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Credits:
Written By: Claire Cottrill, Leon Michels, Homer Steinweiss, 
and Nick Movshon
Produced By: Leon Michels and Claire Cottrill
Claire Cottrill: Vocals, Piano  
Leon Michels: Piano, Mellotron, Flute, Synths, Percussion, Organ
Homer Steinweiss: Drums, Percussion 
Nick Movshon: Bass, Mo Tuck
Paul Castelluzzo: Slide Guitar

Lyrics:

Sexy to someone
Is all I really want
Sometimes sexy to someone
Is all I really want
Nothing more nothing less of thought
Walking through the park

Sexy to someone
I think about it all
Checking out of the hotel
Or moments at a bar
Ask if I’m in a movie
No, I didn’t get the part

Sexy to somebody it would help me out
Oh, I need a reason to get out of the house
And it’s just a little thing I can’t live without

Sexy is something I see in everything
Honey sticking to your hands
Sugar on the rim
Nothing more nothing less of thought
Take it all to heart

I want afterglowing
And when I call a car
Send me eyes with the knowing
That I could pull it off
Ask if I’m doing TV
No, I didn’t get the job

Sexy to somebody it would help me out
Oh, I need a reason to get out of the house
And it’s just a little thing I can’t live without

(I want to be sexy to someone)
Is it too much to ask?
(I want to be sexy to someone)
Then what’s holding you back?
(I want to be sexy to someone)
It’s not too much to ask
(Sexy to someone)

Sexy to somebody it would help me out
Oh, I need a reason to get out of the house
And it’s just a little thing I can’t live without

Sexy to somebody it would help me out
Oh, I need a reason to get out of the house
And it’s just a little thing I can’t live without

Sexy to Someone

LOOM

Nice to Meet You

Cherry

Close To The Knife

The Fall

Pill To Swallow

Flat Out

Running in the Gutter”, BABAL’S 13th album, the 1st to be released on Fruits de Mer label Friends of the Fish, definitely hits the ground running and keeps you locked in to their immersive world of intense lyricism and potent musical ideas.
The resulting album is a beautifully crafted selection of hypnotic and rhythmic pieces, each delving deeply into the world we think we know.
BABAL have come up with an immersive, yet accessible blend of songs that illustrate the band’s superlative improvisational skills, whilst still retaining cohesive musical ideas that weave poetry and dynamic vocalizations that are central to the band’s alternative core.
Opening track “One Big Family” is a full-on attack on social media; the rise of the biggest brain-washing experiment in history; “eye sockets sore, mind in chaos, thoughts flying round, like a bird in a cage, manic with facts and terrible rage! Nowhere to go, I can’t turn the page!”.
“The Best Restaurants” is a sharp take on poverty consciousness and opposing huge wealth, and a vain hope that religions may save us, but very probably not.” All I saw was a crowd of starving souls, chewing at their wishes”
“The World that we Know” is a plea for the World to wake up to the real possibility of extinction, “I wanna green world! I wanna green world! I want it to smell good; I don’t want it to stink like it does at the moment! Open your arms and let it in!”.
“Cake Music” is a high-energy satire on the virtues of neo-liberalism, “recycle now and do your bit! Be a match when the fires are lit; move a little closer to the cholera pit! Ha Ha!”
“We shall be Fables” is a sweetly enchanting song that lulls the listener, yet reminds us ultimately of our mortality (one of Karen’s recurring lyrical themes), “life is eating us up, we shall be Fables, when the noon-tide beckons and the reaper reckons; we shall be Fables” It ain’t gonna last forever……..
Title track, “Running in the Gutter” is a truly majestic love song, poignant yet hopeful that love can still make the difference in all our lives; “you won’t applaud, it has a drive, it’s not a lot till love arrives! Love is not a number, it lives, it dies, running in the gutter, it doesn’t strive”. We can all get there, no matter how far down in the gutter we are.
“Running in the Gutter” is available on the Fruits de Mer label, Friends of the Fish, on vinyl, CD, digital download and streaming. Pre sales from 1st July, release date August 8th 2025.
BABAL will be launching the album at the Son Of Sardonicus festival of Psychedelic Delights on Saturday August 2nd, the Cellar, 25/26 Quay Street, Cardigan, SA43 1HU. Advance copies of “Running In the Gutter” will be available at the festival.
“Could it be argued that Crass are joining force with Cardiacs to deliver a Beefheart take on Byrne? Possibly, but instead of attempting to work out the influences and wonder how to describe them, instead say this is classic BABAL with the band putting their troubles behind them and being at full strength and power. Long may they continue as for prog to survive it needs to be as uncompromising and challenging as this.”
Kev Rowland: Prog Archives (author of the Progressive Underground vols 1-5).

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SASAMI - 'Not The Time / Callous' out now on Domino Record Co.
Single artwork by Alice Baxley.

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Lyrics:

I lost my callouses for you, and you didn’t even think to ask me how my day was, now I’m leaving.
I couldn’t even count the number of times that I let you in and I made myself small, even though I smiled throughout it all.

When I look back, I can see myself slipping down.

Heaven knows, heaven knows I tried. Heaven knows I tried tonight.

I know it’s not your fault you were born with a spoon in your throat, and a gun in your hand, and a plan for yourself. I’m not grieving.
It’s just a matter of time and a matter of worth, and you’ve known since birth what you like, and I’m happy for you until my face is blue.

When I look back, I can see myself so clear. When I look back, I can see myself slipping down.

Tonight will be the night (heaven knows).
Tonight will be the night (heaven knows I tried).
Tonight will be the night (heaven knows I tried tonight).

Not The Time / Callous

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