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

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 ...

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

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’....

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DISCOVER ‘Ping Pong’ by Stereolab

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...

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

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“

DISCOVER Matching Mole ‘O Caroline’

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...

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

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...

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DISCOVER The Human League ‘Open Your Heart’

'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...
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Ela Minus ‘Dominique’

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

Hen Ogledd ‘Space Golf’

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
...
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Lauer feat. Dena ‘Make It Stay’

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?“

Laura Groves ‘Foolish Game’

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)

Melissa Mary Ahern ‘Stone by Stone’

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...

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