Taxi Driver was born out of blinding anger, the type of frustration that makes you want to crawl out of your skin, and a feeling of approaching insanity... all of which are feelings I've been dealing with a lot in 2020. 

After rewatching Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese's 1976 Neo-noir classic, I found myself kind of reluctantly empathising with Travis Bickle. He's fucked up, can't sleep, drinks all the time, and just wants to DO SOMETHING with his life. I get that. 

So, I decided to write an EP from his perspective. Travis' repulsion at the world he lives in is totally understandable when we look at the complete immorality of our scumbag politicians, and the rage inducing apathy of the general population.

This EP is my first attempt at 'rock' music. I found a lot of inspiration from American hardcore, classic 70s U.K Punk and industrial metal.

Taxi Driver

The End Is In Sight

Ephraim:
The light of love is waning.

It flickers in the courtyard, throwing hollow reflections across the cathedral floor.
Gutted like an animal, open to your words, the agony of love grips my throat.
The soul is a shadow created in the house of sin, and the guest is knocking, knocking, knocking.

Time's Arrow

Music Video!

a demo for getting nostalgic about shit indie 2000s rock

need you (ft. Zrey) [demo]

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this started as a joke and then it wasnt a joke anymore

soundcloud rapper

soundcloud rapper [demo]

Grit

PLEASE!

Trive (ft. Archie Valentine)

Many thanks to Deividas for the photo, Tara for the spoken word, and Aran for the guitar.

DORS

Blue Man

Davis

Drive

Drive (ft. Lohrd Snohw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yObjYJzgA-A

Lyrics:

The only way to kill the hydra is to cut off the head
Sealing off the wounds with fire to make sure that its dead
It doesn’t stop there when the sky’s clouded shut from the blaze, nothing to stop us when we rearrange the words on its grave 
Dont think we’re slowing down for a day 

Outnumbering the enemy  strength will come from Unity 
Making sure that pigs are afraid of our community 
I want you scum to look me in the face 
Pride will be your downfall and silence is complicity 
Knuckles getting whiter as you clutch on to supremacy 
Can you hear it now hear it coming now
Can you hear us now  

CUT OFF THE HEAD 
YOUR CONTRACT IS DEAD
FUCK ALL YOUR WORDS THEY GOT US SEEING RED
CUT OFF THE HEAD
CONTRACT IS DEAD
LAY DOWN OUR ARMS WHEN THERES NONE OF YOU LEFT           

Right wing snowflakes
Drinks for queen and country’s sake
Horny for the dolled up state
Fascists wear a Tory face 

Concealed with words they terrorise 
And break the laws that they devised
Their warning shots aimed to divide 
Succeeds just to incentivise 
The revolution wont be televised 
Cos everything been fascistised 
Before our eyes

A building full of people fucking burnt to the ground 
But what the fuck did we expect from a party racist and proud 
They tried to kick a generation out for their colour of their skin 
Man its a product of the sickness of this system we’re in 
And every time we think we’re closer , to making a change
They try pull with wool over our eyes painting us as the ones to blame 
Well I will not be silenced I will not sit down 
I say we give what we take and shoot the fucking crown 

CUT OFF THE HEAD 
YOUR CONTRACT IS DEAD
FUCK ALL YOUR WORDS THEY GOT US SEEING RED
CUT OFF THE HEAD
CONTRACT IS DEAD
LAY DOWN OUR ARMS WHEN THERES NONE OF YOU LEFT

CUT OFF THE HEAD

Music Video

untitled 1

Music video: https://youtu.be/EUA0B6fGBso

Puppy Cheeks was born out of my obsession with David Bowie's voice, the sonics of sexy 60s soul ballads, and the desire to make a summer pop song with passion.

There will be a music video released soon!

Guest vocals include Archie Valentine, Lohrd Snohw, Zrey, and Jackie Suffragette.

Puppy Cheeks

American Hero

Travis

American Hero (Half Baked Human remix)

American Hero (RCTHD Remix)

Travis (Ticket Twelve remix)

Travis (The Illustration remix)

American Hero (Acoustic Version)

Travis (Acoustic Version)

Ephraim:
So let that fucker in.

Shut it off I shut it off I just can’t seem to shut it off 
It doesn’t dull the pain.
It’s playing when I wake. 
Shut it off I shut it off I Scream until my head falls off
It’s pouring from my vein.
And I can’t take a break.
 
Well I’m losing focus 
And if you hadn’t heard I feel like I could burst from all the weight
Well I’m losing touch 
And if you wanna try I’d be very much obliged if you could help 

Cross my heart I hope I die I’m so afraid of going blind 
I see the light I see the light I know this life is all a lie there’s
Something on the other side 
Where we won’t be a parasite afraid to die afraid to try
So afraid of going blind 

I got poison in my mind 
High of that poison in my mind 
Full consumption my obsession feeds the void and builds a vessel for poison in my mind 

Chorus 

Lucianna:
Save yourself, save yourself, save yourself,
It'll save us all

Something's calling, I can't talk for long
Creepy crawling down my spine
Hanging all over my shoulder
Aint got enough strength to hold up
Can't stop this happening
Can't stop this destruction

Chorus 

Welcome everybody. 
Little late to the party but uh.
We are just getting ready to die.

Shut It Off (ft. LUCIANNA)

Ephraim:
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of hate have pierced so deep.
An angel's feast that made hell grant what love did seek to sow.
The sky is grey.
And in my mind The Final Song does play.
The whole world's dead.
I should've listened to the words You said.

You were just a mistake that’s what I tell myself to keep from being swallowed by shame 
You were God's favourite angel till you realised the glory you were capable of 
I buckled under the weight I couldn’t carry the blame I felt like something would break if I stayed in that place 
i watched the car catch fire and suffocate in the flames then heard a voice say that the end is in sight 

Pixelated blood we captured in a cloud above 
Teenage angst and adoration , god I need a revelation 
But it doesn’t have to be this way 

Chorus:
I bang my head, against the wall
I feel no pain at all
The depths of this are limitless it makes me feel so small 
Spill my guts, spit me up 
I feel no nothing at all
Stop the words from pouring out of my mouth this is the Final Fall 

You were a thorn in my side I didn’t wanna remove in fear that I’d go blind 
The noise from all those machines was only heightened by the fear in everything we could see see see
We were waiting on a horrible warning everything we knew depended on that morning 
I bore a cross so heavy got no more swords to bury but I feel it that the end is in sight 

Chorus 

The End Is In Sight

Lucy

Godhead I feel indifferent 
Godhead I don’t know how I could believe in your lies 
Godhead I feel the imminence 
Godhead I know I’m being held back by my eyes 
Godhead I think I’m limitless
Godhead I’m aiming higher for your throne in the sky
Godhead you know I sinned for this 
Godhead it took a fall for me to learn how to fly 

No more of talk where god and angel guest with man
For seven days and nights I’m bursting with a plan 
The more I crave those pleasures more torment I feel 
In heaven all the more the pain to dull the light I steal 

Pagan Gods or fallen angels 
I kill em off like cain did abele
The son of I will echo the sin
Narcissus now I will let them in

Godhead

Ephraim:
The chrysalis inside your eyes looked just like broken glass.
Slicked words slide in between your teeth, puppeteering all and everything beneath.
Love in hate, the woe of life.
Giving in to slipping in that holy burning knife.

Fall through the cracks or tie a knot 
I don’t wanna be here if you’re not 
I’m on fire in public spaces 
I don’t have time for names or faces 

Pinch of salt over my back
For the Painted devils dressed in black
Giving it all to a lower god 
You will never taste my blood

Ephraim:
At night I feel His million eyes watching, the flutter of His eyelashes leaving welts upon my cheek.
God screams like a dying star, as the sky turns red.

Drill a hole into my head 
Maybe then I’ll want to leave my bed 
It comes and gos or so my brother preaches 
By the look in his eye I really wanna believe it 

Take this cross I’ve inked into my arm
Standing up for a light of blinding harm 
I will burn before I die 
I will never tell a lie

Chorus:
Wake me up
When this is all over 
Wake me up
Don’t wait for us 
I’m burning up all over 
Don’t wake me up 
When will this be over

Rivi:
Never.

You're making it so hard for me, you're making it so easy.
Steady baby, this is the way that I like to party.
You're on the steeple submit, you're just where I wanna be.
Heavenly.
Down below with hounds I seethe.

Chorus x2

Painted Devils (ft. Rivi)

Ephraim:
I bled all on the grass, impaled with shards of glass.
Your lips have always burned, diminished with returns.
There's bondage within happiness and freedom within despair.
All this and more I pondered as I set fire to her hair.

Amy’s dead and I feel so indifferent 
A guilty conscience feeling so omnipotent 
The morning star that tore into the earth 
Amy’s dead and I have filled her mouth with dirt 

Place a coin on each eyelid
The trumpets sound and I respond with a silence so violent 
Take your throne and throw it through the air into the ocean 
Cos I don’t need it now lets set this war in motion 

Chorus:
After all of the filth that you put me through 
I have finally found a way to replace you 
Fading away is more fun its true 
Now forever and ever I’ll be apart from you 

Ephraim:
Taunting the cross.

Sucked off and sucked in 
Lucy came on down all full of sin 
Sensational degradation set me ablaze and 
You kept me waiting too long 

The spiral went down her leg and landed at her feet 
By that I point I was used to getting treated like meat 
So yeah I did this just to spite you 
But only cos you didn’t let me get inside you 

Chorus

Amy's Dead

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