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The Star

by Cheeky

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Pressed on heavyweight 180g black vinyl. Housed in standard jacket with printed insert.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Star via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
I was born with it I was born with it hair that climbs up my spine up my neck into my mind I was born with it manipulative ears and eyes in my bed what do I find I was born with it someone else’s shadow sewn into my ankles I was born shame to be alive I was born too alarmed to cry S-L-I-G-H-H-H-T I was born with it I was born with it
2.
Computer 02:29
looking down I’ve said enough seen the apple fall like it always does looking down heavy enough to have outgrown this stuff in a family house it’s the afterlife and all we have’s the pictures on the phone like we always have on a private road where my daughter’s home I could tell you about the people I used to love and the computer goes on and on
3.
I know what I wanted to say in my hands and in my head the talk belongs to me again I know what I wanted to say outside of the the house of violence far beyond where you’ll never find me words set into euphoric motion it’s always around around I wanna tell you if it’s always around around I wanna tell you and if there if there is always a way around I know what I wanted to say now that I can feel what is dead the talk belongs to me again disguised in your your poetry far beyond where you’ll never find me set into euphoric motion
4.
Your Name 02:24
I go so faraway just to lose that sound but everyplace I go your name is on the ground when I hear your name I’m inside out ‘cause I never heard a name that could get me never heard a name that could get me so so high I let the garden go I plunge into the crowd the introductions I don’t want but god I wish that you’d come up when I hear your name I’m inside out ‘cause I never heard a name that could get me never heard a name that could get me so high I will wait my life to see you again
5.
Nightwalk 02:38
it’s nice to be away I’m telling myself that it’s fine to hide sometimes into the tree barricade leaves it’s nice to ride glad into the nightwind on the new pavement city time is right in strangers’ sheets but only once a week I walk so far in the night the walk is all that I have the walk is all that I am I’m telling myself that I walk so far in the night the walk is all that I am the work is right where I am I’m telling myself that telling myself that
6.
when I am your star I fear I’m growing thin among the other ones the eye contact a testament I find you on the other end whatever each we emanate it sounds it starves the same when I am your enemy you look just like a saint like you said you would when I held your reflection I thought you were just looking the eye contact a testament I find you on the other end when I held your reflection the eye contact a testament when I held your reflection like you said you would when I held your reflection
7.
can you feel feel the rift could you be my witness holy, holy, holy, holy, holy holy, holy, holy, holy, holy if there is a question and my light is low in the aftermath that’s where I’m before the word I know I told you to leave me alone in the middle of the night that’s when I cook your meals holy, holy, holy, holy, holy it’s such a gorgeous sight to see you eat holy, holy, holy, holy, holy such a gorgeous sight to see you eat holy, holy, holy, holy, holy
8.
Mirror 03:14
when you change color your eyes run backward watching you exiting and walk along the walls of me desperate desperate to know you desperate to know you desperate to know you how do you alter and show up like seasons you bring them to me I trim back the leaves you’re reading and re-reading desperate to know me do you know me? desperate to know me do you know me? if feelings fall out and then come violent as before would you still like to be my body in my mirror

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The Star is the debut full-length album of electro artist Cheeky. Written and recorded in the basement of her childhood home, the project evokes nostalgia, euphoria, dampened with the forces of her influences- most notably, Bjork, Baths and Animal Collective. At first glance it's a fully formed picture, but a more detailed examination reveals an abundance of impish aural brushstrokes lurking beneath the surface. Refractions and reflections come and go in the Cheeky mirror, be they the chittering electronics of early 00's IDM, the tech-addled iciness of 2010's bass music, or the quasi-schmaltz of film soundtracks and other such pageantry. The result is deceptively complex; a harmonically charged, modernist enigma swaddled in pastel sarongs, eyes on the future with accessories from times gone by. ✴

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released May 25, 2022

Written, recorded, performed and produced by Kaylee Sabatino, 2022. Further mixing & small additions by Michael Johnson.

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Cheeky Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Cheeky is the solo electronic project of classically trained pianist Kaylee Sabatino. Growing up on a diet of Italian opera, early Disney scores, and piano lessons from the age of 5, she learned to approach composing with a sense of drama and grandiose. Embracing digital production in her unique way, each song is constructed into its own small world, with distinctly colored atmospheres.
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