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Key: A
Meter: 4/4
Tempo: 170 BPM (beats per minute)
Description: Distorted Symphonic Indie Punk

A PRIORI/A POSTERIORI is a moveable feast of sounds and ideas for the new roaring 20s. The Granite Countertops emerge from 18 months of sheltering in place with their sixth album of 16 all-new original songs about survival, knowledge, experience, time, life, sickness, health, and annoying insects.

J Neo Marvin and Davis Jones file status reports on remote life, feel the blood run through their own bodies, marvel in horror at the continuing madness around them, and serenade a hideaway with a dynamic range of surprising musical styles.

Former Puncture writers Patty Stirling (co-writer of several other indie classics) and Peter Jones contributed to both the writing of the lyrics and the song performance for Aftermath Limerick.

FILMMAKERS: Key, Time, Tempo, Description added to each song for audiophiles, movie directors or whoever wants to use the music for an original film. We can remove vocals from soundtracks per deposits made on instrumental use per individual contract agreements.

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Marbles and jacks
Bicycles and skates
Muscle memory
How to relate

A Posteriori
Everything that life has taught me
Experience and life lived well
Our own story to tell

Aquariums and zoos
Buying new shoes
Following how to’s
Creating the new

Shopping for staples
Cleaning up the stables
Riding a horse
Directing its course

A Posteriori
Everything that life has taught me
Experience and life lived well
Our own story to tell

Dancing and prancing
In ballrooms. at beaches
Keeping fresh love
Within our reaches

Self-motivation
Driving Self-Esteem
Completing our goals
Making the scene

A Posteriori
Everything that life has taught me
Experience and life lived well
Our own story to tell

Sitting for breakfast
At quarter to three
Still in our underwear
How happy are we!

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from A Priori​/​A Posteriori, released September 28, 2021
J Neo Marvin-Davis Jones (BMI)
©℗2021 Ear Candle Productions
earcandleproductions.com
©℗2021 Debra Nicholson-Bassham Album Cover and Track Art

Track art: J Neo Marvin, lead singer of San Francisco band X-tal, performing at Folsom Street Studios for San Francisco Public Access Channel 25, 1990. youtu.be/x_lydKTg4ow

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The Granite Countertops San Francisco, California

The Granite Countertops are dark, whimsical, tender existential action heroes J Neo Marvin and Davis Jones, exploring the outer limits of what a duo can create.

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