand in cold sand gettin’ cold feet I fell into a hotel in memphis come down with yellow eyes nearly every night came home to a war, man it was senseless callin’ out darlin’ damn now I’m up at the first light looks just like i’ve done it again down forwards and backwards this time i've done it for real but there's nothing like a secret I bet I was outta line again made us all awkward in our heads I’ll find out I will I will I’ll find out I will I will its like im running out of secrets i can't keep no i cant keep
4.	Everyone's Moving Out East 04:12	lyrics	buy track
well it’s one thing after another as one friend tried/went to explain as one friend went down to take a lover one friend went down and just stayed everyone I know everyone’s moving out east but I love you I love you dont you steal away from me well one friend went down to seek the jordan but wound up drinking from the sea and another went to take a powder one friend said they’d come back someday one friend went down to break/get free i found out i was no longer living the dream when it was not about where i was going but where i’ve been when a cold wind blew and and i settled in
5.	9beat 04:06	lyrics	buy track
miss the southern sky miss those bedroom eyes miss that liar’s tongue miss the warm goodbye (in that light) (in that light) i miss my lazy heart i missed my second chance i miss my unborn child i miss that warm goodbye (in that light) (in that light) it’s not like i’m running away it’s not like i’m running away waking up to find yourself a beacon of good hope ah ha ha oh oh waking up to find yourself a river overflowin’ ah ha ha oh oh waking up to find yourself two feet from where you start ah ha ha oh oh
6.	Dodge the Rubble 03:52	lyrics	buy track
it’s right where your kids go to school It's all in your lakes it’s in your pools I don’t know what to do and it’s wearing me down It looks like your friends It looks like your lovers comfy and covered beneath the sheets And I block out the sun behind the shutters Can’t trust the light can’t trust the heat I don’t know what to do And it’s wearing me down Yea it’s all I can do When it’s wearing me down It’s right where your kids go to school Holding your hand staying out of trouble Things get a bit messy when I’m walking home Gets a touch rough to dodge the rubble I don’t know what to do And it’s wearing me down Yea it’s all I can do When it’s wearing me down
7.	Heartbeat 03:24	lyrics	buy track
You’re looking like your mother did sittin’ in the same low light feels like a dream sometimes but I still wake up in the middle of the night and then you called me up and at the other end of the line was nothin’ but a heartbeat tell me baby, should I take it as a sign? I’m trying not to let you go I’m trying not to lose control And then the clouds roll in another night under the rain music on my window tell me baby, will it ever be the same? I listen to the thunder roll in coupled with the rhythm and the heat as I slip into a nightmare tell me baby, was it you? or was it just a fever dream? I’m trying not to let you go I’m trying not to lose control But it’s terrifying it’s terrifying
8.	Gigafire 03:28	lyrics	buy track
look into the gigafire as it burns forever spitting ashy rain on my brand new leather i can think of nothing better than gettin’ lost together thinkin’ bout the good old days before the change in the weather i lay before the mother’s grave when the link was severed oh how we broke the ring of time baby aren’t we clever i lay before the mother’s grave when the link was severed oh how we broke the ring of time baby aren’t we clever this could be your very last chance before it’s gone forever this could be your very last chance this time’s not like the others step into the gigafire and you’ll live forever step into the gigafire and you’ll live forever
9.	Goodbye Cali 04:27	lyrics	buy track
Don’t look back got to get back on the bus intact got to get back on my buzz in fact keep sleepin’ it off but the panic attacks ok back on track keep losin’ it all keep makin’ it back I keep thinkin’ of quitting but i can’t keep track when i’m losin when i’m winning and it’s all going black uh huh yummy yummy oceanside tummy always turning time (arizona) gotta have a good goodbye (san anton) yummy yummy oceanside (lake superior) would you let me into your world (chicago) (st augustin) yummy yummy oceanside (montreal) california? (said goodbye california) so let’s cold start this engine the click is on, guitar is in the kick hat snare clap beat begins and over the top i’m mumblin’, ramblin’, bumblin’ can we just stop and start again got this part with proferrin’ it’s kinda like a key change bridgey thing but before we start, turn up everything! yummy yummy oceanside tummy always turning time (arizona) gotta have a good goodbye (san anton) yummy yummy oceanside (lake superior) would you let me into your world (chicago) (st augustin) yummy yummy oceanside (montreal) gotta have a good goodbye (say goodbye california) would you let me into your world (goodbye california) let me into your world (ohio) yummy yummy oceanside (sweet carolina) tummy always turning time (down mexico) gotta have a good goodbye (philadelphia) yummy yummy oceanside (old st paul) tummy always turning time (say goodbye california) gotta have a good goodbye would you let me into your world (philadelphia) (old st paul) yummy yummy (say goodbye california) would you let me into your world
10.	Salt 04:01	lyrics	buy track
Somehow you got in when my heart wouldn’t let nobody in it’s easy to forget it when you’re comfortable and tethered but i know now i’ve been found i learned to sing about you in the winter’s two-year season it’s a damn fine time to look on now I speak to you in secrets you keep me in your spirit when there’s a cold wind blow’n at the door but if you set me up I’ll fall right down don’t you know that you’re my salt of the earth passing through feelin’ the other side has taken to me i’m not sure how long i can hold on where everybody’s dancin’ like spindrifts in oceans we go down, down, down, down, down, down and if you set me up I’ll fall right down don’t you know that you’re my salt of the earth and if you set me up I’ll fall right down don’t you know that you’re my salt of the earth mm-hmm the light of the world
11.	Crawl Back In 03:08	lyrics	buy track
My simple words don’t explain all the cards in the game all the debts left unpaid so I will harden my heart and crawl back in So began my escape from the arms of my fate where the darkness awaits but like a dog, ashamed I crawl back in and today, oh today whether sun, whether rain we are one and the same in hope in pain i crawl back in and so shall it ever be that my hopes return to dreams and my dreams return to dirt beneath my nails as I crawl back in

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released June 2, 2023

All songs written by Half Moon Run
Half Moon Run is Devon Portielje, Dylan Phillips & Conner Molander
Produced and Engineered by Connor Seidel
Engineering on tracks 5 and 9 by Half Moon Run
Mixed by Chris Shaw
Except for tracks 3 and 9 mixed by Connor Seidel
Mastered by Ryan Morey
Recorded at Treehouse Studio and Hammerjam
Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 feature Esca String Quartet
String Arrangements by Antoine Gratton
Additional String Arrangements on tracks 2, 5 and 8 by Dylan Phillips
Tracks 4 and 11 feature Camille Roy-Paquette on cello
Album photography by Jennifer McCord
Layout by Alex Tomlinson

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Half Moon Run Montréal, Québec

Montreal indie rockers Half Moon Run (Devon Portielje, Conner Molander, Dylan Phillips) are best known for their acrobatic, cerebral arrangements and feral three-part harmonies. Their third album, A Blemish in the Great Light, Juno award winner, is now available, as well as their last EP, Seasons of Change, and compilation album The Covideo Sessions, both released in 2020 during Covid-19. ... more

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May 30

Parc Olympique

Montreal, QC
May 30

Parc Olympique

Montreal, QC
May 31

Centre Wellington Community Sportsplex

Fergus, ON
Jun 13

Bonnaroo Farms

Manchester, TN
Jun 14

Winnetka Music Festival

Winnetka, IL
Jun 29

Colisée Desjardins

Victoriaville, QC
Jul 5

Phillips Backyard (at Phillips Brewery)

Victoria, BC
Jul 11

Winnipeg Folk Fest

Winnipeg, MB
Jul 18

Le Festif!

Baie-Saint-Paul, QC
Aug 16

Lowlands Festival

Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
Sep 10

Harvest Music Festival

Fredericton, NB

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