There’s a fire in this house
And there’s no one left to notice with the breath to put it out
There’s a weakness in these walls
And the truth hides in the echoes and the whispers in the halls

Saying all we’ve ever known we learned here…

There’s a smoke that fills our lungs
And we suffer in the silence wondering why we didn’t run
Feel the cracks let out the heat
Stealing all the oxygen forbidding us to speak

Still all we’ve ever known we learned here
And all we thought was home will burn here

But maybe in the ashes we will find the meaning 
and maybe as they scatter they’ll lead us to the healing
Waking in a fever the daylight is deceiving
and darling thought you woke me hard we’d been oversleeping
Everything thats burning… was everything to us

There’s a fire you tried to hide
But you let it in our home 
You tainted everything inside
Though the mess cannot be seen
I’m still standing in the wreckage
I’m still longing for a piece of

All we’ve ever known and learned here
‘Cause all we thought was home will burn here

But maybe in the ashes we will find the meaning 
and maybe as they scatter they’ll lead us to the healing
Waking in a fever the daylight is deceiving
And darlin though you woke me hard we’d been oversleeping

But I don’t think I’m learning
And I don’t think we change
Now we know that wisdom never really came with age
And everytime I think that maybe we could put it out
Everytime I try to fight the fire in this house
Well my mind paints a picture ‘cause my minds never free
My mind shows the things that my eyes weren’t supposed to see

There’s a fire in this house
And there’s no one left to notice with the breath to put it out.


Written by Matt Belmont & Jessica Sharman
Produced by Charlie Andrew
Engineered by Matt Glasbey
Mixed by Charlie Andrew & Matt Glasbey
Mastered by Dale Becker
Vocals, Acoustic guitars, Piano - Matt Belmont
Guitars, Bass - Ben Worsley
Drums, Percussion, - Chris Burgess

The Ashes

Do You Wanna Talk is a summer anthem about an on-off relationship and all that comes with it.

Do You Wanna Talk

Wildhorse - Do You Wanna Talk

You're an Animal

I'm a Dinosaur

How about a day when you have no obligations, you just have to improvise and go with the flow. This song sounds like a spring breeze where the taste of adventure allows beautiful encounters

Sunday Mood

So High

Into The Blue Night

In Puzzles

Familiar Faces

Thawed

Spring in the wind with pennies in my palm
Dogs bark to wailing alarms
Mother dreamt of calm
We weren’t born into art
We were sold for parts and left

Yet we were handsome and we held hope
And ran the street on an empty gloat
Theft means you’re broke
But it’s different strokes
For different folks
I’d do it all again

I’d do it all again

How can I stop myself, from order of artificial intelligence?
And how can I stop myself?
Won’t you throw me a line?
Won’t you throw me a line?

I’m in awe of phase-based news and I know it’s flawed
And I’m bored of the sordid softcore porn
I’ve been placed on this platform
And if you’re inactive for days you’re no longer half-famous

I’ve fallen to craters of dangerous places
Adverts are television and algorithms are like plasticine
Throw me to chastity, happily challenge me or dance with me
Shut down your computer
And shut down the asylum
I said shut down your computer
And shut down the asylum

How can I stop myself, from order of artificial intelligence?
And how can I stop myself?
Won’t you throw me a line?
Won’t you throw me a line?

Black snow falls, it’s received with thank you’s
Chaos is a virtue here
Specular reflection sneers droops your features like
Clay endearing to our fears
You here the pistol squeal
Epileptic drain lids the disruption of schizophrenic hydrants, defies silence
Then a hum in the latter of the tunnel


You spend your days planned
With will to make grands
Stranded in the middle of the wasteland
Wishing to see the pearly gates stand
And there waits your offering from loving grey hands

How can I stop myself, from order of artificial intelligence?
And how can I stop myself?
Won’t you throw me a line?
Won’t you throw me a line?

Plasticine

Free the Night is the seventh full-length album from Victory Kicks. Initially recorded over a series of late-night sessions during the height of the pandemic, it was reworked in the year or so that followed. It's ten songs are about love, loss and baseball set against the backdrop of the early 2020s.
credits
released November 17, 2023

Tracks 1-10 written, performed and recorded by John Sibley.

Additional guitars and synths on 'Echo the Dusk' by Sam Beard
Piano on 'All Shook' by Harriet Sibley

Unmanned Aerial Vinyl 2023. UAV-VKLP007

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Free The Night

Time stands still
No need to run
Night’s our kingdom
We've just begun
The echoes linger
Soft and light
Carved forever in this twilight
Endless twilight
Hold me near
Shadows vanish

The Ashes

Belle Mt.