Made Flesh is the second album by Extra Life. According to Rock-A-Rolla magazine, the album is "darker, harder and bleaker" than its predecessor Secular Works. Writing in The Quietus, Noel Gardner said "I heard over a thousand other albums in 2010, and none of them made as lasting an impression as this one, or sounded so little like anything else currently being made and described as 'rock music'...the best album of [2010]."
A music video has been made for "Head Shrinker".
Charlie Looker: Guitar, Vocals
Travis Laplante: keyboards, tenor sax, EWI
Anthony Gedrich: bass, contrabass
Nick Podgurski: drums, percussion
Caley Monahon-Ward: violin, mandolin, engineer
Guest musicians:
Ian Antonio: glockenspiel, vibraphone, crotales, wood block
Larkin Grimm: backing vocals on "One of Your Whores" and "Head Shrinker".
I've got the spirit in me
My vague and secret wind
I'll make it firm so you can see
Produce my secret, dwell among ye
A man's will made flesh
A man's will made flesh
No longer mist, no longer mystery
Mute sacred breath now speaks as raw meat
Flex and glisten, flex and glisten, take to the street
A life's silent name swells, knotted and profane
Pumped up and made plain
You've got it in you too
Too subtle, too holy
Press it out in full view
Flex that secret made material
A promise made good
A promise made good
No longer mist, no longer mystery
Mute sacred breath now speaks as raw meat
Flex and glisten, flex and glisten, take to the street
A life's silent name swells, knotted and profane
Pumped up and made plain
Pumped up and made plain
Made plain
Made plain
My secret made plain
Made plain
Made plain
Made plain
My secret made plain
My secret dwell among ye
My secret made flesh
My secret dwell among ye, dwell among ye
My secret dwell among ye
My secret made flesh
My secret made flesh
My secret made flesh
My secret made flesh
My secret made flesh
Dwell among ye
No longer mist, no longer, no longer mystery
Mute sacred breath now speaks as raw meat
Flex and glisten, flex and glisten, take to the street
A life's silent name swells, knotted and profane
No longer mist, no longer mystery
Mute sacred breath now speaks as raw meat
Flex and glisten, flex and glisten, flex and glisten, take to the street
A life's silent name swells, knotted and profane
Pumped up and made plain
Pumped up and made plain