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Banned Standards

by The Finer Points Of Sadism (FPS)

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I'm in a finite room with infinite possibilities It's inevitably going to happen, eventually it must happen Hung myself in many split universes Shot myself, stabbed myself too But yet there exists another of me that is still whole, still living Waiting for the clockwise motion to concur with my decision Inevitably waiting, inevitably dying Inevitably suffering, all that suffering must come with trying I'm in an infinite hell with infinite possibilities It's inevitably happening, it can never stop happening Subatomic particle switch that provokes the bone cracking noise Die and die over and over and over again
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Psyche Up 01:33
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Look at how the world sits braindead, that once was full of thinking people! How is earth become as a widow! She that was great among the worlds, and princess among the stars, how she has become trivial! She sobs in the night, and her tears roll down her lands: among all her space penetrations she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies. Sol has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude. Earth resides among the heathen, she finds no rest, all her persecutors overtook her. The ways of the universe mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: All her cities are desolate, her priests high, her virgins gone wild, and she is in bitterness.
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Catchy term, media made TV's the sperm and we are the egg The mouth creates an insanity ring Please call us if you know anything We're all persons of interest Let things slip through a laxadasical grip Just what the fuck is ownership? Public perception is benign All guilty of a criminal mind
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John Roston 03:13
It's a long way to get there, it's a long way you can't make it To California, but you can always take a plane home After you go home you will take a nap and wake up and go back to the desert Then you will go to the zoo and then on an airplane again John Roston has a bass guitar named "Rockin" And Johnny has a drummer playing forever and he sings forever And he has something special for you I don't know what it is And something else, and something else And anything you want and also you have anything to do You can't even do anything with you Cause your mom and dad will think you're somewhere else in the desert And you went back home and had dinner and went on a trip again And then you went to your friend's house And her name is Jeanie Then he comes over and plays with him and then it's time to go away Back home on an airplane and did something else And he did something special for the friend Do do do do do do do Ding ding ding ding ding ding
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Brakes swimming in water A funeral Looked down Now I need a plot Hydroplane Hydroplane The best way to go The best way to go Hydroplane Hydroplane The best way to go The best way to go out What a scene Spinal fluid sprayed Fucking flayed Photos circulate A mysterious priest anoints my threads of gore Olive oil and blood, the food of the gods What a mess I was, but what a mess I am No fucking legacy, but the pavement shows I made my mark
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Pijoe 05:08
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Atop, Above 04:27
This is my private hell as she sits atop Above myself, watching myself fucking To the peaks they've excited Lost; am I the astronaut or the victim? Mind, mind gone First adorn an erotic emotion Warped, stuck like me Calculated interaction? It always has been, made up bed Long for, dying for, forgetting Then being beaten
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Emetophobia 01:35
Mommy's indulged again I guess this makes day ten Her hair damp from sweat and vomit entwined Parental neglect and alcohol slime Sheets covered in her bile The shock was too vile You're anticipating again The first memory Anticipation Her eyes are rolled back again Boxed wine or the lemon gin? Glazed eye zombie on another binge Open mouth frothy makes you twinge Her affect is dead Her anvil head
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They say Capone has taken over Chicago And his accomplices are waiting for an answer they don't know St. Valentine's Day Massacre How I wish I could put it out of my mind A great day of terror Is there a peace I will ever find? Radio bulletins wake me from my sleep The DJ says the mob are out on the streets And I can see them standing in the rain Pretty fucking soon they will be slain Is there a peace A peace I will ever find?
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Step It Up 04:49
Step it up Disregard the barnyard variety trends This counts as nothing towards the end With a vast amount of jet fuel and drug fires We can light up the horizon to that orange hue Be sure all have paid their dues And step it up on opportunities that present themselves Free for the taking Step it up No rational thought compares To the unseen in the air The magnetic field turned upside down From the wake turbulence of satellites burning round Use a compass only to watch it spin eternally Step it up to answer the doom of all man For the radiation pellets number more than all grains of sand Here comes the sweeping hand Step it up
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Transfixed blue lights scatter Particles wasted on contradicting flavors Sawdust ash sprinkled God, it's so sweet They're too many Leftovers falling through fingers Soaked up by the systems and suffocated by the boil Heat in head pulled apart by grids Averts the eyes, closed up tight Facts and lies printed on gray slab Film poised ready to hide the show Melding chopped with chopped, cut in with cut Continued growth Risking shutdown for disfigured favor Unguided lust to be surrendered
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(Spoken) Holy shit, that was fucking, fucking amazing Just fucking amazing Fucking amazing
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You wouldn't believe me if I told you There's a broken ceiling at 500 feet And I am getting cut with shards of sky There's a mountain in the distance that everyone notices And taking it all in requires the phenomenon of understanding Life is coming, no use running That heaviness is catching up It's shadow covers you as you flee in terror And the person you always wanted to be is not looking back in the mirror So you resign yourself to a fate that has chased you all your days God or a deity? Time will be the wall that you must hit at the end of this race Time will be the wall that you must hit at the end of this life

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Praise for "Banned Standards":

"Noise laden and sinister, the tracks are full of sonic gems from vintage synths, gritty guitars and field recordings. The overall vibe is decidedly lo-fi, but not to be trendy. Rather, the lo-fi production is an integral part of delivering the aesthetic of the tracks. The Finer Points of Sadism push the experimental envelope in a way few bands dare to. This album is a must have." - Floorshime Zipper Boots music blog: floorshimezipperboots.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-finer-points-of-sadism-banned.html

As with all FPS albums, for best results please listen through headphones. This way you'll catch all the fun little noises we have in the background, through which laptop speakers would not be sufficient. This is the 7th album release by The Finer Points Of Sadism (FPS) and the first in over a year. After recording approximately 9 hours of tracks, it was whittled down to the final 17 that comprise this album. "Hydroplane" features vocals from Vince Gauthier-Bradner (Corroded Master) and the words and music for "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" were originally written by Jacobb when he was in his early teens. Ashley Sackett wrote "Wood Patterns". "Atop, Above" was written with a form of the Cut Up Method for the lyrics. The lyrics for "John Roston" were written by our own 6 year old daughter, Sofia. "Stridulation Arcing" is a series of field recordings using nail polish bottles as the main rhythms and a metal sign from a car wash providing heavy bass-like ambiance in the background. All the instrumentals on the album were improvisations. Some of the voices you hear on various tracks derive mostly from hypnosis cassette tapes made in the early 90's for weight loss and one for getting rich. A Tascam DR-05 was used to record crickets, traffic noise, dogs barking and coincidentally, some neighbors of ours a few houses down arguing.


These are all analog recordings, created with many different instruments and equipment, the most helpful on this album being a Moog Little Phatty synthesizer, Kaossilator (also played through guitar FX pedals at times), a large homemade contact mic with various live materials recorded through it such as a sign from a carwash, plastic, nail polish bottles, a Vox looper unit and of course the steel guitar. Improvisation is the origin for the majority of the recordings on this album (as is with most FPS material), for the exception of "Person Of Interest" and "St. Valentine's Day Massacre", which had chords written out beforehand.

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released September 30, 2013

Ashley Sackett - Bass, Circuit Bent items, Field Recordings, Found Sounds, FX, Kaossilator, Rhythms (track #2), Steel Guitar, Synthesizers

Jacobb Sackett - Bass, Circuit Bent items, Drums/Rhythms, Field Recordings, Found Sounds, FX, Guitars, Synthesizers, Tapes, Vocals

Mixed and Mastered by FPS

Recorded August - September 2013, FPS HQ, Boise, Idaho, USA.

All lyrics by Jacobb Sackett except tracks #6 by Sofia Sackett and #15 by Ashley Sackett.
Cover Photo: Ashley Sackett
Cover Design: FPS

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The Finer Points Of Sadism (FPS) Boise, Idaho

Jacobb and Ashley started playing music together in 2002 in several different bands in Boise, Idaho, USA. They accumulated circuit bent equipment and instruments, vintage synthesizers, and analog FX units. In late 2010, Jacobb recalls hearing strange and horrific noises as well as visual anomalies during a near death experience, which has influenced FPS's sound to this day. ... more

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