The Zodiac Lights, by Reaper On Red

The Zodiac Lights

by Reaper On Red

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NOW SHIPPING: This limited-edition run of 100 numbered copies is pressed on 180-gram black vinyl and dressed in full-color jacket and sleeve. The number of your copy is foil stamped on the back. Thanks for your support. Robert and Carla

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1.	The Zodiac Lights 03:00	lyrics	buy track
THE ZODIAC LIGHTS My horoscope says All hope is gone I don’t believe it I know it’s wrong ‘Cause you are my guiding light, dear I trust you with my heart I built my world around you, dear Without you, I fall apart I fall apart My tarot card says I’ve lost the crown I don’t believe it The Hanging Man Is upside down ‘Cause you are my guiding light, dear I trust you with my heart I built my world around you, dear Without you, I fall apart I fall apart Without you, I fall apart I fall apart
2.	Mourning Nights 03:46	lyrics	buy track
MOURNING NIGHTS Mourning nights will break into light The grief you feel will finally subside Gravity will be defied Coming up and coming alive You thought that you would never survive But see no sermon in a suicide The music’s worth staking your life Singing, “Yeah”
3.	Minds Alight 02:56	lyrics	buy track
MINDS ALIGHT My mind’s alight My mind’s alight Your dreams are just scenes That were ripped from the silver screen And spooled out on the floor Reel to reel taught you how to feel And left you wanting more So mind, mind the light ‘Cause my mind’s alight Midnight moonlight bleeds into second sight And opens up a door Match cut, back drop, slip into a new plot And leave them wanting more ‘Cause my mind’s alight Mind, mind the light Mind the light
4.	Way Beyond The Waves 04:38	lyrics	buy track
WAY BEYOND THE WAVES The ticking of the clock has stopped returning The beating of your heart has started yearning For a distant shore Way beyond the waves What it holds in store Leaves a metal taste The surging of the earth beneath the ocean Sets the deep beneath your skin in motion You rise up on the wave Way beyond the pain You hoped you could be saved But couldn’t bear the strain The ticking of the clock has stopped The ticking of the clock has stopped The ticking of the clock has stopped Returning
5.	Memento 02:59	lyrics	buy track
MEMENTO Someone had to warn you Every moment is new If you’re looking for danger The real trouble is you Sometimes it hits you in the morning Sometimes it leaves you black and blue Sometimes it comes on without warning Nothing can hit you like the truth Someone shot a photo A flashing light, a tattoo Someone lost some blood here Evidence or a clue? Sometimes it hits you in the morning Sometimes it leaves you black and blue Sometimes it comes on without warning Nothing can hit you like the truth
6.	Blue Belladonna 03:20	lyrics	buy track
BLUE BELLADONNA Blue belladonna Her poison could be your cure If you wanna Reach your nirvana If nothing is all you need Belladonna Who dots her eyes With blue flower spikes? Blue belladonna Her poison could be your cure If you wanna Reach your nirvana If nothing is all you need Belladonna Who dots her eyes With blue flower spikes? Sure suicide No way of life Blue belladonna Do what you wanna Her poison could be your cure If you wanna
7.	No Big Deal 04:49	lyrics	buy track
NO BIG DEAL You set me up again  You made me lose my friends  I just don't know what I'm gonna do with you Your feet are still on the ground  So you put me down  I just don't know what I'm gonna do with you I don't feel You're no big deal I got into a fight  Got into it tonight  I just don't know what I'm gonna do with you You talk much too loud  When you put me down  I just don't know what I'm gonna do with you I don't feel  You're no big deal You know you broke my heart  And that was just the start  I just don't know what I'm gonna do with you You know you broke my heart  And that was just the start  I know just what I should do for you I tell you I don't feel You're big deal  No big deal
8.	Ice Age 04:00	lyrics	buy track
NEW ICE AGE Your cold embrace Ushered in a new ice age Someone hung a midnight sun As pitiless as you’ve become So numb Come in from The pain I’ll mourn your loss a million years Cry a bridge of crystal tears So numb Come in from The pain Your cold embrace Ushered in a new ice age
9.	Endless Night 02:57	lyrics	buy track
NDLESS NIGHT One foot lifts and then the other Running faster, moving slower Liquid dreams, they run me down My mouth is moving but not a sound… As they lean and they slide They disappear from sight They careen and collide Into the endless night Tell me what it means It sorta leaves me wondering Spiral jetty into the ground Arms are flailing all around I want to scream unspeakable thoughts Can’t betray what the spirit wants… As they lean and they slide Into the endless night They careen and collide Until they disappear from sight Tell me where this leads A passageway to sights unseen One foot lifts and then the other Running faster, moving slower Liquid dreams, they run me down My mouth is moving but not a sound… As they lean and they slide They disappear from sight They careen and collide Into the endless night Tell me what it means It sorta leaves me wondering
10.	The Conjuring 03:28		buy track

about

Commonly referred to as “false dawn,” the natural phenomena of zodiacal light occurs when the last vestiges of triangular white light reflected off the cosmic dust cloud begin to dissipate as daylight ascends. But what happens before dawn, stays before dawn. The Zodiac Lights as conjured by Reaper On Red sonically mirrors that syndrome in all the unexpected ways, gradually creating a Vantablack alley in your psyche that you had never previously considered traveling down.

A distillation of dark psychedelia, concise new wave and electronic flux, The Zodiac Lights is not beholden to genres and their attendant cultural signifiers. Reaper On Red could be waiting to chauffeur David Lynch someplace at 3 AM (“Ice Age”). Maybe the destination is a spot in the desert where they have to help the director bury something (“Minds Alight”). Perhaps the duo are in a Southeast Asian marketplace where, in the streets, cobras are conducting business—and some of them have legs (“Way Beyond The Waves”).

The title track might be the best surveillance love song written in this century, in which the duo mysteriously crop up in enough CCTV feeds that law enforcement considers them “persons of interest.” And the jarring beatless conclusion of “The Conjuring” feels more like another journey cleared for takeoff than any semblance of denouement. Tap your credit card on Charon’s masthead and see where the boat takes you.

A listen to The Zodiac Lights might feel like waking every morning in a different place, from New York to Nepal, Iceland to oblivion. Maybe it’s a 45-minute elevator ride in either direction. Or mind movies your therapist is afraid to discuss with you? Whatever: Reaper On Red’s moments of shadows and light are best measured by how smudged and/or cracked your psychic prism happens to be. One listen and you’ll come to the realization that, indeed, you’re in their movie now.

credits

released October 8, 2022

Produced, performed and recorded by ROBERT CHERRY and CARLA CHERRY

Mixed and mastered by MIKE MONTGOMERY at CANDYLAND STUDIO

Art direction and design by JEFF JOHNS

Band photo by NIKITA GROSS

Album cover artwork photographed by KEVIN BRUMMER

Special thanks to PATRICK MILLER, JASON PETTIGREW, JEN KNARR, ROLAND ROYCE, KAZIMIR MALEVICH, PAMELA COLMAN SMITH, LUCIO FONTANA, MOE TUCKER and CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

All songs by ROBERT CHERRY and CARLA CHERRY ©2022; except “No Big Deal,” by DANIEL ASH, DAVID J and KEVIN HASKINS ©1989

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