Neat New Monuments

by TheHeligoats

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    Making Beds in a Burning House
    revisited and reimagined by Chris Otepka
    Recorded in Elburn, IL - Summer 2025

    Produced by: Patrick Richards and The Heligoats
    Recorded by: Mark Walker
    Additional Production by: Andy Chavez
    Mixed by: Ian League at Brown Bag Records - Nashville, TN
    Mastered by: Carl Saff at Saff Mastering
    Original pressing of 100 LP's by, Smashed Plastic - Chicago, IL

    Chris Otepka: Sing, Guitar, Percussion
    Patrick Richards: Bass
    Steven Wilson: Keys, Synth
    Kara Eubanks: Strings
    Ben Grigg: Horns
    Ian League: Guitar

    Artwork by: Dane Hokanson @GREYCOMICS
    Original “Falling Man” concept by: Kyle Romberg

    Released by: Sleep Recordings (SLP119)

    All Songs C&P by Chris Otepka
    You Stay Here I’ll Go Get Music (ASCAP) 2026

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    Foreign Leisure gave me a few to sell. They are nice. Same as the Foreign Leisure Records Bandcamp page! These are some of the last few copies. Troubled Hubble's "Making Beds in a Burning House." Recorded at Inner Ear Studios with Jason Caddell (Dismemberment Plan) 20th anny hype sticker and slick. Orange flame vinyl. They only printed 500. These are some of the last copies.

    Long out-of-print and back on vinyl for the first time in two decades, this HOUSE-IN-FLAMES colored pressing is limited to just 500 copies and comes in a beautiful gatefold sleeve—plus an insert with complete lyrics and extensive new liner notes.

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    Both the 2026, "Neat New Monuments," LP by the Heligoats on Sleep Recordings with the 20th Anniversary Reissue LP of "Making Beds in a Burning House," by Troubled Hubble, released by Foreign Leisure Records.

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    Get all 13 TheHeligoats releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

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Tell your mom, you’re not coming home tonight. You’ve got your youth, your will, and you’re willing to fight. And no conscience, could keep your heart in one piece, there’s passion to be found, there’s stress, there’s release. So, into the open fields to soak it all in and live your life like the world owes you something more than, what you have. Like a one way ticket or any free ride, a brand new box to put your head inside. Or a neat, new monument, with your name etched in. A home to call your own, new problem-free willingly withdraw from certainty and lack of sleep on the pure and peaceful path, of stupidity. Growing gets hard, waiting get’s old to you. I know, that feeling’s no fun, it feels like you’re out, down and done too. Oh grow up, when will you ever learn? When will you learn, that candle in the window is going to be the reason your whole house burns. And the money... It’s a carrot on a string. There’s a horse standing over a black hole basement after losing everything. But your car, you know, it runs like a dream, and your grass is so green. Everyone looks at you, like you’re an angel or something. But we’ll take the fake happy over knowing what’s wrong and we’ll give you the stuff that you need to belong, and hope that’s what you need, by a small chance. A quick and heavy dose of acceptance. Growing gets hard, time is running out. You’ll die, a young and exciting death and tell us all in your last breath, I’m done there’s nothing to be happy about. And we dance, and the flowers come up through the footstep floor mat. And now’s your chance, to seize this all, you seize this all, while you’re smile hides what’s beneath keeps the sadness a secret as we grow old, and take it all with us. Now, I know, there’s mistakes that go along with youth, so choose, to replace or take them with you and I feel so bad now that I’m so old, so angry, so broke so unhappy, tired and ugly.
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Bees 03:12
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I see molecules and I see you, I see the way that matter scatters out and makes things move. I see the backs of my eyelids have never looked so beautiful, there’s shapes and light with eyes so tight and swirling little pixels. It’s a funny seeming, fuzzy feeling to think about all I’m seeing, all that is, birds and fish, plants and apes and annelids. Traffic smoke and atmosphere, it’s a one way ticket out of here, it’s a science you can trust, it’s a molecule and it’s here with us. Finally I’m right, finally you’re wrong, I’ve seen molecules all along. To be young and dumb and innocent, to fear your life and want to live, to sleep and wake naturally, to treat your brain how it’s supposed to be. One with nature, two for tea, three’s a crowd and all for me, to walk the plank, find the shark, underwater, in the dark. The air we breathe, it comes from trees, not carried by air and sky, but is the breeze. Chlorophyll and bits of rice, ice cold water and warmed up ice, fish eat plankton and plankton is, molecules as food for fish. Finally I’m right, Finally you’re wrong, I’ve seen molecules, all along. I see molecules and I see you, I see friends in stars and faces in moons, and I see molecules I see light I see colors and shapes in the middle of the night. And finally I’m right, finally you’re wrong, finally I dance with confidence to songs, that sing of hope and love and truth, when you’re nothing, you’re still something, you’re molecules.
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Safe & Sound 03:21
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Floribraska 02:50
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Get Lost 03:01
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Making Beds in a Burning House revisited, reimagined, celebrated, 20 years later. Recorded in Elburn, IL, Summer 2025

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released June 5, 2026

Produced by: Patrick Richards and The Heligoats
Recorded by: Mark Walker
Additional Production by: Andy Chavez
Mixed by: Ian League at Brown Bag Records
Mastered by: Carl Saff at Saff Mastering

Chris Otepka: Sing, Guitar, Percussion
Patrick Richards: Bass
Steven Wilson: Keys, Synth
Kara Eubanks: Strings
Ben Grigg: Horns
Ian League: Guitar

Artwork by: Dane Hokanson @GREYCOMICS
Original “Falling Man” concept by: Kyle Romberg

Released by, Sleep Recordings - Chicago, IL 2026
All Songs C&P by Chris Otepka
You Stay Here I’ll Go Get Music (ASCAP) 2026

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