Neptuneage

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We're trying oh so hard to forget about that time,
We can't change it now, but we can start over,
But what am I to do when I'm so wrapped up in you?
It haunts me in my sleep, the way life could have been

Feeling the heat of the sun as it fills us up with lust,
Our shadows touched,
Can't help but self-destruct

I'm feeling woozy this month,
Our butterflies have turned into moths,
I'm losing control,
And now I'm feeling human

Looking up from the pit at myself two years ago, 
But he ain't got a clue what he's gonna go through,
And when I close my eyes a little part of me dies,
Makes way for the new buried within you

Feeling the heat of the sun as it fills us up with lust,
Our shadows touched,
Can't help but self-destruct

I'm feeling woozy this month,
Our butterflies have turned into moths,
I'm losing control,
And now I'm feeling human

But what am I to do when I'm so wrapped up in you?
It haunts me in my sleep, the way life could have been

Can't help but self-destruct

I'm feeling woozy this month,
Our butterflies have turned into moths,
I'm losing control,
And now I'm feeling human

Woozy

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Even though you're quarantined,
I'm feeling so relieved,
Babe, we just got two more weeks,
Just don't run out of groceries

Looking through the peephole at your Air Bnb,
If I can't eat dinner with you then I'll do it from the street,
This family walking by must think I'm a freak,
But pull up a chair, this is only the first week

Maybe humans will start to see,
What we really need is now out of arm's reach

The humans have left the streets,
Mother Nature can finally breathe,
The animals start to thrive,
Infiltrating our city life,
Funny how that works

Maybe humans will start to see,
What we really need is now out of arm's reach

Spreading way too fast,
Touching hands through glass,
All I want is your kiss,
Wipe the Windex off my lips

Maybe humans will start to see,
What we really need is now out of arm's reach,
Forget your money, forget your car,
When the world falls apart, all you really want is love

Quarantined

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Her heart's a constellation begging to be seen,
I'll be the invisible lines connecting in between,
All its complexity and beauty hangs serene, real life shines like a dream,
In your dripping eyes I see a sea of scars,
Weathering a storm that clouds a sky of stars,
But I swear that when the warmth returns they'll shine on you and me

Don't be afraid, you're safe to expose your depths,
I'll be right here with you for every step

Stealing strides away from civilized life,
As Pharoah Sanders sounds, cleansing spring's first light,
Amongst the redwood trees we finally find the time and space to breathe in peace

Don't be afraid, you're safe to expose your depths,
I'll be right here with you for every step

Remember the last full moon?
It was made of pure rose quartz,
With each shallow breath we took,
It crystallised us to our cores

Don't be afraid, you're safe to expose your depths,
I'll be right here with you for every step,
Don't be afraid, you're safe to expose your depths,
I'll be right here with you for every step

Rose Quartz

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Words fighting to free themselves, then they're swallowed,
But they're written across your face, etched in unrest,
Devoid of all the man's pride, your mind's in a landslide, holding on to a flicker in the fog,
Sensing sensitivity, growing stronger

I gazed into the eyes of my future demise,
Realised life has its time, but now I'm alive

Slip inside that crumbling sigh tumbling round those shell-shocked eyes,
I've loved you for my whole life, and it's sending chills up my spine

We used to kick the ball, now you've lost the strength to walk,
Spending Christmas in a hospital, and I can barely talk

And now I dread the rain,
'cause I can hear your pain-stricken sighs cascade across the cityscape

Through squinted eyes, I gazed into the eyes of my future demise,
Innocence pried, suddenly the sun's capsized,
Cradling a fragile mind trapped inside,
Realised life has its time, but now we're alive

Slip inside that crumbling sigh tumbling round those shell-shocked eyes,
I've loved you for my whole life, and it's sending chills up my spine,
Slip inside that crumbling sigh tumbling round those shell-shocked eyes,
I've loved you for my whole life, and it's sending chills up my spine

You said you've "had it",
I felt my hope erode,
I'm still not ready,
But it's not your time to go

That Crumbling Sigh

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Maybe we're naive, dreaming,
But I don't mind, I've done that for my entire life,
What difference does it make if we're not awake?
If it feels just the same, then let our bodies sink

Into the bottomless depths,
Oh, the oxygen I'd sacrifice for a moment in your mind

She flickers in the sunset,
Absorbed in her silhouette,
This feels like a dream,
From the sweetest sleep,
Don't wake us up yet

Maybe it's reality hitting us like a tidal wave,
Whispering boldly, why hide in the shadows?
Her touch says more than words ever will,
And it says we feel the same, so let our bodies sink


Into the bottomless depths,
Oh, the oxygen I'd sacrifice for a moment in your mind

She flickers in the sunset,
Absorbed in her silhouette,
This feels like a dream,
From the sweetest sleep,
Don't wake us up yet,
It never ends,
She flickers in the sunset,
Absorbed in her silhouette,
This feels like a dream,
From the sweetest sleep,
Don't wake us up yet,
It never ends

Silhouette

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Painting Polaroids in the clouds,
Swirls of pink and baby blue,
Breathing slowly with the wind,
But it won't calm the cyclone inside of you

There's a spark behind these tired eyes,
Existing can be messy sometimes

It was buried in my soul,
I found magic in turmoil,
Then she touched my soul,
There's magic in her smile

We're just tiny specks of dust (isn't life just so strange?),
Worried what other specks of dust think (think I'll just enjoy existence instead),
Being myself is my new thing

Painting Polaroids

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Sometimes it feels I have nothing to say,
No words to convey what's in my brain,
Nothing, nothing,
A million thoughts collide all day,
But my lips stay still, it spills and strains,
Empty, empty,
Critical mind, analytical might,
Trapped in time, bathed in light,
Stifled, stifled,
An endless parade of wordless refrains,
Gurgle out an old cliche,
Trapped energy, energy

Today I opened my throat up, 
And the words spilled out of my face,
Scared that this ocean's gonna swallow me, 
But I can't stay stuck on the shore

Sometimes I can't stand the world's weight,
Been trying in vain to numb the pain, 
Eyes glazing, glazing,
Driving around in the dead of night, 
Searching for a feeling inside,
Despondent, despondent,
Even though I try and try,
Can't even force out a cry,
Crumbling, crumbling,
And even though you say it's okay, 
I don't believe you feel that way, 
Will you still love me? Or leave me?

Today I opened my throat up, 
And the words spilled out of my face,
Scared that this ocean's gonna swallow me, 
But I can't stay stuck on the shore,
Today I opened my throat up, 
And the words spilled out of my face,
Scared that this ocean's gonna swallow me, 
But I can't stay stuck on the shore

I haven't heard from me in a couple years now,
Has it really been four years?
This pressure keeps on building,
Life's constantly racing,
But my soul just wants to slow down,
Wish I could be a stranger,
To myself,
To everyone else,
To all of my doubts,
To all the mess they've found,
To this endless insomnia

I've felt this before, 
Felt this before, 
Felt this before,
Felt this before,
Felt this before, 
Felt this before,
Felt this before,
I've felt this before

Nothing//Empty//Stifled Energy

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The sun rising and setting,
And I can't keep up with the tides,
Ten years in the blink of an eye

So much has changed,
Scared of my own age,
Scared of things staying the same,
Or my youth just slipping away

Endless need to improve,
Feels like I'll never be enough, 
But what's inherently wrong with being myself?

All this time I've kept things inside,
Not vulnerable enough to confide,
But it's exhausting trying to constantly hide,
An ego shielded by pride

Sometimes I wanna, I wanna go back,
Be back in my old habitat,
But even home ain't like it used to be

Lately my head is filled with noise,
That drowns out the sound of your voice,
Slowly slipping into the void

I find myself lost amongst the clouds, 
Crystal clear to a haze of doubt, 
And now my head is fuzz and everything's spinning around

This life's making less sense each day,
Time rapidly slipping away,
Every day looks the same,
And I can't feel a thing

It's all so complex and I don't know where to go next,
But I can't sit still and swallow all of my dreams,
Or this world will swallow me,
I hope one day it'll all make sense

Summer 93

First single from the sixth album from Flicker Vertigo, 'Infinite Verve', to be released June 14, 2024

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/track/6DoE1bJCoeJ1dxEbDRXNge?si=023073b9238c4015

'Midnight Fantasies Upon Prospect Hill' explores uncharted territory, fusing the dreamy grittiness of warped shoegaze guitars with the insistent groove of cosmic lo-fi house music. It's equal parts all-consuming and tantalising.

'Midnight Fantasies Upon Prospect Hill' features Flicker Vertigo's signature wall of sound, this time coming on like a tide rapidly ebbing and flowing, until it finally washes over and consumes you in the crescendo. It's a bold evolution in sound, while also drawing comparisons to the likes of bands like Tame Impala, Melody's Echo Chamber and My Bloody Valentine and to house greats like Moodymann.

Flicker Vertigo is the psychedelic rock brainchild of Nathan Nicholson, with everything written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Nicholson himself. A native of Melbourne, Australia, and currently based in Bournemouth in South Coast UK, Flicker Vertigo is music to daydream to. Bursting with crunchy psychedelic textures, sun-dappled guitar hooks swirling in an explosive wall of sound, blissed-out melodies fluttering overhead, and hypnotic, driving grooves whizzing by, plus subliminal nods to dream pop, garage psych, krautrock, shoegaze and house bubbling upon the horizon and melting into the kaleidoscopic haze. It's a dreamy, cosmic, vertigo-inducing mixture that consumes you and transmits you skyward.

Written, recorded, mixed & mastered by Nathan Nicholson
Artwork and design by Nathan Nicholson

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Time crawls, it's lonely,
Surreal life grows internally,
Midnight fantasies,
Dreaming of normalcy,
After dark on the run,
Hazy gazing at suburban slums,
If I squint my eyes,
The dappled lights tranquillise

Oh please carry me away on that shooting star,
When it crumbles into dust I'll land somewhere else,
Where I'm free to roam, a glimmer of hope,
Back to reality, just this grassy oasis and me

You and I, we both see,
A city shrouded in mundanity,
But we have this lonely hill,
We'll brave the winter chill,
Slowly ascending,
Suburban twilight, collective grief,
The days just crawl by by by by,
Soundtracked by dissonant sighs

I feel okay if I meditate and gaze til the angst is at bay,
Just focus on the beauty that surrounds you,
I'll escape and pretend it's 1997,
Nostalgic and free with my whole life in front of me

I'll just sit and dream these nights away,
Wake me when it ends,
Paralysed peacefully,
By midnight fantasies

Midnight Fantasies Upon Prospect Hill

Second single from the sixth album from Flicker Vertigo, 'Infinite Verve', to be released June 14, 2024

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/track/4uSUJqgy9av7HV197QYJGn

Sprinkled with just enough fairy dust to make you daydream whilst being consumed by the crunchy wall of sound, ‘Infinite Verve’ is an energising shot of empowering garage psych.

Catchy hook after hook is smashed through a crunchy lo-fi blender, revelling in the psychedelic textures found only by pushing things to their limit.

Guitars bend and warp with every strum, the vocals echo and crackle with energy and enthusiasm, the drums thunder alongside the bass propelling you forward like an elastic band stretched to breaking point.

It’s simultaneously hard-hitting, hypnotic and dreamy, indulging in Flicker Vertigo’s influences from garage psych rock, krautrock and dream pop. All at once, it sounds like The Flaming Lips having a party with King Gizzard, with Melody’s Echo Chamber and The Strokes gatecrashing the whole thing.

Flicker Vertigo is the psychedelic rock brainchild of Nathan Nicholson, with everything written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Nicholson himself. A native of Melbourne, Australia, and currently based in Bournemouth in South Coast UK, Flicker Vertigo is music to daydream to. Bursting with crunchy psychedelic textures, sun-dappled guitar hooks swirling in an explosive wall of sound, blissed-out melodies fluttering overhead, and hypnotic, driving grooves whizzing by, plus subliminal nods to dream pop, garage psych, krautrock, shoegaze and house bubbling upon the horizon and melting into the kaleidoscopic haze. It's a dreamy, cosmic, vertigo-inducing mixture that consumes you and transmits you skyward.

Written, recorded, mixed & mastered by Nathan Nicholson
Artwork and design by Nathan Nicholson

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The last couple of years have blemished our souls,
Living life like lemmings, bruised egos thriving,
Paranoid, reactive,
Just breathe in, breathe out

Stirring deep inside you'll see,
An infinite verve in me,
Verve in you, verve in we,
Infinitely consumes you,
Stirring deep inside you'll see,
An infinite verve in me,
Verve in you, verve in we,
Infinitely consumes you

Now this time the hive mind have lost control,
Grip loosening around our spirit's naive wonderment,
Boundless potential,
Our eyes are opened wide

Stirring deep inside you'll see,
An infinite verve in me,
Verve in you, verve in we,
Infinitely consumes you
Stirring deep inside you'll see,
An infinite verve in me,
Verve in you, verve in we,
Verve in you, verve in me,
Verve,
Stirring deep inside you'll see,
An infinite verve in me

You misunderstand my dreams,
Matter of fact, you misunderstand reality,
This bold new frontier is not a dream,
This bold new frontier is real

Infinite Verve

Music to daydream to. Bursting with crunchy psychedelic textures, sun-dappled guitar hooks swirling in an explosive wall of sound, blissed-out melodies fluttering overhead, and hypnotic, driving grooves whizzing by, plus subliminal nods to dream pop, garage psych, krautrock, shoegaze and house bubbling upon the horizon and melting into the kaleidoscopic haze. It's a dreamy, cosmic, vertigo-inducing mixture that consumes you and transmits you skyward.

Flicker Vertigo is the psychedelic rock brainchild of Nathan Nicholson, a native of Melbourne, Australia, and currently based in Bournemouth in South Coast UK,.with everything written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Nicholson himself.

"Dreamy layer upon dreamy layer that transports you to a place and time hard to resist" - Deviate Magazine

"The ultimate saga of dreamy, blissful vibes" - the AU review

Email: flickervertigomusic@gmail.com

Flicker Vertigo

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