Relentless Eventful II
by Petriform
SHURICOON
SHURICOON
Relentless Eventful is likely my favorite Petriform album, so I'm pleased to hear a follow up. However, I wish it were more true to the instrumental nature of the original. I've grown weary of the vocals used in more recent albums. Nevertheless, I support Petriform and look forward to hearing where he goes next.
Favorite track: Sunset FM.
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Lush (Destination)
04:48
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one hand outstretched
parts the brush aside
calloused and distressed
these scars won't heal in time
treading one gait
that slows a little more
up 'til this day
fatigue has taken score
face down, lying
where terra firma turns to shore
hollow crying
no tears are left in store
but in the radiance of the sunlight
this is paradise, isn't it?
pity i made it
here without you
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Lush (Aspiration)
02:08
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i don't want to stand back
i want all the best that i can get
i don't need to backtrack
i will be the best that you've seen yet
never upset
like a champion
double your bets
what could happen
breaking the scale
that's the baseline
what this entails
writes a brand new line
way down to the heart
way down there
i don't want to settle
i want to be first in line from here
i don't need to meddle
i know that i've got nothing to fear
here at the top
none unsettles
give me your best
test your mettle
come on and show
me your spirit
and when we clash
worlds will hear it crash
way down to the heart
way down there
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So Nice to See You
05:04
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i'm sorry that i've been so caught up in my head
and i didn't mean to let things get the way they did
but all of my time's spent trying to make some headway
through our terrible descent, give me please some leeway
i'm figuring it out and i don't need to hear this from you
now when i'm in doubt i can't manage to free my mind of you
i don't know what to do
are these lies or do you tell the truth
there's not much that i feel i can even prove
so nice to see you
can't shake the disappointment every time we speak
and i'm not about to give the closure that you seek
too much of my time spent picking up the pieces
just so that i might prevent having to believe this
i'm figuring myself out, not that i've been perfect, but i'm
traveling the high route at least by comparison
i don't know what to do
endless sidesteps, can't you tell the truth?
there's not much that i feel that i need to prove
so nice to see you
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Sunset FM
04:07
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Mobius Checker
04:40
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itching to turn a corner again
but from where i sit there are none
fewer hoops to jump through back then
before i found myself undone
and i left the gloves to another time
but it never quite felt right
now i admit i'm unsatisfied
moving in the candlelight
feeling unworthy and taciturn
for what my senses now endure
maybe i'm not ready to return
but damn it, i must know for sure
'cause i left an unfinished legacy
plain for anyone to see
and i will put up all of the risk
if just to recapture this
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The Econoboxer
03:06
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tell me why is it that i only feel alive
when i'm driving down the empty streets at night
top shelf remedy here, my ailments may subside
you know more than you let on, don't be surprised
this is better for me, i think you realize
what else would you have me do now otherwise
there is a route that i take quite often
and i don't have any intention of stopping
windows fall down and we feel temps dropping
that is, myself and what i took off in
and as the raindrops start to touch down my skin crawls at the cool touch of gods above
lending me some icy mercy condensated in dense fog throughout
repaid doubts
tell me why is it that this has to be the case
every effort i put forward's laid to waste
what good is any of this? i'll see it all erased
while l drive this damn econobox to space
we're stuck in the reaches of lucid dreams undone that we might see through at least one
with petal to metal i hope to achieve that which most won't fulfill
i might still
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Burning Up
03:37
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once we lose ourselves to sleep
shall everything melt on in waves
edges unto circles creep
your re-entry here awaits
you're burning up
and i can't save you now
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Precision
04:00
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Alive + Well
04:20
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alive and well we are
despite it all
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11. |
Reartifactor
04:34
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from their hands to your hands to mine
a sight to behold forever
my palms itch, it's nothing
let me look a little closer
can you hear it? it's speaking to me
and my fingertips sting
it says it wants to show me the world
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Would You Believe
05:20
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i've been having trouble sleeping
occupied with old mistakes
screen's on blue light long past midnight
wondering just how long it takes
the things that go off in my self-talk
about myself aren't fit to say
what's a future for this loser
be it soon but far away
spending hours losing hours
this routine has overstayed
what if someone told you it could be just that much better tomorrow
would you believe it
would you believe in tomorrow
what if someone told you take your time when there's no time like the present
would you believe it
in the morning
finally waking
pick a beer can off the floor
set myself up
to repeat thus
i'm not learning anymore
still-life subject
keeping abject
it's the same thing every day
still returning
while i'm hurting
i'll still do it anyway
always been so
let each window
close behind me, i'm astray
yeah, i'm astray
what if someone told you you're already on time that you had borrowed
i guess you could
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Embody Hope
04:38
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you're dealing with a memory
of things you're never meant to see
the comfort's complimentary, you knew that already
an abject sense of fantasy
at redlining capacity
been made to feel the suffering
they're hurting you badly
the best of all your qualities
they broke down into modesty
the nerve to call it humbling
we know it to be deadly
how unendingly cruel to be
discarded in hypocrisy
until there's nothing left of us
but hope to embody
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about
i wanted to release this in 2014, and i thought i could. i couldn't. but now i can.
it isn't fair to say that my life has been disappointingly uneventful and woefully relenting in the ten years since i released "relentless eventful." a lot of really cool shit has happened, and a lot of terrible horseshit has happened, too. i'm a better producer in 2022 than i was in 2012, but not ten years better - and i've been having kind of a hard time with that. well, hey; that's on me. whatever. i made the choices i did for a reason. but i waded through the shitshow of the past ten years with it in the back of my mind that i needed to, eventually, follow "relentless eventful" up bigger and better. hmm. well, it's not the hour-long epic that its predecessor was (it's close!), but the only thing that matters to me now is that i've followed it up at all. i look forward to releasing something in the future for which the latter part of that last sentence doesn't apply.
things were different when i released "relentless eventful" in 2012. i'd yet to play my first show as petriform (that'd come a little under a year later). when i started performing as petriform, songs from "relentless eventful" were naturally in heavy rotation - i loved playing "petrol lounge" and "what it wouldn't take" in particular. but the chiptunes i performed starting getting more attention, and i ended up leaning into that almost exclusively. fine by me - i've learned that i'm a better songwriter than a producer, and working within the confines of chiptune has allowed me to blossom as a songwriter independently of my skills as a producer, which i've neglected, for better or worse. in the meantime, tons of my peers have stuck with it and achieved the kinds of milestones that i got into making music to achieve but which still elude me. make no mistake - i'm glad as hell to see people succeed, i cherish my own unique accomplishments, grass is greener, comparison is the thief of joy, etc... but i can't help but wonder what, if anything, would have been different if i'd done This instead of That and so on and so forth.
given that it took me a decade to weave this all together as opposed to the two-year gap between "exposition" (2010) and the original "relentless eventful" (2012), it's fairly safe to say that i will probably not be releasing anything like this again for a long time. younger me would be aghast; this was more or less all he had. present me has a bit more going on, thankfully. please appreciate this for what it is presently (be kind to those first few songs - they're almost a decade old!), and what it is in relation to its predecessors, because it really could be that there's not very much more of it in me for A While™.
more than anything, shouts out if you were around for the original "relentless eventful" and are still around for the follow-up. i see you and appreciate you. your support is why i still do this. here's to whatever comes next - i have an idea or two...
~~~
approximate years of primary composition:
Lush (both parts) - 2014
So Nice to See You - 2014
Sunset FM - 2013
Mobius Checker - 2017
The Econoboxer - 2017
Burning Up - 2020
Garbage Kings New Requiem - 2017
Precision - 2017
Alive + Well - 2020
Reartifactor - 2020
Would You Believe - 2017
Embody Hope - 2019
it isn't fair to say that my life has been disappointingly uneventful and woefully relenting in the ten years since i released "relentless eventful." a lot of really cool shit has happened, and a lot of terrible horseshit has happened, too. i'm a better producer in 2022 than i was in 2012, but not ten years better - and i've been having kind of a hard time with that. well, hey; that's on me. whatever. i made the choices i did for a reason. but i waded through the shitshow of the past ten years with it in the back of my mind that i needed to, eventually, follow "relentless eventful" up bigger and better. hmm. well, it's not the hour-long epic that its predecessor was (it's close!), but the only thing that matters to me now is that i've followed it up at all. i look forward to releasing something in the future for which the latter part of that last sentence doesn't apply.
things were different when i released "relentless eventful" in 2012. i'd yet to play my first show as petriform (that'd come a little under a year later). when i started performing as petriform, songs from "relentless eventful" were naturally in heavy rotation - i loved playing "petrol lounge" and "what it wouldn't take" in particular. but the chiptunes i performed starting getting more attention, and i ended up leaning into that almost exclusively. fine by me - i've learned that i'm a better songwriter than a producer, and working within the confines of chiptune has allowed me to blossom as a songwriter independently of my skills as a producer, which i've neglected, for better or worse. in the meantime, tons of my peers have stuck with it and achieved the kinds of milestones that i got into making music to achieve but which still elude me. make no mistake - i'm glad as hell to see people succeed, i cherish my own unique accomplishments, grass is greener, comparison is the thief of joy, etc... but i can't help but wonder what, if anything, would have been different if i'd done This instead of That and so on and so forth.
given that it took me a decade to weave this all together as opposed to the two-year gap between "exposition" (2010) and the original "relentless eventful" (2012), it's fairly safe to say that i will probably not be releasing anything like this again for a long time. younger me would be aghast; this was more or less all he had. present me has a bit more going on, thankfully. please appreciate this for what it is presently (be kind to those first few songs - they're almost a decade old!), and what it is in relation to its predecessors, because it really could be that there's not very much more of it in me for A While™.
more than anything, shouts out if you were around for the original "relentless eventful" and are still around for the follow-up. i see you and appreciate you. your support is why i still do this. here's to whatever comes next - i have an idea or two...
~~~
approximate years of primary composition:
Lush (both parts) - 2014
So Nice to See You - 2014
Sunset FM - 2013
Mobius Checker - 2017
The Econoboxer - 2017
Burning Up - 2020
Garbage Kings New Requiem - 2017
Precision - 2017
Alive + Well - 2020
Reartifactor - 2020
Would You Believe - 2017
Embody Hope - 2019
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released September 1, 2022
composition, arrangement, production, poorly-intonated guitar, etc. by petriform
composition, arrangement, production, poorly-intonated guitar, etc. by petriform
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Across California and beyond, Petriform has brought energetic NES chipmusic to the table for years. Get ready for a chipstyle experience drawn unapologetically from the realms of bubblegum pop, VGM, prog metal, third-wave ska, happy hardcore, turn-of-the-millenium pop punk, and more. ... more
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