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X (Expanded Edition)

Love More (feat. Nicki Minaj)

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Chris Brown -  Loyal (East Coast Version) feat. Lil Wayne and French Montana

Passenger - Bloodstains

Guarded - Kevin Daniel

Team(cover) - TwentyForSeven at UniKL BMI

Crossroads

February

All My Love

I have always gravitated toward records that were grand and a bit overly ambitious. With "Swallow the Sea" I didn't want to go the route of the low-fi indie record. The title represents what I was going for. I also have to stay true to my roots. I'm a product of the 80's and my musical taste was shaped largely by bands like The Pixies, REM, U2, Echo and the Bunnymen and other underground bands of that time. It was the era of epic art-rock and smart pop. I ate it up. This record certainly nods to my influences without apology."

Ambition is evident in Matthew Perryman Jones' third record, but first proper release. From the sense of hope that swells from the darkness of the opening track to the epic reinterpretation of the spiritual, “Motherless Child” to the closing track’s two minute mantra, “Where can you go? Can you Swallow the Sea?”, this record is the sound of Jones simultaneously putting his neck on the line and shedding musical inhibitions, and finding his voice in doing so.

Regarding "Swallow the Sea" Jones confesses, "It seems I can’t get away from dealing with darker elements. The only way I can approach them, in my life and in my writing, is to approach them from a hopeful perspective. I think that’s apparent on this record. Otherwise, I think the inclination is to not want to address those things…not wanting to go there if you can’t see a way out.”

Jones was born near Philadelphia and relocated to Atlanta at the age of 11. As a teenager he fell in love with the bands of the nearby Athens, Georgia music scene, including R.E.M., and the likes of Guadalcanal Diary and Mary My Hope. He began writing songs in high school, where he also formed his first band, and was 15 when they recorded their first five-song demo (produced by Indigo Girls producer Don McCollister.) 

By the mid-90s, he was fronting an Atlanta folk-rock band with steady gigs at the legendary Eddie’s Attic. As his own songwriting began to bloom and solo shows at Eddie’s followed, friends encouraged the burgeoning artist to pursue his music full-time. Before long, Jones had packed his things and was headed for Nashville. After relocating, Jones soon found a pocket of independent artists who quickly became his musical community. Touring and writing with these contemporaries has contributed to Jones' growth as an artist. In collaborating with local talents, he eventually became acquainted with producer Neilson Hubbard with whom he soon began working.

Swallow the Sea is Jones’ second consecutive album with Hubbard (Garrison Starr, Glen Phillips, Matthew Ryan). “With this record there was a bit of a struggle in that (musically) subtlety seems to be en vogue these days and I wanted to make a bigger record because those are the records I’ve always been into.” As he did on 2006’s Throwing Punches in the Dark, the disc finds Jones writing in a stream-of-consciousness manner, coming up with song ideas in a spur-of-the-moment fashion. “It’s kind of like getting in your car and driving around and seeing what you can find.”

“Save You” (co-written with Hubbard) was the first track on the record to garner attention via multiple television placements (Kyle XY, Private Practice) and resulted in an internet groundswell, as well as being the impetus for this new album. Jones’ strength as a writer is further showcased on this record from the aggressive pop of “Without a Clue” to the breezy “Amelia” and the quirky “When it Falls Apart”.

Amelia

https://open.spotify.com/track/0HgC6qUjWbpm3WYj5oW7oi?si=obeWL7jyRHiiDF3BwN0DwA

Trapped in these woods of mine
Don’t know where to go or where to hide
Would you let me feel the seas
I miss their breeze

A wet narrow path nearby
Shy between the pines in the night
Birds all around making sounds 
But they’re high above the ground

Would you lend me a hand now
Can you show me how it’s done
Can you open my mind now
Being teared up and lonesome
Breathing smoke from burning pride
Can you show me the bright skies
High above the ground

Diseatful swamps ahead
Easier to just stay in the bed
But these legs no they shouldn’t rest
They should walk far from this mess

Would you lend me a hand now
Can you show me how it’s done
Can you open my mind now
Being teared up and lonesome
Breathing smoke from burning pride
Can you show me the bright skies
High above the ground

Would you lend me a hand now
Can you show me how it’s done
Can you open my mind now
Being teared up and lonesome
Breathing smoke from burning pride
Can you show me the bright skies
High above the ground
Would you lend me a hand now
Would you lend me a hand now

Lend Me a Hand

Waiting Aquilo / I Always Look Back When I Leave Eliran Ben Ishai

If I Knew How to Hold You

Listen to 'Heading Nowhere' from Simon Alexander's album A Place to Call Home, to be released September 25, 2020

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🎧 'Heading Nowhere', released 14-08-2020
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📖 About the song:

Single from upcoming album "A Place to Call Home" (Sept 25th)

"While the world’s been facing difficult times I’ve found myself in a state of consciousness, reflecting on everything that’s happening. And I know I’m not alone in feeling lost in a world I’m not familiar with. But all these thoughts floating around in my head have led to many sleepless nights, with only questions and uncertainty holding me company. 

What I’ve realized during these nights is how I can long for dreaming. Just to get a brief escape to a better place, when things outside can seem too dark. What I want to say with ‘Heading Nowhere’ is to let yourself dream, and perhaps it will help you find a way to cope with what weighs you down." - Simon Alexander

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📝 Lyrics:

I've been awake for far too long,
Is anybody out there holding on
in a far-away place I've never heard
wondering the same, in foreign words
I'm feeling weaker by the hour
I don't know how deep I dare to dive
Slumbering in a faded dream
or maybe there was something in my tea

Going away
Heading nowhere
Up in the air
But I can see the guiding lights from here

Come let your stories lead my way
But every time you go I feel the same
Only a haze will stay with me
I wish that I was better company
Why won't you tell me where you are
I can not make it through this night alone
Only you, and no one else,
cause sleeplessness is my only mistress

Going away
Heading nowhere
Up in the air
But I can see the guiding lights from here

Up in the air
But I can see the guiding lights from here

Guarded - Kevin Daniel

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