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Letters on Extinction's Piece

by Speech Act

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Jake W.
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Jake W. There's not much out there like this album. Progressive, but not annoyingly so, heavy, melodic, great vox and hooks. I bet you could play this album for almost anyone and they'd get a kick out of it. Even your mom. Favorite track: Bloody Sundays.
Dan Curhan
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Dan Curhan Perfection without pretention, this is fucking superb! Scratching my O'Brother itch, but so so much more - huge dynamics and post-hardcore emotions collide with impeccable songwriting sensibilities in a compelling reflection on the destruction humanity has wrought on nature. Give it a spin or ten - it's too damn short, so just do it again!
Musical Mystery
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Musical Mystery I mean cmon, its Speech Act.
Like im not gonna pre-order the album Favorite track: Mycorrhizal Abuse.
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1.
Two Brothers 06:22
Dear Brother, Will you read this 18th draft? I hope that you do. I am lost in this dark hole again. Gaia is angry; we’ve killed her Ka I need your light to shine here To climb out and finally reappear This darkness blinds me So help me climb (IT’S JUST CALLED TWO BROTHERS) Shine your light and throw a rope Pull me out! (MAKE THIS LAST FOREVER) You are my only chance Brother, keep me safe Wandering without light I wish I possessed your might So I can read what I write Find me lost in Rhea’s mom Losing the ebb and flow I fall and fall and fall and fall I need your light to shine here To climb out and finally reappear This darkness blinds me So help me climb (IT’S JUST CALLED TWO BROTHERS) Shine your light and throw a rope Pull me out! (CAN WE LAST FOREVER) You are my only chance Brother, keep me safe AND HELP ME Help me climb out! Help me climb out! Help me climb out! Help me climb out! HELP ME CLIMB OUT HELP ME CLIMB OUT [LOVE, Blinding Rays Upholding Hope]
2.
I barely feel you there You keep ripping more from me My limbs, my branches, are losing their placement From the abuse you take on me We used live symbiotically Living in tandem Now you’re setting me ablaze I don’t know who you are anymore You are tearing me apart My limbs can’t grow I gave you everything I am Yet your fungus fades me I wish you would replant And stop taking from me This body is becoming barren I’ll soon be nothing And with me, the death of all you know. I won’t sustain this poison for long Your caps swirling and twisting around me Spiraling into my fiery core You are tearing me apart You’ve boxed me in I gave you everything I am Yet your fungus fades me I wish you would return, regrow And not take everything This body has become barren I’ll soon be nothing I can’t feel my limbs I can’t feel my limbs I can’t feel my limbs I can’t feel my limbs You’ve cut me to my core I’m nothing—the horror Your end is my end and my end is your end and your end is my end and my end is your end and your end is my end and my end is your end and your end is my end and my end is your end And I often find myself wondering through the roots beneath your feet if you would even give me a second thought. Your poisonous fungus is taking its toll on me. I’m just a resource for you, despite the love and home I've given you. You feel empowered when you tear me down and leave me feeling nothing--i remember that first portion you took when times were more simple. Now, the memory of your constant anger haunts me, the bruises on my mountains scar me, but if you kill me—if I fade—you too will follow. So give me more Or I will bring horror The spiral inside Is the darkest thing you’ll find As you’ve carved my heart out Your end is my end and my end is your end
3.
Sinking into depravity, Gravity and stillness leap away from me And bury themselves into the sea Afraid of fear itself, privation will set them free. You’re too scared to jump! The fire burning mother will catch up! I’m here to show you fear in a planet of dust. Discover you’re all turning to rust. All sing the hopelessness you’ve kept inside. All kill the despair and forge a rising tide. No one comes back from the brink Without a scar prompting them to think. Falling into a wasteland, where even I can’t save you, Drowning in the plastic sea rotting with my mother’s bone Take your leap as I signal the queue Outside of fear itself, now we reap what they have sown No one comes back from the sky without a scar that makes them die. Consume the wildfires as the desert reclaims its place Feast on the words of the innocent dying as you laugh Slam down the disappearing islands. Drink up what you have brewed, the trembling earth that stews The turbulent winds unlike how they flew Dear mother, can you hear me? I don’t know if they will stop. I’m sorry to be your shadow and not hold you up. Jump! Jump! I want to see you crash below. Jump! Jump! You who killed my home. Jump! Jump! Stop destroying mom Jump! Jump! The one place we have known.
4.
Twisting and reaching up Felt through the cambium Wonder if we will join it When our time is up here and now Do you feel the life: the pulse traveling in roots? My hand is on its grooves I sense it. I espy it. Gazing for connections to the past; That’s all the phloem knows Witnesses to sublime and hell I sense it. Somewhere alive beneath us Somewhere breathing beneath us. You cut, it dies. You cut and it dies. You cut, it dies. You cut and it dies. You cut, it dies. You cut and it dies. You cut, it dies. You cut and it dies. Twisting and reaching up Felt through the cambium Wonder if we will join it When our time is up here and now The thing is alive, so you Cut and we die—committed genocide! I sense it. A collective. Protect it. Alive. It’s all of us, now we will never know. It’s all of us. Where would I stay if I heard you? Do you feel the life: the pulse traveling in roots? My hand is on its grooves I sense it. I espy it. Gazing for connections to the past; That’s all the phloem knows Witnesses to sublime and hell Do we join it? The cambium where we finally rest.
5.
Unwarranted deaths on my land again Why do they keep doing this? Streets painted as a bloody mess Of my children—those made speechless Conflicts with the gas of death My surfaces losing breath [Chorus] Burn your oppressive synthetic history Start again My limbs will rise from ashes Against those abusing my lamb/land Their world, I, won’t last forever Their Mom, I, won't last forever Stand together to stop the sanctioned murders Stand together to stop the sanctioned murders And then we’ll listen, praise them, their lives matter More than what you think More than what you say More than property The death of all you see I, the roots, am sick of witnessing bloody Sundays Say the names of your murdered [lost in the cacophony of names and voices] <{(Your silence approves their violence)}> One long Sunday extending through my bark and leaves Say their names before they’re lost in the fires of histories Say their fucking names Killed without shame You only see the flames But now we’ll listen, praise them, their lives matter More than what you think More than what you say More than property The death of all you see Burn your oppressive synthetic history Start again My limbs will rise from ashes Against those abusing my lamb/land
6.
Fade 02:30
I’m fading, fading away. I’m losing ontology. What is my being? I’m losing all I can see. Terra, was that our name? I can’t remember as I fade away. What is our name? I’m fading, fading away. I’m losing ontology. How am I being As my loved ones are bleeding me. You or I? Who am I? You or I? Who am I?
7.
Dear Lost Loved One, We cannot last forever. I miss you and feel you, yet you are not with me. You asked for no songs of grief and tears. I’m trying not to write with sadness here i try and i try and i try to write the praises of lives under her sky before we die. I’ve often wondered about the way we still feel those we’ve lost, such as you. Can you whisper with the wind so that I can feel at peace again? This is not a song of grief and tears; this is only what I feel with reminiscence. i sense you. i espy you. i sense you. i espy you. i sense you. i espy you. i remember you in your absence. All of these memories, all of these memories fill me with your spirit, joy, and grief. Is this melancholy, or is this pure nirvana? Or, is this what we feel when we’ve joined it all? Lost loved one, I’ll carry on without you. I’ll feel you in the reels of nature that brought tears when I think of you in the happiest times.I know this is right. after these drafts of letters, i’m reminded of how we live: we live in the present without knowledge of its end. perhaps we continue on and you’ll hear these letters that we sing: i miss you and love you. to everlasting life.

about

we started writing in 2019 and recorded it in 2020-21.

it is a conceptual album, with all the lyrics discussing current events and personal strife in terms of climate change.

each song is a letter--some with the same writer, others not. these are the letters compiled before extinction's piece: the end of everything we know.

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released August 13, 2021

speech act:
travis mk // bass, vocals, acoustic guitar
evan moore // drums, vocals
colten smith // guitar

tracked at sablegrove and backplate productions
drum engineering // garrett barefoot
tracking and mixing // alex cimino
mastering // ryan wasoba

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Speech Act Raleigh, North Carolina

Mad tunes from sad goons. Post-Metal.

travis//bass + vocals
evan//drums
colten//guitar

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