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Future Proof

by Blue Tomorrows

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1.
Somewhere out there The sidewalk’s fine Sidewalk fire Dark between the lines High-beams float on through Fill my empty room Stars wiped out the sky Chalkboard candlelight I can leave you feeling lonely Or I can leave you alone Painted shut my window on a vanished world Feeling free is easy But the feeling never grows Painted shut my window on a vanished world Somewhere out there The mountain’s fine Mountain fire Take your time New day slicing through Same electric blues Satellite swinging love Missed me by miles One last light shining One last look I love it so but I gotta go One last light shining One last look You’re the last light shining I know I can leave it feeling lonely Or I can leave it alone Painted shut my window on a vanished world Feeling free is easy But the feeling never grows Painted shut my window on a vanished world Somewhere out there The sidewalk’s fine
2.
Blackbirds 03:39
3.
Violet Shine 03:31
I knew spring like twilight I saw spring like violet shine Made the world glow in the warmth of the sun I met heaven with arms wide I thought heaven was a friend of mine My friends are gone and I'm barely here I held freedom like a torn sail I knew freedom took all its care to hold me But it's all undone I felt songs like wildfire Heard like heat ripping through the air They still burn me but I'm barely here Hold me forever freedom Take me home with broken wings You're still holding You're still carrying me
4.
Neverendless 03:05
When you go I wish you went I wish you went anywhere Where I go I wish you were I wish you were there with me Didn’t know it then But I know it now Didn’t know it then But I know it now Now we’re old But these days The days all still seem so long Sand in my eyes Edge of the sea Stretching out Stretching out endlessly I’m still too small to see it now I’m still too small to see it now Watch a shadow rise against the wall Now the shadow’s holding my hand Got a feeling I won’t feel it now Got a feeling I won’t feel it now Got a feeling I won’t feel it now Got a feeling I won’t feel it now
5.
Future Proof 02:41
Now you tell me so slow There’s no time left to go Have I been here too long? I miss the things I’ve not done Now the sun moves so slow Blue is high and light low Stretch my days out too long Burn the ground I walk on Now you tell me less slow There’s no time left to go Have I been here too long? I miss the things I’ve not done Mountains break down so slow Why we don’t I can’t know I’ll be close while you try My world holds still in your eyes
6.
The snow stopped falling and the flowers froze I shook them clean and then the branches broke And time’s been turning all around so slow Like circling mirrors all finding me alone From far away you only see what you know Now I’m way up high and the valley just looks like home Don’t look down now Don’t look back for me Water’s moving while my mind gets slow Circling around me and I’m still alone From far away you only see what you know Now I’m way up high and the valley just looks like home Don’t look down now Don’t look back for me From far away you only see what you know Now I’m way up high and the valley just looks like home From far away you only see what you know Now I’m way up high and the valley just looks like home From far away you only see what you know Now I’m way up high
7.
Your home don’t need you, babe Nowhere wants you Catch your face on the windowpane Close your eyes and it’s not the same at all You didn’t know you’d miss the way it was Your home don’t need you, babe But I still want you Look forward to better days But they’re never what you dreamed at all
8.
All the Dark 03:48
Sky-blue daydream Stretched out once free Now bound by stars Memories send me Tumbling softly Over the stones Heart so heavy Shapeless empty Alone, home Moonlight screaming Now you can see in All the dark Moonlight screaming Now you can see in All the dark
9.
We’ll all be faded on We’ll all be faded over Like the blue stretching out at dawn And that one bird singing This is now and never was His song will soon be over Like these walls wrapping all around My dark morning Home is here and home is gone Nothing free from fading over I miss the way you’d laugh a lot When you heard me singing This is now and never was This song will soon be over Like the clouds all crushing down On a dark morning We’ll all be faded on We’ll all be faded over Like the blue stretching out at dawn And that one bird singing I miss the way we’d laugh a lot

about

It has been difficult to maintain a calendar lately with everything set adrift. The previous hustle has gone quiet, with what was once communal experience turned inward to the individual. Future Proof, the latest offering from Blue Tomorrows, understands how to take this moment and stretch it out into time and space. Instead of hurrying along, it finds the value in slowing down to reflect and ponder. Like finding an old box of photos and trying to align the images with memory, Blue Tomorrows reaches into not one room but many, attempting to piece together a remembered life.

The project found its start in 2018, when guitarist/vocalist Sarah Nienaber (Candace, Web of Sunsets) sought a more solo outlet apart from her regular projects. For the recording of Future Proof, Sarah Rose (Candace) joined in on bass and vocals, with Michaela Gradstein (Plastic Cactus) rounding out the troupe on guitar. With a change in outlook and lineup, gone is the twang that pervaded their debut, Without Color (Moon Glyph, 2019), replaced here by understated vocals alongside darker tones and a breezy drum machine. The instrumentation has expanded in subtle ways, with a vocoder and various field recordings both finding their way into the mix. Album highlight “All the Dark” puts forward its best bedroom waltz, with layered vocals that create a yearning, melodic round that loops itself into an unexpected Pacific Northwest lullaby. On “Vanished World,” the last song recorded during these sessions, the trio manage to make regret sound like triumph.

Recorded in Portland, Trail, and Vernonia, Oregon, Future Proof offers an unanchored vision tied to solitary space that occasionally looks out into the larger world, hopeful but resigned. It is an album of considering and leaving, of wandering but not aimlessly. The songs within are reflective like a river, not a lake – ambling, drifting, and floating along a strong current, intent on the daydream. “You didn’t know you missed the way it was,” sings Nienaber on “Uncanny Valley,” a declaration which becomes its own crescendo.

Suddenly, the calendar is out the window, the river is rising, the dream is a space we inhabit.

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released April 2, 2021

Recorded by Sarah Nienaber in Portland, Trail, and Vernonia OR

Mixed and mastered by Neil Weir at Blue Bell Knoll

Sarah Nienaber - vocals, guitar, synthesizer, percussion, drum machine and programming

Sarah Rose - bass, vocals, synthesizer

Michaela Gradstein - guitar, vocals

All songs by Sarah Nienaber

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