For the release of the first single off Modern Dances, we decided that CDs just wouldn't cut it. Instead, we're releasing it as a download hidden inside an 88-page, 14-ending'd Choose Your Own Adventure book starring the band. If you make the right choices, the 3 songs are yours! If you don't, you might be killed by a wizard.
The book stars YOU, the new manager of TGSM, as you attempt to get the band to their show at the abandoned warehouse. When you arrive, there's no one to be found (it's abandoned, duh), and the band splits up to locate the gig. Which group will you join? If you follow sounds into the basement, tag along with Morgan and Matsu to page 10. If you go through the warehouse to the river, follow Melissa and Berger to page 12. If up the creaky spiral staircase is your choice, join Gliva and Pete, the lovable keyboard-playing hound dog, on page 14. But beware! The warehouse holds many secrets, and the choices you make may lead to success or disaster!
ships out within 3 days
$7USDor more
T-Shirt/Apparel
We are head over heels in love with Olga Korbut, the Sparrow from Minsk. And she is head over heels on our new t-shirt.
Check out Eryck of our favorite band Jackpot, Tiger modeling one! So nice, Eryck - so nice.
T-shirts are no longer screen printed - instead we are bleaching them with stencils! Same design, same colors, added hands-onsy-ness.
Summer Skin is available on the Teen Girl Scientist Monthly album Modern Dances (out Feb 26th, 2013), as well as a free download with the purchase of Mystery at the Haunted Mansion, the first TGSM-themed Choose Your Own Adventure book, available at Teen Girl gigs and by emailing teengirlscimo@gmail.com
lyrics
Sun bleached white, like a shooting star,
We cut a fresh clean line in your brother’s car
Going on and on…
Heat beat down in a summer snow
And there’s nothing in our hearts that our mothers know
Going on and on…
And it’s fine
I’m never coming down this time
The bodies won’t move so we’re sneaking aside
And the stomping in our gut’s the only keeping of time
And we go on and on…
I’m counting on my digits all the devilish nerves
Til I hear the crack in mine and feel the curl of yours
And we go on and on…
And it’s time
Cuz heaven’s on the other side
We cut a left, right, left, right, left, right, standing still
Flirt a fresh cool taste in the chase of a summer’s kill
The sun is high and the sky’s caving in tonight, but I don’t mind
Got a head start racing all the ghost kids down the hill
Get quick, kid - go as fast as you can
They’re only pulling punches for your summer skin
So go on and on…
We recognize the body in the failure of words
Well, I never liked mine, so can I use yours?
And go on and on…
And it’s time
Cuz heaven’s on the other side
We cut a left, right, left, right, left, right, standing still
Flirt a fresh cool taste in the chase of a summer’s kill
The sun is high and the sky’s caving in tonight, but I don’t mind
Got a head start racing all the ghost kids down the hill
Well I cut my lip on the summer’s teeth
And everything she’s buzzing’s like she’s singing to me
It goes on and on…
I wave my rights to a delicate touch
I’m never coming down til they drag me up
I’ll go on and on…
And it’s time, cuz heaven’s on the other side
Yeah it’s fine, I never remember my line
And it’s too high to call it right
We cut a left, right, left, right, left, right, standing still
Flirt a fresh cool taste in the chase of a summer’s kill
The sun is high and the sky’s caving in tonight, but I don’t mind
Got a head start racing all the ghost kids down the hill
Ottawa duo Paragon Cause craft songs that occupy the space between goth and dream pop, with sublime melodies drifting in guitar haze. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 15, 2021
