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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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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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)