You can order the full 'Seven Hours' EP (CD/10" Vinyl/DL) out September 30 on Erased Tapes from http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP051

Lungful

Take in a breath and treasure the light
Don’t let them see you move, you've got nothing to prove
Hold out your palms and place them in mine
Don’t let me feel you shake, in fear they find mistake

Silence the song with bugles that play
You need to hear the call, they’re wishing you to fall
Don’t let them see you fail
I will not let you fail

© Douglas Dare 2013

Seven Hours (Bonus Digital Booklet Version)

Lungful

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Whelm will be released on May 12, 2014.

Photograph taken by Dusan Kacan.

LIVE DATES:

08.05.14. BRIGHTON (UK) - The Great Escape Festival

16.05.14. LONDON (UK) - Album Launch at Birthdays
Tickets: http://www.atpfestival.com/newsview/1404081016.php


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Erased Tapes Collection VI

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Caroline is the lead single from new EP, 'Caroline/If Only' OUT NOW!

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London-based singer-songwriter Douglas Dare releases new EP, following on from his debut album Whelm. Named after album track Caroline and new track If I Knew I Were Alive, it also features remixes by fellow label mate Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles and Houndstooth’s own electronic producer Ross Tones aka Throwing Snow.
Caroline has always been a precious track for Douglas, one of the first tracks he recorded and a story in which he imagines his grandfather is writing to a loved one during the war. As the only song on his debut album that is stripped down to just his voice and piano playing, and it being a favourite amongst fans at his concerts, it was a natural choice as a first single.

Caroline

It's been countless days, since last we wrote
And countless more, since last we wrote
But now that's all that remains
The letters that make up your name
And I used to see every line that crossed 
Your face, but now the lines are lost
In stories told and I've grown old
Let me read again the letters that you sent

Caroline wrote to me
Every day of that July
But now that's all I have left
Just thirty-one pages of Caroline

I waited all that time for you
To write be back, to write a new
Verse of our love but it never came
Just hoped my Caroline was safe
And just as I had always feared
Your precious words they disappeared 
In to my mind as I went blind
Let me read again the letters that you sent

Caroline wrote to me
Every day of that July
But now that's all I have left
Just thirty-one pages of Caroline

To pick them up might cut my hands
And blind me 
To pick them up might cut my hands
And blind me

Let me read again the letters that she sent

Caroline/If Only

Caroline

Binary Coda (Live at The Church Studios)

Omni out May 10 - Stream Mouth to Mouth ft. Rival Consoled now

DOUGLAS DARE

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