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Floodplains

by Chris DuPont

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1.
I knew from the day you found me You’re carved from the stone of a mountainside Knuckles a’twisted from keeping your fist tight Dear, let me stay beside you When the creases spread along your brow Separate the bloodlines that weigh your body down Whatever you want to tell me, I believe it You come to think your worth is gone We may retrieve it I don’t have a decent answer Why the shadows cling to the best of us Or who could partake in the breaking of your trust But I’ll pour you a glass of water When your teeth are red from licking the wounds There is no shame in grieving what’s taken far too soon There’s a fullness beyond fatigue No, nothing is clean if you choose to love I didn’t anticipate the ways I’d be undone But on the other side of a breakdown Is a silver lining for you darlin When everything that died in you is fertile in your garden Nobody bleeds the same, No one denies your pain, believe it / leave it
2.
I could put my money in an envelope Enough to tide me over till I don’t know when Cut loose of my attachments, all my possessions And start again It may be true that I never learned to love right For my will is half is good as my intent I pray they both forgive me when he is a grown man Start again I could start again, start again Have you forgotten our beginning Reaching for an end to start again I have never faced so steep a valley As the center of the mattress in a wedding bed All of the years of isolation are more than I can stand Start again Said we’d reclaim it all with time and medication There are ordinary reasons for every doubt But if this shit was any good for me I would be better by now Start again Old father, you’re the one they will compare me to With your dozen broken loves, your empty room She told me to get straight with God or end up just like you (When I) start again
3.
White Linen 03:20
Sterling city, you’ve inundated me In the memory of my northern belle I wished her well, swallowed in your haze Now I'm capsized. She's immortalized in white linen I hear the table spinning. Her favored lies, my petty crime committed. Painted lady, could you recount for me all the years you have not aged? My younger sin, and blower of the wind that's rattling my cage. I'm capsized. She's immortalized in white linen I hear the table spinning. Her favored lies, my petty crime committed. In white linen, I hear the table spinning. Her favor lies in my petty crime forgiven.
4.
Jacket 02:18
I keep my jacket on There to warm me when you're gone I never kept a friend for long But I began to want to On the day that I stumbled upon you Sulking at the back Pretty fury dressed in black I don’t presume to walk your path But if nobody’s worthy All is play and nothing is dirty You are the night well spent I’m your well of good intent None of it grown or provident But were you bound to find me Like a fortune in her own timing We gave in to happenstance And we've barely spoken since Dear, I am sad and unconvinced I was ever good to you But you abide and nothing alarms you
5.
Wake up my darlin, it's time that we made good On the faded promise we etched into the wood And though i fear the valley of vultures circling I know we're going to find him Waiting where he said he would be Oh memory, that lover, was never true to me I swear when I was younger I labored faithfully Now every name and vice is a putty in my mind Every inhalation, a memory realigned Ah, the belly of the dragon May be tender for the stabbing But no one kills the villain we were looking for If the venom of the beast is the mercy of the Lord I nursed our aching bodies and watched the chapel burn For i held no provision allowing my return So keep a wary eye on the sallow gondolier Pray don't leave my shoreline to plead with a folded ear Where, then, shall I find her if i can't cross beside her? A lonely apparition ambling the shore The sorrow of the reaper is the silence of the lord My God, I’ve been mistaken And I’m brittle for the breaking I’m cracking at the weight of a history restored The venom of the beast was the mercy of the lord
6.
Who untethered the enemy And drew the curtains over you If I found a window would you let me stay Until the clean air can get through for you Let it nourish you When the voices are at the loudest Baby come, talk to me about it I can’t be the same now that I found you I don’t wanna do this without you I am willing to swallow the pain With every pleasure that I’ve received No I’m not a man who measures the weight What kind of lover would I be for you I wanna comfort you ‘Cause when the voices are at the loudest Baby come, talk to me about it No thing is the same now that I found you I don’t wanna do this When the voices are at the loudest Baby come, talk to me about it I told you I will if I have to But don’t wanna do this without you
7.
Interlude 01:16
8.
Devices 03:46
Cradle your cold devices Cling to your guarantees But no man shall lord his crisis over me You're bruised at the ribs and ankles By burdens you live beneath But I keep a greater weapon No one can seize from behind my teeth Oooh... All your daughters are calling for armistice. Oooh... Nobody's gonna hurt me, no not like this. You've guarded your territory By drawing the darkest lines You tell me we bear a target I've yet to find My friend can we cool the fever That's feeding your... reverie You've worshipped the preservation Of your own flesh, belongings and beliefs
9.
What is this feeling, hovering over That follows me to bed The coldest of fingers pressing my lips The fist upon my head Call me a liability from the start I thought that I could bring you more than The sum of our troubled parts Lately I'm keeping just out of reach Of friends who want to help me I know they see me for what I am And have no heart to tell me I am the circularity of my father's speech Flashes of a mother's rage at every water breach If history's nothing more than the tales We choose to tell ourselves Then why've you discarded every page Of things that I did well Have a care what's coming out your mouth Let condescending words be smoothed out If every footfall is jarring our little frames Then who will bend our stooping spines Back to their proper shape Maybe this famine hinges to feast And nourish what has died But you can’t preserve me out in the cold Just 'cause you won't decide Would someone tell me my labor is complete Or give a mathematics for the day to choose defeat I swear to God, I'm learning to shut my mouth That every splintered corner be sanded clean and round
10.
You are a sacred creature, love Your breath in the silence, rhythm to my blood You cradle my head in the failing light My queen of the water, puller of the tide You fold my body in your temple You’re the holy of holies I drown beneath the fountain Every time you hold me In stillness, I am simple Since you came to know me, unraveling What strange devotion that finds us here Now tenderly braided, there’s only you my dear The foot of the staircase, the winding creaks The grip on my sternum I never want relieved
11.
ITAVOS 04:18
My beloved is frightened to death of What she becomes in the cold. So easy, tiger, with consolations. Battering ram at the threshold. I’ll come break you out of the Chelsea. I’ll weave the hardest sell. God damn, when I see you Shrink this small it takes me straight to hell. I lay down my head on the day that you left. There in bed, I took a vow of silence. In the coldest sweat, I lay down and wept. I’m closing in. I took a vow of silence. I keep trying to stall the departure. Somewhere the world’s still green. I pull the teeth from my every intent, but None of the words ever feel clean. I won’t lose you again. I took a vow of silence.
12.
Lay me down beside you In the lap of the mountain, at Georgia’s chest My troubles are nowhere near me Left where I found them so I can rest Call me by the name you’ve been speaking onto me From the time we left together Your fingers on my head, an oil of anointing Because I was sick but now I’m better I could fall in love with my own impermanence To be known but unremembered Write this in my flesh, nothing is indelible But solace may be found here together Out here on the road, what a strange retreading Of a solitude that reeks of home It’s nothing but a word, but this time let me have it I know none of us should go alone

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released February 5, 2021

chris dupont: vocals, guitars, ukulele, banjo, bass, op1, piano, sequencing
professor billy harrington: drums, orchestral percussion
nick gunty: spiritual direction, piano, vocals
johannes stauffer: piano, rhodes
luke jackson: bass
christina furtado: cello
lea kirstein: violin, viola
rin tarsy: guest vocals on start again and sandpaper hymn
olivia dear: guest vocals on retrieve

produced by nick gunty and chris dupont
mixed by nick gunty
mastered by christopher norman

visual art by emilee petersmark (IG: @ermsauce)
photography by luke jackson and nick gunty

engineered in many parts and places by:
nick and chris at hitchingham house in ypsilanti michigan
eric wojahn at solid sound in ann arbor michigan
geoff michaels at big sky recording in ann arbor michigan
chris in an ypsilanti apartment bedroom during the 2020 quarantine
matthew eastman and chris at eastman audio in grand rapids michigan
lea kirstein in a house in toronto

All songs written by chris dupont
© 2020 Chris DuPont music. All rights reserved.

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Southeast Michigan tunesmith. From anthemic to intimate, Chris' songs marry Americana folk with ambient minimalist orchestration.

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