Name: Distant Stars by Burr Island in ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 485
Duration: 3 min 38 s
Description: With raw instrumentation, tight harmonies and bursting positivity, Distant Stars encourages selflessness and how loving another can help us open up to the boundless beauty of the universe. Produced by Steve Cradock (Ocean Colour Scene) and mastered by Julian Lowe (Faithless).

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Honeymoon Phase

Written, produced and recorded by Daniel Brady in 2009.

Taken from the forthcoming compilation 'Part Gold, Part Garbage: Before Division Order (2005-2016)'.

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Part Gold, Part Garbage - Before Division Order (2005-2016)

I Only Said

5th song from our debut EP To Crash And Burn. Official release 21st April.

There's A Way To Beat This

With raw instrumentation, tight harmonies and bursting positivity, Distant Stars encourages selflessness and how loving another can help us open up to the boundless beauty of the universe. Produced by Steve Cradock (Ocean Colour Scene) and mastered by Julian Lowe (Faithless).

Distant Stars

One More Problem dives into the depths of self-esteem and our seeming inabilities in this day and age to respect ourselves. This track explores the journey of allowing yourself to like who you are, and attempts to dispel the negative thoughts we tell ourselves in order to avoid facing and overcoming the challenges we most need to. It explores topics such as Anxiety, Confidence and our inner demons. This song has already gained traction on Spotify (through playlists and algorithmic placements), with our debut music video being released this weekend (30th April)! We were also lucky enough to have this song produced by Scott Goodrich (Story So Far).

Not J - One More Problem (Clean)

Produced by Steve Cradock
Mastered by Julian Lowe
Harmonium and Violin- John McCusker
Banjo- Arthur Sawyer
Drums- Charlier Stanier

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Nunney Town

Towers

Our new single English Roses comes out midnight tonight. It’s a song that has been on a very long journey. We wrote it off several times and left it untouched for a few years. Now it's ready.

Tom began writing the first few lyrics as long as eight years ago in student halls in Glasgow and, at the time, the words were merely thoughts and jottings, in response to the initial rumblings of ‘Brexit’, more a means of catharsis than anything else. It was the first time in our lives where xenophobic or racist views were able to be aired as if they were suddenly respectable. Ultimately, communities that have always been neglected by the privileged and the ruling class, were given an enemy that was simpler to understand: foreigners. 

However, this song does not blame deprived communities. People were unsatisfied with their lives and wanted change; change came but it was change for the worse, wrapped in a cloak of deception.

It’s about latent racism and the fear of others, of outsiders, about living comfortable, often affluent, lives and choosing not to look beyond the roses at the end of the garden. In the countryside, people can be very protective of their ‘way of life’ and with that there can be a resistance to change, a fear of change, prejudice.

Life in the country can be emptier; emptier in that there are fewer distractions, less clutter; an emptiness that brings a clarity and a fullness. But country life can also be emptier; emptier of new ideas and outside influences; an emptiness that sometimes brings a detachment from ‘others’.

A song, grown out of bad soil, eight years in the making, has finally blossomed.

English Roses

Our Home

Later

Who Knows Where The Time Goes?

Mother

Loving You

Your Eyes, My Eyes

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Distant Stars

Burr Island

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