"The drums pad in from the shadows and the tune swells beautifully from the mists as dawn breaks over the city horizon" - Listen With Monger

"With the simply titled “Signs” Flat Rufus has captured an atmospheric soundtrack which comes to life with the nostalgic video that accompanies it" - Mr Teeth Reviews

Video available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhEdYQPAIz0

Signs

If nothing had changed,
Would it have helped me out?
You don't feel the same
And I understand.
Nothing's the same
But I'll help you out.
Nothing's the same now.

I kind of guessed something was wrong,
Didn't want to believe 
Should've bit my lip just to prolong,
This overwhelming grief
Now I live at my parents house 
On my brothers sheets
They don't keep me warm; 
They don't smell of you
So I'll never sleep the same
But I'll help you out.
I know you sleep the same
But that doesn't help
There is no time to these days;
Every minute's a freeze frame
Where I blame myself.

This list of loss is so long
I've no time to read
There's a cloud of what it was
Over everything
And I've been trying to think
If it's you or the past that I still love
But I don't think I'll ever solve that.

For all it hurts, I'm a big boy now.
And you need to work on being nice to yourself.
Because you're perfect.
You're my best friend.
And we're both going to be fine.
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Featuring guest vocals from Fenne Lily & Oliver Wilde.
Photograph by Simon Holliday.
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"Breakfast Records are tickled pink to be releasing the debut album of local lo-fi hero SLONK.

'Songs About Tanks' is a game changer for this prolific young genius, an incredible, affecting collection of miniature masterpieces. Featuring guest contributions from Fenne Lily, Oliver Wilde, The Gin Birkins and Jamie Cruickshank, the album's credits read like a compendium of Bristol's most important new artists. We've had it on repeat for the past few months and are beyond stoked to finally be releasing it into the wild.

It is a thing of wonder. Behold."
- Josh Jarman, Breakfast Records

We're Both Going To Be Fine

"We had this idea to turn it into a lo-fi Motown song. That hasn't really worked out, but we're pretty stoked on how it sounds, regardless."

Broken Wheel is the second track to be released from the upcoming compilation 'Elevenses' to mark the first birthday of Breakfast Records. Featuring eleven artists performing incredible, creative covers of their favourite song to be released on the label so far, the album will be released initially as a limited run of just eleven bundles including a cassette, tea towel, crossword and download code, all for just eleven pounds, before becoming available digitally. Launch tickets: dice.fm/event/breakfast-recor…y-hours-space-tickets

Fuzzy Plums - Broken Wheel (Orig. by American Enthusiasm)

for the women in my life, thanks for your wisdom and strength. 

mercury's in retrograde and i'm still in pain, i came off all the things that were making it darker in my brain
i need to peel back the layers, find whatever haunts these veins, this pain we shouldn't suppress, we need to investigate 
why even when i'm at home, there's a darkness in this soul 
why even with a full heart i just fall into a dark hole
drowning in how little i know

these planets, they've planned it 
i learnt that from the witches who began this
my ancestors were burnt in tar for their craft 
for love do we really have to sacrifice our craft?
these planets, they've planned it 

in fluxus with the full moon, i menstruate 
it reminds me we're all pawns in the cosmos game 
gender is not genital, that's a fact we can't escape
that's why i feel so sure when it's solitude that i crave
because it broke my soul sat waiting for him to come home
i'm a loose atom let me be free to roam
let me figure out all there is to know

my mother traced it out in the stars for me 
last night Jupiter so silently reminded me 
you can live vicariously through me 
i may have inherited your pain but it's what drives me

i know that i will never be alone 
when i've got these words to put the cement in the stone
to help me understand the little that i know

these planets, they've planned it
i learnt that from the witches who began this
my ancestors were burnt in tar for their craft
for love do we really have to sacrifice our art?
these planets, they've planned it

These Planets

FREE DOWNLOAD! Taken from an as yet untitled release out on Art is Hard later this year.

Emily Isherwood (fka Nugget) is a Bristolian magician, familiar to anyone who has ever frequented one of Bristol's record shops or perhaps those who caught her fronting frenetic acts like Rink or Skeleton Frames. The decision at the end of last year to start recording music under her own name feels like a symbolic one. With it, Emily has drawn a line under what came before whilst also undoubtedly being influenced by those previous experiences.

'Calibrate' is the first track to be shared in this new guise and is a startling introduction. The stripped back sound of the earlier Nugget Demo EP is replaced by sparse electronics segueing into swelling choruses bubbling with raw emotion. It's not the sort of music you put on in the background, rather an all consuming experience requiring your full attention. Partly this is down to Emily's knack for stringing together poetic lines that feel effortless in their construction.

Recorded in a studio just outside Bath, the track forms part of a larger collection set for release on Art is Hard later in 2018. In the meantime, Emily is heading on a nine date UK tour with a full band in tow supporting Black Foxxes:

28th March, Manchester Deaf Institute
29th March, Leeds Key Club
30th March, Glasgow Cathouse
31st March, Newcastle Thinktank
2nd April, Nottingham Bodega
3rd April, Birmingham Mama Roux's
5th April, Southampton Joiners
6th April, London Heaven
7th April, Bristol Thekla

Calibrate

Emily Isherwood - Calibrate

Recorded and produced by Samuel Bedford
Mastered by Dan E. Brown.

Simmer Single

Simmer

The new single from our new album 'closure' - out soon via Breakfast Records

"Set around a chunky, instantly catchy guitar riff, the track talks of inner struggles but projects them via brilliantly sunny instrumentation, contrasting light and dark perfectly." - DIY MAG

Patience

Written, Recorded & Produced by Joe Sherrin 2018
Released 25th January 2019 on 7" Vinyl.
Pre order:  http://breakfastrecords.co.uk/shop/

Everything played by Joe Sherrin except:
Violin - Zander Sharp
Drums - Harry Sherrin
Backing Vocals - Oliver Wilde, Kane Eagle, Zander Sharp, Sam Bedford


Innumerable future selves lean to form an audience, keen to hear the result.
They’ll wait for hours to be betrayed –Restless.
Too scared to blink or speak at all,
I fumble everything for a home crowd - stuck in their thick berating din.
If they could speak they’d help me out:
Tell me what I’m supposed to do and think.
 
You’re a barricade of charisma; I don’t know how to talk to you
You’re a catapulted whisper splattering on flags of truce
I have allegiances to characters I am now too old to be
I spend the bulk of my free time pining, wishing & worrying.
 
It feels a lot like:
-          Getting back from a holiday you liked;
-          Reluctant small talk with  a friend you were once much closer with;
-          Reluctant small talk with a colleague you feel you know too much about.
 
It’s not ideal. It’s only fine.
It’s not how you feel but it’s all that you are, boy.
 
It’s a lot like:
-          Waking up, when you’d rather be asleep;
-          Having things to think about when you’d rather sleep, to dream.
 
It’s alarming we’re so calm
As we erode to lesser forms.
Far from ideal – we’ll say “it’s fine!”
It’s not how we feel it’s just all that we are now.

Holidays

"Blissed out stuff for those that like their music meandering and introspective" - Listen With Monger

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdQNfkAHQO8cCQAk95AEEUg?spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20Unexpected%20end%20of%20input%20(url%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fchannel%2FUCdQNfkAHQO8cCQAk95AEEUg)

http://flatrufus.bandcamp.com/releases

Signs

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