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snow flakes 2022

by elite gymnastics

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kai
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kai Jamie is a beacon of light. Thank you!! Favorite track: snow flakes.
nosynth
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nosynth Reconnecting with Jaime's music is a tearful reunion. The years since Ruin EP have left me with new kindness and strength; I have so little hope now. But this is something I can cling to. Favorite track: omamori piano fantasy [ft. conrad tao].
woke spice
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woke spice this is the final fantasy VII remake of the elite gymnastics discography we've all been waiting for Favorite track: snow flakes.
moontracebb
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moontracebb Such a wonderful surprise, I’ve been waiting for an elite gymnastics album for a long time. I’m so happy a version of “here in heaven” made it on here. It’s one of my favorite songs of all time and this is another beautiful version. Also living for the Beatles nod, girl you’re going to carry that weight. Also also “We Fly High” coming back as “snow flakes” is incredible. Favorite track: here, in heaven [ft. conrad tao].
rose
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rose cultural recursion, art which inspires others to make their own and, in turn, come back to where they started. songs which have existed in some form for a decade now but only truly make sense in this Here and Now form. easily jaime's best work, a record that clicks easily into place whether this is the first time you've heard these songs or the hundredth. an album that radiates *authenticity*. Favorite track: here, in heaven [ft. conrad tao].
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1.
it’s like a spark it’s just like a tiny little flickering light i just close it off i close it off until it burns out and dies if everything goes bad i can’t just call you there’s no way to go back and talk to the old you cuz things change and people do die and every single thing that you love can disappear overnight cuz things change right before your eyes sometimes it’s like the world is moving so slow until it passes you by it’s like a fire it’s just like a white-hot flame that’s burning inside if i let it out it might leave nothing but ashes behind if everything goes bad you can’t just call me there’s no way to go back and talk to the old me cuz things change and people do try and every single thing that you want can just appear overnight cuz things change and baby so do i sometimes it’s like the world is moving so slow until you open your eyes cuz things change and people do die and every single thing that i was just disappears overnight cuz things change and baby so do i sometimes it’s like the world is moving so slow until you open your eyes
2.
it's yours! 02:38
when i’m dead i will be survived by a total absence of surprise by the wistful sighs and dejected shrugging of everyone who saw it coming when i’m dead my phone will still blow up my friends still calling to find drugs a billion unread messages asking where the afterparty is it’s yours yeah this is where i take my leave of you it’s yours when i’m dead i will be reunited with everyone i used to get high with gathered together in a warm place indistinguishable from LA when i’m dead they will all be sorry about all those times i borrowed money about all my unrealized dreams to go to school for cosmetology it’s yours oh yeah the burden must now shift to you, it’s yours no matter what those crypto dipshits do, it’s yours even if nobody knows it but you, it belongs to no one else cuz when i’m dead they will toast my life at my friends’ shitty DJ nights no one will hear their speeches clearly they’ll all just think it’s someone’s birthday when i’m dead the hardest hit will be the uncracked eggs still languishing grief will come and they’ll have to fight it or they’ll just disappear like i did it’s yours so lest the gun from act one go unused it’s yours because the rest of us got shit to do it’s yours oh yeah it’s so much worse now than we knew the queen is dead long may she rule it’s yours and even thought you didn’t ask it to the prophecy at last came true and it calls on no one else but you it’s yours
3.
how many more how many more times do you think we can bleed? how many more how many more times before? the vein it gets punctured but nothing comes up, for you’ve drained everything and you got no one to feed on anymore how could you do it? why are you doing this? you turn a light on, baby and a neighborhood gets burned it will be ruined by the time you’re through with it so in sha’allah, baby you get what you deserve how many more how many more times can you fall in love? how many more how many more times before whatever you taste or you smell or you touch you just can’t get high enough yeah, you can’t even feel it anymore how could you do it? why are you doing this? you turn a light on, baby and a neighborhood gets burned it will be ruined by the time you’re through with it so in sha’allah, baby the bill comes due yeah you know it’s true and the day comes soon where you get what you deserve how could you do it? why are you doing this? you turn a light on, baby and a neighborhood gets burned it will be ruined by the time you’re through with it so in sha’allah, baby you get what you deserve
4.
let’s take a picture of everyone in the bathroom let’s pull it up and lay it down on the floor let’s gather around it and take a long look at yourselves let’s gather around it and all take turns you and me, we’ve come a long way together in music and friendship, in love and in loss oh wait i’m sorry i thought you were my friend, shit i don’t really come here, i think i might be lost hey i think i really like you wait i think you’re really cool hey maybe we belong together oh but if not i mean that’s cool it doesn’t matter what other people say they’re never gonna understand anyway you and me, let’s lay it all on the table all of us, let’s put it all on that mirror how can it be that we haven’t been introduced yet? so sick to meet you, so dope that you are here no, just take some. you don’t have to pay me you don’t need to know the steps to do the dance if our hands shake then let’s put them together when this is all over will we still be friends? hey i think i really like you wait i think you’re really cool hey maybe we belong together oh but if not i mean that’s cool it doesn’t matter what other people say they’re never gonna understand anyway
5.
little things wrapped up in plastic tucked into jackets and then brought home little queen of trashed apartments extracted plasma and stepped on blow i used to hope life would consist of a million days like this i’m afraid that they will never stop little strings that used to bind us trailing behind us, bombycidae you and me, we traded curses but was it worth it? i couldn’t say when i was high i made a wish and now i can’t remember what it did i’m afraid that this is what it was this kind of thing is cyclical you’re sure and that given time it will reverse but you wait and it never does i’m afraid that this will never stop i’m afraid but i will never stop little routines we keep repeating without thinking about what it means little things about the mirror i never noticed til it was clean i used to hope life would consist of a million nights like this i’m afraid they will never stop so if this is really the last time go and tell whoever that i’m buying it’s a shame, that’s all it ever was
6.
hi i’m calling for stereo mike i’m calling about the free bran van tickets you know, for the show at pacific palisades what? are you sure? you can’t be serious! stereo mike is dead???
7.
yeah she was exhausted she had to stop listening to the DSA chair talk about how one day they’ll be ready but today they’re not they can’t make molehills into mountains that’s when she started moving up to the door but before she could get through it the word came forth said “honey i’ll meet you at home, like, after four” she left and got zankou chicken and so on the final night before the start of the war the sex was fine but seconds in she still got bored the chair passed out, went on to snore another one-sided conversation as the sun peeked through the valley at the roof of the house a car waited outside to bring them both to town the absence of explosions it was quite pronounced but at that point, who would notice? girl, you’re gonna carry that weight a long time i went to see her do a thing at a comedy night like “i don’t mean to sound dramatic but i’d probably die if i wasn’t really high basically all of the time” it was the truth and we all laughed that’s when the agents busted in with orders to disperse whoever tried to reason with em all went right in the dirt there was no way out and we all got burned they’re cleaning up for the olympics while they did that an improvised explosive device tore up cactus taquiera number one on vine and after that the traffic just metastasized when they diverted it onto fountain i said this would never happen if we had more trains but she’s like “those would just be targets for attacks these days” then the road ahead burst into flames turns out it was just a tesla girl you’re gonna carry that weight a long time i don’t mean to sound dramatic but i’d probably die if i wasn’t really high basically all of the time i don’t mean to sound dramatic but i’d probably die before it was a story but i mean it this time
8.
you want me to use you so that you can feel useful because that is the only way that you feel love if i can be truthful i feel like i’m the one that’s being used can’t you see i love you? isn’t that enough? is it ok to go through life being untouchable? is it ok to be in love with something dead? what happens to use if we accept that i’m unfixable? it’s ok it’s ok it’s ok i didn’t mean what i said so afraid to tell you this isn’t what i’m used to but the last thing that you want me to do with you is talk and this is how i hurt you: by trying so hard not to can’t you see i love you? please let that be enough is it ok to go through life being untouchable? is it ok to be in love with something dead? what happens to use if we accept that i’m unfixable? it’s ok it’s ok it’s ok i didn’t mean what i said
9.
snow flakes 05:31
last year i used to live with a girlfriend in her best friend slash dealer’s basement she’d catch shifts at a BP on kenneth and pretend not to notice me shoplift and on nights when we couldn’t afford to go upstairs and see if we could score we’d drop dex and just lay on the floor go on soulseek and pass some stale weed back and forth after a line though i’d grin like a kid tell everyone that i love them and then drive over the ford parkway bridge with the seats back listening to B96 whole reason i wanted to be a DJ was the feeling i got when i was rolling off my face thought that sidechain compression sincerely was the most important thing in all of existence because of the upper cuts and dj sprinkles tender buttons and fabulous muscles afro finger and gel and eureka the ecstasy of saint theresa world of echo in shining violence i feel like dying i feel like dying planetary natural love gas webbin let us never speak of it again spent a half hour after bar close chasing an afterparty out in the snow climbed four stories up a fire escape knocked three times on the metal door to the space and got nothing the only party even going on that weekend was some shit the 90s guys were throwing oh yeah you know the ones going on about some rave from way back when if they’re fucked up and they forget we are not their friends we didn’t hear about it though because fuck those guys who feign respect so unconvincingly if offered a line and dole out nuggets of outdated condescending advice as if it’s any less annoying if they’re being polite but i mean that’s ok consider the reverse sometimes the people who like us are somehow even worse slamming so hard up on the booth that serato skips to say “play every van she tech remix there is” yeah just play every van she tech remix there is i met with laura at the nomad to pick up i used to see her all the time back when i still was sleeping on the floor of that one law office they had a window i could reach and they never locked it she bounded up and she kissed me on the cheek slipped it into my pocket real real sleek an Eddie Bauer that i think came from the store at the mall of america on the second floor someone asked me “how can you even afford this, girl? you’ve been broke since before you attained consciousness” i said “it’s not about having the money for it, it’s about not having any other reason to live …but to play every van she tech remix there is! one after the other! one after the other! every van she tech remix there is” even after all of that we didn’t even do any of it there was nothing going on there never is
10.
life trap 03:40
cry let yourself cry sometimes it doesn’t go away if you hold it inside dance dance with all your might you will always hate yourself if you don’t try every day i’m in a trap and every day you’re in the trap with me tonight it will not end tonight you think it’s all a circle but you’re out of time light go home when it’s light the hardest part is waking up and facing life every day i’m in a trap and every day you’re in the trap with me
11.
i bought this amulet because i am afraid of death because you are my best friend i am afraid that will end i bought this talisman made from a lion’s skin once free a beautiful king i hope we don’t end up like him the more it grows the more it dies the more you know the less you try you bought some cigarettes because you’re ignorant of death because you think if you’re fearless even death will be impressed i bought this talisman made from a lion’s skin once fierce now silent and still you remind me of him the more it grows the more it dies the more you know the less you try
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the first album by elite gymnastics. created by jaime brooks and viri char with help from conrad tao and chloe hotline during 2020-2022.

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released October 18, 2022

elite gymnastics is jaime brooks and viri char
conrad tao performed strings on track 1, everything on track 8, and vocals/piano/bass on track 11
chloe hotline performed and arranged track 12
mixed and mastered by jaime brooks except "chloe 4-ever" mixed and mastered by chloe hotline

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