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Wonderkind

by Language Arts

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    Wonderkind: 1.A feeling of surprise caused by a person, persons or things holding characteristics of beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable traits.
    2. A curiosity or sense of caution or suspicion due to the benevolent disposition of a person.

    Produced by: Darryl Neudorf & Language Arts
    Guitar/Vocals: Kristen Cudmore
    Drums: Neil MacIntosh
    Keys/Accordion: Joel Visentin
    Bass/Mandolin: Joe Ernewein
    Trumpets: JP Carter
    Violin: Randy Lee
    Cello: Alex McMaster
    Gang Vocals: Teen Ranch Ensemble
    Engineer & Mixer: Darryl Neudorf at Operation Northwoods in Orangeville
    Trumpet Engineer: David Sikula at Demitone in Vancouver
    Album Art & Layout: Gordon B. Isnor
    Photograph: Wayne Eardley
    Song Compositions & Arrangements: Kristen Cudmore (SOCAN)

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    Wonderkind: 1.A feeling of surprise caused by a person, persons or things holding characteristics of beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable traits. 2. A curiosity or sense of caution or suspicion due to the benevolent disposition of a person.

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1.
Is that the light of the magical fun? I've been inhabiting this space as the lonely one For so long I've been thinking: 'Where have my homies gone?' It's been a struggle through building an empire ...and waiting for you... I'm starting to get established by the way of habit I'm wondering about life and which way to have it Connecting is the challenge, oh where is the static? Then suddenly I met you and then I felt magic When you first kissed my cheek, it was like a bucket of sparkles being poured all over me When our eyes first met, I felt an electricity ...and when we first spoke, I spoke so nervously When you first kissed my cheek, it was like a bucket of sparkles being poured all over me I think I felt something more than amazing I think I felt something more than amazing
2.
5 W's 03:50
Who’s been to this place before? What feelings are too heavy and full? Where do the memories flurry and soar? When my love for you is eroding me So why don’t I think I can be this girl who loves you more? How should I say what this is for? When it feels like someone’s keeping score? Who? What? Where? When? Why? is this such a yo-yo? When my love for you is eroding So why don’t I think I can be this girl who loves you more?
3.
Wonderkind 04:04
Looking out at a city so bright Darkened, inside the eyelids You handed over your treasures Like they hadn’t even become yours yet Whispering out, “Why do I..” ...and, “How has it come to this?” A moment’s of interaction Sanctified by a wish But the ringing is calling me out The greatest distraction I’ll give away all of it Through emotional reaction I am made of time And in that time I concentrate it Making sounds of what’s in my mind Nothing can really explain it It’s the wonderkind... It’s a wonderkind...
4.
Reality sets in as I drain another pen Are we the same people now that we were then? Let's explore this tree that we hang from From and through all of its seasons I'll go to bed feeling picked over tonight And if I feel this way, does it mean you might? Because my mind is a mess, feeling compressed Like rabbits a-beating up a-beating up my chest How is this love, is it because I wonder? It consumes my mind, my heart's in the blender I've done the math but the science doesn't make sense Or maybe it's that you were never really present I feel like this is a test and this is me thinking I feel like I'm the best ship, the best ship at sinking I'm just flip-flopping like a fish out of water in front of these high-beams It's times like these, oh can I please have somebody sitting next to me If I hadn't missed the appointment, would it have died everywhere? There's a shadow on the window, I can feel a ghost in here I need some help, but I didn't know the cost Will anything change? Because I find myself lost I try so hard to be, but I'm not ready, I know Am I walking to fast or am I running too slow? I'll try to build momentum like it's never been done at all Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and then you'll never ever fall
5.
Who cares that I've changed? I'm leaving mistake-land's hurting Who cares how I'll speak? I've never been that good at wording This is a new conquest I have the ability to be able This is how I'll go about it I'm capable because I am capable Oh and how you had once greeted me there I once was alone in this conundrum No need to feed the ego who lives here It is all in my imagination Have I lost my youth in this predicament? Patience with me I think I know all about what I want But I really have no idea I try and picture the beautiful things Someone told me this before Oh tangible world, oh tangible world Is a doorway without the door Oh and how you had once greeted me there I once was alone in this conundrum No need to feed the ego who lives here It is all in my imagination I feel I need love and I need love I feel But I probably just feel that I want it I am moving out of this broken house The one that you, that you once haunted Oh and how you had once greeted me there I once was alone in this conundrum No need to feed the ego who lives here It is all in my imagination
6.
Look what happened between you, way up there from a hot air balloon Were you a desert or a beach for call? It's simple to be not that simple at all You had a chance to be certain, on the ball Do we all see the same world at all? You were given the path and the black ink Send your pain down the kitchen sink You thanked a storm a glorious day to think Held the cat, looked out the window without a blink When you look out the window, you'll find that it's harder to see in the mirror You shoveled the snow and went in for a snack And you wish you had a rocket-pack strapped to your back To fly into the jet stream and make friends with it up there intact In hopes of surviving a broken heart attack So say it firm that you love yourself whole Don't think about what could have been anymore You are done the battle, you are done the war You are done the battle, you are done the war There's a house by a willow tree That is where you were made to be We will be there through everything Waiting and waiting Look what happened between you, way up there from a hot air balloon
7.
Illusion 03:48
Is it all an illusion? Give it your all from the veru start Tip-toe around the cycle Break your back and cross your heart There's a place you can go If you can get there if you get to sleep Go in blindly with your feelers out You'll find your way around so familiarly Open a blank book Let your brain out of its cage Try to understand Your sanest place is your age Turn the page over And fill it up with what-abouts Pretend to confront all of the nothings Eraser in hand to wear it out I don't know all about What's happening in this place It seems I can't see what you're talking about Is it all an illusion? Tonight I write from my heart And I work my way around I feel beat, beat too many pounds Beat down by the game, beat down by the sound I did not come here to fight Defeated, I won't show my might My days will get better, right? I need to fall asleep tonight I don't know all about What's happening in this place It seems I can't see what you're talking about Is it all an illusion?
8.
Old Familar 05:13
If I saw you there I’d say that I was unreasonable Would it be the old familiar? Is it inevitable? You came to me in my sleep Securing me in stories Would it be the old familiar? They’ll stay with me until the morning Can’t I be your little sparkle? I’m chasing my words away I have the Peter Pan syndrome That is getting in the way Can’t I be your firecracker What is it I want to say? I wonder will this get better Maybe yes but not today I certainly miss the fall I do I do Then I think what I had What I had with you I sort out my insides And I become something new Molded into a mouth To practice to tell the truth Could it be the old familiar?
9.
We are here Building a mountain With our bare hands Taking the soil Making habitats For our new lands When we look down we can see all that we did And if we walk about we can relive All that happened... We are, we are building a mountain! It would be all worth it When sitting next to you When we continue to top such a marvelous view Through the heat frost and rain I would build it with you all over again Declaring a purpose giving a hand First to build a mountain you’ll need a little bit of land We are, we are building a mountain! It can be done in a paint by numbers fashion We can create anything we can imagine We can be almost anything we can be We can be almost anything We are, we are building a mountain!
10.
I started a new book And then I moved house Picked a new city Held my mouth I didn’t say much Nothing’s left to be told After that night The veins in my temples exploded I took flight Many times before My head it felt like cracking My heart became a door I think I served a purpose But no one will ever know I’ll think of these chapters fondly And I’ll go where I will grow But who is going to love you When I’m no longer around? And what will become of me When I leave this town? I hear a distant whistling Like it is calling me home Sleep sweet to loons calling In this palindrome ‘Cause every time I sleep I see it, it is not really there Every time I sing I get really scared Feeling tired From this bed in the sky Flounder in wonder Like I am a child A new beginning Become a new place With a new place full of stuff Becomes a new face Then landing on arms of friends My armor fell too And it landed down there With the fireworks crew Becoming full blown motion With many mixed matches Simplicity is a state of mind That fumigates and ashes And the sound of it all As it sets fire It blasts out the stories As my eyes tire It forms and makes shapes Of sailing away words and vowels And then I take flight all over Like a flock of midnight owls

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Wonderkind: 1.A feeling of surprise caused by a person, persons or things holding characteristics of beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable traits.
2. A curiosity or sense of caution or suspicion due to the benevolent disposition of a person.

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released April 1, 2014

Produced by: Darryl Neudorf & Language Arts
Guitar/Vocals: Kristen Cudmore
Drums: Neil MacIntosh
Keys/Accordion: Joel Visentin
Bass/Mandolin: Joe Ernewein
Trumpets: JP Carter
Violin: Randy Lee
Cello: Alex McMaster
Gang Vocals: Teen Ranch Ensemble
Engineer & Mixer: Darryl Neudorf at Operation Northwoods in Orangeville
Trumpet Engineer: David Sikula at Demitone in Vancouver
Album Art & Layout: Gordon B. Isnor
Photograph: Wayne Eardley
Song Compositions & Arrangements: Kristen Cudmore (SOCAN)

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