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    Enjoy the full-length album, mastered for vinyl, on two deluxe 180-gram LPs. Full color gatefold jacket with insert.

    Main Street Lights, Vicious Petals’ first release, was recorded on two-inch tape at Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, WA. In this span of songs, Smith brings his powerful and earnest voice forward with an equally deep range in his guitar. Both are wonderfully complemented, anchored, and (at times) put on a leash by Okano’s heartbreaking, virtuosic, and frequently fierce piano.

    The record is an ambitious full-length album recorded with producer Ryan Hadlock (The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile) and engineer Jerry Streeter (Secret Sisters, Brandi Carlile). The arrangements are broad in their instrumentation, reflecting the duo’s ease working across genre and style. Painting with a broad palette of tone and arrangement, Okano and Smith give each of their compositions the perfect framework for eloquent expression.

    Produced by Ryan Hadlock
    Additional production by Jerry Streeter
    Recorded and mixed by Ryan Hadlock and Jerry Streeter
    Additional engineering/mix assistance by Taylor Carroll
    Assistant engineers: Taylor Carroll, Tye Hastings, Brighton Pruss
    All songs recorded and mixed at Bear Creek Studio, Woodinville WA
    Mastered by Lurssen Mastering, Los Angeles CA

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lyrics

Swimming through a bright white ocean of broken glass
Ghost ships black and blue sway past me
Clouds hang low, halcyon, observing the quiet wrath
Knowingly vacant they slip away en masse
And the language of our love everlasting
Ceases to exist

Lush leaves, they lie languid in the wind
Wisps of time and try again lingering on
The cellophane cage will stop making its slow spin
And even with feathers clipped by our kin
You know that only the redwinged
Can take flight like this

You can’t keep me here on the shore
Anymore
My colors are fading faster still
They chill
You can’t keep me here in your arms
Oh the harm
My bones they can’t hold your luck
They’re giving up

Once again, your willful weight creeps for a century
Like the sights and sounds of the sunken sea
The night sky falls to the deep with mem’ries
Of the path we found and histories lost
Shatter them when dawn comes with golden furies
Awakening the mist

My red wings they flutter on with the salty tears
Of the ghost ships that pass in dreams and in mirrors
Your elegiac shore looks on as the sea clears
Singing tuneless again

You can’t keep me here on the shore
Anymore
My colors are fading faster still
They chill
You can’t keep me here in your arms
Oh the harm
My bones they can’t hold your luck
Anymore
They’ve given up
They've given up

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from Main Street Lights, released August 26, 2016
words by A. Okano / music & arrangement by A. Okano & C. Smith

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Vicious Petals Seattle, Washington

Led by songwriters Cooper Smith and Ayako Okano, Vicious Petals plays songs full of grit and beauty, darkness and light, love and loss.

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