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The Great Escape

by KNTC

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1.
The Arrival 04:08
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Like a bomb You decided to die here In a kamikaze move You crash landed on me The fire trail would burn all the way up From the bottom to the top You fucked it up It could have been better It could have been worse But everyday’s a battle And I don’t know which line I’ll cross It could have been better It could have been worse There’s no glory in what I’m doing now All the substance is looking for a new glow Every thought is just trying to crawl out Floating like gasoline fumes Waiting for a spark It could have been better It could have been worse But everyday’s a battle And I don’t know which line I’ll cross It could have been better It could have been worse But everyday’s a battle And I don’t know which line I’ll cross Since you’ve come (Crawl out) Since you’ve come (You need rest) Since you’ve come (Crawl out) Since you’ve come Now come I know you won’t let go And I can’t let you blow The things I struggled for I’ll keep you now So come Take place and do your worse I’ll hide you in my words It’s you and me right now We’ll see how long we carry on
2.
Hunting Hunters Hunting Preys 03:51
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For too long I kept your face over the water Holding my breath as you kept bending over The waves hid the bullets Directed at my chest You thought I didn't notice You'll wait until I'm out Until I'm gone to make a sound A thousand tiny cuts Will resonate and make me come home You'll try soon as I'm out Search how it's done to make it round And like a tiny dog I'm scared to death to leave you alone Tell me how do you feel, tell me how it shuts A thousand tiny tiny cuts Now ring the bells or let me crush For too long I kept your face over the water Holding my breath as you kept bending over The waves hid the bullets Directed at my chest You thought I didn't notice I gave you space to shout I gave you space to run amok A thousand tiny shots A burning point I let you explode Tell me how do you feel, tell me how it shuts A thousand tiny tiny cuts Now ring the bells or let me crush Treat me like a dog, treat me like an animal I can see you growl but there's just no sound at all I can make you crack, repair everything you've done Take your power back, turn your voice, turn your voice To an ultra... Treat me like a dog, treat me like an animal I can see you growl but there's just no sound at all I can make you crack, repair everything you've done Take your power back, turn your voice, turn your voice To an ultrasound
3.
Skipping Stones 04:15
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There’s something inside my head Behind my face, behind my name Fragilizing the surface Breaking the gate, tearing the veil (And soon the water will go up as I go down, as I go down) (And soon the water will go up as I go down, as I go down) If life is a noise I don’t know why I couldn’t explode Try to be heard of A remnant sound of what you don’t know Of what you don’t know (I won’t float) Let me sink like a stone (Rip it off and blow it all) The skin on which we all bounce off (Rip it off and blow it all) A few ripple that we call souls (A few ripple that we call noise) And all that noise Will be no more (And soon the water will go up as I go down, as I go down) If life is a noise I don’t know why I couldn’t explode Try to be heard of A remnant sound of what you don’t know Of what you don’t know I’ve heard many noise I’ve trembled like every soul exposed To every ripple, every lost sound Away from its source If life is a noise I don’t know why I couldn’t explode Try to be heard of A remnant sound of what you don’t know If life is a noise I don’t know why I couldn’t explode Try to be heard of A remnant sound of what you don’t know Of what you don’t know
4.
Duality 05:28
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I’ve been tested, self-sedated Years I’ve waited but still nothing comes up I’ve been patient, cold and latent Scared of your hands my system could corrupt Cause a second too soon could evolve in a wrong fantasy And I can’t Running at the right pace is torture when you hate your face And I can’t For I was chased, burnt and wasted Demonized by those who swore to erase Who I became, self-strangled stem I exploded and out-lighted what’s left Rise once more For I, I’ve been left to fall Silently I woke up Silently and quietly My rage became something much colder Than the truth you gave me And I fed myself with the crumblings Of your shattered expectations You paved the road I’m now running I told you you could learn something Cause a second too soon could evolve in a wrong fantasy And I can’t Running at the right pace is torture when you hate your face And I can’t Rise once more For I, I’ve been left to fall Rise once more For I, I’ve been left to fall Conspire with me, ally with me I need you Step out my mind, hush your voices down I need you Conspire with me, ally with me I need you Step out my mind, hush your voices down I need you
5.
Silence And Noise 03:30
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6.
Wrong Side of the Screen 05:04
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These days I wanted to get lost and get found By someone who would look behind me I would get crushed by the words I told them Without applying them to me And the embers inside my head Would find the strength to look out for the wind The thing would work again For the fire would take back all these years When I was just a satellite A bystander of my own life Frozen still and left aside By my own mind When I was holding the light Waiting in the curtains line Frozen still and left aside By my mind I’m from the wrong side of the screen I’m only told what you have seen The colors, the colors I don’t know I’m from the wrong side of the screen I’m only told what you have seen The music, the music I don’t know Right now, I’m starting to wonder If the race was worth the pain Facing all this mess Is a torture worse than the thing itself And the cuts are letting the vapes Coming out of the awoken man And the thing would work again I’m from the wrong side of the screen I’m only told what you have seen The colors, the colors I don’t know I’m from the wrong side of the screen I’m only told what you have seen The music, the music I don’t know I’m from the wrong side of the screen I’m only told what you have seen The colors, the colors I don’t know I’m from the wrong side of the screen I’m only told what you have seen The music, the music I don’t know I’m from the wrong side I’m from the wrong side The pace is calming down a bit Before exploding once again It may be the last time It may end up in smithereens and stains The rusted pipes will roar Like an ancient beast of a dark age A fusion of deceit and rage
7.
Melatonin 03:43
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Fill me up Up and down Down to the point of no return I am trapped Between two seconds Two beats of my heart A paused falling Give me light Light and warmth Cause nothing else will Fuel me more Shatter me Bring me down You’re water for a dying plant Polluted None should hold on to Browbeating by the need A stopped fighting Give me light Light and warmth Cause nothing else will Fuel me more And now my nights are like my days They start to look the same Tortured, blurred and grey Like the center of my head I need time to solve me out It’s something I’m used to Cover me
8.
Voca Me 05:03
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Encircle my mind And lock up my mouth For my words and thoughts Might hurt everyone Voca me Re-ignite my soul And re-build my bones I drowned like a stone Still I scream my call Voca me Among the blessed Among the blessed Among the blessed Among the blessed Among the blessed Among the blessed Among the blessed Among the blessed Voca me
9.
The Architect 02:57
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I'm loading, buzzing, conceptualizing (What is the key?) What is the key? I'm floating, roaming, forever orbiting (What is the key?) What is the key? I'm freezing, doubting, forever spinning (Locked into space) Locked into space And loading, buzzing, conceptualizing (Locked into space) Locked into space How did I end up here? How did I end up here? I'm loading, buzzing, conceptualizing What is the key? What is the key? I'm floating, roaming, forever orbiting What is the key? What is the key? I'm freezing, doubting, forever spinning Locked into space Locked into space And loading, buzzing, conceptualizing Locked into space Locked into space
10.
Mirrors 04:26
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Come and share your wounds Tell me what you know Tell me where you go I must know Every hole in your path Every hope in your heart There’s something we will do I’ll stay with you Are the words I needed Are the words that I craved I’d kill for just a call but I know I can’t be saved In your eyes I can’t be Would you spend some time loving me? I hated being yours Locked my face behind doors Because of just one voice Now destroyed Every hole could be mine Every hope is a shrine I could have gone to you One step for two And the words we needed And the words that we craved I look at pictures now and there’s so much to understand In your eyes there’s nothing We could have used sometime maybe And the words we needed And the words that we craved Were stuck behind a monolith of suffering we made In my eyes I repeat The bright moments that time delete
11.
Colors 05:51
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This is, this is how I feel Dislocated from my own will A pressure to get back in Like nothing went down Like nothing went down I'm a volcano that can't sleep Fighting with a voice buried deep I'm afraid of diving in Like falling upside down Healing yet broken All your colors will fade out All your colors will fade out I still husk every little thing I feel draggling on my skin In fragile balance between All the peace I show up And the war I shut up, I shut up Hold me like I was never real A dream someone tried to conceal Secure my hands, my body From sleeping pills I take I will grow two heads I feel the look of the single-eyed on me I feel the look of the single-eyed All your colors will fade out All your colors will fade out Tearing me apart, tearing me, tearing me Tearing me apart, tearing me, tearing me Tearing me apart, tearing me, tearing me Tearing me apart, tearing me, tearing me Tearing me apart, tearing me, tearing me Tearing me apart, tearing me, tearing me Tearing me apart, tearing me apart Tearing me apart, tearing me, tearing me All your colors will fade out
12.
The Great Escape 05:24
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Here I lay down Where I've chosen I wasn't meant to start It doesn't mean I'll stop But here I'll find some rest Here I'll find relief Alone I need it Now I crave it I wasn't meant to stop But I can't keep this up Here I'll find some rest Here I'll find relief Alone

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released June 2, 2023

Music by Clément Barou & Lucas Biguet-Mermet
Lyrics by Clément Barou
Drums and piano recorded by Stéphane PIOT - Les Studios de l’Hacienda (Sainte-Colombe-sur-Gand), all other instruments and vocals recorded by Lucas Biguet-Mermet - The Toolshed Studio (Villeurbanne) between March and June 2020.
Mixed and mastered by Chris Coulter - Decimal Studio (London)

Art direction by Julie Tuffery
Photography by Thomas Cazorla and Kay Malleon

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KNTC
Clément Barou - lead vocals, guitar, piano, keys, bass
Lucas Biguet-Mermet - drums, percussions, backing vocals, bass

String Arrangement by KNTC
String performed by
Hélène Duhesme - Violins
Lucie Large - Alto
Anne-Elisabeth Leroy - Cello

Beat programming on “Colors” by Benjamin Geffen

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We’d like to thank
Pierre-Olivier Da-Silva
Chloé François
Joris Fleurot
Mathieu Mascré-Pothier
Charlotte Massanès
Kevin Metzger
Jawad Oumama
Rémi Sève
Our friends, families, and everybody out there supporting our work, giving us the strength to push forward and enabling us to do what we love the most.

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“The Great Escape”, nouvel album prévu en 2021.
Attirés par les artistes qui brouillent les pistes: Billie Eilish, Radiohead ou encore Gojira, KNTC s’exprime avec une forte sensibilité qui prend aux tripes, et nous invite à plonger dans ses titres parfois sauvages, parfois mélancoliques, pour y découvrir un univers où pop et métal n’ont plus vraiment de frontières. ... more

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