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    Alex Bleeker ‘Heaven on the Faultline’ out 5th March 2020

    Release Single Video Lyrical Gems
    Posted on 06 January 2021
    'Heaven on the Faultline' Alex Bleeker (solo) Real Estate Out 05 March 2021
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    Mashed Potatoes

    ‘I want a cup of coffee mashed potatoes and juice I want peace and justice but really what’s the use.’ [1 min 32]

    Alex Bleeker from Real Estate solo album out on Nightbloom Records

    Yes, this is Alex dancing in the video.

    “The album is very much about dealing with the anxiety of a sense of impending doom … When is the hammer going to fall? How do we go forward in the face of such anxiety and experience the complexity of life?”

    Mashed Potatoes is one of those beautiful songs ilk of ...

    ‘I want a cup of coffee mashed potatoes and juice I want peace and justice but really what’s the use.’ [1 min 32]

    Alex Bleeker from Real Estate solo album out on Nightbloom Records

    Yes, this is Alex dancing in the video.

    “The album is very much about dealing with the anxiety of a sense of impending doom … When is the hammer going to fall? How do we go forward in the face of such anxiety and experience the complexity of life?”

    Mashed Potatoes is one of those beautiful songs ilk of Jack Johnson or Devandra Banhart that is so understated it is stupifying as the reaction shot of the majority of indie music makers during Covid.

    “This song is about eradicating toxicity from your life and concentrating on whatever it is that brings you joy,” he admits. “Cups of coffee, mashed potatoes, juice…. sometimes things really are that simple.” Ear Milk

     

     

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    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ‘New Fragility’ Out 12th February 2021

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    Posted on 06 January 2021
    New Fragility Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Out 12 February 2021
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    Where they perform miracles

    “Born in Philadelphia but now living in the south

    Your hand slipped slowly into mine somehow

    And who’s going to argue with a perfect start?

    But will you still be there when I’m down and out?

    I know a place where they perform miracles”

    “These songs are politically motivated, which is unusual for me,” Alec Ounsworth says of “Hesitating Nation’”and “Thousand Oaks”. “The only other politically motivated song I’ve written is ‘Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood’....

    “Born in Philadelphia but now living in the south

    Your hand slipped slowly into mine somehow

    And who’s going to argue with a perfect start?

    But will you still be there when I’m down and out?

    I know a place where they perform miracles”

    “These songs are politically motivated, which is unusual for me,” Alec Ounsworth says of “Hesitating Nation’”and “Thousand Oaks”. “The only other politically motivated song I’ve written is ‘Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood’.” That track helped launch the landmark self-titled debut back in 2005. And now, after 15 years, Alec felt compelled to once again tackle politics, and what’s happening in the US indicating how serious he believes the situation to be.

    “‘Hesitating Nation’ is a song meant to convey my sense of disappointment and alienation with the rewarded mentality of getting ahead at all costs, inevitably to the detriment of those who didn’t sign up to be part of the experiment.”  Describing “Thousand Oaks,” Ounsworth says, “In 2018, there was a shooting in Thousand Oaks, CA which killed 13 people. This song has to do with the impotence of the American government in the face of such tragedies.”

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    DISCOVER ‘Ping Pong’ by Stereolab

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    Posted on 30 March 2021

    Tim Gane (Domino Publishing) and Laetitia Sadier (Complete):

    It’s alright, ’cause the historical pattern has shown How the economical cycle tends to revolve

    In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop A slump and war, then peel back to square one and back for more

    Bigger slump and bigger wars And a smaller recovery 

    Huger slump and greater wars And a shallower recovery

    You see, the recovery always comes ’round again There’s nothing to worry for, things will look after th...

    Tim Gane (Domino Publishing) and Laetitia Sadier (Complete):

    It’s alright, ’cause the historical pattern has shown How the economical cycle tends to revolve

    In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop A slump and war, then peel back to square one and back for more

    Bigger slump and bigger wars And a smaller recovery 

    Huger slump and greater wars And a shallower recovery

    You see, the recovery always comes ’round again There’s nothing to worry for, things will look after themselves

    It’s alright, recovery always comes ’round again There’s nothing to worry if things can only get better

    There’s only millions that lose their jobs And homes and sometimes accents

    There’s only millions that die In their bloody wars, it’s alright

    It’s only their lives and the lives Of their next of kin that they are losing 

    It’s alright, ’cause the historical pattern has shown How the economical cycle tends to revolve

    In a round of decades, three stages stand out in a loop A slump and war, then peel back to square one and back for more

    Bigger slump and bigger wars And a smaller recovery Huger slump and greater wars And a shallower recovery

    Don’t worry, be happy Things will get better naturally

    Don’t worry, shut up, sit down Go with it and be happy

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    DISCOVER Amy Douglas ‘Cities In Dust’ Siouxsie And The Banshees – Cover

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    Posted on 17 March 2021
    Amy Douglas 'Cities In Dust' Siouxsie And The Banshees (single) Hard Feelings Out 13 December 2019
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    Directed by Dave Baron

    For her first release on Lady Balls, Amy Douglas covered ‘Cities In Dust‘ – Siouxsie Sioux‘s Epic tale of Pompeii.

    “Hot and burning in your nostrils
    Pouring down your gaping mouth
    Your molten bodies, blanket of cinders
    Caught in the throes
    And ohh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend“
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    DISCOVER Matching Mole ‘O Caroline’

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    Posted on 23 April 2021
    Matching Mole Robert Wyatt Out 08 April 2021
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    Matching Mole (1972 image Courtesy of Cuneiform Records)

    Robert Wyatt (Drums, Vocals) Phil Miller (Guitar) Bill MacCormick (Bass) Dave MacRae (Keyboards)

    Matching Mole was formed by drummer and lyricist Robert Wyatt after he left Soft Machine in July, 1971. Soft Machine were hugely popular in France, and the band name was inspired by the French translation of Soft Machine: Machine Molle. Midway through recording the first album, Robert was joined by guitarist Phil Miller (Delivery, Hatfield & The North, National Health), organist Dave Sinclai...

    Robert Wyatt (Drums, Vocals) Phil Miller (Guitar) Bill MacCormick (Bass) Dave MacRae (Keyboards)

    Matching Mole was formed by drummer and lyricist Robert Wyatt after he left Soft Machine in July, 1971. Soft Machine were hugely popular in France, and the band name was inspired by the French translation of Soft Machine: Machine Molle. Midway through recording the first album, Robert was joined by guitarist Phil Miller (Delivery, Hatfield & The North, National Health), organist Dave Sinclair (Caravan), bassist Bill MacCormick (Phil Manzanera’s 801) and electric pianist Dave MacRae (Mike Westbrook).  A second album, Little Red Record, which was produced by Robert Fripp of King Crimson, and which was released in 1972. Matching Mole disbanding soon after. The group laid down experimental, frustrating, catastrophic, unfulfilled and wonderfully meandering soundscapes. In the unique manner of Robert Wyatt, writing songs from the limitless possibility of jazz chaos allowed one particular song to emerge on the Matching Mole album – the most beautiful love song, ‘O Caroline’. 

    “David’s on piano, and I may play on a drum
    And we’ll try to make the music work, we’ll try to have some fun
    But I just can’t help thinking that if you were here with me
    I’d get all my thoughts in focus and play more excitingly
    I love you still, Caroline
    I want you still, Caroline
    I need you still, Caroline
    If you call this sentimental crap you’ll make me mad
    ‘Cause you know that I would not sing about some passing fad
    And if my attempts at rhyming aren’t convincing to your ear
    Then memories betray you through the passing of the year…
    You must think it doubtful that I mean the words I sing
    Or that all attempts to reach you this way could not mean a thing
    But you must admit we both thought we’d be man and wife
    And that I could make you happy for the best part of your life”
    Matching Mole could be a distant cousin of bands like Clinic, Girl Band and Black Midi.

    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL

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    DISCOVER Molly Drake ‘What Can a Song Do To You?’

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    Posted on 26 May 2021
    Molly Drake Out 29 May 2025
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    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, and fleeting

    Ordinary music in an ordinary street
    Why does your heart start beating
    What can a song do to you?
    Can it wake any memory sleeping
    Can it call back a day when your heart fled away into somebody else’s keeping

    What can a song do to you?
    Can it bring back a spring in December
    Can it make with each note such an ache in your throat
    A...

    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, and fleeting

    Ordinary music in an ordinary street
    Why does your heart start beating
    What can a song do to you?
    Can it wake any memory sleeping
    Can it call back a day when your heart fled away into somebody else’s keeping

    What can a song do to you?
    Can it bring back a spring in December
    Can it make with each note such an ache in your throat
    And you find you can still remember

    For the past is a house full of treasure
    The lies buried deep in the store
    Every smile, every tear, every pleasure
    And a song is the key to the door

    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    Music from an open window
    Music sudden, fleeting
    What can a song do to you

    Can it kindle a flame that was dying

    Til it burns once again with its joy, with its pain
    And your heart’s of a sudden crying
    Oh I know, yes I know, now I see
    What a song has done to me

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    DISCOVER The Human League ‘Open Your Heart’

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    Posted on 23 April 2021
    'Open Your Heart' Director Brian Grant
    “Love is the reason, Faith or treason, Playing a part
    End concealing, Try revealing, Open your heart
    Dare to feel, Take the chance, Make the deal
    But if you can stand the test, You know your worst is better, Than their best”
    Released  28th September 1981, ‘Open Your Heart’ was written by Phil Oakey and Jo Callis. Produced by the late Martin Rushent, it’s impossible not to whistle along to Jo’s analogue synth – ‘Playing a part [toot toot toot]…‘. The song was a huge h...
    “Love is the reason, Faith or treason, Playing a part
    End concealing, Try revealing, Open your heart
    Dare to feel, Take the chance, Make the deal
    But if you can stand the test, You know your worst is better, Than their best”
    Released  28th September 1981, ‘Open Your Heart’ was written by Phil Oakey and Jo Callis. Produced by the late Martin Rushent, it’s impossible not to whistle along to Jo’s analogue synth – ‘Playing a part [toot toot toot]…‘. The song was a huge hit for the Sheffield synth-pop pioneers written specifically for the number one album ‘Dare’ aside it’s other big hits – ‘Don’t You Want Me’ and ‘Love Action’. Released on Virgin Records, it  reached number six in the UK singles chart and raised the band’s profile to the highest it had been to that point.
    Jo Callis, who was new to the band at the time, said in an interview in October 2009:
    “I had started to work out both those tunes on guitar, playing along to an early drum machine which had about six preset drum patterns, Open Your Heart did translate better on the keyboard and I think we used the same drum machine with the same preset on the original demo which was done in the League’s old 8 track studio in Sheffield“.
    Credited with changing the face of British pop, the Human League had the biggest record sales of any act for five years. Their poignant, tongue in cheek lyrics and pioneering sound influenced bands like Pet Shop Boys. Their gender fluid look without compromising their authenticity and Sheffield roots has never been more relevant than it is today.
    THIS DOMINO DISCOVERY WAS SELECTED BY LYNDEN CAMPBELL
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    Ela Minus ‘Dominique’

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    Posted on 12 January 2021
    Acts of Rebellion Ela Minus Out 23 October 2020
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    Dominique lyric video by DR.ME and Ela Minus.

    Today I woke up at 7 p.m
    My brain feels like it’s going to break
    I haven’t seen anyone in a couple of days
    I am afraid I forgot how to talk
    To anyone else that’s not myself

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    Hen Ogledd ‘Space Golf’

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    Posted on 12 January 2021
    Free Humans Hen Ogledd Out 25 September 2020
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    Hen Ogledd "Space Golf" lyric video
    Building your walls to keep them out
    Building your stash to wipe them out
    You staked your claim on planets new
    You built your ship and up you flew
    Looking back on the world below
    Safe from the damage and woe
    But you cannot play golf in space
    Take all your hate and all your fear
    Take all your hate and all your fear
    Take all your hate and all your fear with you
    And blast them into the bluePlatinum club for psychopaths
    Draining the tank with dirty maths
    Plundering all to gild the few
    ...
    Building your walls to keep them out
    Building your stash to wipe them out
    You staked your claim on planets new
    You built your ship and up you flew
    Looking back on the world below
    Safe from the damage and woe
    But you cannot play golf in space
    Take all your hate and all your fear
    Take all your hate and all your fear
    Take all your hate and all your fear with you
    And blast them into the bluePlatinum club for psychopaths
    Draining the tank with dirty maths
    Plundering all to gild the few
    You built your ships and up you flew
    Infinity pool on Ganymede
    You took so much more than you need
    But you cannot play golf in space

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    Lauer feat. Dena ‘Make It Stay’

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    Posted on 17 March 2021
    Make It Stay (single) Dena Out 02 April 2021
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    Video director: Tobias Becker

    Dena joins Lauer on this single from his album Answers 2 Trouble (out 2nd April 2021 on Permanent Vacation)

    “I’m feeling like the sun on my face now
    Like on a hot summer day now
    Lovе don’t always have to go away
    Can we make, can wе make it stay?“

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    Laura Groves ‘Foolish Game’

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    Posted on 05 January 2021
    A Private Road Laura Groves Out 04 December 2020
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    Foolish Game

    I can’t hear your voice
    In a long time when I hear coming around
    To the heat of all we’re burning up
    Can’t hear your voice
    In a long time, there’s nothing to talk about
    So good to facing now
    You were a hobby, yeah
    It’s just a hobby yeah

    From the album A Private Road (Bella Union)

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    Melissa Mary Ahern ‘Stone by Stone’

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    Posted on 26 March 2021
    Written and co-produced by Melissa Mary Ahern. Filmed by Albert Rudnitsky. Bass, mixing and co-production by Andy Stack. Drums by Dave Tedeschi. Hammond Organ by Jeremy Baum. Electric guitar and vocals by Melissa Mary Ahern. Released on FatCat Records, March 26, 2021.

     

    (Verse 1)

    Stone by stone

    I will rebuild

    Until I am whole again

    Until I am whole again

    The roses you gave hang to dry

    A candle burns low

    Its shadow dances on the wall

    As I drift far away

    (Chorus 1)

    The roses you gav...

    Written and co-produced by Melissa Mary Ahern. Filmed by Albert Rudnitsky. Bass, mixing and co-production by Andy Stack. Drums by Dave Tedeschi. Hammond Organ by Jeremy Baum. Electric guitar and vocals by Melissa Mary Ahern. Released on FatCat Records, March 26, 2021.

     

    (Verse 1)

    Stone by stone

    I will rebuild

    Until I am whole again

    Until I am whole again

    The roses you gave hang to dry

    A candle burns low

    Its shadow dances on the wall

    As I drift far away

    (Chorus 1)

    The roses you gave hang to dry

    Once upon another time

    (Verse 2)

    Stone by stone

    I will rebuild

    Until I am recognized

    Until I am recognized again

    The roses you gave hang to dry

    Music plays from outside of my

    Window and I see

    They’ve closed the road down for the day

    So people could dance and children could play

    As I drift further away

    (Chorus 2)

    The roses you gave hang to dry

    Once upon another time

    Once upon another time!

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