Revealed to be track 1 on Puma Blue’s 2nd EP ‘Blood Loss’ tracklisting, released November 2nd 2018. It serves as the intro to the circular form EP and starts with an ambient sound that recurs again at the end of the final track “close,” signifying the loop. It’s worth noting that both “as-is” and “c...
Never would have left your ether
Each Nazca Line of the brittle Earth
Every structured fortress inside of your well
Would have followed the dark waters through to Hell
As we swam through body horror or blistered shipwreck
Was some kind of home
And as my knuckles burned blue, you slipped through
Into a deep sleep forever, away to otherness
And I had to bury you under the mattress, but I kept you
As-is
as-is was written by Puma Blue.
as-is was produced by Puma Blue.
This track was always intended to be an introduction piece that set-up the rest of the record. It didn’t originally have the poem to go with it, but I had these words that felt so fitting with the themes I was trying to convey, it felt like the perfect way to set the tone. The arrangement was heavil...