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digitally released on :
- Contact Minimal Records (Montreal, Qc)
- Syf Records (Szczeczin, PL)
tapes (U.S.) available at badratingrecords.bandcamp.com

Recorded In Gdynia & Gdansk, 2023
Mix & Master by Nafiul : www.fiverr.com/nafiul01
Vocals on PETITS FRUITS by La P'tite Francine
Cover photo by Paweł Kowalewski
Cover design by Ici Chien Chien
Songs 2,3,4 & 5 are about bats
Barbastella Archive - BBST005
30 cassette copies

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we eat insects right out of the sky
we come out at night
we echolocate, we fly
we love mosquitoes, we love mosquitoes
we drool for figs, dates and mangoes
miam miam, miam miam

only 3 species out of 14 hundred feed on blood
cattle blood

forget what you heard from you neighbour's old stories
forget what you saw in your Netflix TV series

only 3 species out of 1-4-0-0 hundred feed on blood
but not the blood of your doggo
feed on blood
but not the blood of your doggo



NONEW

why do you destroy the cool quiet places ?
why do you destroy the cool quiet places ?

we need those attics
we need those buildings
somehow it's only pain and death that you bring
you build, you disturb, you wreck, you kill
you build, you disturb, you hammer, you drill

you like to fumigate, you like to poison
you like to eradicate, is this your mission ?

this new development will not fill the void you feel
this new building has our blood on the glass, on the steel

you build, you disturb, you wreck, you kill
you build, you disturb, you wreck, you kill



PETITS FRUITS

la vie est difficile
y'en aura pas de facile
nous vivons dans la nuit
longue vie aux chauve-souris
nous venons en amis
pas la peine de vous plaindre
pas la peine de nous craindre

à la recherche du nectar
nous avançons dans le noir
dans le brouillard, dans la nuit
longue vie aux chauve-souris
longue vie aux chauve-souris

à la recherche de papillons
à la recherche de petits fruits
nous sommes les chiroptères
nous dormons les pa-pattes en l'air

à l'envers



CAT

a cat on the loose at night is a threat to a bat
a cat let outside at night is the nightmare of a bat
owners can you please keep your kittens in until the sunrise
in until the sunrise, i know it sounds absurd

but cats like to play with bats, they like to
break their wings and bite their necks
they like to hunt for them and grab their heads
they like to toy with them and leave them for dead
grab their heads

a cat on the loose at night is a threat to a bat
a cat let outside at night will kill a bat

a cat on the loose at night
(gibberish)



RUN OVER BY A HEARSE

extremely sad and putrid
evil story
run over by a hearse, at birth, at birth

it was too short
way too short
extremely sad

it gets under my skin

extremely sad
you don't wanna hear about it

it should not exist
i'm serious here

okay, enough



DRAGON'S BLOOD

Dragon's blood, my favorite smell
the package is red and i like to buy a big package at the store
the cashier looks at me like i'm a fucking weirdo
but i don't care, and i carry this back home
i go up the stairs and i light a hundred sticks at the same time
it makes a fucking good smoke show
and i like to invite the neighbours
and they come look at it, they come smell it
and they fall into a haze, such as i

and we keep running in our dreams
because we fell asleep, because there's too much smoke
but we're not in danger
we're just enjoying what is going on beyond reality
in our little heads, and we run and we try to get out, get back
get back on our feet, get back into the real world
but it's kind of impossible
we are all lost

and then there's a earthquake
that just shakes the whole fucking building
and we just
wake up all at the same time
and we were like '' WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED ?''
but it's okay and then
we open the windows and we talk about the experience
the smoke is slowly escaping
we make coffee
we laugh about it
we make drawings
we take notes and then what next ?
we compile it into some kind of book
and we publish it
and then from this publication we get no recognition
but it's okay because the experience was so fucked up





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