Voyage(r)
Original Release Date: 05/12/4122
You are here. is, quite possibly, the saddest album in the IBP Collection. Broadcast from the edge of a raging asteroid, Voyage(r) released their magnum opus moments before colliding with the citizens of Spurgeon III. The asteroid, nicknamed Pebbles the Destroyer, was not particularly malicious (nor sentient), but it was raging straight toward a planet inhabited by mostly polite creatures, renowned for their iced cakes of gulbonberry and zomtarino. The tale is of no secret, dear Audionauts, Spurgeon III is no more. Voyage(r), having been spontaneously thrust aboard Pebbles the Destroyer due to its very mass breaking off from their home planet Ailio X due to its fateful collision with another asteroid, Kirby the Kruncher (which was unfortunately birthed by another asteroid impact with the planet Yurvh VII), had but one option: tell their story before it was too late. Onboard their new high-speed home, which also had the benefit of housing the National Asteroid Research and Very Large Impact Management Department (NARVLIMD), they were well aware of their time to impact. Having released three albums, including their breakout sophomore album …to the bottom of the sea, there was passion and polish in their instruments. With only a week before total annihilation, they conjured up You are here. The period was a hard stop, finite, inevitable. The songs, however, were echoing love letters to the moment before the last heartbeat, the memory wormhole that drags creatures back through time to relive the precious images wasted in the moment. Bouncy, playful, yet somber and hollow, like the walls of an empty church, Voyage(r) broadcast the album to the Universe as the countdown clocks across a multitude of news tickers suddenly expired. The flash was blinding, the sound choked by the vacuum of space, but the shockwaves of the collision would never be outdone by the infinite spread of You are here. Voyage(r) was no more. Spurgeon III was no more. But the melodies live on, reaching new systems every day, spreading the unlucky hand that lurks in the void, waiting for the right one to play it.
Side A
Surface Tension
Why Me?
Multi-Directional
Acceptance of External Pressure
Side B
Inertia
Melancholia
Last Rites
Time To Impact