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place is

by koleżanka

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1.
A Mouthful 03:37
am I brave if I look you straight in the eye? uninvited stranger waiting for the right time come sit next to me when you feel like you've had enough to be a brave man, too "It gets better" someone wrote on the bathroom stall couldn't hear you over the music so I smile nod, smile and nod turns out my love language doesn't coincide with yours maybe we'll try until we're furious or we're bored I feel tired it is strange to look this city in the face vacant as I'm wandering vacant occupying space come sit next to me, hang over the roof's edge carry me drunk down the stairs, precarious its a mouthful when I'm defensive carrying mortal weapons carry false pretensions its an effort its a consequence its a cigarette in my hand it is not a friend I feel tired I feel
2.
$40 03:12
true I'm truest when I learn how to stay and true its easier when I am away how can I tell the difference between quiet and a mind at peace? I can hear myself talk I can hear you not listening is it right I learned to lie? better to lie than to lie down hands in my pocket walk the other direction like I am cool I keep a cool head like there's nothing to prove I keep my hand close like there's something to play I don't know any other way how can I tell the difference between waking and asleep? is it right I learned to lie? Better to lie than to lie down
3.
B2YP 04:43
sink into the evening slip in closer to me cause I know what this is hands under the table watching like my body's not my own cause I know what this is I only know how to be in love I only know how to be so wholly involved is this what you're used to? feeling so unused to wondering what you can do and wondering if I'd like it, too catch me on a good night catch me when it feels right when we know what this is solitary investment solitude is shared best when when we know what this is do we know what this is? what is a place and what is a home? live in my suitcase I don't belong to anyone is this what I'm used to? feeling so unused to wondering what I can do wondering if you'd like me to
4.
Vegan Sushi 02:26
have we wasted all our time? here we go again I don't know how to define what is home again its a toast here every night always the lament have we wasted all our time? you is it you really you is it? you don't like to show your hand too early we don't like you but we're here to play take a bow now we pretend it isn't good investment mouths full of your name
5.
I walk to the avenues watch the sun debate a night feels like some dramatic trope themes of nostalgia character plight and place is a mantra repeated til a voice is tired oh what a sensation to shiver in heat 112 running back to my apartment seven blocks and I feel something wild like water cold in my hands wonder where my thoughts are swimming I stand right next to the edge a Texas spring summers begin with space speaking like a friend a voice you know an aiding hand and I like to visit you in corners of a space I knew I watch children scale the trees and dive right in just like me
6.
In A Meeting 03:32
you wait all night you wait for the right line if you don't let those things lie you'll wait for a long time and I'm always on time for talking shit about things I don't know a routine delight I spend three hours wondering if its time to go you wait til its too late you're too old to play these games there's no winner, just the same everyone's in the queue to talk right over you gets heavier it seems and now its four in the morning guess its time to go
7.
Writing words for no one With a hand that no one else could know I never asked for this body I never ask for much at all regarding the divine this god isn't mine everything is moving slowly everything is slowly closing on me everyone is talking softly pressed against the window waiting for the sign to come writing down every morning dream like there's secrets in every syllable busy hands make idle minds but my busy mind's inconsolable regarding time this life isn't mine everything is moving slowly everything is slowly closing on me
8.
wander after midnight in the pouring rain I don't feel right feels like a game that I play to lose to wonder whether you've been wandering too mourning up til morning do I mourn for you do I mourn for me too "so pack your things its time to go!" the drive is long and the sun is low I'll see you at the game tonight you know I'm always on time its hard to find all the things I keep and things I leave behind and what is mine will wave and still along the sidelines
9.
The Mountain 04:33
disillusioned running up The Mountain think you knew it five years of "I told you so" that I would always run to you I would always run go ahead and make yourself the martyr flagellating louder so we all can hear I turn the other cheek for you turn the other cheek all the things you thought you knew its a shame I couldn't say it all the things we thought were true its a shame submission is the place you kneel before the hand that feeds you drunk and at your door again submitting to the need to run down from the mountain running towards the morning run to learn the motion just to walk away from you all the things you thought you knew its a shame I couldn't say it all the things we thought were true its a shame

about

Kristina Moore writes songs about the anti-place, a state of being understood by truckers, deckhands, flight attendants, and touring musicians. An in-between existence where home becomes blurry, and improvised routines provide temporary comfort. That liminal experience was only exasperated when Moore relocated to New York and then immediately hit the road, spending every weeknight in a different club around the country, her bags still unpacked and her world in stasis.

koleżanka's debut album, Place Is, distills the experiences of a lifetime into sound. These songs could easily soundtrack a late night drive through the Phoenix desert, cacti and the pupils of wildlife illuminated under the yellow glow of headlights.

credits

released July 30, 2021

koleżanka is:
Kristina Moore - guitar, vocals, omnichord, synths, drum machines
Ark Calkins - drums, synth percussion, bass

Additional bass on "A Mouthful" written in collaboration with Sam Cogen
Additional synth on "The Offensive" written by Ark Calkins
Additional vibraphone on "B2YP" by Loren Humphrey

All songs written by Kristina Moore/koleżanka Music (ASCAP)
Produced by Kristina Moore and Ark Calkins

Recorded and mixed by Lucas Carpenter at Outhouse Recorders in Brooklyn, NY except "$40" recorded by Kristina Moore in Phoenix, AZ and mixed by Ark Calkins. Drums and bass recorded by Dominic Armstrong at Studio 513 in Phoenix, AZ; synth on "The Offensive" and "7th st/ 7th Ave" recorded by Ark Calkins in Phoenix, AZ.

Mastered by Alex Previty

Cover Photo by Alexx Duval

Design by Julie Chencinski

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