Every Missing Duck is a Duck Missed

by David E. Williams

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A touching and raw album as life can be.
A cruel sense of truth.
thank you. Favorite track: Do I Love You as Much as I Did When You Weren't Sick?.

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Williams’ 5th full length release (from Disques de Lapin, 2009) is largely inspired by the grief and futility following the illness and death of his girlfriend. Musically, it veers from somber piano ballads to electronic dirges to at least one grandiose epic with virtuoso live drums, odd time signatures and dissonant tone clusters (while still remaining catchy!). And... it's the CD home of his Idi Amin song!

“… as sad and as brutally real as it is, this is the David E. Williams release to own…” - Tony Dickie, Compulsion

“It may have been born out of great loss but for those who hear it, Every Missing Duck Is A Duck Missed certainly offers a great number of rewards, and is without doubt David’s finest moment to date…” - Lee Powell, Judas Kiss

“There is no one else alive who could turn the subject of leukaemia into a catchy two minute pop song, that he does this successfully not just once, but again and again, is testament to his abilities and the quality of his creative vision. No one else could have done this.” – Andrew King, Heathen Harvest

Cover artwork by Amy Kollar Anderson.
Released by Disques de Lapin in colorful digipack in keeping with that label's aesthetic.

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1.	Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden 03:08	info	buy track
2.	Save a Chair for Jennifer 02:21		buy track
3.	Here Comes the Cold Narrator 03:13		buy track
4.	Haiku, Interrupted 03:25		buy track
5.	Do I Love You as Much as I Did When You Weren't Sick? 04:05	lyrics	buy track
Isn’t it funny how a cell in the body can act with a mind of its own? When one becomes a million in all the metaphors melt amid the caterwaul as god returns the insult: a lover grieved is a burden relieved and all the time that I bought was bought with the wrong currency. There’s an answer I don’t want to hear to a question I don’t want to ask but do I love you as much as I did when you weren’t sick? The answer I don’t want to hear to the question I don’t want to ask: Do I love you as much as I did when you weren’t sick? I sing on the pedestrian bridge with an ambulance below on the street. We do this every night when I leave. We go “wee-ah, wee-ah, wee-ah, wee-ah, wee-ah” to a tune in time when two became three. "Y" is for "you" and "m" is for "me" and "a" is for "ARA-C" with a side of splenomegaly. There’s an answer I don’t want to hear to a question I don’t want to ask but do I love you as much as I did when you weren’t sick? The answer I don’t want to hear to the question I don’t want to ask: But do I love you as much as I did when you weren’t sick? Tomorrow is a rumor, you say and nobody else says anything save crestfallen Padre Pio who says to Doctor Moreau: "Give me a broken thermometer. One that reads a bit low…"
6.	Seance Gossip (Gossip Seance) 01:17		buy track
7.	Kill Yourself in Cape May 01:39		buy track
8.	Petals Open, Quickly Close, Cops Say 02:35		buy track
9.	Hymn to the Genius of Idi Amin 02:52		buy track
10.	Relentless and Unrelenting 03:48		buy track
11.	Lather 02:36	info	buy track
12.	Suicide Bomb 02:25	info	buy track
13.	Summer Wasn't Made for You and Me 01:49	info	buy track
14.	The Unconscious is Cold 06:20		buy track
15.	Hello, Young Lovers 03:40	info	buy track
16.	Their Paper Cranes Ablaze 04:34		buy track
17.	Closing Suite for My Deceased 05:33		buy track

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Williams’ 5th full length release (from 2009) is largely inspired by the grief and futility following the illness and death of a girlfriend. Musically, it veers from somber piano ballads to electronic dirges to at least one grandiose epic with virtuoso live drums, odd time signatures and dissonant tone clusters (while still remaining catchy!). And... it's the CD home of his Idi Amin song!

“… as sad and as brutally real as it is, this is the David E. Williams release to own…” - Tony Dickie, Compulsion

“It may have been born out of great loss but for those who hear it, Every Missing Duck Is A Duck Missed certainly offers a great number of rewards, and is without doubt David’s finest moment to date…” - Lee Powell, Judas Kiss

“There is no one else alive who could turn the subject of leukemia into a catchy two minute pop song, that he does this successfully not just once, but again and again, is testament to his abilities and the quality of his creative vision. No one else could have done this.” – Andrew King, Heathen Harvest

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released February 25, 2009

Jerome Deppe, Tristan Deppe, Adrina Hansen, Kenneth Brune, Ruston Grosse, Lisa Sunshine, Lora Bloom and other cool folks recorded mainly at Mr. Williams' house. Cover artwork by Amy Kollar Anderson. Originally released in CD digipack on Thomas Nola's Disques de Lapin label.

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David E. Williams Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

DAVID E. WILLIAMS has released numerous recordings of his demented chamber pop for over 3 decades, but he has also collaborated with other artists, such as Rozz Williams (Christian Death), Deathpile, Jerome Deppe, Naevus, Thomas Nola and Andrew King. He was also a fulltime member of The Muskets and Destroying Angel. ... more

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