Performing a Crime

by Joel Eel

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D Sheehan This fucking album can and will absolutely obliterate any dancefloor you play it for. Favorite track: Performing a Crime.

Deferent Golgi Strides right up and grabs you by the studded lapels like it'll sock you on the jaw, but gives you a big kiss instead. And is the you who kisses back the same who was frightened moments ago? Joel Eel captures the volatility and fluidity of the self in the dangerous ritual dance of love. Favorite track: Performing a Crime.

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1.	Sapphire 03:32	lyrics	buy track
A Sapphire My Emerald A Jewel My World Anxious This Climate Sensations Too Real Uncertain Exposures Confronting My Fears Repeating Exposures Perpetuate w/ Care A Sapphire A Sapphire
2.	Leather Love Letter 04:29	lyrics	buy track
I'm vulnerable at full potential Leather love Letter your disposal Mixed emotions no hassles Fragrance expired recycled Confessions desired forgetful 12 sins adored by disciples Lust neglected In fractals Nine lives lived Impractical
3.	Signs of a Broken Heart 05:04		buy track
4.	Man of Color, My Machine 04:47	lyrics	buy track
Swine serpent Heart broken Wishful thinker I bleed Self motives false righteous Your intentions I don't believe A national full of capital The hunger they bleed A nation full of capital The hopeless they need -- Swine serpent Heart broken A wishful thinker I bleed Self motives false righteous Your intentions I don't believe I'm self righteous I'm a victim I'm expressive Triangular I'm a lover I'm not a fighter I'm a victim to my Machine -- I'm emotive Empathetic Vulnerable Armed for you I'm a lost in my decisions Indecisive I feel subdued I'm a lover I'm a fighter I'm my mother My Machine Man of color Man of color Man of color My Machine.
5.	Performing a Crime 05:16	lyrics	buy track
4 to the floor Quantize out Of time A figure, Friend, Or foe. How impatient is this world Securing All beloved Red rose Recite a poem They say In God we trust They say We're in love. And yet Our love is blind heartbroken Over time Soft kiss, A Tender touch Perform A simple crime. A victim of Present thought No pleasure In response How much Do we give up Just to Fall in love
6.	Body Builder 07:34		buy track
7.	Garden of Roses 05:09		buy track

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Korean-Canadian artist and Forth collective label manager Joel Eel presents his new album “Performing a Crime” - Released on Perpetual Care - September 14th, 2018

Joel Eel’s sophomore album, Performing a Crime is a romantic record for the dance floor. It explores how the modern concept of love, can feel criminal. Through a series of misunderstandings become elevated — the flight of emotional reactions, overpowering the intent.Tenderness over time becomes forgotten and it’s relationship to love no longer associated, the imagination distorted. Social media lends a hand to simplify the framing — we “unfollow” as an opposite to care.

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released September 14, 2018

All songs written, programmed & performed by:
Joel Eel, except for “Performing a Crime” (Arranged by: Joel Eel & Brian Wong)

All lyrics written by: Joel Eel
Produced by Joel Eel & Brian Wong

All songs Recorded by: Brian Wong @ the Treatment Centre,
except “Body Builder,” Recorded by Joel Eel.
Mixed by: Abe Seiferth @ Transmitter Studios
Mastered by: Joe Lambert @ JLM

Creative Direction & Design by: Joel Eel
Photography by: Nate Bajar
Product Photography by: James Kachan

Released on perpetualcare.bandcamp.com

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