Love this and will be reviewing it in my Trust The Doc blog (31st March). Inventive and refreshingly distinctive.

Light Up The Sky

I found this Northumbrian pipe tune in a manuscript. It's called 'Over the Border' and I think was about Hadrian's Wall. I got a slight obsession with the sound of this tune, and the idea of borders. How humans perceive and create borders which do not exist in nature, and what this means for the world.

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Over The Border

When you wake up
Will the fog still hang from the trees
When you wake up
Will you see the blues pinks and greens

I've got a car
We can drive around if you please
We'll drive through towns
Just to see who we can be

So let's go
Let's go
Go
Go
Let's go
Let's go
Go
Go

When sight and sound
Smear to one wrapped inside a shroud
I'll pull away all the cloth
Whisper truths, paint escapes, we'll get out

Avoid the power lines
The hums influence our minds
We'll take advantage of
The inner thoughts that we find

Avoid the power lines
The hums influence our minds
We'll take advantage of
The inner thoughts that we find

So let's go
Let's go
Go
Go

Let's go
Go
Go

Avoid the power lines
The hums influence our minds
We'll take advantage of
The inner thoughts that we find

Avoid the power lines
The hums influence our minds
We'll take advantage of
The inner thoughts that we find

Powerlines

Ice-9

Spin Cycle
 
It’s been a long time since you washed your clothes. The pile of laundry in your bedroom creeps further towards you every time you hurl another sweat-filled sock at it. Two, three weeks now? Excuses keep flowing. 
 
‘I don’t have time.’ 
‘Fabric softener is too expensive.’  
‘Those pants can be reused.’
 
You shouldn’t reuse pants. You know you shouldn’t reuse pants. 
 
A month of non-washing passes and it becomes too much. Some of your family aren’t talking to you anymore. Your partner’s eyes are starting to wander. Even your milkman has shunned you. 
 
You do the right thing - book a half-day off work - and do some laundry. 
 
Click goes the door of the washing machine and it’s off. You stand back, impressed with yourself. 
 
Round and round and round, it goes. 
 
Slowly at first, a warm feeling of bliss starts to grow and envelope the soul. 
 
Round and round and round, it goes. 
 
Gone is the nausea! Ridden are you of the guilt, the embarrassment, the social pariah-status! 
 
Round and round and round, it goes. 
 
HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!
 
Round and round and round, it goes.

Bag Of Cans - Spin Cycle

Are you looking for this
Or maybe looking for someone that you’re going to miss 
Late at night in the summer 
Cross eyed kids caught in the lens of someone’s camera
How many times have me met
How many lines are running parallel and never connect 
You spend your life with a stranger 
In another they’ve driven their car into the water 

Believe me, believe in something better than this
Or should we try to put it all back together again
You’re leaving 
What’s leaving but another way to be missed
Or should we try to put the pieces back together again

Someone give me a hit
I need something that will get me out of this quick 
Turned my head just to see you
A Quick kiss a in the hallway by the bedroom 
Everything that we lost 
The clothes we keep out of the suitcase we pack in the dark
I cannot get rid of feeling 
That the beginning will one day meet up with the ending 

Believe me, believe in something better than this
Or should we try to put it all back together again
You’re leaving
What’s leaving but another way to forget
Or should we try to put the pieces back together again

And the cities we lived in 
may turn out just to be places that used to exist 
Before any of this 
Before your idiot kiss
Your future past and present tense

Believe me, Believe in something better than this
Or should we try to put it all back together again
You’re leaving 
What’s leaving but another way to forgive
Or should we try to put the pieces back together again

Future Past Present Tense

Taken from debut EP 'Satellite People', out now!
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Sleep on it

Free Radio Phobos - from the album Music for First Contact, out spring 2023.

Find it here: https://linktr.ee/pcpq

Lyrics:
Suddenly, suddenly we find ourselves in spotlight
Illuminate, illuminated in the dark forest
Rabbit in the headlights
Of monstrous machines
Like submarines
But made of teeth

Really, I find it kind of funny
The systems that we live in
Are alien to me anyway

Suddenly, suddenly we find ourselves in spotlight
Rabbit in the headlights
Of monstrous machines
Like submarines
With smiling teeth

Really, I find it kind of funny
The systems that we live in
Are alien to me

Credits:
Video shot and edited by Post Coal Prom Queen
Music by Post Coal Prom Queen
Sax - Calum Cummins
Violin - Laura J Wilkie
Recorded by Phil McBride at The Sonic Lodge Studio in Edinburgh.

Free Radio Phobos

I ti

Gillie - I ti

Skin - Dream Room

Taken from the 2-track 'Rise' single on Matinée Recordings.

Rise

Azure Blue - Rise

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Frankie Archer has exploded onto the electrofolk scene with music that transcends stereotypes using a combination of manipulated samples, synths, drum tracks and earthy Northumbrian fiddle and voice to capture her audience. Her aim? To shake up genres and traditions, challenge perspectives and call for a fairer future.

Winner of the 2023 Christian Raphael Prize, Frankie has been featured on ‘Later… With Jools Holland’ and championed by tastemakers at BBC Radio 2 and 6Music. Following the release of her debut EP ‘Never So Red’ (November, 2023), she has supported the likes of The Futureheads and The Last Dinner Party. With her unique live set turning heads wherever she goes, Frankie is quickly establishing herself as “one to watch” in the alternative space. 

“Extraordinary” Jools Holland
“Fascinating and intoxicating” Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
"She doesn't just push boundaries but smashes them out of the solar system” 
Tony Birch, FATEA

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