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Violent Hearts

by shimmering stars

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1.
Believe 02:28
first time i saw you, you were looking at yourself in a window i was headed in the other direction i caught your eye in the reflection things beyond my control feeling i’ve never known i need to know you i’ve been alone too long things i believe were meant to be i’m searching for you baby i’m chasing after you endlessly i’m running through these dirty streets i’ve lost my mind but i do believe these things were meant to be
2.
walking down the street and i wanna kill everyone i see how come i don't like anyone that i meet? and despite my antipathy i am longing to be someone better in my heart is a violence that i cannot dispel i've lost my mind i'm losing you it's just as well i'm gonna throw on these old jeans i'm gonna head out on the street i'm gonna dream up a new dream & i'm gonna dance to a brand new beat i'm gonna find a new desire then i'm gonna set this town on fire i'm wearing a smile and it's fake but right now it has to be cause i know that love is the only thing that's gonna save me i'm gonna try
3.
No One 02:17
there is no one in sight my life is passing me by somehow time keeps on moving on without me my heart has given up on me fell into disuse and atrophy somehow time keeps on moving on without me tonight i know my life is passing me by when will i find love in my life when will i find you
4.
we shared a glance at a thrift store on hastings and i smiled at you and you scowled at me you and your entourage got on your shitty bikes i watched you from the line-up with my chest on fire got on your bikes and headed east in my mind you're headed east eternally but is it too far east for me?
5.
Into the Sea 01:47
into the sea i will be blood on my hands i won't look back i've gone too far for that i've gone out too far for that the rhythms of the ocean the waves crash against me i close my eyes and leave everything behind i know the sea will be the same crashing of the waves will be unchanged just like nothing ever happened like nothing ever happened
6.
please medicate my mind, it's really gone this time though i feel alright, there's nothing left to hide everything that i do betrays the nervous wreck inside headed for a nervous breakdown i can't stay gonna leave this town behind though i could escape this place i can't escape my mind friend i apologize if i don't return your call it's not that i'm somewhere else it's that i'm not really here at all headed for a nervous breakdown... all of my anxieties will be there waiting just for me i can't see the point in trying to run from what's inside of me
7.
Privilege 02:06
oh sleepless nights my mind is wrong like it's been for too long and i don't know why tv's on all night watching other lives i break down and i cry i don't know what has happened i just want to be happy i have no reason to feel this way but it won't go away i know people have real problems i have no right to complain i've lived a life of total privilege and undeserved pain i don't know (if i can change) i don't know
8.
sun is going down i keep running to keep up but i can't run fast enough sun is going down i keep running through the past looking for something i never had oh i really don't know where i'm gonna go feeling so old and alone oh when we were young chasing the sun to the middle of the ocean we were so young i'm not okay i'm not okay sun's going down and i'm so afraid
9.
Sabians 02:33
when we were animals and we wandered through the forest in the twilight underneath the canopy that hides the stars but our desires shine naked and true we were members of a star worshipping cult in 6th century syria wandering through the desert and chasing shooting stars i tracked you down to industrial town wreckage surrounds you when i found you the heart of winter you were crying you couldn't speak i've been chasing you in my dreams i will find you
10.
i'll just wait outside, don't know why i try i've been dancing to music i hate for my whole life when we get inside, and i realize i'll be dancing to music i hate for my whole life and everyone acts so naturally and i need everything that everyone needs but i just wanna leave i'm still going home alone
11.
summer where are you gonna go? i don’t think i know now you’re on your own please don’t go too far thoughts i can’t control i don’t wanna know city noises and my broken heart i don’t know where you are where are you gonna go? i don’t think i know now you’re on your own where have you gone?
12.
Other Girls 02:29
somebody’s calling my name but i’m just getting lost some kind of flame i know that i can’t exhaust and where i will go i just don’t know i feel it in my veins and in my bones some awful storm in my mind once a distant ring is thundering all these other girls I run around with they don’t mean a thing they don’t mean a thing
13.
stay out all night for my future wife so lonely tonight i know our fates are bound but where are you now did i lose you somehow? well i don’t know where you’ve gone and your name i just don’t know but i believe we’re pulled together by things that are beyond our control another night in my bombed out life so lonely tonight
14.
Walk Away 02:55
walk away, all my life it's been this way walk away, all my life it's been this way i tried to move but i can't walk away from you we could still be friends, we could still be friends like we were before we could still be friends, we could just pretend it's like it was before but oh can't you see that i just want more

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Shimmering Stars is a four-piece dream pop act from Vancouver, BC, Canada. The music embodies an attempt at drawing out and illuminating the subtle darkness inherent in the seemingly wholesome, innocent music of the 1950s and 60s. The result filters older influences like the Everly Brothers, Del Shannon, Phil Spector, and Bo Diddley through a contemporary indie lens. Songs about being in love, not being in love, the painfully modern condition of floating in a state of suspended adolescence – all tinted with the slight self-deprication of knowing how trite it is to be writing songs about these things at all.

The band began as a recording project in Spring 2010. After stumbling upon some old live footage of the Everly Brothers, Rory McClure holed up in his parent’s garage in Kamloops, British Columbia to record the first demos. That first recording environment rendered Shimmering Stars’ distinctly dusty atmospheric sound and established a conscious insertion into the garage music continuum.

Shimmering Stars is:
Rory McClure - Guitar, Vox
Andrew Dergousoff - Drums, Vox
Brent Sasaki - Guitar, Vox
Elisha Rembold - Bass, Vox

Website: bedroomsofthenation.wordpress.com

Shimmering Stars 'Violent Hearts.' Released Sept 13, 2011 on Hardly Art (North America) & Almost Musique (Europe)

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damaged pop. shimmering stars is a dream pop group from vancouver, bc. "Filtering the dark undertones of the ‘50s & ‘60s through a modern lens to create a haunting, poignant tone that sounds equal parts familiar and fresh."

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