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Myth Between

by Una Rose

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1.
Resolutions 04:30
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I see you down to the cab And say I’ll visit When the weather dies It’s been as good as it can For someone on the run You say you can’t imagine Another twenty years But your job is to find the reasons After they happen You've got to find the reasons And tell it all right And what good comes From being in a booth And saying how a picture Made you feel tonight Or asking about a song If we don’t get to meet In the spring I will call you with a theory Of the end You’ve got to find the reasons A year begins again How do you believe In whatever’s on the other hand How do you believe Whatever's on the other hand Whatever's on the other hand I’ll make a list Of everyone I know You leave, and try to find the reasons I’ll make a list Of everyone I know You leave, another year goes And what good comes Try to find the reasons What good comes From you still believing?
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Partly 04:09
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You come in like a fight Pour water on it slowly Unfortunately for me, I don’t feel it partly You come in out of touch Grinning wide like I should be so lucky Unfortunately for me, You only feel it partly Unfortunately for me, You only feel it partly Oh I can take I can take I can take it for now It gets easier going down It gets easier going down Oh I can take I can take I can take it for now The quiet gets easier going down Quiet gets easier if I don’t think about All the matter you’d like To turn to simulation I don’t care much for determination I’m only here for the myth in between And if you ask to be In the same clean light again I’ll gladly grab you a chair Isn’t that a deal Isn’t that good news Isn’t that god in the atmosphere And isn’t the losing me something to fear? Oh I can take I can take I can take it for now It gets easier going down It gets easier going down Oh I can take I can take I can take it for now The quiet gets easier going down Quiet gets easier if I don’t think about All that sound And if it’s true I can only know it from below If it’s true I can only watch you hold me And if it’s true I can only tell from the fight fading I can only know in the time taken To hold me down And you can’t explain The absence of sound
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Laughing Matter 02:49
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Blue on the wall Paint splatters Like laughing matter What a museum Made by a friend of a friend Purchased to spend Time hanging round While the years drip from your mouth (Ha ha, ha ha) Phases of moon He let her go For somebody new Maybe it’s all for a shirt coming loose A hand or a theory Put to good use And you pull me in like a truce (Ha ha, ha ha) Can you be sure This is as good as it gets? The thrill of the wrong thing landing Can you be sure A failure to imagine Something you weren’t gonna let happen But it makes you laugh But it makes you Something you have no answer to But it makes you But it makes you
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Either Way 03:43
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(I fell And gold And fell) You wait Everything collapsing A ruin of me You wait With everything collapsed in green Either way I will know Your design Either way Ii will be Moved through Your room (I fell and you’re in time) You make Disappearing easy When you see me You make Every open line Into a day Either way I will know Your design Either way I will be Back under Either way You go and stay Go and stay In the same Either way You go and stay Go and stay And I look I look for you I look for you I look for something To colour in from your room
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In the Garden Digging 03:45
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What are you dying to see? Bending low in the yard Earth in the dark When will you fill the page? Something new for Jane Transmission to name A good meal grows And your body knows How to be still alone I’m keeping well Sleeping through telephone Scams and smoke And the blue light glow (I don’t need you to be anything but a garden to me) I get it wrong when I can She’s gone of course That doesn’t change You say it’s coming up soon Dirt in the afternoon Dust in the rain A good meal waits And if you remain I hope it’s like writing the garden I’m keeping slow I sleep at home Picking up late and starting To part with Pour yourself a drink Tell me about the new lines Pour something good Tell me about Jane in a lake And I’ll try to get it right I’ll try to get it right I’ll try to get it
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Wanted It to Be 02:55
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I’m gone I’m gone I didn’t mean For you to be I couldn’t picture it again I couldn’t picture it again I didn’t mean For you to be I’m gone I’m gone

about

“What good comes / from you still believing?” asks Montreal’s Una Rose on “Resolutions,” the opening song off her ephemeral debut Myth Between. The solo project of Una Rose (Rosie) Long Decter from shoegaze duo Bodywash, Myth Between finds her trading walls of sound for delicate synths, crystalline vocals and deft lyricism. Far from an exercise in apathy, the EP probes the ineffable—the way feelings circulate and stick, laughter builds and dies—seeking hope in passing impressions.

Long Decter was named after her two grandmothers, Una Decter, a social activist in Winnipeg, and Rose Long, a music teacher in St. John’s. She grew up harmonizing at Newfoundland kitchen parties, playing open mics in Toronto, and studying the songwriting of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. A move to Montreal at 17 drew her towards dream pop and experimental music and she started Bodywash with Chris Steward in 2014. In 2019, they released their debut full-length Comforter via Luminelle Recordings.

Bringing these experiences together, Long Decter approaches the singer-songwriter tradition from an experimental bent. She draws inspiration from Julianna Barwick’s ambient echoes and Cate Le Bon’s unknowable moods, as well as Sara Ahmed’s theorizations of affect. Composing in her bedroom via synth and voice, Long Decter wrote Myth Between from 2019-2021. She then enlisted the help of electronic producer Yoon Rachel Nam, longtime collaborator Steward, and percussionists Andy Mulcair and Ryan White to flesh out the arrangements.

Mixed by Steve Eldon-Kerr and mastered by Tom Nixon, the EP’s six tracks blend the grounded storytelling of folk with otherworldly atmospherics, lifting Long Decter’s lyrics into a space between real and imagined. Beginning with her personal experiences and observations, the lyrics expand outward. “Partly” tells a story of desire on its way out the door. “Resolutions” is a reflection on phone calls back and forth with her father; “In the Garden Digging” a tribute to her mother’s pandemic planting.

The songs are held together by a guiding sense of curiosity, an interest in the sensations that shape who and how we are with each other. “What good comes?” is less a cynical retort than a prompt. Good is in a painting on the wall, an unexpected chord, the decision to leave something wrong, a story on the cusp of being told.

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released November 4, 2022

Music and lyrics by Rosie Long Decter
Produced by Rosie Long Decter and Yoon Rachel Nam
Engineered by Yoon Rachel Nam
Mixed by Steve Eldon-Kerr
Mastered by Tom Nixon

Percussion on Resolutions, Partly, Laughing Matter and In the Garden Digging by Andy Mulcair
Guitar on Partly and In the Garden Digging by Chris Steward
Additional engineering on Partly and In the Garden Digging by Chris Steward
Breakbeat science on Resolutions by Chris Steward
Percussion on Either Way by Ryan White
Additional production on Either Way by Steve Eldon-Kerr
Percussion engineering by Austin Tufts

Album art excerpted from "Eyebulb II" by Claire Drummond
Graphic design by Sian Sinfield

Thank u to everyone above^ and to the eyes/ears of Mars Zaslavsky, Taryn Fleishmann, Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson, Brandon Kaufman, Ann Decter, Gene Long, Valerie Long, Niyousha Bastani and Sarah MacDonell, xoxo ro

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