The Quietest Place On Earth

by We Lost The Sea

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Austin 'The Quietest Place On Earth' is perhaps the loudest thing I've heard, in terms of both sound and raw emotion. It's truly a journey. Favorite track: Forgotten People.

laura this album never stops giving. I always come back to it and am in awe of its cosmic beauty and power to console. So grateful for this album 🙏
favorite track: with grace, a quiet place.

Mandarinenschale Indulge in the sweet melancholy of this album. I honestly love all the tracks, they let you forget the world for some minutes and let you dream of freedom.
10/10 Album right now my favourite!
Also: Rest in peace Chris Torpy and thank you! Favorite track: A Quiet Place.

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On the 1st of December 2012, we released our second record “The Quietest Place on Earth” with a show at ‘The Roxbury’, a 100-capacity room in the Sydney suburb of Glebe. We had a new vigour with the recent addition of Matt Harvey on guitar following the departure of two founding members. This was the first of four monolithic shows we played in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide. It came a year and a half after we had recorded it. The master had sat on a shelf at Mark’s house gathering dust during a period of uncertainty in the band until Matt invested his own money to press 250 vinyls. We knew we had written and recorded a really special record, we just couldn’t get it together long enough to put it out. Ten years since its release it holds a special place in the heart of our band. It is the last record with our brother, Chris, who would pass away a few months after its release. A record we are still extremely proud of, a record of beauty and anger. “a plunge, a dive, I gamble fate.”

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1.	A Quiet Place 07:54	lyrics
A QUIET PLACE A PLUNGE. A DIVE. I GAMBLE FATE. ABANDON CONTROL, OBEY GRAVITY. FROM HERE, EARTH'S CLAW CANNOT OVER BARE. I HEAR NOTHING, DEAD SILENCE I GRASP AS COMFORT. I PILOT LIMBS, AS IF THEY WERE WINGS. CARVE THROUGH THE CLOUDS. PLUMMET TO THE BELOW. I PILOT LIMBS. I GAMBLE FATE. I GAMBLE FATE, UNKNOWING OF WHAT IT WILL BRING TO ME.
2.	Barkhan Charge 06:24	lyrics
THE BARKHAN CHARGE HERE WE ARE. WE GIANTS SWIM, BETWEEN THE EYES OF THE DEEP. OUR SPIRITS COLLIDE, INTERTWINED. HIS RIGHT-HAND MAN, AN EMPTY VESSEL. A TROOPER IN COMMAND, KNOW NOTHING BUT TO SERVE. A TEN THOUSAND YEAR MARCH. WHERE WILL WE SLEEP, WHEN WILL WE SLEEP? IN THE SOIL WE LIE. DENSE, WITH FEAR. IN THE SOIL WE LIE. IN THE SOIL WE LIE, NUMB AND DEPRIVED, NO STRUCTURE BINDS US. AWAITING THE SMILE OF A KING, A PASSING GLIMPSE OF NIGHT AND DAY, GIVES US A SIGN, WE MUST PREVAIL. HOLDING ON. NO MAN OR BEAST WILL SLOW US ON OUR CLIMB, HOLDING ON. ONWARD AWAY FROM VIOLENT BIRTH, INTO ANOTHER REALM. MOVING ON. (I GUESS I'M MOVING ON)
3.	With Grace 16:34	lyrics
WITH GRACE WHERE ARE YOU QUEEN OF THE MOON? I'VE DREAMT OF MOSAIC LANDSCAPES, AND SKIES FULL OF DIAMONDS. HANGING LOW OVER VALLEYS, IN WHICH NEW LIFE RUNS THICK. WHERE DELICATE WHISPERS SET SAIL INTO THE WIND. ASSURING THAT I HAVE FOUND, AND BECOME MIDDLE EARTH. AND CENTURIES WILL PASS AND FADE AT RABID PACE. FOR THE GIVING TO THE SOIL, WE WORSHIP THE LAND. AND THIS LUCID WAY OF REST IS HOW I WANT TO REMAIN. CONVERGING THROUGH THE VOID, FINALLY PASSING ON. CONTENTLY, WITH GRACE. OUR SUNS SPEAK IN TONGUE UNKNOWN TO MAN. OUR SUNS SPEAK IN TONGUE UNKNOWN TO ALL.
4.	Forgotten People 06:49	lyrics
This spring time to fly pink fairy floss riding high over the rooftops beyond the moon oh can you see me waving from my room The pretty lights that I'm spying my blue dress is ready and ironed Oh I will be brave when I ride Oh sweet child it's just a peek you can't be here here with me you can't be here ordinary people you're not free Fire in the sky smoke stacked up high ordinary people you're going to die Are you ready I'm unsteady are you ready for are you ready I'm unsteady are you ready for the night to fall I'll shine over you you'll shine over me forgotten people Lyrics by Belinda Licciardello
5.	Nuclear City 02:13
6.	A Day and Night of Misfortune I - Day 08:57	lyrics
i) DAY AMONG THE EYE OF OCEAN STORM, LIES DIVIDE BETWEEN THE RIVAL. TO BECKON DEATH UPON THEE, AND CROWN A NAME UPON THE SURFACE. THE UNFORGIVING SWIRL, WILL DROWN EVERY LAST BREATH. NO MERCY NO HESITATION. WITH GREAT FORCE, FLOODS THE LAND. AND TO THIS I SEE ONLY RED. MUST I CONQUER HE WHO TAUNTS MEMORY? OR BE ON MY WAY? BE THE RIGHTEOUS AS A SPINE. THIS BURDEN HOVERS ABOVE. THIS WILL NOT CALM, NOR CLAIM A LAST THOUGHT. TO CONQUER IS TO PUT MIND AT EASE. DAY SEES THE SHADOW OF NIGHT. NIGHT HOLDS GREAT CHALLENGE. TO BARE CHOSEN DESTINY. TONIGHT I WILL BE REBORN. TONIGHT.
7.	A Day and Night of Misfortune II - Night 11:51	lyrics
ii) NIGHT I WILL SLEEP WITH THE OCEAN BED. TONIGHT WILL SEE TO THE END OF US BOTH. TO THE LAST I GRAPPLE THEE. FROM HELLS HEART I STAB AT THEE. FOR HATES SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE. I WILL SLEEP WITH THE OCEAN BED. TONIGHT AND FOREVER. I WILL SLEEP WITH THE OCEAN BED. TONIGHT WILL SEE TO THE END OF US BOTH.

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"The Quietest Place on Earth is the follow up to We Lost the Sea’s acclaimed first record, ‘Crimea.’ This record displays the band in peak form, showing maturity in song writing and a unprecedented culmination of styles. Out through Birds Robe Records, ‘The Quietest Place on Earth, will take you on a emotional journey, the soaring post rock will slowly raise you high above the earths atmosphere in space, where time has no sway, and then bring you crashing down to the depths of the ocean, where you will feel the weight of We Lost the Sea crushing down upon you."

This record is dedicated to the memory of Chris Torpy. Rest in peace brother.

Recorded and engineered by Tim Carr at 301 Studios in Sydney.

Vinyl out in Jan 2013

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released December 1, 2012

Mark Owen, Nathaniel D'Ugo, Grant Warner, Kieran Elliott, Bradley Garnam, Mathew Kelly, Brendon Warner, Matt Harvey and Chris Torpy.

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