Breathe

It's 10.30am on a Tuesday morning. Office party last night was a mess. CEO made a pass at Kelly from Commercial and then performed three rounds of “The Boys Are Back In Town” on the karaoke. You did about seven pints then slipped a French exit a good few hours before it wound down. Could have been worse – but you’re struggling today as the excel spreadsheet you’re faced with hammers you repeatedly in the head like a grim magistrate passing judgement on last night’s ordeal.
 
If I can only make it ‘til lunch, you think. The local is down the road – a few halves of the good stuff and I’ll be right as rain. As the minutes start to tick on you start to feel a little better, strengthened by the image of alcohol-induced relief. You take lunch early and fly (as the crow does) straight down the road to the palace of pints. Three quarters of an hour hence, and you’re a little more human and a little less like a human dartboard.  
 
Darts. What a fantastic idea, you think. Suddenly its 2.30pm and Tim from Accounts is next to you, Guinness in hand. I bloody love beer, you grunt at him before shoving your hand into a bag of whatever crips had the silliest flavour, in search of greasy ebullience.

Hair of the Dog

Written and performed by by The Trusted (Tom Cunningham, Dale Holt Mead, Finlay Cunningham, David Batchelor)

Produced by Rees Broomfield
Mixed by Andy Bradfield
Mastered by Doug van Sloun

Arkansas

SKIES - 'Deconstruction'
Stream/shop/tour & more: www.linktr.ee/skiesbanduk

Written & performed by SKIES (Alie Albury & Jericho Tozer). Produced, mixed & mastered by Oz Craggs at Hidden Track Studios. Copyright SKIES 2022. Artwork by indigoabbieart.

Lyrics:
So mutually
The fight with me
Was a deconstruction 
Of everything
Is it hard enough
To know you’re wrong
When I’m still waiting
I’m still waiting in 

I cut you up
You cut me off
It’s the hardest wait
When you’re out this late
This cold shoulder
Coloured bolder
So we fall down lower
We fall down lower again

Is this who we are?
Is this who we are?

We went too far
Is this who we are?
Let it free fall
Let it free fall away

Is this who we are?
Is this who we are?

I’m running out of everything
I wanna stay but I can’t see
A level up
A mile away
Am I enough
Is it too late?

I’m running out of everything
I wanna stay but I can’t see
A level up
A mile away
Am I enough, is it too late?

Am I enough, is it too late?
Am I enough, is it too late?
Am I enough, is it too late?
Am I enough, is it too late?

Is this who we are?
Is this who we are?
You have just got in
And I’m out to find you
Is this who we are?

Deconstruction

“all we’ve got // all we need” is the first single from adults for Fika Recordings, taken from their soon to be announced debut album, due out in the autumn. Scrappy, catchy DIY pop that’s sure to appeal to fans of Los Campesinos, Martha and Johnny Foreigner.

“It’s a song about having a breakdown on the megabus to bristol. About mutual aid, building strong networks of community resistance to the hostile environment, to food insecurity, to the homophobia and transphobia by the state and about trying to look after one another.”

adults are a noisy pop band desperately clinging on to the ghosts of 2009. 
Their songs are a silly, joyful, and occasionally sad, look back at the tail end of their 20s, a way to grapple with breakups, parties, alcohol and loneliness, and looking hopefully into the future.
They’ve released singles with Art Is Hard and For The Sakes Of Tapes, and self released an EP (The Weekend Was Always Almost Over), which was subsequently released on vinyl by Caballito records. They’re based in south London.

adults are
carl (he/they) - bass
joe (he/him) - drums
joely (she/they) - guitar and singing
tom (he/him) - guitar, synth, singing

https://linktr.ee/sclubadults

adults dates:
July 8th - Sebright Arms, London UK - Charmpit album launch w adults and Bitch Hunt
July 21st - Port Mahon, Oxford UK - ME REX, adults, spank hair, Nothing Dreams
July 22nd - The Victoria, London UK - adults, Spank Hair, DreamPhone
July 23rd - The Exchange, Bristol UK - adults, Spank Hair, Bad Brenda
July 27th - The Amersham Arms, London UK - Cheerbleederz album launch w adults and ME REX (solo)
September 28th - The Victoria, London, UK - Caleb Nichols, Schande, adults

all we've got // all we need

adults - all we've got // all we need

Inspired by the personal stories of migration in both Roxana & Pete's own families, their new track explores that feeling of being mixed culturally, of being rootless & of making home in many places. 
War was a backdrop to both their childhoods.
Roxana grew up in Iran & her family fled when the Iran/Iraq war started.
Pete's parents grew up in the old Czechoslovakia and fled to 
London when the Russian tanks rolled into Prague. 
These feelings are also something that many of us are experiencing in the world right now, as many people flee their homes due to conflicts.

releases July 15, 2022 
Roxana Vilk (Vocals)
Yann Seznec (Keys)
Allan Ferguson (Bass)
Algy Behrens (Oud & Guitars)
Simon Heath (Trumpet)
Peter Vilk (Drums)

Written & arranged by Vilk Collective
Produced by Roxana Vilk & Peter Vilk

Mixed by Peter Vilk
Mastered by Andy "Hippy" Baldwin at Metropolis Mastering London

Trees Have Roots

LYRICS

I should be more motivated 
This isn’t how good stories are created
Maybe I’m lazy
I should be more concentrated 
Feel the fire burning to make it
Maybe I’m lazy
Or maybe it’s

Three recessions in thirty years
A handheld newscycle full of fear 
Maybe I’m just diluted by trauma 
From living in an endless apocalyptic drama

Try to think of life somewhere secluded 
Why does that goal feel so deluded 
Maybe I’m lazy
I don’t  have the emotional energy
To think of my own self so tenderly 
Maybe I’m lazy
Or maybe it’s 

Three recessions in thirty years
A handheld newscycle full of fear 
Maybe I’m just diluted by trauma 
From living in an endless apocalyptic drama
The rich burning our planet to ashes
Our own lives dictated by fascists
How could I be feeling any calmer
I’m living in an endless apocalyptic drama

The spark left my eyes
Once the gaping divide was lost
On the horizon 

Maybe I’m lazy
Heck if you say so
Maybe I’m lazy
Or maybe it’s 

Three recessions in thirty years
A handheld newscycle full of fear 
Maybe I’m just diluted by trauma 
From living in an endless apocalyptic drama
The rich burning our planet to ashes
Our own lives dictated by fascists
How could I be feeling any calmer
I’m living in an endless apocalyptic drama

SOOT SPRITE - Lazy

Something Good

Blue

Words & Music by Terje Kleven
Recorded by Ole & Silje Huleboer @ Chaka Khan studios
Produced by Ole & Silje Huleboer and Sleep Kicks
Mixed by Morten Øby @ Taakeheimen Lydrike
Mastered by Christian Obermayer @ Strype Audio

Cover photo by Jørn Landbakk
Artwork by Terje Kleven

Words In Vain

Fika Recordings is a diy indie[pop] label run from London.


adults - all we've got // all we need

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