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A Lot of Me Melted There

by Dummy Dharma

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1.
The Sun 03:11
The sun came back out again The sun came back out again The sun, it came back out again Provocating me, do I remember when The sun came back out again Laminating worth I scribbled down with a pen The came back out again Provocating me, do I remember when The sun came back out again Laminating worth I scribbled down with a pen The sun came back out again The sun came back out again Should I let the word out? No, I’ll keep it here ‘cause if I never say it then I’ll never have to take it back Should I let the word out? Oh no, I’ll keep it here ‘cause if I never say it then I’ll never have to take it back Should I let the word out? Oh no, I’ll keep it here ‘cause if I never say it then I’ll never have to take it back I should let the word out and make my identity clear But if I never say it then I’ll never have to If I never say it then I’ll never have to If I never say it I’ll never ever ever have to….
2.
Rent 02:55
Ooh - I have a cavity sweet tooth, sweet pea you bothered me On the precipice of some sweet surrender, it turned to someone else’s sweet hereafter It coulda been yours, you’ll never know you never notice as you grow Looking down…suddenly: your footing’s gone, you’re tumbling Your footing’s gone, you’re tumbling…… and you’re resting there. I paid the rent in credit cards, we’re all borrowed from something My uncle died when I was one, his spirit’s on my shoulders I think I borrow his sadness, yeah The joy we found in your hometown, floating in the river – What love I have but never use – You can have some in the meantime You can have some in the meantime You can have some in the meantime
3.
Vitriol 03:23
Vitriol is a dime a dozen I’m all out of sense, I paid my change to get in Trying not to get incensed tonight My flesh is bound but my mind is free to bask in its own sensitivity You hold that against me you hold that against me Not tonight
4.
Tricks 04:55
Coasting on my head tricks boasting “I’m alive” I don’t wanna hear my I scream it’s killing my hard drive I called myself a motherfucker, I said it to my face I ruled at every party trick then I left cause I’m erased When effaced my I is truly king, I’m gonna die evasive too Feel that in my eye-strings nothing really bothers you Counting on my trick hand there’s bounty in the flesh I wanna feel with eyes clean the bone that my dog fetched I called his wealth a motherfucker, I said that to his face I’m dealt another losing hand and accepting it as fate In fate my eyes feel blinded to who they’re facing now In the darkness they will find it no use in my knowing how Identity My identity dented me Identity My identity’s dead to me
5.
Orbit 02:37
Fair enough I guess that what I did was really bad enough to justify the awful place I’m in I care enough about my indiscretions, yeah I had enough to amplify the tread of needles and pins They tear enough rip through the soles to chew the toes up bad enough to nullify the row I neatly had ‘em in I’m bare enough stripped to my skin I’ve seen I’m ironclad enough to rectify my err from orbit’s spin
6.
The Moon 03:00
The moon came back out again Ruminating smoke around the front yard The moon came back out again Lubricating thieves and tearing down my guard The moon came back out again Ruminating smoke around the front yard The moon came back out again Lubricating thieves and tearing down my guard The moon came back out again Should I let the word out? No, I’ll keep it here ‘cause if I never say it then I’ll never have to take it back I shoulda let the word out and made my identity clear But if I never say it then I’ll never have to If I never say it then I’ll never have to If I never say it I’ll never ever ever have to….
7.
Icarus 04:18
Is the same sun reflecting me onto the yard behind my parents’ house the one that woke me early, on holiday, on my grandma’s couch? I think that it’s the one that’s hanging now, over your father’s yard it’s the same that keeps on setting, leaving me and my hopes crashing hard Flew too close Flew too close A lot of me melted there Flew too close A lot of me melted there, lot of me melted there Is the same moon projecting fear to me so high above the parking lot the one that watches scornfully every time that I get caught? I think that it’s the one that’s hanging now over your holy home it’s the one that I destroyed and left me in the woods and getting stoned Flew too close a lot of me melted there, lot of me melted there Flew too close a lot of me melted there, lot of me melted there
8.
Mend 02:52
In my skin: you didn’t need to prick it with a needle or with a pin you only need to look a little closer at the flesh that let it in In my skin In the sun: you didn’t need to burn so fast, you forfeited you only need to look it in the I to know that it’s a carcinogen In the sun December: go down to the end of your worth January: find strength to mend Mending, make end On my mind: you didn’t need to burrow to the I to make it blind you only need to look behind the retina to see it’s in a bind On my mind On the moon: you didn’t need to ditch the oxygen and leave so soon take a tiny step, you’re trippin’ in the dunes On the moon December: go down to the end of your worth January: find strength to mend mending, make end December: go down to the end of your worth January: find strength to mend mending, make end
9.
Views through the camera have become the primary means for communication everybody snap and share your sincerest representations for those who are not there Views through the retina soon will be the primary means for communication everybody blink and share your sincerest congratulations when my head does declare itself a separate state from my body my body a separate state from you and you a separate state from everybody I ever knew Everything is more vast than I let it be Everyone more complex in their intimacies Finally, I’m honest now (with myself, but) Finally I’m honest now, with myself but… Finally I’m honest now, with myself but never him, no way, no how finally I’m honest now, with myself but never him, no way, no how finally I’m honest now, with myself but never him, no way, no how Finally finally finally finally finally finally finally finally
10.
April 01:43
I’ve been renting space on your Instagram account been renting a face to eviscerate my doubt In April I lay in my new living room, picture my last bed: I see it was a tomb The way the clouds move, there’s breeze in the trees giving me flashbacks to visions that I had on LSD There’s strength in the way I floated there there’s beauty in his sandy hair
11.
Shade 03:04
Sound streaming from the room next door Toilet water leaking, cresting on the shore “Nothing personal,” he fashioned his reply “I’m only lonely baby, just a bit shy” I didn’t know you didn’t want that too (the color that courses through the sky is blue) Don’t you know that? Everybody does. The shad(p)e of your blue is the shad(p)e of what once was. I’m trying to be more outwardly inclined Less emphasis on the thoughts that internally bind More empathy to counteract the times I wasted on myself Lying to be worth rallying behind and dying to be more authentically defined Don’t you do that? Everybody does. The shade of your lie is the shape that you’ll become.

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Praise for "A Lot of Me Melted There"

"It’s a total stunner. I don’t want to put it into a box of comparisons to other artists stylistically, but this music reminds me of the same feelings I got when I first heard bands like Modest Mouse and Built to Spill. The whole thing was recorded between his parents’ house in Woodinville and his room in Seattle, but it feels like a lush work that could have come out The Unknown in Anacortes or Dub Narcotic in Olympia. Trimis plays about 18 instruments on the record, creating a layered and immersive experience ready for your headphones. This is a remarkable start for a new artist." - Dusty Henry, KEXP

"Each song on A Lot of Me Melted There tells its own story, weaving its gently-delivered narratives into the beautiful, densely-layered instrumentation, which fully opens itself up and pulls you in when you’re listening to the album on headphones. The lyricism throughout the record manages to be both confessional and somewhat surreal in tone, adding to the overall mystical vibe of Dummy Dharma’s music. Soft, but tall walls of psychedelia build as each track progresses, and each song is adorned with unconventional percussion and a wealth of bonus instrumentation.
Lovers of bedroom pop and heady psychedelic goodness, meet Dummy Dharma." - Northwest Music Scene

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released August 7, 2017

All songs written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Chris Trimis
Recorded and mixed at my parents’ house in Woodinville, WA and in my room in Seattle, WA from February – July 2017

Mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering in Seattle, WA
Cover design by Matthew ‘Rat’ Fildey
Any associated photo/video shot by Seth Halleran
Thanks Peyton Levin for initial mixing help

I played the following instruments on this album –
Vocals, guitar, piano, vibraphone, marimba, synthesizer, drum set, djembe, surdo, doumbek, guiro, tambourine, cajon, electronic drums, and an assortment of bells, shakers, and rattles

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