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New Drugs

by Cloquet

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1.
New Drugs 02:55
you got fire pour it out don’t you fall asleep on nothing cause you got too much heart for bluffing cold fighting temporary lack of feeling vultures flying over and these nights getting colder like so violent I think I forgot how easy love's supposed to hold ya and wrap you all over careful not to burn all your roses I left got cut by the thorns say you won’t hold your breath for me anymore cause that talk is all over love some new drugs right in my hands I don’t feel numb I don’t understand how good baby, I don’t need to be so upset we could breeze through but all we do is jump in fire and I can feel it coming round yeah I don’t trust myself no more but all that’s gone when your around borderline yeah babe we’re feeling borderline and I ain’t seen those blue eyes in so borderline yeah babe we’re feeling borderline and I ain’t seen those blue eyes in so long careful not to burn all your roses I left got cut by the thorns say you won’t hold your breath for me anymore cause that talk is all over love.
2.
Garden 02:57
You talk a lot but ain’t saying nothing I can’t give you love when its old and rotten I’m borderline yeah I’m done finding so put me underneath your spell again I can’t breath I could feel it all around me changing it’s just not enough to change my mind I’m backing away from old fires yeah I’ll just stay on your good side yeah we’re stepping over the cold light its warmer now I can’t lie like ooh I’m trying so hard to let this go but you you don’t make it easy you drag it on I’ve been dreaming of the time but you just keep running round and round careful I could spell it out dirty yeah you're low that’s just all you know so put me underneath your spell again I can’t breath I could feel it all around me changing it’s just not enough to change my mind be careful with this love we’re skating over some old thoughts I took our old problems and buried them out in the garden it’s cold as I said it was its cold as like I just forgot it I can’t turn this off turn me backwards am I lost it’s taking practice and I’m
3.
Really Love 02:39
They cold and out of sync it’s something in their eyes its telling me to please use caution that’s not really love that’s not really love just tell me I’m alright believe it when I feel my heart divide its saying something that’s not really love that’s not really love won’t be around we won’t be that shoulder yeah we heard ya now but it just keeps getting older and older yeah over and over and older and older yeah over and over just help me find the ways show me how to cauterize my heart from the battle line you seem like you really tried its darker under waves hold me underneath the tied you ain't gotta apologize I could see it in your eyes They cold and out of sync it’s something in their eyes its telling me to please use caution that’s not really love that’s not really love won’t be around we won’t be that shoulder yeah we heard ya now but it just keeps getting older and over and older and over and older and over and older and over and
4.
Breathing 03:19
These heavy eyes we’ve been trying to hold our hearts up just because it's too easy to let them fall down I can’t stand for it anymore there’s just been a lot of lying and I’m trying hard to see the control in nothing like aren’t you getting tired of fighting? there’s really nothing left for us to uncover yeah I could feel it now its too close to my heart I can’t give it back oh no yeah I could feel it now its too close to my heart I can’t give it back little lover ain’t no other way I ain’t gonna let you down there won’t come a time little lover ain’t no other way I ain’t gonna let you down no we spend too much time in doubt it's time we start breathing barely alive some days are easy I'm losing focus like some other time used to feel easy we’d barely notice there’s just been a lot of lying and I’m trying hard to see the control in nothings like aren’t you getting tired of fighting? there’s really nothing left for us to uncover don’t start crawling back babe you're too good please stop stop all that crying oh no yeah I could feel it now its too close to my heart I can’t give it back little lover ain’t no other way I ain’t gonna let you down there won’t come a time little lover ain’t no other way I ain’t gonna let you down no we spend too much time in doubt it's time we start breathing too much time in doubt it's time we start
5.
Way Back 03:34
I can’t believe all the ways you were pushing my line gonna be hard for you to ever find your way back yeah your done standing under there yeah I can’t believe you’ve been alone too late for turning back your poking at that fire it ain’t going higher but it's burning your cold nights up for the last time you don’t need them anymore I said oooh uhhhh they don’t love you love like ooh it ain’t so bad now you just gotta be easier on yourself yeah you’ve got to take care cause this just ain’t getting easier way back in your hollows yeah we found an old lake yeah I held the lantern I walked right in it's no mistake like ooh it ain’t so bad now they don’t love you love you just gotta be easier ehhh uhhhh like ooh it ain’t so bad now they don’t love you love you just gotta be easier little bit too honest with them darling you ain’t gotta bend yourself just to show your light your just a little too nice darling you just cut em back you don’t need to prove your right I said oooh uhhhh they don’t love you love like ooh it ain’t so bad now you just gotta be easier on yourself yeah you’ve got to take care cause this just ain’t getting easier
6.
Stars 02:26
Eh honestly lover baby your so good there’s no one above ya honestly lover they fire I’ll cover yeah I’ll move your light up cause they barely know ya cause see our love its warming the nights in your eyes overtaking me back to a time when ain’t nothing blocking your light we can’t stop like we should go home girl don’t wanna waist your time or your love we can’t stop holding onto nothing but you got some storms in your eyes yeah I think we’ll let em roll over yeah I think we barely arrived to somewhere that we can hold onto say so long to all those old feelings your carrying with you say say so long yeah we’ll leave those demons alone like you too good to be feeling down you got too many stars above ya its too late I don’t hear the sound and we can’t stop blaming ourselves over and over we can’t stop holding onto nothing
7.
I’m done hiding cut me with that violence I’m done smiling push me all the way back why I gotta be a monster with my love Im steady fighting stop smiling in my face yeah I’ve had enough all that lying I’m done here cause lately I just can’t feel every single tear mmmm brighter love yeah you make it easier for me to forget yeah mmmm brighter love yeah you make it easier for me to forget this constant reminder yeah they won’t let it go but we’re not feeling much of anything they tried to divide us to kill everything putting dark skies where they shouldn’t be don’t tempt me Im under fire Im boiling and I can’t see past all this fire now its melting my eyes I know that’s its over now yeah I won’t regret everything before now mmmm brighter love yeah you make it easier for me to forget yeah mmmm brighter love yeah you make it easier for me to forget
8.
Lonely Light 03:05
lonely light please save me from your lonely light please keep your drama on your side yeah we don’t need that noose around our necks hey darling yeah I can hear you calling it feels like its forever but I can feel my heart now its pumping all that new blood and its sending me on a war path yeah its sending me on like ooh that’s ok if you don’t love us now cause we’re so good without ya and maybe its time that you figure it out there’s no way to recover set me over you heart girl I’ll protect it with mine now little shadows they roll back deeper down so we can’t find em and its sending me on a war path yeah its sending me on nowhere else to run over and back and its the same old feeling it won’t be warm for long under attack and its the same old feeling yeah I’ve been dim a lot pushing my light all around I’m falling don’t stop fighting now can read it on your face don’t bottle up and we’re done running round yeah I could see the waves all around us now like ooh that’s ok if you don’t love us now cause we’re so good without ya and maybe its time that you figure it out there’s no way to recover
9.
Water 03:54
out alone with the leaves tear em to pieces set em down yeah I’ll take your hand and I’ll make a joke and ya start to smile and I believe it had me feeling like this is all we need stop following following following following following your not dead its only your weakness dying home changed its course it won’t be that bad I couldn’t fight this all alone I couldn’t help it if you tried to make it easier and I I feel your wave of light it takes me all the time girl I’ll take you back to the water girl I’ll take you back to the water yeah under your stars tonight I’ll take your love and hold it high assessing my love Im crawling back to the light some stranger drugs yeah I feel possessed in the night its holding me on to what’s right I feel your wave of light it takes me all the time and girl I’ll take you back to the water girl I’ll take you back to the water yeah under your stars tonight I’ll take your love and hold it high.
10.
Knuckles 02:42
show me why I should find reasons to be on you side so take your time make me believe so I don’t have to lie to myself anymore lets just say so long to the cold and lonely I don’t wanna freeze over so long to the cold and lonely I don’t wanna freeze over yeah I got you back in my arms I won’t let go of this love yeah I’m gonna keep you from harm keep your light way up above like ooooh I won’t make this all for nothing I cut my knuckles for ya yeah I got you back in my arms I won’t let go of this love yeah I’m gonna keep you from harm keep your light way up above tell me why I keep believing that your on our side yeah we’ve had enough lets just say so long to the cold and lonely I don’t wanna freeze over so long to the cold and lonely I don’t wanna freeze over yeah I’m only half alive till you come around come around yeah I’ve been unfolding open my eyes flip me over like ooooh I won’t make this all for nothing I cut my knuckles for ya like hold a second love you got too much heart to belong to them yeah I’m not feeling em I don’t even know where should i begin?

about

Cloquet, the collaborative duo of producer Paper Tiger and vocalist J.Gundersen, are back with the announcement of their upcoming sophomore album New Drugs and its powerful lead single “Breathing.” What initially began as a DIY file-sharing side project amongst friends quickly turned into a full-fledged band with the release of Cloquet’s 2018 self-titled debut album. Born out of a musical comradery and love for all things 90's dance and indie rock, Cloquet merges the worlds of electronic and post-punk to create something equally urgent and reflective, a sound that lives just as perfectly on the dance floor as it does barreling down the highway on a late-night drive.

Paper Tiger got his start as a founding member of the Minneapolis-based Doomtree collective nearly two decades ago, producing several of the group’s biggest hits and working closely with bandmates Dessa, P.O.S, and Sims to help craft their own critically-acclaimed solo recordings. Since then he’s also branched out into television and commercial production, scoring the HBO documentary Rock In A Hard Place and carving a new musical direction with his own instrumental solo releases. J.Gundersen meanwhile has made a name for himself not only as a producer and singer/songwriter, but also as an in-demand motion graphics designer. The two met while working together on several multimedia design and visual projects, including several music videos for Doomtree, and instantly bonded over their shared affinity for 80's and 90's dance music.

While Cloquet’s debut album was created side-by-side one another in tiny studios and bedrooms throughout Brooklyn, 2019 saw Gundersen make a cross-country relocation to San Francisco for work, forcing the two to completely transform the way they go about collaborating. They quickly found inspiration in the challenge of FaceTime calls and shared Dropbox folders, and a new batch of songs rapidly began to emerge from both coasts. Gundersen channeled his isolation and the feelings of being uprooted into some of his most poignant and relatable lyrics to date, going deeply inward to find a light in the dark; and the previously shared time in New York helped Paper Tiger intricately build the earnest and lush production around Gundersen’s voice, finding a more unified and effortless sound than ever before.

In a way you could say that the great physical distance between Paper Tiger and J.Gundersen brought Cloquet closer together than ever before, an idea that’s even more amplified by the confusing times that we’re all currently living through together. The songs on New Drugs speak to the everyday struggles and nuanced adversity that we each walk through in our own daily lives. They’re the perfect soundtrack to this new shared human experience, one that’s equally filled with joy and sorrow, darkness and light, bangers and slow jams.

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released July 31, 2020

Cloquet is J.Gundersen (JGUN—ASCAP) and Paper Tiger (Skip Steps 1&3—ASCAP)
Mixed by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway MPLS
Mastered by Bruce Templeton at Microphonic Mastering MPLS
Art and Design by John Samels and James Gundersen

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