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The Hatbox Collective

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1.
Introduction 01:04
2.
The Dinner 01:34
you want me to hear songbirds- you want me to echo them back to you. and, instead. i hear crickets. and I tell you i'm not ready. It's not that i'm not ready to love you or that I'm not ready to be loved by you ...It's just that. i wonder what loving me, says about you. i'm afraid that you've mistaken the unfurling of bodies and the entanglement of sheets for something far bigger than us. i'm afraid that you are unprepared for the storm our love may bring. i myself haven't manned my sails. i'm sure we can sort this out. This isn't The Tower of Babel. ...not right here. Not right now. please. it's kind of like the birthday dessert we weren't expecting. we're grateful. we take it in. and yet it sits unfinished. much like this conversation. Unfinished. the waiter's not going to clean up this mess. It's not his job to do so anyway.
3.
i keep looking for bodies in a basement that I do not have. remnants of crimes I have not committed. which could, in the heat of an honest argument, explain why when I wrote my name into The Book of Life the ink didn’t take. i forgot how to spell my name without yours attached. this is all a rather poetic way to let you know that falling in love with you has made me rather stupid.
4.
Hard Woman 01:00
if i should grow to be a soft woman let there first be tales of mangled teeth and flesh of swallowing every hurtful wave that dare to try and drag me to shore let me feast on my anger. gnawing on the flesh of insults from those who dare tell me i am not enough let me spit into the eyes of media that mockingly calls itself my reflection let me be monster. bleeding, hairy, unapologetic monster. may this metastasize into something bigger than myself if i should grow to be a soft woman let me be soft in coming to you in opening my door with the words i choose to feel comfortable with in the way i raise my children let me grow to be a soft woman as loves evolves me to be soft woman pretty quiet pink you can’t make me not because the dolls on shelves long put away, told me to be
5.
you say i shouldn’t be angry. instead, grateful to G-D for the lessons held by the hands of man who taught me nothing but that we can be hateful i’m not the wounds of your mother-thick with salt. heavy breathing. misplaced. bitter. coffee stained papers. voices beneath the floorboards rising toward the ceiling but anger lives here. in the screams that you dared to silence. anger lives here and i choose to grant her a home. in the heart of the artist.
6.
Interlude 01:04
7.
i wonder if you can see the skeleton behind these eyes or if my self-doubt somehow flared your lens i crawl back in the caskets nailed with times before and after us. my grandmother knows no number or name. they left before she was presented with one, and we made generational leaps-or rather, setbacks, when you wanted to call me yours The underbelly of woeful song keeps calling to me-hesitate of you And though i am afraid i will SING.

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THE HATBOX COLLECTIVE started as a collaborative effort of ADINA BURKE (author of BIRD’S EYE, 2015 and WHEELCHAIRS, WHIPS AND BONDAGE TAPE, 2017) and EVAN KOCH of the band WARSAW and hopes to keep moving. This creative collective project combines the art of poetry and music, bringing both mediums together to expand the minds of the listener. Both poetic and punk, Evan and Adina rose to the challenge of structured, yet improvised sound and angry yet empathetic poetry. This listening journey guides the audience through reflective and ragefully articulated poetry penned through recent and not so recent moments of Burke’s journey in finding herself as a not-so-young twenty something anymore matched with Koch’s dreamlike and free-spirited embrace with an “I should be listening to this at a shitty basement party” vibe, this EP isn’t just any old EP. It’s a risk, and like any good experience, it’s a risk worth taking.

Tapes are to be found at Dirty Needle Record's website, and GirlPond's website as well as their new found home nestled in Za'more of NE MPLS.

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credits

released December 14, 2017

Shoutout to Matt Grosso of Cloverleaf Audio, LLC, Dirty Needle Records and Evan's delightfully grumpy and adorable cat as well as Aubrey Lyn Meier for our lovely promotional photos.

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The Hatbox Collective Minneapolis, Minnesota

Adina is a self-proclaimed crippled punk poet living and working MPLS. She likes to think she writes pretty okay.
Evan is a local musician and composer forever jamming in the TC.

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