Model/Actriz - Crossing Guard

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🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Model/Actriz - Crossing Guard from the 2023 album Dogsbody on True Panther

Brooklyn-based band Model/Actriz taps into Greek mythology on today's Song of the Day.

The titular "Crossing Guard" is the figure Charon, the ferryman of the dead who transported the ghosts of the dead across the rivers Styx. As the post-punk band explained to Paper Mag, the accompanying music video, directed by Nathan Castiel, captures vocalist/lyricist Cole Haden conveying "the body's fragility and gradual degradation through slow, deliberate movement," via choreography by Alena Henke.

The band also cites the track as the "initial creative revelations that guided and buoyed [them] to completing" their debut LP, Dogsbody, released last month via True Panther.

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0:00.0	I'm pressed against the glass as close as I can take
0:30.0	And the colours are smid, the turning breath and the fast
0:40.0	As the ground falls in, to a pill of smoke
0:46.0	At the crossing of God's replay
0:50.0	There's no hands left to tell me
0:54.0	So, probably by the teeth and whisper into me
1:01.0	Yeah, keep saying you don't, you don't, you don't, you don't
1:06.0	Have to submit, submit, submit, submit yourself to it
1:11.0	And why a cloth, steel, release it all
1:16.0	And go back to running from it
1:22.0	Yeah, further and steen, stay, hold away from underneath
1:30.0	Come, further and steen, stay, hold away from underneath
1:35.0	And the shadow I throw, strove against the wall
1:42.0	Boy, what's wrong with you? Go ahead and grind me into a pop
1:49.0	At the crossing of God's replay
1:53.0	There's no hands left to take
1:57.0	So, probably by the teeth and whisper into me
2:04.0	Yeah, keep saying you don't, you don't, you don't, you don't
2:09.0	Have to submit, submit, submit, submit yourself to it
2:14.0	And why a cloth, steel, release it all
2:19.0	And let it get away from me now
2:23.0	Ah, like a gentleman, I'll step him in
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