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Outsiders b​/​w Operate

by Thunderbirds Are Now!

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1.
Outsiders 02:25
OUTSIDERS We have anchors tied to our ankles Should we go down with the ship? Or should we swim to the surface and deal with it? There’s a fire inside of our bellies and you fueled the flame You may have won, but this isn’t a game And the the way that you played, you should be ashamed We are the outsiders That you don’t represent Not my chosen leader Not my president Surround yourself with liars So your bullshit becomes true But we are the outsiders And we’ll be watching you You tweet from your ivory tower While we take to the streets In unison we sing, march to our beat We know we’ll just have to scream louder If we want to be heard As long as it’s true, we’ll scream every word Cuz the things that you say are so absurd We are the outsiders That you don’t represent Not my chosen leader Not my president Surround yourself with liars So your bullshit becomes true But we are the outsiders And we’ll be watching you
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Operate 02:09
OPERATE We here to operate We here to demonstrate Remove, eradicate We here to operate! We here to operate Gonna set the record straight No hate, appreciate We here to operate! We here to operate We here to decided your fate No time to hesitate Open up and initiate We here to operate This time we’re cutting straight Remove, eradicate We here to operate! We here to operate We here to operate, yeah Remove eradicate We here to operate

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It’s 2017 and there are two new Thunderbirds Are Now! songs to listen to. We haven’t recorded new music since the release of our 2007 album “Make History,” and given the current chaotic political climate, now seemed like a good time to come back. We took two older songs that we never captured to “tape” (or a computer’s hard drive, as it were), reworked the lyrics, and came out the other side with perhaps the best two songs we’ve ever written. Although we’ve never been the most overtly political band, we felt compelled to not only say something about what is going on, but to do something, too.

That’s why all the proceeds we collect from the Bandcamp downloads of these songs will go directly to benefiting the ACLU. It’s not the most we can do to give back, but it certainly isn’t the least either. There are injustices in this world that need fighting, and so if these songs compel you to donate to a worthy cause, then all the better.

We recorded “Operate” and “Outsiders” in one day at Big Sky Recording in Ann Arbor with Geoff Michael at the wheel. He indulged our requests to add synthetic drums, live piano and to run a guitar through a Leslie speaker without batting an eye. He is a calm, gentle man, and the perfect person to capture a band who hasn’t seen the inside of at studio in 10 years (or ever, since these are the only tracks we have ever recorded with Julian on bass). The tracks were mixed by Andy Reed of Reed Recording Co. One of our first shows was with Andy’s old band in a basement in Lansing, MI, so it seemed fitting he master these final tracks. Our keyboard player Scott Allen created the art.

We hope you sincerely enjoy these songs. We’re immensely proud of them, and they act as a bit of closure to a band that gave our all in everything we did. Please blast them as loud as you can whenever you play them, whether to annoy your hick neighbors, to soundtrack your morning run, to dance around with your kids, or to remember what it was like to be young and slightly more carefree. We hope these songs help - even a little bit - get you through this mess we’re in.

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released July 7, 2017

Thunderbirds Are Now!
Ryan Allen - guitar, vocals, drum machine
Scott Allen - keyboard, piano, percussion
Matt Rickle - drums, drum machine
Julian Wettlin - bass, keyboard

“Outsiders” and “Operate” were recorded and mixed at Big Sky Recording in Ann Arbor, MI by Geoff Michael. Andy Reed mastered the songs at Reed Recording Company in Bay City, MI.

Art and design by Scott Allen.

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