AU (band)
AU is a Portland, Oregon experimental pop group established by multi-instrumentalist Luke Wyland. Wyland started AU in 2005 while completing a degree at the Massachusetts College of Art. He later moved cross-country to Portland and established a base in its music community. Now a working live band, AU features an ever-changing roster of players, recently including Jonathan Sielaff (Parenthetical Girls, Nick Jaina) on guitar, clarinets and saw; and Dana Valatka (Mustaphamond) on drums. Contributors to AU's recordings included Mark Kaylor (Hamor of Hathor, CexFucx), Becky Dawson (Saw Whet, Ah Holly Fam’ly), and Sarah Winchester (A Weather).
Its self-titled debut album was praised by such media centers as Pitchfork and Stereogum, and was named #2 Portland Album of 2007 by The Portland Mercury, which said AU “manages to erase the high art/low art boundary between American contemporary classical music and American pop music, blending them into a simple, compelling, verse-chorus celebration... (and) is the rare band that can reinvent its songs live and still manage to match their recorded quality."
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You Could Drag Me To Hell
by: LakelandWatch Out!!
Boy get your head out of the clouds,
I can’t respect your generation
The vibrations from your counterparts
are driving me impatient
So am I right or am I wrong,
or do you have no will to say it
I’m in high demand,
and like I said "I ain’t too patient"
Don’t you know who I am?
I am the chosen one
Place your trust all in me,
like I’m the Holy Son
Adam ate out Eve,
so baby why can’t we
Just start enjoying yourself,
like I’m enjoying yourself
So baby what’s it going to be,
I’ve already ate from that tree
I’m not saying that I’m right,
but it could be a crazy night
So let me take that purity,
it’s so much nicer next to me
Just start enjoying yourself
cause I’m enjoying yourself
Oh yeah, I love it when you do it right
Oh yeah, you know that you’re doing it right
Just let yourself go, don’t let your body say no
I can show you the world, I can show you deception
Just let yourself go, don’t let your body say no
Don’t say no, don’t say no
This is that time to tell the truth again
I think you like me a little bit better as a lover than a friend
I hope you’re right, a thousand times, I hope you’re right
But you know I do enough, just enough, to g-g-get by
You’re all going to hell
Well it is going to be a party
Just let yourself go, don’t let your body say no
I can show you the world, I can show you deception
Just let yourself go, don’t let your body say no
Don’t say no, don’t say no
You’re all going to hell
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