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Red Ribbons

➤ Support on Bandcamp: http://feralconservatives.bandcamp.com
➤ Support on iTunes: tinyurl.com/j79q2wu
➤ Support on Spotify: tinyurl.com/jouhzb6

recorded february 2014 through august 2015 (but we took some breaks)
earthsound recording, Chesapeake, VA
engineered by mark padgett
produced by mark padgett and feral conservatives
mastered by peter linnane at patch hill mastering, Boston, MA

feral conservatives are:
rashie rosenfarb vocals, mandolin
matt francis drum set, pedal noise
dan avant bass


additional musicians:
lead guitar on ‘last light’ and ‘bus driver’ gabriel rosenfarb
keys on ‘round the corner,’ ‘bus driver,’ and ‘acrylics’ junior favela
violin on ‘little pieces’ mishah rosenfarb
violin on ‘pacific child’ rocky capizzi
horns on ‘bus driver’ joe peterfeso

feralconservatives@gmail.com | feralconservatives.com
	
All songs written and performed by Feral Conservatives ©© 2016 Feral Conservatives.
All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.


Bus Driver

Head in the Clouds is a 6 track EP with a running time just shy
of 17 minutes. Placed in the chillout genre listeners can expect
punchy popy vibes laced with soft, laid back vocals. Song themes
embrace late nights, morning afters and day dreaming.
Available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and bandcamp from January 1st 2016.

Falling Lyrics....

Take the leap, but I don’t fly
I can’t help but fall for you
Keep, passing me by
Why you make me crawl through hoops

I’ve got a feeling that we don’t share
I’ve got a feeling that you don’t care

I’ve rolled a dice once or twice
Ill take it with a lime slice and ice
Whatever life decides it writes
I’m all in with cards in my sights

I’ve rolled a dice once or twice
Ill take it with a lime slice and ice
Whatever life decides it writes

Deep within your eyes
I could give it all to you
A great heap, falling from the skies
Heres to all the fools lacking parachutes

I’ve got a feeling that we don’t share
I’ve got a feeling that you don’t care

I’ve rolled a dice once or twice
Ill take it with a lime slice and ice
Whatever life decides it writes
I’m all in with cards in my sights

I’ve rolled a dice once or twice
Ill take it with a lime slice and ice
Whatever life decides it writes



Falling

Track from Joseph Ruddleston's new album, Midas Rise, now available on iTunes/Spotify/Amazon.

iTunes: http://tiny.cc/nv126x
Spotify: http://tiny.cc/wu126x
Amazon: http://tiny.cc/elc26x

VIDEO
Brandon Elrod Design

MUSIC
Guitar, Piano, Vocals: Joseph Ruddleston
Backing Vocals: Lexi Scherr, Jerzy Jung, Robert J. Mills
Guitar, Bass: Robert J. Mills
Drums: Oskar Häggdahl
String Quartet: String Quartet: Hannah Yang, Laura Channing, Hanna Khogali, Clare Durgan

Mixed and mastered by Joshua Sadlier-Brown
Produced by Joseph Ruddleston & Robert J. Mills
Written by Joseph Ruddleston

Catharsis

UGLY Ft. AKAI SOLO


I wish I could start a car on the street
Throw my bag on the passenger seat
And drive through the pouring rain to your house
Screeching tires, blinding car lights

I’d drive like Steve McQueen
I’d drive like Steve McQueen

I would honk the dead back to life
Scream your name in the pouring rain
With both my arms raised to your balcony
I’d scream how much I love you, that we should marry

I’d drive like Steve McQueen
I’d drive like Steve McQueen

How it all went wrong is an old story
Of pride, unspoken words and bad timing
But I’d drive because love is so much stronger
Than the clumsiness of its owner

I’d drive like Steve McQueen
I’d drive like Steve McQueen

I can’t open a car without the keys
I don’t own a damn car and I’m scared that maybe
You’ll keep your window closed and call the police
You’ll keep your window closed and call the police
There’s a girl out there she says she’s Steve McQueen  
I ain’t no Steve McQueen….I ain’t no Steve McQueen.

Drive Like Steve McQueen

Available for purchase from 5th February at http://www.clutchingatstraws.com/

This Table Changes Everything - Single 1

Contact: info@alistairsheerin.com

Words & Music by Alistair James
Recorded and mixed by Steve Metcalfe & Mark Plati
Copyright © 2015 Millbrand Music Ltd.
Runaway Records / Selrec International Ltd. 5065002113429
RCDSP 134

Have You Ever Been Low

The first track from 'A Piece Of Meat, An Irregular Heartbeat', the debut EP from A Festival, A Parade.

Where's The Treasure?

2BaDa's music this year 2016, promises to bring more captivating, soul-moving and club banging debuts that will herald the arrival of a fresh sound.

Off the 2BaDa 1st studio album titled "This is E.A.T (Est A TakeOver), ALD Records presents to you "O Baby". 

@Mowille2BaDa @Dskillz2BaDa @Official2BaDa

Mowille - O Baby (prod. LcBeatz)

The View

For ordinary people living in war ✊

☛ https://www.facebook.com/dip.inprogress
☛ http://deepinprogress.free.fr

Fear no evil

Written by Hey Lover. 
Watch the hand-illustrated video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nMsyKJ8EE2c

Taken from the upcoming full-length record "Sinking Ships".

Pre-order here: https://heylover.bandcamp.com/album/sinking-ships

Recorded by Evan Mersky.
Mastered by Gus Elg.


Nancy

Download Now
iTunes: https://goo.gl/wBkjdF
Amazon: https://amzn.com/B01APVVBFQ 

Official Music Video: https://goo.gl/VW9adi

"This single is a fusion of Harp and Rap; politically responsive lyricism set to the experimental - non romantic - sounds of the Electric Harp. After hearing a preview of the single, a reviewer asked me how many musicians feature on the track and I had to explain that it's just the two of us. Every sound that you hear on the track was played by Maria-Christina, she has one hundred and one different ways to manipulate her Harp; she's a real innovator in that respect." - Potent Whisper

The South London rapper and BRIT School graduate made the papers in 2015 with his anti-gentrification single 'Brixton First' featuring Lara Lee (star of BBC's The Voice). The single was supported by Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 6, receiving further coverage from The Evening Standard

Since winning first place at the Wales International Harp Competition in 2010, Maria-Christina & The 7 Pedals has gone on to tour Europe and given performances at numerous prestigious venues in the UK, most recently featuring on Later With Jools Holland on BBC2. She is currently undertaking her PhD on the Modern Harp at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London


LYRICS:

CHORUS
Now, if you wanna attack, mans down
We run in a pack, bleed never back down x4

VERSE 1
I’m an accidental activist
I’m a savage anarchist provoking systematic damages
A catalyst of hope and when I phone you know it’s happening
Trust, I got the maddest shit, come we’re fucking having it bruv
But I’m a pacifist (haha)
The darkest harpist with seven pedals
I’m bringing the bars in to spar with and dead the devil
Gathering up, bringing the crowds out, the manner is up
Bring in the PM in the PM and havin him up

VERSE 2 
You man are backing lagers, while we’re attackin targets
You’re holding grams while mans rollin with a gang of martyrs
It’s gats and archers, gas masks and balaclavas
You wanna rap hard but us man are wrappin caskets
It’s the raw shit, war ships and corpses
Drone zones in Soho, the force is exhausted
Yeah it’s a next beef, the raw sounds when ends meet
Pure crowds of all towns
The north, south, the west, east

HOOK
Ten wars in, more forward are you with me?
Then wars in, walk forward if you’re with me x4

VERSE 3
I’m the one in high command, I’m ten wars in; still fighting hard
See the men march in with their fire-arms, they’re at my command I’m a lion heart
Architype mastermind, the first in the fight and the last to die
You might find me in the dark of night where martyrs ride, if I bark I bite
I’m calm, til’ I bark and I fight
Harp and a mic; I'm hype and I'm armed
Fight in the dark, I’m a spark in the night
I starve as I write, so there might be a chance I’ll flip
I got the right to resist; run up on the mic and fight for the kids
Militant minds, firing clips?  
You don’t wanna hype I will die for this

We got nothing to lose and something to prove
Coming with the truth when I'm in the booth
Run in with the troops when I wanna beef 
I keep love on loop but I'll gun for you 
I'll boy them off, bad them up 
Billin up a zoot, then I'm havin them up 
I won't calm down, they’re bringing arms out 
Ready for their end, let's start now!

Potent Whisper + Maria-Christina & The 7 Pedals - 'NOW'

Music by: Not Safe For World

Artwork by: dangerdestroyportfolio.tumblr.com

All Your Bass Are Belong To Us

Sleepless Nights

The walk to work on a gorgeous morning. Taken from the album 'Music | Building | Music' out 6th April 2016 on Audiobulb (www.audiobulb.com).

QUIET NOISE | The Scenic Route

Push me deep beneath your skin
Let me right inside your heart.

From upcoming EP
H O U R  G L A S S  H E A R T S 

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/b8c2f4?soundcloud_ref=description'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

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H O U R G L A S S H E A R T S

A sultry story of desire for the unknown!

Hazel Iris’ third single ‘DARLIN’‘ is OUT February 12th!!
 
 

Darlin'

Taken from the album 'Sailing Songs' out now via www.littlemono.bandcamp.com 

"I see you run"

Propeller

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