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Maladjusted

by Xibling

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flowinglower Synth Punk
Portland, OR 🇺🇸

WOW. 3 years into their career, Maladjusted is so refined, it towers over Ground Zero, Light Pollution, & Yesbody. Last year they wowed audiences across the globe through their quarantine streams, and used the time spent social distancing wisely. Strangely, they disappeared for the better half of 2020, and churned out this beast. I still wish they had more physical music, but I keep buying the digital because Xibling is worlds apart in creativity from their peer
Michael Matteo
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Michael Matteo Absolutely love this duo Favorite track: Maladjusted.
Crunching Machines
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Crunching Machines I'm waiting for the stadium tour after this Covid **** is over. Favorite track: Butterfly Curbstomp.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited First Edition Maladjusted CD w/ Bonus Tracks.

    1. Hello Stranger
    2. Butterfly Curbstomp
    3. Fold
    4. Plasticine
    5. Schadenfreude
    6. Maladjusted
    Bonus tracks:
    7. Slow Fold
    8. Butterfly Curbstomp IV

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    Shipped in 100% recycled cardboard.

    Lyrics and Vocals by Moriah West
    Instrumentation by Julian Thieme

    Recorded and mixed by Xibling

    Mastered by Jeremy Wilkins and Denver Bon
    at Underwater Research And Design

    Album art by Moriah West
    Photographed by Annalisa Rose

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    Get all 12 Xibling releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Bulletproof, Fear Parties, Yesbody / Maladjusted Split LP from Young and Cold Records, Livestreams in Quarantine Warm Leather X Edition, Maladjusted, Livestreams in Quarantine Volume Three Point Zero One, Livestreams in Quarantine vol. 2, livestreams in quarantine, and 4 more. , and , .

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1.
When you hear me come to town Knife the speed of sound Blood is gonna drown Sun is going way down When the moon is my eyes Murder on my mind Melt into the night No need for goodbye When the clouds roll in Underneath your skin And the veins reign change When the clouds roll in Sun is going way down Blood is gonna drown Knife the speed of sound When you hear me come to town No need for goodbye I melt into the night Murder on my mind When the moon is my eyes Hello stranger
2.
Curbstomping curbstomping the fame of my name's brains out in the gutter like out in the gutter like out in the gutter like glitter and bitter butterflies. The celebrity in me cries out in rhymes with teeth kicked in teeth kick out by mimes. And crimes against the state of my face, state of my face commit to the consequence of loosing the choice between choosing and grace. From there we fall unto this wicked place between your eyes and mine. your eyes and mine This perspective will die die in the gutter like die in the gutter like die in the gutter like glitter and bitter butterflies. Face mine Truth mine Place mine Choice mine
3.
Fold 03:04
Give me shortness of breath On the verge of precipice Getting undressed I’m buried in the witness To see through blindfold Restrain the threshold Train me controlled Do as you’re sold Suspended animation Obey delay me Stop motion plaything Tangled in your strings Surprises spit into our eyes Forfeit my fucking rights An urge unto the wind What the fuck is this Articulate me I fold I am origami I fold fold fold
4.
Plasticine 02:36
Looked through by the magazine Stared at by my tv screen Wishing I could someday be As pretty in my plasticine Buy me beauty crown me queen The ruler of a lifeless scene Wishing I could someday be A Miss Americana teen Baby fat and fifteen Mind is moving morphine Whisper what you see in me I can pass for eighteen My soul is crystal chlorine clean Well rehearsed and so routine Whisper what you see in me So pretty in my plasticine I’m pretty in my plasticine The ruler of this lifeless scene I bought my beauty crowned me queen Blend me in and set me free Well rehearsed and so routine My soul is crystal chlorine clean Worshiping the brand machine So damn pretty in plasticine
5.
Schadenfreude Oh what joy ta Be defined by You’re wrong & I’m right Schadenfreude I do enjoy ya Fall from grace When I’m not in your place Schadenfreude I’m rooting for ya To get what I say Is coming your way
6.
self-loathing, long story, quickly getting awful
 Nature is not my thing. I am used; committed honestly like 
 dropped encounters. I know how  this is killing me. 
Right now I feel like puking. Time can’t help my mind.
 Spanked with guilt. Exaggerate this contracted come the fuck down now. Adventure took a walk on your relationship    material ripped when    you put yourself out there just as you are not.   I like you just as you are not
 Words of savage experience in terms of average coincidence A human. A dog. A limited shape. A parent. A tool. You’re my great escape. The only wonder to have a future in both always and never ever will be I hope that doesn’t ruin it for catholic families she says she can’t be with me. 
ashamed of my cunt
. Words of savage experience in terms of average coincidence
 Needs  actually  don’t exist  I just think you’re a maladjusted little shit 

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released March 5, 2021

Lyrics and Vocals by Moriah West
Instrumentation by Julian Thieme

Recorded and mixed by Xibling

Mastered by Jeremy Wilkins and Denver Bon
at Underwater Research And Design

Album art by Moriah West
Photographed by Annalisa Rose

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Xibling Portland, Oregon

[pronounced: sĭbʹ-lĭng]
Synthpunk from Portland, Oregon 

"Rather than rehashing ideas already explored, Xibling assembles their music from the core components that made eclectic synth music exciting during the 80s, while diving headlong into the 21st-century avant-garde."
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