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joshua wayne hensley rebel is a force of nature. this band just keeps getting better. Rottenhouse knocked me over, almost lost my shoes. Favorite track: Rottenhouse.
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    vulnerability. it’s a thread that ties together in love, in relationships, in Black being. it’s also the theme that holds the songs of UNARMED — used to mean exposed, naked, seen — together.

    track list 1. human 2. make room 3. Rottenhouse 4. awestruck 5. N.O.I.R.E.

    CD comes in a cardboard jacket, wrapped in cellophane to ensure new condition. cover features photography by Eric Vandrick and GenisXMedia. cover design: Nekeisha Alayna Alexis

    note: this is the Standard Edition and does not include the official instrumentals

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1.
human 05:21
hey there my name is human and i've been looking for someone so tell me tell me if you're human too read me read me and right me and like this i like long walks on the beaches can we go make something new? how are you? (chorus) trouble always coming up i need to slow down soon enough, soon enough i'm getting older now i hope it'll be okay i think it's not too late ooh hey there my name is human and i've been looking for something so tell me tell me if you're looking too see me see me and like me and ask this do you think this would be serious? can we go make something soon? how are you? (repeat chorus) i'm sorry
2.
make room 06:03
make room for you to grow up out your belly to rise up off your tongue make room for you to crawl up from your heartspace to know that you're your only one take time for you to plot out where you're going to chart the places that you've been that you've been take time for you to come into your knowing toward the places that you'll land make room for you press walls for you be new for you to crawl up from your heartspace to know that you're your only one only one (2x) make room for you another language learning another word within your ear deep breath for you a whole new world is waiting awaiting all the roads you'll take insight for you a brand new day is birthing toward the places that you'll end that you'll end outside for you to come into your knowing toward the places that you'll land make room for you (2x) press walls for you be new for you to crawl up from your heartspace to know that you're your only one make room breakhrough for your inside for you press walls for you stray true outside inside be new make room for you make room for you (2x) make room make room for you inside be new stray true be new for you to crawl up from your heartspace to know that you're your only one only one (2x) to crawl up from your heartspace (4x) to crawl from your heart to crawl from your heartspace to crawl up from you heart (2x) to crawl up from your heartspace to know that you're your only one only one (2x)
3.
Rottenhouse 04:39
we live in a Rottenhouse (4x) bad apple spoil roots born in bloody soil slave catching boys roots born in blood and toil we live in a Rottenhouse we live in a Rottenhouse (4x) lights red and blue black, white and purple hue say my name, too would you?
4.
awestruck 08:03
awestruck by the light when you lay next to me dark eyes match mine in this sweet energy hands tied outside but in here we are free one time not mine when you wake up to leave (repeat 4x) i don't want you to go want you to go (2x) i don't want you to go, no ooh i need to love carefully ooh you're not the one that i need
5.
N.O.I.R.E. 05:24
i wear my name on my sleeve (2x) N.O.I.R.E. i got no collars on me it's just my name that i need N.O.I.R.E. take a second and step into my mind, uh i'm moving different, i'm sticky on my grind, yea and when they love me they love me a long, long time i'm independent my people, yea, i'm free i got no chains, no labels on me, uh look in my eyes and you see what my eyes see i wear my name on my sleeve (2x) N.O.I.R.E. i got no collars on me i got that big energy N.O.I.R.E. let's go! i wear my name on my sleeve (2x) N.O.I.R.E. i got no collars on me i got no labels on me it's just the air that i breathe it's just my name that i need N.O.I.R.E. there ain't no slacking, i'm giving it my all, uh there ain't no shrinking a rebel will stand tall, yea bigger i get well the harder that they, they fall step in the place and i'm causing a whole scene y'all can stay bitches, i'mma be Queen, what say that you're hearing and feeling what i mean, yea i wear my name on my sleeve (2x) N.O.I.R.E. i got no collars on me i got no labels on me i got that big energy it's just my name that i need N.O.I.R.E. let's go! (blkk j) check yea i spell my black with just them two ks ain't no AC, i'm hot just like I'm Liu Kang with kicks the big dog is... let's go!

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vulnerability. it’s a thread that ties together in love, in relationships, in Black being. it’s also the theme that holds the songs of UNARMED — used to mean exposed, naked, seen — together.

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released October 7, 2023

rebel noire: vocals
Devin Brewer: keys
Jason Brewer: bass
Evan Judson: trumpet
Evan Krabill: sax
Abraham Medellin: guitar
Tyrus Tucker: drums

recorded spring 2023 at The Electric Canoe, Elkhart, Indiana by Tyrus Tucker and Jason Brewer
mixed by Jason Brewer (1,3,5) and Nate Butler (2,4)
mastered by Nate Butler at Nimble Wit Productions

cover photography: Eric Vandrick and GenisXMedia; cover design: Nekeisha Alayna Alexis

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rebel noire and the accomplices make a distinct afroetic, genre-crossing sound, with lyrics exploring loss, liberation, resistance and power.

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