Automatic - Skyscraper
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Automatic - "Skyscraper" from the 2022 album Excess on Stones Throw.
Los Angeles trio Automatic tap into consumerism on their latest single, “Skyscraper,” channeling a materialistic yuppie type, obsessed with consumer culture.
“It’s about spending your life making money and then spending it to fill the void created by said job,” explained bassist/vocalist Halle Saxon, with bandmate Lola Dompé cheekily adding, "Kind of like going to LA to live your dreams."
The track will be released on their forthcoming full-length Excess, out June 24th. Automatic plays Seattle on September 10th and 11th, opening for Osees at Neumos.
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| 0:00.0 | I |
| 0:30.0 | I walked up the stairs cause I wanted some more |
| 0:39.0 | I gave me the key and I went through the door |
| 0:49.0 | And I was higher than ever before |
| 0:54.0 | I was higher than ever before |
| 1:00.0 | If you were only the first day that saved |
| 1:06.0 | There's my difference in the end of the shame |
| 1:11.0 | Let you thought of what you thought of the way that came |
| 1:16.0 | Every dollar gets you all through |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, well the sun has a beautiful shine |
| 1:40.0 | To light up perverted American minds |
| 1:54.0 | Light and obnoxious, you're cool and you're fine |
| 2:03.0 | Tracer, the miserable people outside |
| 2:13.0 | Change, if you want to give people what they're saying |
| 2:19.0 | There's no difference in the end, the shame |
| 2:24.0 | Let you cry, let you cry with a game |
| 2:28.0 | Every dollar gets you all |
| 2:32.0 | And that the scene is paired on your sleeve |
| 2:54.0 | The fading facade of a white collar dream |
| 2:59.0 | No country or cause, you're lost in the fog |
| 3:04.0 | Your skin fits so tight now you can't move at all |
| 3:11.0 | Change, if you want to give people what they're saying |
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