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Started 7/2/2025 and last updated 7/2/2025

(If anyone has any leads or ideas or information, please contact me at lavenderdoyle52@gmail.com, my pseudonym email dedicated to this website and similar matters)

I saw a post on the lostwave subreddit about this lost album that was ripped from a CD and posted to YouTube in its entirety and it instantly fascinated me. However, the lostwave subreddit itself wouldn't let me post or comment anything about it because of my low karma or something so I'm putting my search here for now. This is prettier than Reddit anyway.

The description for the video including the album seems to contain the most promising leads:

"This album was handed to me on CD by a guy I know pretty well who runs a record shop in Colorado Springs. I do not know the band, nor the album name, I don't know what year it was released, and I don't know any of the song titles. There are no liner notes or any text to speak of on the cover (the first two pictures are of the front and back cover, the final picture is of the disc). There are 14 tracks on the CD. Motifs through the album include mentions of Juliette (perhaps from Romeo & Juliette), children singing, spoken word transitions and singing in French.
The songs are really cool, kinda creepy, then uplifting, then sentimental, etc. Not really like any other band I know, first listen reminded me slightly of Olivia Tremor Control. Anyway, the guy who gave me the CD did say that the band probably wouldn't care if it was uploaded, but with a smirk he added, 'but what would you call it?' Unknown! If anyone is privy to who this is, please let me know! He did indicate the band had other recordings."

This account points mainly to a lead in the form of an anonymous record shop owner in Colorado Springs (a city in the state of Colorado, United States) that seems to know the band personally, which may also mean this unknown band could have once been or may still be located around the Colorado Springs area. Additionally, track 10 mentions 'Nevada Avenue', which is a street in Colorado Springs that the lyric is potentially referring to, further strengthening the connection to this location.

I have decided to nickname this album What Would You Call It? based on the quote from the record store owner in the video description, so that is how I'll be referring to it from now on.

From my listen-throughs of What Would You Call It?, it seems like it might be telling the story of this 'Juliette' drowning and a childhood friend reminiscing about the event. I will try to confirm this when I transcribe the album's lyrics. However, if this is the case, the album cover with the doll standing next to a large body of water probably means that the doll is meant to represent Juliette.

Lyric Transcriptions (WIP):

(I will probably make lots of mistakes so please correct me if I heard something wrong)

Track 1:
A chill
of cold air
into my lungs
I exist
I'm floating
I laugh (the hum gets louder)
taste water

Track 2:
I hear the wind
the quiet
the sound
(through open windows)
My clothes
still smell like
ocean air (and the blue you)
[unintelligible]
'Juliette? Juliette! It's time to sleep. Close the windows,' says Mother.
'No whispering.''No whispering.''No whispering.'[repeated several times]
Raz! Dva! Raz, Dva, Tri! [counting to three in Russian]

Track 3:
[French lyrics; I don't know French sorry]
I love you
I love you in the summer
I love you in the fall
I love you in the spring
most of all
I love you
Every morning when I get out of bed (out of bed)
just to say hello
In the evening when you're lying in bed
Today could be better
Jean[June?]'s got the drift
Knows anyone can die
with flowers in the ceiling she'd dare you to try
Every morning when I get out of bed (out of bed)
just to say hello
In the evening when you're lying in bed
Tomorrow might be fine
(oooh I know that it's true)
Oooh, bury me too
[unintelligible spoken words and previous lines sung simultaneously]
Every morning when I get out of bed (out of bed)
just to say hello
In the evening when you're lying in bed
There's no return.

Track 4:
(Wake up! Wake up!)
(Pretty garden flowers!)
(We had a bad dream:)
(Juliette is shrink-ing!) I drew a picture
of my best friend dead
with lilies
all around her head
And there
was music
right where I left it
Somebody please
tell me where I left it
I remember
you [cranky?] girls
humming pretty melodies
The pamphlet here
There's music in the park tonight
You slow down
Come on, do remember
just where we left it
Let's close our eyes
we can hear them humming
And then the wind blew; the house upon the hill. Juliette hears church bells on the air. Time to grab her pretty red coat...
I fall asleep
Do you hear the trembling whispering? Your heartbeat?

Track 5:
It's a beautiful day (beautiful day)
beautiful day for love
[French lyrics; I still don't know French]
When we wake up in the morn
I love her
And she loves me
We're alone
by the time we're halfway home
We got drier underneath
the lair we used to sleep
It's a beautiful day (beautiful day)
beautiful day for love
And when he takes you by the hand (and your heart)
It's like tomorrow never came
It's too late
Love
when we're awake
and love
when we're sleeping
How
How 'bout tonight
Quarter to nine
We meet at the movies?
And when he takes you by the hand (and your heart)
It's like tomorrow never came
It's too late
Love is here
Love is here
Love is here
Love is now
Love is death
waiting to live
Living is dying
Finally, the afternoon is here; the sleep has worn off and Juliette feels blood flowing through her veins again. A chill of cold air enters her lungs. (Don't go, Juliette! Don't go Juliette! Please stay, Juliette!) Here comes the bus. Juliette is going off to visit her cousin Ella.
What a lovely garden. Ella takes Juliette for a brisk jaunt through a pretty garden.
Up in the treehouse, [unintelligible].

Track 6:
I remember
how the trees
the wind
and the leaves
played a song
and our band
played along too
The ghost
in the dark
I drove
through the park
Closed our eyes
and pretend
we were dying
You were alive
with a song all around you
Music was a garden
that we grew
Hey, little girl
smile for the camera
Remember the sea
or the air
in between
you and me
The way that you spoke softly
You were alive
with the sun all around you
and music
was a garden
that we grew
Hey, little girl
smile for the camera
I remember your knees
The stars
on your ceiling that glow and the moon
in your window
The more
that you say
you love somebody
The less
you know
it's true

Track 7:
[instrumental]

Track 8:
Juliette!
Come out and play
tag and running games every day!
Now the day has filed away
Juliette!
Forget me yet?
The pool party; a band is playing. The Bar Mitzvah[?] Brothers!

Track 9:
How beautiful
You and I
We're alone and we're doing fine
I wish your pretty wife was mine
So I write
Meet me in the park again tonight
I would love to show you
How I'd love to show you
Ella
Ella, how these days go by
We could be together
But only if you [unintelligible]
Come on, come on Ella
Ella
You smile
Could this be a dream?
And I don't mind another night is gone
and everything is humming
Ella
[unintelligible speaking]
'I held out my hand and [unintelligible] my hand [more unintelligible] gone.'

Track 10:
Oh, on a cloudy afternoon
I was walkin' down Nevada Avenue
When she smiles
I see her
I hope she sees me too (she wore a red coat)
A pretty red coat
In the lovely starry sea
lighting up the city walls and city streets
There's this calm about her
I hope she loves me too
And we'll forget about
the one [unintelligible] that was new
I held your glove when you cried
Suddenly, I understood
the way you feel inside
It's love
I held your hand when you held mine
Suddenly, I understood
the way you feel inside
It's love
And today we meet again
She's an actress and I don't know where she's been
But it's cool
It's fine
We'll talk about July
Kiss me! Kiss me! Kiss me now! ([unintelligible] C'mon, Juliette! C'mon, Juliette! Come on, Juliette! The water won't hurt you!)
Kiss me in my pretty new collar
Whenever you're close
Whatever you say
Kiss me now (C' mon, Juliette! C'mon, Juliette ! Come on Juliette!)

Track 11:
(The water won't hurt you)
Let the sun shine in your hair
Let the sun shine in your hair
Let the sun shine in your hair
Let the sun shine in your hair (the sun shine)
Let the sun shine in your hair (sun shine)
Let the sun shine in your hair (sun shine)
Let the sun shine in your hair (the sun shine)
Let the sun shine in your hair (the sun shine)
(sunshine)

Track 12:
[unintelligible]
The sun
The ceiling
The moon
My earrings
[unintelligible]

Track 13:

Track 14: