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Rings

by Avishay

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1.
Coming Down 03:33
tattoo xs and os on my hands lost in the mind or method of another man once you have me please dont lose me again i wish you coulda seen me sleeping thru a colorful night with no ideas of you but once you have me please dont lose me again you never had me, please dont do this again im not coming down. lose my focus and i lose my thought ill open the wound if you pour in the salt. but once have me please dont lose me again you never had me, whyd you choose this again? im not coming down.
2.
you tell me where to begin you tell me when to stop now you tell me how they got in i’ll show you how they got out i don’t wanna think twice i just wanna be young write yr name in the sky i’m calling you you show me how to begin i show you how to get out we’re hanging sheets to the wind we’re digging shit in the ground i don’t wanna be wise i just wanna be yours but with the sun in your eyes you can’t see i’m home. every night i hear you crashing thru i see a ring, you swear you see it too you don't wanna see me. you tell me how to begin i tell you how to get out now i don’t care who you’re with and you don’t care how i’m bound i don’t wanna think once you don’t wanna take turns and with the stars in your eyes i never learn
3.
Dream Baby 01:27
baby i dreamed about a person i could be about a place for you and me baby i dreamed about a place called silver springs about the pleasure panic brings baby i dreamed dream dream dream dream on
4.
Giraffe 02:37
i put on yr perfume so id feel like someone else i opened a wooden box looking for cigarettes i moved all the furniture i wanted a point of view i buried whats left of me too deep inside of you just cuz you have it dont mean that youve earned it and just cuz youve earned it dont mean you deserve it oh, giraffe. i kept all the oyster shells abused them as metaphors now that yr somewhere else now that im someone else just cuz you have it dont mean that youve earned it and just cuz youve earned it dont mean you deserve it oh, giraffe.
5.
where you been? i wasn't looking out for you. yr getting thin & so perspective pushes thru i changed my mind i'm not waiting to die so take yr time but dont look me in the eye cuz you cant look me in the eye. its not my fault it never rains when i come home i built a wall one of us must be alone i changed my mind i'm not waving goodbye apologize but dont look me in the eye cuz you cant look me in the eye i'm on the stage & now the play (a part to play, apart to play) is making darkness out of day (who builds darkness out of day?) but you cant find a word and you cant look me in the eye...
6.
walking down an empty street i hope your lips are shaking talking through a fool like me my voice is ever changing is there a wind blowing my way? i need to overcome the fear that no one else will love me freedom is a hollow ear that rings the bells above me is there a wind blowing my way? is there a wind blowing my way asking me to stay? i won’t stay here as long as you’re going make a plan dear there’s breathing then there’s knowing is there a wind blowing my way? is there a wind blowing my way asking me to stay? i won't stay here as long as yr glowing i'll make a break dear, there's breathing then there's knowing is there a wind blowing my way? is there a wind blowing my way begging me to stay?
7.
i took the train the one i thought would head yr way but the sunlight through the stained glass doesn’t catch my face i won’t get off just wanna see how far it goes just wanna see if i’m the bottle rolling up the road i put yr food on a breakfast tray to keep you from running away day after day i beat the color form the grey i’m finding other shades of color in this place my roommate sleeps like he’s getting paid in dreams so i recover in the cupboard when i’m weak i put yr food on a breakfast tray and then the coffee comes and i go away i put your clothes on so i’d look like you i’m not seeing things quite how you want me to and i want to take you back to hudson i wanna show you all these clouds i’m busting there’s no chance i’m leaning in there’s no time for squeezing in a puzzle full of pieces i’m a one among zeroes we could never be heroes and now you’re breakfast’s getting cold i’m a mess, gimme coffee & tv i’m absolutely nothing so i’m fucking free the cherry at the bottom of the glass is every single moment til i fade to black
8.
28, i decide to get in shape tired of being dumb 28, hungover's just a taste tired of being young. goodbye to agony, good boy for coming clean yr too kind. drunk on a trampoline, speak metaphorically, close yr eyes. i see a ring beside me i hear my voices rising see my hanging in a loop of light. 28, i decide to be okay with whatever i become i've wasted hate to lost love and losing face a fear that i don't belong. but i see a ring beside me i hear my voices rising singing goodbye to go-betweens lovers lane, live beneath, life me up. i'll speak metaphorically but live fucking honestly say yes to love. but i see a ring beside me i see no point in hiding see me hanging in a loop of light.
9.
wise up take a look around there's no sense in coming down at all rise up, yr fist like lips tell me about the pain yr in, i know. and it's strange to think that now i'm hardly in the crowd when the faces i see could've been anyone. you paint virginia's face nobody takes yr place tonight but i need a man to touch me where a woman's not enough and it's strange to think that now i'm hardly in the crowd when the faces i see could've been anyone. could've been anyone, it could've been anyone (couldn't be anyone, it couldn't be anyone)
10.
Narcissus 03:24
a tree is growing in my basement i don't know how long it's been there & i'm not trying to erase it i'm drifting gracelessly in place here so i will climb up the branches & i'll weep among the vines & i will find new perspective as i fall from power lines but i will swing there’s a rose that grows within me i feel its nettles push & pull while i sleep but as it blossoms i feel nothing i'm crushing at the petals while they quietly become me & i will climb through the garden & i'll watch as time unwinds & i will plant in my own image a bed of narcissus in kind & i will dream there’s a light that glows within me despite the darkness creeping out from underneath & i will fight the flight of mornings until i’m used to landing firmly on my feet & i will slip out the window waste my body with the clouds & i will land on every rooftop as i tumble to the ground but i will sing, i will sing, i will sing…

about

in 2015 i moved from los angeles to new york and was happy but creatively deadended. my band heathers effectively dissolved when i relocated and left with the tease of a taste of success (meetings with labels, managers, and lawyers all for naught in the end) i didn't know where to go next. after a little while i found myself writing songs again and tried to recapture whatever it was that had me writing songs in the first place when i was a kid in the suburbs. look into your heart i told myself and just sing whatever's there. so i did.

"i see a ring," said bernard, "hanging above me. it quivers and hangs in a loop of light."

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very special thanks to the following for their unwavering love, support, humor, and unerring critical eyes/ears: michael grace jr (for extreme friendship, care, feedback, patience; my sadvertising partner in grime), bailey georges (ten plus years of adoration and ego petting), KM, sam avishay (who named the album), rob carrington (oh, my brother), matt kumar (who was there when this started two years ago + would patiently listen to mix after mix), my kew boys (for helping me figure out which songs were definitely not kew songs), the sincerely boys (half these songs were born of our hazy days), amy avishay (a better sister there is not), lior + cindy avishay (for birthing, raising, etc, and for always telling me my songs were bigger than the suburb i was born in). i'm sure there are more; there is always more. xoxo mikey

PS I have set the sale for the digital album at $5 but if you are low on funds and would still like to have a copy of the album, please email me at michaelavishay@gmail.com and we can arrange something; or, feel free to stream it on your preferred streaming platform. while i am hoping to use sales money towards recording my second album, i recorded and mixed Rings in my apartment by myself using equipment i already owned. the only costs to recoup from digital sales are mastering costs.

credits

released August 10, 2018

guitar, vox, keyboard, bass guitar, drum programming - mikey avishay
bass guitar, guitar, drums - rob carrington

all songs written + recorded by mikey avishay
in various apartments in brooklyn, 2016-2018
with additional recording done in boston

produced by mikey avishay
mixed + engineered by mikey avishay and rob carrington
except tracks 3, 4, and 6 by mikey avishay

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