A Message from Dr. Quandary

Algorhythms fans: I'm psyched to announce that we're reissuing our original EP from 2008! The updated album has been lovingly remastered by Walt Westinghouse of The NEKTones, includes four additional B-sides, and features beautiful new artwork by the amazing Dewey Decibel. Downloads and limited edition turquoise cassettes (with mini-posters!) will be coming your way on February 2nd.

Algorhythms - "Precious Little Time"

From the compilation We Are World Around Vol. 2 - World Around Records 2012.

LYRICS
look, forgive me if I play my cards close to my chest
I learned to plan for the worst and hope for the best
the only real reason for humans making music
is to clearly, honestly communicate true shit
universal blueprints for worldwide movements
I'm not saying I have it, but I probably got a few hints
packing the room, cuz that's what I do
and I got precious little time left to pass it to you

we tested out the weaponry, what's left to see
is how your trajectory connects to me, eventually
rock keg parties in Vermont with a band
watch it expand, reinvest the profits in land
yeah right, last night we didn't even get paid
but the people who came are the real reason we play
I love where I live and I build with my team
to make motherfucking sure that our children are free
home school pro tools, raise my kids right
meditation masters trained in fist fights
practice tai chi, let their mind breathe,
leaving time free to dance and climb trees
the happiest child stays active and wild
and can't even speak a sound without cracking a smile
I don't have to believe it, I've been there and seen it
this is dedicated to Obie, Chekie, Eden
and Aidan, the next generation to balance the equation
amen

at seventeen, I didn't know what dedication was
so I made it up, building scar tissue out of paper cuts
I wrote what I lived, right? you spit what you know
the problem is, then you’ve gotta live what you wrote
art is a curse, I could make a billion dollars a verse
and still be losing sleep trying to polish my work
and living with the nothing that my knowledge is worth
at least rapping for a living’s got some obvious perks
but when you're sleeping in a bag on a stranger's floor
you see freedom is a trap and go insane on tour
big on contradiction, figured you could handle it
thinking like a business, drinking like an anarchist
yeah, right, last night we didn't even get paid
but all the people who came are the real reason we play
I love where I live and I build with my team
to make motherfucking sure that our children are free

DEDICATED TO VERMONTISTAN

Algorhythms -- Algorhythms EP (2008)

1. We've gone ahead and released the Algorhythms EP, and you can download it for free.

2. A full-length album of brand new material called EELRIJUE, Baby! is dropping a little later this summer.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Algorhythms Lyrics: Everyone Hates Me

It's the bridge burning specialist, call for free estimates
from bitchy secretaries who refuse to take messages
complicate relationships and make enemies instantly
when it comes to fucking up, I'm one of the best in the industry
true enough, I show up at your house, do some drugs
then crank that music up until I pass out puking blood
you want a taste of this, sit down and make a list
of all that dangerous and crazy shit you were too afraid to risk
robbing banks in Vegas, hooking up with famous chicks
nowadays I take a piss in public and get paid for it
don't need to see the cops to know that I'm being watched
I walk crooked, so the snipers can't get a decent shot
got a natural talent for balancing polar opposites
flow provocative poems and roll in stolen rocketships
I could float along but my whole approach was wrong
so I wrote this song to figure out what the fuck to focus on
a seven day cleansing break just to meditate
on how to end the hate I'm seeing every day
no solution in sight, and so I'm using this mic
to speak my soul and keep this whole community tight
but I'm a tricky dude, moving to a different groove
this is just a sample of the channels that I'm flipping through
rocking business suits, still eating cold kitten food
stoned, giving you shit up in your own living room

(everyone hates me) and there's a reason for that
when you're speaking the facts weak people get mad
(everyone hates me) we know a lot of you cats
are talking some trash, we watch it and laugh


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Algorhythms Lyrics: What's This?

been awhile since I sat down and wrote to a beat
nowadays I'm an out of place opium freak
still bark at the moon and bite marketing dudes
you will not see my album in Target this June
walked the line until I lost my mind
I haven't got the time to really be an honest guy
..and that's a tricky methodology, follow me?
I change names randomly to maintain sanity
the medium is music, the mind is the weapon
beat is the pulse that's providing the message
I leave behind in every single mind that I mess with
the virus connected, like a sinus infection...
target practice, slapstick, charlie chaplin
full starving artist package, party crashing
Harvard frat kids, thanks for the drugs
aim for the rug, and leave that shit stained for a month
the vodka tonic got me sweating a bit
cuz you can never predict shit when thirtyseven is ripped
a dangerous brain, so no playing it safe
containing my rage, or watching what I say when I'm blazed
monkey religion is a substance addiction
and I got twelve steps for recovering christians
listen - this is not a popularity contest
for bitter little rich kids and arrogant potheads

what's this? a message to humans with guts
what's that? live crazy and do as you must
how come? most monkeys are stupid as fuck
why's that? bad food, music and drugs>

composing with silence, provoking a riot
showing open horizons to broken appliances
not distracted with surface reactions
I learned how to practice a system to see
listen and breathe to find the rhythm beneath
whatever physical meat that I live in this week
breath is a weapon, perfected my method
with sentences stretching in every direction
armed to the teeth, spit sharpened and clean
my tools are invisible and hard to believe
trust me, I function on nothing but weed, beats
drums and machines with malfunctioning screens
...oh seven and the spark has died
so don't march in line with target signs
times have changed, we gotta redesign the game
to find a way to survive until the final days so what's this?


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