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Pray You Don't Become A Man

by Dissonant Dessert

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1.
Hold Up! 00:48
Hey! Heeeey! Hey! Hold up! Too jazzy, too jazzy
2.
I won't realize The one who seeds me Plots my demise I hope it ends soon By the time my dick gets wet I'll be doomed Closing my eyes Delays the impending fate Of the need to procreate Oh my Sweet desire Holds me tight As I expire As she walks down the hall Heart sinks In both fear and awe Closing my eyes Delays the impending fate Of the need to Become a man Or so they say But I pray that this need Will wash away And yet I dance This primal ballet
3.
Rosie McClean is fucking insane But not as weak as Starkey Fontaine Bound to a fate of leather and chain Far from the path of patriarchal claim But we're all insane Anyway Love is the bane Of the things we leave today I don't know what's mine Far from a beauty divine Hopelessly fly by Stark and darkly sublime But I shake my head And thoughts flutter free Doesn't matter to me Not that I can forsee Taken down and shot again and again (EN) By those empowered to apprehend (BP) Impossible standards to rip and unbend (AT/RD) Lick all your wounds before you transcend (CW/KF) Stupid foolish man who hopes to ascend (BT) But we're all insane Anyway Love is forever fucked As all cucks are thrown away I don't know what's mine Far from a beauty divine Hopelessly fly by Stark and darkly defined But I shake my head And thoughts flutter free Doesn't matter to me Not that I can forsee An unshakable gait Tarsus between your legs Spoils all our fate Ready like a powdered keg And we all live A little off from the rest Words like a shiv Roll off of our chest And tiny doubts prance from our minds To some unknown place [Starkey Fontaine]: And I see nothing Laid out in a familiar way Helplessly clinging To thoughts that only betray But you don't say A sparkly, wonderful end So take me again If you dare to lose a friend
4.
I know what Starkey writes On his arm that red ribbons fly But it stands that His weakness rides On the froth of Uncertain tides And I stand high above Such sanguine lies I don't know why we try It all ends the same An optimistic cry Leaves us all in shame That's not my style Hopeless, we wander on Our loins soiled by puerile taunts Lonely, the life is gone At least our fate is known Yet hope lingers on In the hearts of those who Can't accept what's coming I don't know why we try It all ends the same An optimistic cry Leaves us all in shame That's not my style I don't know why we try It all ends the same An optimistic cry Leaves us all in shame That's not my style I know your time Is holding on by a thread But we're in our prime So let go of your dread Float with me instead Float with me instead
5.
Hold this fair hand Despair is far from my land Your feeble mind Keeps you in demand You speak of lies As if they can disguise Your licentious prize Has nothing to do with me Holy shit You don't have a fucking chance Sex is a fucking dance So hop on and Fall into a trance Words fall flat Under your brittle Dick powered brain As I laugh in your face Tell me one thing Before we hit the floor Once the deed is done I won't need you anymore Pathetic walking cock You have no use to me Far from goals and dreams Cease existence before your screams Naturally spoken for I am the moon and you are gone Naturally spoken for A fucked liaison Holy shit You don't have a fucking chance Sex is a fucking dance So hop on and Fall into a trance Words fall flat Under your brittle Dick powered brain As I laugh in your face Skewed and slain I don't know why I can't find the latch Somewhere deep inside my mind torn and scratched Somehow I don't know, I can't deny the lasting impact Of my reckless masculinity, of this I fall back From you, so take what you need By extinguishing this tune Tuck me into my dark land of desire Felt up by the hands of fate down to the wire It's gone It's gone Can't find remains of you and I While Charon's raft and lantern pass me by And youth is all I'm left
6.
Fucked 03:36
Seen I was seen without a love life I was weaned Weaned right off the thought of a wife Love moves outta the way For a carnal end, I say Let's fuck Found Found a reason to give up my stake As a man Don't mean shit I'm finally awake Love moves outta the way For a carnal mayday, okay Deemed I was deemed unfit by natural cause Helplessly preened Like a bird on a plate right in front uh ya jaws Love moves outta the way For a carnal end of the day I'm fucked Hold on like you can't see a fuckin' thing Past holes in time and your laughable disbelief Help me down Off your high horse's rotting back And then we fuck Like throbbing, diseased plaque Life goes on For me anyway And as you fade away I'm my own to stay and slay
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And I don't know why Shivers still persist I'm not a bad guy I know I'm in for some shit What I've seen is cause to eliminate Any hope of love past a first date Only you Can see me through A poisonous scent fills me With the need to repent Yeah, but who cares? Fuck til you die, what a joke I know it seems I ain't broke I'm not gonna lie I'd rather swallow than choke Whiny bitch you fail to see That your strife don't concern me Man and man avoid cliche And you become her prey So what? Spiraling down To the depths of doubt What use is love If it just takes you out? What I've seen is cause to eliminate Any hope of love past a first date Men who are born to love their own Don't face down death like the rest But I can't help but walk down a path That leads to end this fucked up quest It helps to ignore The urge if you can You can't fool me Men like you will never be free Whiny bitch you fail to see That your strife don't concern me Man and man avoid cliche And you become her prey So what?
9.
Sift Through 02:29
I'm not A little lonely Only Voices in my head know me now Sweetest Naomi Leads a life Apart from mine And I Don't know my own name Guess don't matter now I know who's to blame Too weak to utter how And now in the mind, Some trash left behind By a previous incarnation But my dick thirsts on Only to be chopped and served and gone Thought of a stepping stone To give her what's always been owed Sunken Deleted, drunken Brought in From a fantasy wet and wild Sweetest Naomi Leads a life Apart from mine And I Don't know my own name Guess don't matter now I know who's to blame Too weak to utter how Held between the teeth are words That nobody like him repeat For they all have dicks too small to keep Held between my teeth are words That nobody like me repeat Maybe it's obvious Maybe it's common sense But men never learn quick enough So don't hold your breath, there's no suspense Maybe to become a man Is to throw up power that I thought I had Held by my insecurities Is a wasted breath of what is meant for me As Mother Nature plays her hand Wait, what?
10.
Once upon a time I thought I'd see past these walls Now I see that there's no truth to that at all But it's alright now Now I hold whatever I can deep within A slow and burnt out truth left me cold and thin But it's alright now Smelling you reminds me of a time spent up and gone So anosmia plagues me now Kept up at night in spite of what is already known Love falls through the feeble facade once seed is sown But it's alright now Falling for you may be the last thing I do Worth it despite eventual lugubrious screw But it's alright now Smelling you reminds me Of a time spent up and gone Death might be Release from the endless sea Yet we scream and deny Life is a lie But who falls apart Other than I Know no sacrifice That pulls it apart Time is an edifice Lays waste and then departs Smelling you reminds me Of a time spent up and gone So anosmia plagues me now Now that you're here I know that I can breathe again Helplessly entangled in a sexual dead end But it lasts for now An embrace is empty as a fallen tableau As if a motionless man is all we know But Love sheds natural vows Love sheds natural vows Love sheds natural vows But how can we bow out?
11.
Love is not her sullen slave Crying out in feeble voice Despite all the time I gave Mind fails to perceive a choice Open all centers fire Revealing intrinsic desire I walk again On feet firmly planted On a ground of men It falls away again Primitive want repents Now my role makes sense Now my role makes sense If I rise up from the filth A skyward hand will force me down But so what, who cares It's better than stickin' around And it's lonely today Help me die if you got the time I'm holding on but nothing's new Lascivious Riddled without a clue And it's folding today If my spot on this little rock Is worn out just like the sounds Thrusting, pulling Crowned, bound and drowned In a hoary spray Tie me up and laugh away I'm frozen in your bloom So take my lies Silencing my gloom Ain't much left to say Only time speaks now to me Hinting that it's due to end This foolish charade Stumbling on this ground of men Hold my hand if you can I get it's a bit off brand But I'm trembling where I stand Hold him down Foolish cucks Will not ride this wave Only to see Their eyes roll back in their heads Blind To the lies been told Lets out a sigh No need to withhold Closing my eyes Focus on the tone As jaws scrape and press the bone Now See Something more than me I've found it's you And become debris We were the fools Boys who thought that men Have the power to forestall the end Now Blood Washes my skin From within Mind falls from my grasp And I can't see you And I pray that I don't become a man now
12.
A love that darkens my sight As I pray it don't obscure all the light But I am a fool to think I was anything other than cheap meat Hanging from a hook Sparkling with notions you took And left in deceit But I am a fool to think I was anything other than cheap meat And her stare rips me apart Flesh coiled and warm so imparts That fate laughed at me from the start Praying that I hope it ends soon By the time My dick got wet I knew I was doomed

about

3 years in the making, this is an album about praying mantises, sex, toxic masculinity, gender roles and consequence. A man gets sucked into a vortex, his soul splits in two and becomes warped into some alternate reality where there are no humans, only anthropomorphized praying mantises. In this world, the normal human definition of "becoming a man" (having sex) is turned on its head, because in this world, the females eat the males post coitus - so "becoming a man" really means death. Mantises born gay don't have this problem and continue living happy lives, while straight mantises pay the ultimate price. This album explores the complex relationships of this world and viciously attacks toxic masculinity any way it can.

Also continued are my experiments with different tuning systems. There are three styles of tuning in this album:

Normal (Western): just the normal ass way we westerners tune our instruments to fit in with conventional tunes.

Random: adjusting one part of an instrument slightly at a random amount to get some spicy quarter tones (i.e. tuning one guitar/viola string down/up, slightly adjusting an organ tuning, or pulling out/in slightly on a wind instrument).

Natural: just picking up an instrument and playing it in the natural state it's in without any effort to adjust the intonation. This works the best with old instruments.

A lot of this was inspired by Harry Partch's experiments in making his own instruments and tuning systems, but it's also equally inspired by found sounds that happen to occur microtonally naturally, like the pitch of two lawnmowers going simultaneously or a tornado siren or some shit. ENJOY

credits

released May 23, 2019

Eric Novak: lead vocals, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute, oboe, heckelphone, bass clarinet, electric bass, Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, piano, organs, synthesizers, marimba, vibraphone, melodica, celeste, sheng, accordion, didgeridoo, harmonica, percussion
Ayethaw Tun: electric guitar, vocals
Braden Poole, Robert Hamill: electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
Ryan Donlin: electric bass, string bass, electric & acoustic guitars, vocals
Annie Wagner: viola, vocals
Brianna Tong, Celia Williams, Jovan Landry, Jordanna, Ian Simmons, Martha Aguirre: vocals
Derek Carter: trombone, accordion
Cam Cunningham: electric guitar
Khalyle Hagood: electric bass
Yomi: harp
Rob Reinbrecht: cello
Lily Sikes: tuba
Selena Greising: french horn, vocals
Derek McAnally, Zach Upton-Davis: drums
Robby Kuntz: drums, timpani, marimba, percussion, vocals

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Dissonant Dessert Chicago, Illinois

The music that comes out of the head of Eric Novak - I dunno I guess it's jazzy and shit? I'm also always on some outta tune bullshit

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