Walker Park, by Dearly Beloved

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Walker Park

by Dearly Beloved

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1.	Walker Park 03:57 video	lyrics	buy track
It's gonna pull you in It's gonna drag you down Judging by the wind Best not stick around Does everybody win? Is that a Walker fact? The land of milk and gin There's no going back Back to Walker Park Walker Park There's no going back to Walker Park No we're not there yet But it's getting dark Playground lights lit Our cue to march Back to Walker Park Walker Park Back to Walker Park Walker Park No doubt What's it all about? Ahhhhhh What's it all about? "To Walker Park!" It's gonna pull you in It's gonna drag you down And judging by the wind Best not stick around
2.	Trees Dream Of You 03:08	lyrics	buy track
I feel fucked up What's up? I can't quite say She said, Buck up, buttercup, and write it away. Write your own Debaser. And know trees dream. Trees swaying in the breeze Taking what they need to just grow A sweet vision of righteousness And for all I know trees dream Trees dream Trees dream Trees dream Trees dream Trees dream I had to write a math exam and then forgot my pencil I had a bad habit of chewing anything until I was full She said, "Find your own eraser." Find your own eraser Find your own eraser Find your own eraser I think I get it I think I get it I think I get it Trees dream of you Trees dream of you
3.	Explosions 02:52	lyrics	buy track
We like explosions that leave you feeling good We like ideas that change the world for good There's nothing past the stop and go There's nothing but the ebb and ﬂow There's nothing like some in and out There's nothing more than what you know Yes, oh yeah Yes, oh yeah We like new places that jets can't take you to We do like music when it does what it should do There's nothing past the stop and go There's nothing but the ebb and ﬂow There's nothing like some in and out There's nothing more than what you know Yes, oh yeah Yes, oh yeah Yes (we like) Oh yeah (explosions) Yes (we like) Oh yeah (explosions) We like explosions it's only right we should We like ideas we thought you understood We like new places until they're overrun We do like music loud shots from the big spudgun
4.	I Was Here 03:01	lyrics	buy track
The year started with two cats Now we love the bird Sometimes battle the yard rats A local issue I heard Don't often get to see the nephew Never get to see Boub If we haven't seen you since we met you Would have passed through if we could If you're watching us play this If we're in the same room It means at least we both still exist At least we made it through It means eﬀect and aﬀection It means a beat and a beer It means we share a connection that's crystal fucking clear I was here
5.	Spectator Sports 03:40	lyrics	buy track
The sound of victory in the streets The sight of broken dreams on the run Chase the agony into the arms of what's never been done Ooooooo Ooooooo We wear the same shorts Underdog underwear on a tear Replays of replays in his mind An unholy disregard in the air To mine any spirit left behind Ooooooo Ooooooo Spectator, we've got the same shorts We've got the same spectator sports It's ok, be scared But don't be afraid Just don't ask how the sausage is made Just look in your heart Then look in my eyes We've both been played from the start As sure as the sky It can tear you apart Hang you out to dry
6.	All Hat 04:27	lyrics	buy track
Fade to black Take me home What brought me here Can't ﬁll this hole All hat No cattle Set free Free to roam Has brought me here Parts unknown All hat No cattle All hat No cattle All Hat No Cattle All hat No cattle
7.	Let's Make This Easy 02:25	lyrics	buy track
Sparrows tug at the stitches and eyes Watch from the window and whine Head count thread count tell me no lies Long as roses still grow on the vine The clouds have gathered The room's getting dark The wardrobe is out of its mind Four-coloured lights cast silhouettes On the closet door we hang behind Let's make this easy Let's make this easy Let's make this easy Easy Easy Let's make this easy We sit in the dark so the songbird can sing Her voice a beacon of joy It seems we keep coming apart at the seams Helped by scissors the wardrobes employ Let's make this easy Let's make this easy Let's make this easy Let's make this easy
8.	Husband-Shaped Man 02:48	lyrics	buy track
Oh what a waste Blood from a stone Copy and paste Wait to atone Brick in the air More on the way Nothing to spare Nothing to say Oh, husband-shaped man Bird in a tree Seed on the ground A shape on the fence Decidedly proud A wink at the ocean A vacant stare The brink of emotion Into thin air Oh, husband-shaped man Oh, husband-shaped man Nothing to spare nothing to say Oh, husband-shaped man Brick in the air more on the way
9.	Late Great Lake Skate 05:07	lyrics	buy track
False alarm Your skates are too dull for carving up the ice On a late great lake skate the wind has its way And it snows once or twice Don't take what they put out as something any more than drips down a drain They've got sweet talk left that don't run when it rains Down by Taylor's farm, if you're skating, keep your head up for the spies Don't take what they put out as something any more than drips down a drain They've got sweet talk left that don't run when it rains Late great lake skates rule Late great lake skates rule Late great lake skates rule I miss your mind You led the way I fell behind You led the way I fell behind You led the way I fell behind
10.	It Would Be Thank You 03:47	lyrics	buy track
In comes the tide Out goes the day A million miles I've walked away Maybe time is not on my side But when it's done at least we had a good ride If there was one thing If there was one thing If there was one thing I could say or do It would be thank you New paradigm old quarter wage You're ﬁlled with love it's ﬁlled with rage Ahead by a nose back by a length You brought the tacos let me give you my strength If there was one thing If there was one thing If there was one thing I could say or do It would be thank you

about

Given that the band was born as an affirmation of life energy and an outlet for raw emotional expression, maybe it’s inevitable that Toronto rockers Dearly Beloved would answer the weird silence of global pandemic with a roar. The relentless noisemakers emerge from two years of lockdown with the vivid, bracing Walker Park (out Jan 24, 2023 on Sonic Unyon Records).

A bioluminescent 10-song set, the album is the band’s follow-up to Times Square Discount, which was released in late October 2019, just before the world closed in on itself. Where Times Square Discount was conceived on the road, by a band that had logged hundreds of tho1usands of miles of touring around the planet, the songs of Walker Park were spawned in the first year of the pandemic at Phoebe Street, the home studio of DB frontman Rob Higgins. Writing and recording these songs was a process Higgins describes as deeply cathartic.

The band’s self-described “barrage rock” is both a clever bit of wordplay and a pithy statement of intent rooted in bedrock truth. For the past 16 years, the Beloveds’ collision and fusion of pop and hardcore sensibilities, melody and menace, has offered up unabashed stoner rock sensibilities coiled like smoke around a magma core of psychedelic post-grunge. Walker Park anchors itself in the lessons learned over that career and launches the band on an exciting new trajectory.

credits

released January 24, 2023

Produced and mixed by Rob Higgins and Tyler Beans aka Slow Pineapple at Phoebe St., Toronto

Additional recording by Dave Casey at Electric Mammoth, Halifax and John Lousteau at Studio 606, Los Angeles

Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Howie Weinberg Mastering, Los Angeles

Management: John Kastner at Black and Blue, Los Angeles

All songs ©2022 Dearly Beloved (SOCAN/ASCAP)
Except "Explosions" ©1978 Devo Music & Virgin Music

Art by Joby J. Ford

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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. We acknowledge the support of Ontario Creates, the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and the Government of Ontario.

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Dearly Beloved Toronto, Ontario

The erosion of the immigrant dream. The genius of Stanley Kubrick. The entrenched evil of the global banking establishment. Suspicious mountains and high-desert military bases. Sinister Ukrainian crime bosses and the irradiated ruins of Chernobyl. The Dublin Occult Grid. Nazi human experiments. Robert Bigelow. A baby sparrow named Bruce Lee. A professional pachinko player from Tokyo named Al ... ... more

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