Tracks of 2019

Fits Of Rage

Michael Chapman's "True North" (PoB-044) is out on Paradise of Bachelors Feb. 8, 2019.
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The masterful follow-up to his universally celebrated 2017 album 50, Michael Chapman’s True North finds the elder statesman of British songwriting and guitar plumbing an even deeper deep and honing an ever keener edge to his iconic writing. This authoritative set of predominantly new, and utterly devastating, songs hews to a more intimate sonic signature—more atmospheric, textural, and minimalist than 50, stately and melancholy in equal measure. Recorded in rural West Wales, True North unflinchingly surveys home and horizon, traveling from the Bahamas to Texas to the Leeds of Chapman’s childhood, haunted by the mirages of memory and intimations of mortality. Joining him on this introspective journey is a cast of old friends and new disciples: once again Steve Gunn produces and plays guitar, and fellow UK songwriting hero Bridget St John sings, collaborating with cellist Sarah Smout and legendary pedal steel player BJ Cole, who has accompanied everyone from John Cale to Scott Walker, Elton John to Terry Allen, Felt to Björk to Brian Eno.

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True North

Michael Chapman: True North – "After All This Time" (2019, PoB-044)

Remind Me Tomorrow

Seventeen

Heard It In A Past Life

Light On

Tip of the Sphere

The Great Pixley Train Robbery

Burning Love is written for survival. The song is about burning desires and notions of great love that make us blind to red flags and black holes. Love can be warm, flaming and safe, but it can also destroy indiscriminately or be ignited by passion, either with the ability to create great open wounds. Burning Love is about clearing all the traces of the destruction and rising like a phoenix from the ashes.
Lyrics:
You
I know you’re catching rainbows 
But I remain black 
Won’t give my colours away 

You 
I know you’re into alchemy 
But I stay silver 
Won’t turn into gold 

I knew that you would lie to me 
You said so yourself 
And I should have been truer to myself 

You’re nothing but a shell
A shallow spell 
And I should have been denser 

I am a body 
I am human 
No doubt about it 
I should have recognized inhuman behaviour 

I burn my nightmares 
I write my dreams 
I bury them deep 

I trust fire and forest and ocean and bones
Won’t turn into stone 

I know you’re casting shadows 
Heavy and grey 
But I won’t give my light away 

I know you’re from the dark side 
You said so yourself
But I will be brighter now than ever 

I am a body 
I am human 
No doubt about it 
I should have recognized inhuman behaviour

Burning Love

Sandra Kolstad - Burning Love

It Rains Love

Artwork by Kyle Fabi
Mixed & Mastered by Elton “L10MixedIt” Chueng

Song 31 Feat. Phoelix

Don't Stop Me Now

Bubble

Norman Fucking Rockwell!

hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it

LYRICS

With the grass so green
Sun coating everything
That day felt a lot like walking through a dream
And with the sky so blue
We snuck into the church at school
To play a song while no one else was watching us

With the sun so bright
Walking side by side
Let me tell you that nothing ever felt so right
And with the sky so blue
A feeling in my heart strings grew
It was then I knew that I would fall in love with you

So blue
Sky so blue
So blue
Just like a dream

I can see those skies clear in my mind
Frozen in time, frozen in time
Like a scene I picked from my dreams
I can’t tell apart from reality
I hope that I can find my way out
Before I get caught in fantasy world
And get too wrapped up in what it could be
Back on my bullshit, I’m such an Aries
So I break down, stuck in my doubts
Jump too far in just to fall out
Things aren’t the way I thought them to be
There’s so many miles still set forth for me
Hop in the car, take the top down
And when we get out, drive it around
Clouds part ways and now I can see
The sky is blue above me

Sky So Blue

Phoenix

Quietest Friend

Come

SASAMI - “Jealousy", from SASAMI’s debut self-titled album, out March 8th on Domino Record Co.
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Lyrics:

They say if you stare directly into the sunlight it can cause blindness, 
But if you shut your eyes and let it in
Unrelenting heat, it seeps, through your lids and soaks so deep
Allow yourself to be flooded by the warmth 

Evolution systematic, individuals considered tragic
Jealousy, jealousy, jealousy, jealousy 
When we break out of our habits, far from the choreographic
Jealousy, jealousy, jealousy, jealousy

When feelings unfurl and reveal a mystification of the heart, 
The old love was pure, but too young too be really sure
Disorienting need, it sneaks
Into your skin and soaks so deep
Allow yourself to be flooded by the warmth  

Evolution systematic, individuals considered tragic
Jealousy, jealousy, jealousy, jealousy 
When we break out of our habits, far from the choreographic
Jealousy, jealousy, jealousy, jealousy

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Tracks of 2019

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