Volume Two · A Noir Song Cycle

You Probably Think This Song Is About You Too

Shane Brazelton · The album after the movie

"Don't stop. Don't quit. Speed is what we need. Kick it in high gear."

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Cover — a turntable with a vinyl record spinning in warm noir light, smoke rising; the title in cream serif, 'A Noir Song Cycle · Volume Two.'

The story

He is everyone and no one at the same time. That's not a riddle. That's the whole album.

The detective didn't retire — he kept driving. But now he's not just watching. He's inhabiting. Ripped out of his own body and dropped into the bodies of strangers at a European diner, living one second over and over from nine different perspectives, trying to change a tragic outcome he can never change.

All of it happening on a therapist's couch — though you don't know that until the needle drops on the hidden track.

The second side of the same record.

The record

Fifteen tracks, two sides, one second.

Side A — The Artifact the world starts spinning
  • Track 000The Groovelocked
  • Track 001The Commute
  • Track 002The Diner
  • SidetrackSidetrackinterlude
Side B — The Architecture nine perspectives, one outcome
  • Track 003The Landing
  • Track 004Substrate Firinglocked
  • Track 005The Wrong Reflection
  • Track 006One Second
  • Track 007Lipstick and Red Dress
  • Track 008The Asking
  • Track 009The Tip
  • Track 010The Entrance
  • Track 011The Shift
  • Track 012The Pour
  • Track 013The Third Thing
  • Track 014The Twist
Special Tracks flip the record
  • Track −0321Dr. Seen Returnsbonus
  • [Hidden][No Number. No Title.]the reveal

The calm place

Every time he leaves his body, he floats into the same quiet room. Old leather. Pencil graphite. A water stain on the ceiling shaped like a country nobody named.

It shows up on every track — a breadcrumb you don't notice you're collecting. And then the hidden track drops the needle on the truth of it.

No spoilers here. The record tells you when it's ready.

The last track

It ends with a man bringing food to Pepe — who lost his music the day the proof arrived. It's never too late to be Seen.

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The trilogy

One record, three sides.

Out now

Drop the needle.

Kindle eBook · written on a Raspberry Pi in a closet in Hazel Green, Alabama