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Play is a tense, understated intro that opens Quiet Is A Lie by exposing the false calm of survival. Through images of bills, silence, and managed fear, the track frames quiet not as peace, but as pressure disguised as order—setting the tone for the world the album is about to enter.

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Bills on the tableSun in my faceAnd still something in the room won’t blinkThey call it peace when nobody screamsI call it surveillance with mannersI learned silence in more than one tongueI learn that hush got teethI learn that safe is a lieThat wears clean clothesThey say don’t make it worseSo I made it quietSo I let it loadFade away fadeIf you hear meYou’re already in itPress Play

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Quiet is A Lie

Quiet Is A Lie is a cinematic, layered body of work about memory, identity, love, pressure, distance, and survival. Moving between intimate confession and wider social observation, MUSIATA…

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Musiata Akafekwa