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Atoms of the Apartment

by Moonfruits

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about

It was in the fall, or spring, but it was definitely not the winter or summer of 2018. I remember of a lot of rocky outcrops coming into view, Kaitlin sleeping in the passenger seat, a perpetually broken car radio, and I got to thinking about a coffee table book I’d borrowed from her grandparents – a never-before-opened tome from the 70s called The Drama of the Universe. Billions of years of universal history dorkily divided into the acts of an opera.

A song idea began percolating and the line ‘the atoms of the apartment’ popped into my head. It became a kind of mantra for writing at the wheel, and plain old staying awake at the wheel. From there, the thought of the atoms making up our apartment, with all they’d been and seen, were yet to be or see, took root.

An upbeat, nerdy love song to our apartment born of a time when our feline friend, Sully, was still among us and we hadn’t yet become quite so intimately acquainted with our 700 odd square feet, Atoms of the Apartment is a colourful ode to the quirks (and quarks) of home.

— Alex Millaire, Moonfruits

lyrics

The atoms of the apartment
Are from 1952
And 10 billion years before then
In some star we never knew

The atoms of the apartment
Linking arms and looking on
At one cat and two humans
Parachutin’ in, then they're gone

And the writing, and the wall
And the author all recall
We all, all are one
We’re just having different kinds of fun

The atoms of the apartment
Giving us a wink on the sly
Like we’ll see each other
In another sun by and by

The atoms of the apartment
The heavens in the hall
Two sides of a teeter-totter
The listener and the call

And the writing, and the wall
And the author all recall
The bond, ‘n the band, unseen
The strings vibrating in between, we all say
We all, all are one
We’re just having different kinds of fun
Different kinds of fun

Dear atoms of the apartment
Would you like to take our place?
You could start a string band
Play some songs we'd appreciate

And the writing, and the wall
And the author all recall
The bond, ‘n the band, unseen
The strings vibrating in between, we all say
We all, all are one
We’re just having different kinds of fun
We all, all are one
We’re just having different kinds of fun
Different kinds of fun

credits

released April 29, 2022
Kaitlin Milroy - voice, glockenspiel, co-production
Alex Millaire - voice, guitar, samples, orchestration, co-production
Liv Cazzola - mission organ, synth
Tobias Meis - double bass
Kelly Lefaive - violin
Brian Sanderson - horns
Olivier Fairfield - drums, co-moon-engineering, co-production
Charles Fairfield - lead moon-engineering, co-production
Philip Shaw Bova - mastering
Andrew Robillard - photography
Gabrielle Dubois - graphic design

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Moonfruits Ottawa, Ontario

Moonfruits—Ottawa-based partners Alex Millaire and Kaitlin Milroy—craft contemporary folk in French and English that addresses our collective humanity with heart, wit, and wonder. Their sophomore album, Salt (Oct. 2022), explores raising a child amidst deepening inequality and the climate crisis, telling stories of their families and the kinds of communities they hope to help build. ... more

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