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Alma

by 5:40 fantasy

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prettieststar Fresh...! This music speaks from the heart. Well done 5:40. So good to hear real innovative music with depth. What's next? Favorite track: The Flowery Crown.
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sarahberlingieri What an experience… This took me on an emotional journey from start to finish. Alma is something I never knew I needed until I heard it. It’s raw and honest, brave and heavy but overall beautiful. I can’t wait to hear more from this artist. Thank you 5.40 fantasy Favorite track: Borboleta.
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prenw The opening riff, the pacing, the percussion, the ambiance, the energy. Just everything about this track hits the spot to be honest. Favorite track: My Favourite Picture in the World.
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greggawooo This was amazing! Deeply personal and emotionally gut-punching album. Also great if you're a fan of indie games with all the references and easter eggs. Beautifully dark and strangely uplifting. Keep up the amazing work! Favorite track: My Favourite Picture in the World.
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Twombly One This music really speaks to me and has taken me on one hell of an emotional journey. It's deep, it's heavy but ultimately arcs towards the light. The final track chrysalises how one can travel through emotional turmoil and arrive at a point where beauty transcends pain. It's beautiful, it's disturbing, it's unique. Unlike anything I've heard before. Favorite track: Alma (A Baby, a Branch, and a Frail Limb Letter).
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1.
Ok so. We’re at the end of everything With a red skirt and shapes on the grass, I’m teething. I’m scared as fuck of some bench where there’s a foreign flag and I could be your best friend… “all-seeing”. Because I could see like your eyes see Something good for you, I could be. “You overthink. Good on you, truly.” I can’t come down because I think that I’m sundowning, and I think that I’m falling in ____ I get my treats next to Snappy Snaps, and I think that I’ve found my favourite picture in the _____ I can’t wake up because tonight I feel like more I think you made the sky fall down... Because my smile is the end of the world. And I could see like your eyes see. Something good for you, I could be. “You overthink. Good on you, truly.” I can’t come down because I think that I’m sundowning, and I think that I’ve fallen in ____ I get my treats next to Snappy Snaps, and I think that I’ve found my favourite picture in the _____ I can’t wake up because tonight I feel like more I think you made the sky fall down... Because my smile is the end of the world.
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I could stick to you, when your head is orange, I’ve got glitter glue The tree out front and park bench is a deathcult of dads and doom, but I’m glad you started I could offer you nothing, but there’s rats in the garden… … But I believe in the sigils on your body, so I’ll “let it be” And you can dress this rabbit with two gothy kids in a cemetery. But if you hang me upside down you can let the blood drain out "I just try to stop myself," she says, then she asks to spit in mouth… I see two stray cats down in Canons Park, and I wish the sun would stay out just a little longer I watch the god come down on all them rats in the garden and two emo kids in a gallery Flick the cigarette on the curb on water Pass the Orchard Cottage with Gretchen Ross and you could "do that with me”…. …. But you put the robin in the litter bin.
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I'll butterfly kiss you on your cheek, then shed in two for you to see I care. Then I'll pick up the glass for you and I'll back the yellow eyes away at "Bloodgate Circus" There, we'll pull a trick on both my wings and get pretty headless... But you should check my limbs again Then you'll question the effects in my head, and I could help you burn your blue dress and be your best and see that I was fucking covered in scars Pale as moon until a cat comes along We were happy back in Canons Park But then we go ahead and fuck up our ____ You rest my forehead in your cheek, then blind my eyes so I can see you care. Then you set me on the glass, then you pull off my wings, and point and laugh You wish me luck, then set me on a "forest fire"... 'Cos you know my intention's not to hurt or be better I'm pretty braindead, but I'm a maggot so I'd stick you in the chrysalis... ... But I didn't do those things that you said that I did. So you can lie to the police if you think it'll make things better You're a victim in one black eye and a bully in another And even though I'm covered in red, I believed you could dance again. My lust in June was love by August, by October it was dead.
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I too used to want him to be proud of me And then I just wanted him to make amends I wonder what lies he's telling you about me to make sure that we'll never be friends. And it's a shame because you and I didn't get a witness. ... We're the only ones who know. We were cursed the moment that he kissed us. iwantmymama130920from then on it was his big show. I grew concerned when I saw him start to covet you again When I learned what he did, I felt close to you In my own way, I fell in love with you. ... But he's made me a ghost to you. I watch him let go of your hand, I wanna stand between you But it's not what I'm supposed to do I watch him walk over you, talk over you, be mean to you... And it makes me feel close to you. It makes me feel close to you. It makes me feel close to you. It's not what it's supposed to do... It makes me feel close to you. You and I didn't get a witness. ... We're the only ones who know. In my own way, I fell in love with you. ... But he's made me a ghost to you. 230420190520220620240620080820090820150820160820280820290820110920120920/// Someone please help me. And you're wearing time like a flowery crown Sitting there, sitting there big cat down. I'm alone on the summit now, trying not to let my lights go out... Trying not to let my light go out Because in my own way, I fell in love with you. ... And I wonder what lies he's told you about me to make sure that we'll never be friends.
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You can tear apart my back You can bust my fucking lip You can cut off both my hands and put a poem in my fist You can fill my mouth with spit, and make me want to touch my wrist. But there’s a bat beneath your chest, and a moon inside your hand Got two lovers in your thigh, and a smile on your wrist … But there’s a liar in your leg, and there’s metal in your lip. So you can spit inside my mouth, and you can chew upon my neck Sew a button in my eye and I’ll hope you dance again But once you tell the biggest lie (and you've kneed me in the throat), that’s when I’ll set on fire my favourite picture in the world So you can tear apart my back, and you can bust my fucking lip And I’ll still love you like that, but I won’t let you fuck with this... My favourite picture in the world.
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Something awful happened here.

about

5:40 fantasy is an exploration of the unconscious. The one-man project by multidisciplinary artist Jaden Stone tears down the boundaries of genre in an endlessly creative and distinctly personal audio-visual palette. Escaping reality into the psyche of its creator, 5:40 fantasy arrives with the beguiling and disturbing new EP, 'Alma'.

'Alma' is the soundtrack to a horror which occurred in Stone’s personal life, blurring the line between dream and nightmare. Otherworldy electronics writhe beneath raw bedroom recordings. Bewitching indie pop compositions are rooted in abstraction, finding harmony in dissonance. Samples are treated not as musical references, but as a collage of personal memories that collide in a psychogenic fugue.

5:40 fantasy is a project which threatens constant reinvention, and with this, Stone has created more than a debut EP; 'Alma' is an eerily beautiful world that demands repeated exploration.

credits

released April 23, 2022

All songs written, produced and arranged by Jaden Stone.

Samples and interpolations listed in track credits.

Personnel:

Jaden Stone – songwriting, arrangement, vocals, instruments, performance, production, programming, mixing, artwork.

Amede Unuabona – additional mixing; mastering
Matthew Milne - additional mixing (track 1)
Jack Allet – assistant engineering (track 3)
Cam Deas – assistant engineering (track 1)

Mastered by Amede Unuabona at Roundhouse Studios.

Special thanks and eternal gratitude to Luke Branch for encouraging me along the way; Amede for bringing out the warmth, joy and soul; Ajinka Patil, Nathan Tuft, AJ, and the entire Young Creatives team at Roundhouse for your kindness and support; HART for the helping hand and god-tier levels of finesse; all my friends and family who helped me get there; and of course, the "lioness", for your strength, love and guiding light - JJ

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