Punk Yacht

Fragile Creatures latest single, A New Low, available digitally from October 4th 2019. The first track to drop from their forthcoming second album, Punk Yacht. 

Combining rock, grunge, pop and catchy melodies, Fragile Creatures evoke the spirit of great musical innovators of the past, from Bowie to Blur and beyond. Resistant to the formulaic, going wherever their musical muse takes them. Hot on the heels of this Spring's Heart Beat EP, the band are gearing up to release their second album Punk Yacht, with a series of self-recorded psych-pop singles. Beginning with A New Low on October 4th, a diatribe against populist hate-mongering that straddles the troubled border between the spiky and the smooth. 

This is a new low
Were you reaching for the gutter?
Cos' you certainly got there
But you should be ashamed of yourself
To sell a few stacks of papers
Made an enemy of the other

Crossed the line, crossed the line
We don't know why we came here tonight
Thoughts collide, worlds collide
We don't know why we read it online

Say what you've got to say
And then please shut your mouth and walk away
Cos we're tired of the hate bombs
Dropped from a cowardly distance
Breathing controversy like it's air
Dining on others despair

Crossed the line, crossed the line 
We don't know why we came here tonight 
Thoughts collide, worlds collide 
We don't know why we read it online
We don't know why we came here tonight
We don't know why we came here tonight

(So full of hate - don't know what to do with that)
Never had no trouble paying the rent
Food on the table money to spend
(So full of hate - don't know what to do with that)
Best education that money could buy
All they did was fill you full of fear and lies
(So full of fear)
There's fear in the city so you're not alone
99 problems? Get a new scapegoat
We've got to deal with that


Fragile Creatures are:

Adam Kidd – composer, vocals, guitar
Aaron Neville - keyboards, vocals
Tom Alty - guitar
James Crump - drums
Adam Whittles - bass

Recorded by Fragile Creatures, Portslade, UK
Mixed by Aaron and Tristan McClenahan in Limoges, France
Mastered by Alex Pettman, Debut Mastering, Bristol, UK

A New Low

Phantom Limb – out digitally November 1st 2019. The second teaser single from Fragile Creatures independent second album, Punk Yacht.
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Adam Thomas Kidd - composer, vocals, guitar, production
Aaron Kieran Neville - keyboards, background vocals
Tom Alty - lead guitar, background vocals
James Crump - drums
Adam Whittles - bass guitar

Tristan & Aaron Mclenahan - mixing
Alex Pettman (Debut Audio Mastering) - mastering

You cut me off, you're a phantom limb
You're a part of me, I'm a part of you 
Might be comforting except for the pain I'm in

You cut me off, you're a phantom limb
I feel your presence in everything
Can't sleep at night cos I'm scared of dreams
No one tells me what's happening

You cut me off, you're a phantom limb
You're a part of me, I'm a part of you 
Might be comforting except for the pain I'm in

It's been worse for me since I learned the truth
I don't want to feel like I'm chasing you
Every body says that I'm being a fool
I don't know what I wanna do

You cut me off, you're a phantom limb
You're a part of me, lying in bed with him
That's not comforting, no, but that's what is happening

Following the ghosts of memories
This city is like a cemetery 
For past lives, what used to be
You can't help it but you're haunting me
Like a dreamer trapped in a dream
I can't awake from fantasy
Now it's so dark and I can't help it
I am falling in
You can't cut off a memory
Can't cut off a memory

You cut me off but I'm memory
It don't seem right, but it may still be
It hurt inside to let the killer go free
Number it all with the evil weed

Jack-knifed but I'm cauterised
Didn't feel the maniacal twist inside
Tell me about your dreams last night?
It didn't feel I'm not gonna lie

You cut me off you're a phantom limb
You're a part of me, part of everything
That's not comforting, no, but that's what is happening

Phantom Limb

Big Red Button is the third single from Fragile Creatures forthcoming second album, Punk Yacht. It will be released digitally on January 17th 2020. The album will follow in April.

Here is a vdeo of the band performing the song live: https://youtu.be/fxdPY3kaKgg

They play the Amersham Arms in New Cross on November 16th.
They play the Mesmerist in Brighton on November 23rd.

Punk Yacht will be launched at the Hope & Ruin, Brighton, on April 30th 2020.

Lyrics:

Put your finger down on the big red button
All your stars have inhibitions
Held in check by their big ambitions
Self-destructive demolition

You live a little lie, live a little lie all the time
(Life's too short to waste my time)
You live a little lie, live a little lie and then you die
(It's not what you say it's what you hide)

The big red button
The big red button

Ooh, you're gonna lose
You got every little thing confused
Why'd you even try today
Whispered doubts unfaced
My future's been erased
Why'd you even get out of bed today?

Gathered up fragments of the life you shook
You'd do anything to turn back the clock
Pressed dried flower in the pages of a book
The scent's still pure if you'd open up

You live a little lie, live a little lie all the time
(Life's too short to waste my time)
You live a little lie, live a little lie and then you die
(It's not what you say it's what you hide)

The big red button
The big red button

Ooh, you're gonna lose
You got every little thing confused
Why'd you even try today?
Every little thing you say
Gets taken the wrong way
I only ran a mile
Instead of coming to your aid
Why'd you have to run away?
Why'd you tell me half the tale?
In time things will be okay once again

The big red button

Big Red Button

Fragile Creatures new single, Parallel Lines, is available digitally from May 29th 2020. A fourth teaser single from their forthcoming second album, Punk Yacht, scheduled for release in August the album was recorded by the band in the Portslade rehearsal room they share with Electric Soft Parade. Fragile Creatures are the main project from Brighton musician Adam Kidd, a singer-songwriter who’s been playing the local scene since his early teens, son of Jeremy Kidd, the singer from classic 80s indie band the Red Guitars. Adam has played side-man for groups like ESP side-project The Fiction Aisle, Fierce Friend, and The Mojo Fins, whilst quietly working away on solo projects and fronting the mighty Fragile Creatures. 

Combining rock, pop, grunge and catchy melodies, Fragile Creatures evoke the spirit of great musical innovators of the past from Bowie to Blur and beyond. The band are gearing up to release Punk Yacht, with a series of psych-pop singles. ‘Parallel Lines’, the latest of these, is the most mellow track on the album, reminiscent of John Lennon’s simple ballad writing. Its lyric considering patience in troubling times it seems to resonate with the lockdown conditions of 2020. Speaking about ‘Parallel Lines’ Kidd states;

"I wrote this one three years ago, getting over the end of a long-term relationship and struggling to open up to new possibilities. The refrain, "you can't go back home," is meant to reference Greek philosopher Heraclitus' observation that, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” Time and events in our lives changes us, for better or for worse we become new people, which is something we all must accept if we are to move forwards."

Over the coming weeks Fragile Creatures will perform every song from Punk Yacht ahead of its August release on their YouTube channel. In the absence of live performance, the band are creating stripped back lockdown-live versions recorded from their separate homes, and interspersed with cover songs from bands they are influenced by.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4M-VzkemsMN5nT9lIR3XnlCg1LgqtUJF

Parallel Lines

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Teaser single from Fragile Creatures forthcoming second album, Punk Yacht. Featuring a rare lead vocal from the band's keyboard player Aaron Kieran Neville (also known as Neville Sounds)Fragile Creatures are gearing up to release Punk Yacht, with a series of psych-pop singles. ‘Give Me The Rhythm’, the latest of these, is a pumping pop rock beast, that should resonate with those longing for the live stage in these strange times, both as performers and audience members. The song tries to capture one of those brief moments of magical connection between artist and audience. A song Neville had been developing for a long time that finally came to fruition during the DIY recording sessions for Punk Yacht.

LYRICS
Give me the rhyhtm
I'll give you my soul
Give me the rhythm
I'll swallow it whole
I saw you watching
Standing over there
I saw you watching
I like the way you stare

Give me the rhythm
(Give me the rhythm)
Give me the rhythm
(Give me the rhythm)
Give me the rhythm
I'll swallow it whole

The lights go up and the curtains come down
The music has stopped and you're not around
(Where did you go?)
Nowhere to be found
So give me the rhythm

Our eyes connected
Across the great divide
You saw right through me
You saw into my mind
You felt the hunger
The fever in the song
You pulled me under
Underneath the tide

The lights go up and the curtains come down
The music has stopped and you're not around
(Where did you go?)
Nowhere to be found
So give me the rhythm

Give me the rhythm
Give me the rhythm
Give me the rhythm
Give me the rhythm - ooh-hoo

Give me the rhythm (Give me the rhythm)
Give me the rhythm (Give me the rhythm)
Give me the rhythm I'll swallow it whole
(Give me the rhythm) Give me the rhythm

Give me the rhythm (Give me the rhythm)
Give me the rhythm (Give me the rhythm)
Give me the rhythm I'll swallow it whole
credits
from Give Me The Rhythm, releases July 3, 2020
Aaron K. Neville - vocals, keyboard
Adam Kidd - vocals, electric guitar, production
Tom Alty - electric guitar
James Crump - drums
Adam Whittles - bass guitar

Tristan MacLenahan - mixing
Aaron MacLenahan - mixing

Alex Pettman - mastering

GIVE ME THE RHYTHM – PRESS RELEASE Fragile Creatures latest single, Give Me The Rhythm, is available digitally from July 3rd 2020. A teaser for their second album, Punk Yacht, which is scheduled for release on August 21st. The album was recorded by the band in the Portslade rehearsal room they share with Electric Soft Parade. Give Me The Rhythm features a rare lead vocal from the band’s keyboard player and co-writer Aaron K. Neville, also known as NevilleSounds, the solo project he launched this year with his pledge to write ‘tunes to get your heart beating and your feet moving’ – a mantra that’s certainly applicable to Give Me The Rhythm. Fragile Creatures are the main project from Brighton musician Adam Kidd, a singer-songwriter and now indie producer, who’s been playing the local scene since his early teens. Kidd’s father, Jeremy, was the singer for cult 80s indie band Red Guitars, and Adam has played side-man for groups like The Fiction Aisle, Fierce Friend, and The Mojo Fins, whilst fronting the mighty Fragile Creatures. 

Combining rock, pop, grunge and catchy melodies, Fragile Creatures evoke the spirit of great musical innovators of the past from Bowie to Blur and beyond. 

Over the coming weeks Fragile Creatures will perform every song from Punk Yacht. In the absence of live performance, the band are creating stripped back lockdown-live versions recorded from their separate homes, and interspersed with cover songs from artists who have influenced them. A chilled version of Give Me The Rhythm was the most recent of these, accentuating the melancholy hunger at the heart of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nB7mhqgml4

Give Me The Rhythm

punk yacht quintet...
"We're never going to give up on you."