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Good Man Down

MANÜKA - Mind (feat. Will Rowe-Parr)

Warm to the Touch is the first single from SWEARS' debut EP 'Seersucker', released May 2020. Recorded at All Silk Recording Studio, Rawtenstall. Music tracked, mixed and mastered by Ed Hall www.allsilkmasteringhouse.com/

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Dead and not alone 
Dead and not alone
Horses blinded, toxic snow
Waters rising, nothing grows

Is it worth it

Now the ocean's warm to the touch
I pour petrol on the fire
Now the sky rains death from above
I pour petrol on the fire

Dead and not alone
Dead and not alone
You've gotta be cruel, gotta be cruel, gotta be cruel to be kind
Sometimes you've gotta be cruel, to be kind

Is it worth it 
Is it working 
Is it worth it 
Is it working

Now the ocean's warm to the touch
I pour petrol on the fire
Now the sky rains death from above
I pour petrol on the fire

Light last cigarette, on those bodies, oh no
Light last cigarette, the burning bodies, oh no

Warm To The Touch

02 Pete Beat - Janglin'

1st single from the debut album "Yeah Well" which is released on 12th June 2020. The album can be pre-ordered from https://gringorecords.limitedrun.com/products/663580-reciprocate-yeah-well on Vinyl, CD and Digital formats. Or sign up to a 2020 Gringo Label subscription and receive immediately http://gringorecords.limitedrun.com/

Yeah Well

RECIPROCATE - Pray Tell

Produced by Rebecca Phillips, Christian Mac
Additional Vocal Production by JALEX

https://rebeccaphillips.lnk.to/SiliconeSkin

Silicone Skin – Single

Silicone Skin

Best Life

Skin And Bone

I first wrote this song ten years ago, whilst travelling up through the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. The words came first, the rhythm and melody soon afterwards. In 2012, I recorded a demo of the song in Coleg Harlech. This is a new version, recorded Easter, 2020.

Staring At The Stars

Who We Are was written and performed by Alex Wedd and Christopher Smith 

Produced by Adam Wedd and James Grover

©2020 Adam Wedd, Christopher Smith

Check out the Lyric Video on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW_0BjKT5ug

Lyrics
As we gather, I share my pain
I share my heart, so we can live again
Where we're going, It's not where we’ve been
Where we've been before w can overcome

We're singing this is who we are
We're more than the sum of all our parts

We walk on eggshells when we talk
Sometimes the words get lost before they're even thought
We've got this treasure that we've found
It's bigger than anything that we can scream and shout

Singing this is who we are
We're more than the sum of all our parts

This is my destiny, this is meant to be
It's all coming together, it's like a symphony
A part of history, the biggest part of me
I never thought I'd ever be free, you see
It's like poetry speaking from the heart
Every word that you hear is a part of my story

It might be sunshine, it might be dark
One thing you should know is that I'll never ever stop
I aint gonna change for nobody
God put me here to be in my body
Don't like the way I rap, I'm not sorry
Don't like the way I sing, I'm not sorry
I learnt to love myself 'cos when you love yourself I swear that's true wealth
This is who I am
This is who I be
This is who we are
This is you and me

Bruised and beaten we’ve lost our way
Need some help
Let's live today
Yeah

Singing this is who we are
"Every move that I make from now"

We're more than the sum of all our parts
"is to make me and my family proud"

Singing this is who we are
"Every move that I make thus far"

We're more than the sum of all our parts

Who We Are

www.instagram.com/highlandsanctuary
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www.twitter.com/HighlandSanct 

Especially the challenging time with the corona virus and the associated restrictions of daily life makes us consciously learn to live in the moment again. In our fast-paced life we too often forget to enjoy the moment and not to deal with tomorrow. What tomorrow will bring is not really predictable and corresponding spirals of thoughts take us away from the present.
This is what the song "Before Tomorrow" by the multi-talent Highland Sanctuary from Berne is about.
A very soulful pop song, which spreads the moment of enjoyment in a contagious way.
Also on "Before Tomorrow" Highland Sanctuary plays all instruments by himself, sings, wrote and produced the song himself.

Video production Binggeli Media

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Before Tomorrow

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Highland Sanctuary - Before Tomorrow

The new single by LANDSPEEDER - out officially on May 4th!

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LANDSPEEDER Octopus

My first kiss 
My first wish 
To marry you 
To love you 

Summer days 
That don't end 
Me and you 
Best of friends 
Summer days 
Sky so blue 
Summer spent 
Loving you 

I'm nervous 
I'm scared 
I like 
The smell of your hair 
You lean in close 
Put lips on mine 
I feel 
Like I can fly 

Summer days 
That don't end 
Me and you 
Best of friends 
Summer days 
Sky so blue 
Summer spent 
Loving you 

I wish 
We could be 
So young 
So naive 
I wish 
We could go 
To where 
We can't grow old 

Summer days 
That don't end 
Me and you 
Best of friends 
Summer days 
Sky so blue 
Summer spent 
Loving you 

Summer days 
That don't end 
Summer days 
With my best friend 
Summer days 
Sky so blue 
Summer spent 
Loving you

First Kiss

love if it($like $like), by *wanobi 
Prod. by brother.naature
Mixed by @coreyvintage
Released via DUSTY'S SWIVEL SHACK (2020)

*wanobi as in wanobiflamez

Solstice REDuX! EP

love of it($ like $ like)

love of it($ like $ like) [Prod. by brother.naature]

I got the right job, I got a fast car and wallet yet unbroken by no cocktail bar
I can hold my own when talking politics
I can even approximate Jimi Hendrix’ licks.
I got face nobody ever really hates, some have even loved and most they can tolerate.
I got my shit together, my ducks all in a row
I got my chakras aligned and my latte to go.

But having said that, I’m still a hot mess.
Falling through life just hoping for the best.
I need to cool down my situation
So still heating up, imagine my frustration.

That I, Oh I'm just a hot mess.
Don’t know what to say or what to do.
But why, oh why won’t you confess?
That maybe you’re a hot mess too?

They say it could be you, but oh hell yes it was me 
The winner of this mortal coil’s sick lottery.
And I wore a shit eating grin as one by one, all my numbers, they came in.

And yet despite it all I’m still a hot mess
Crawling through life just hoping for the best
I got this fever now, but the prescription
Just ain’t becoming for a man in my condition

That I, Oh I'm just a hot mess.
Don’t know what to say or what to do.
But why, oh why won’t you confess?
That maybe you’re a hot mess too?

You're just a hot, hot mess (maybe you're hot mess too)
Oh why? Why won't you confess?
Baby you're a hot mess, so if there's no protest
I just wanna undress you, on yes it's true 
We'd make a hot, hot mess 

I killed my golden goose with my fattened calf
So since you seen me naked, how’d you like me now?

That I'm just a hot mess

Yeah I’m just a hot mess
And baby your a hot mess too
So why don’t we undress
And see what a little love can do?

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Lux Lisbon is aesthetically classic and lyrical poprock from Stuart Rook, a songwriter from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK. 

'Hot Mess' is the first new Lux Lisbon material in over 3 years since taking an extended break after selling out London Scala as a DIY act in 2017.  

http://luxlisbon.com

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'Hot Mess' 

Guitars and Bass : Luke Gaul
Drums  : Harry Still
Mix : James Barr
Producer : Luke Gaul
Engineering + Recording : Luke Gaul and John Martindale

HOT MESS

Mix of title track from our new album 'Impermanence' by James Sanger.

James has worked on tracks with Brian Eno, Faithless, Manic Street Preachers, Keane, Brian Ferry, Dido and many others – accumulating over 60 million worldwide records sales.

Forests

Impermanence (James Sanger Mix)

Nocturnal

Soft skin on ice
Soft skin on ice
When I'm cold in the morning

Soft skin on ice
Soft skin on ice
When I'm cold in the morning

Well I wake up to my dormer 
Think I'm going mad again 
Just the sun was rushing in, it keeps me warm
Lift me up into your arms tell me something I don't mind
Cold in the morning

Soft skin on ice
Soft skin on ice
When I'm cold in the morning 
Soft skin on ice
Soft skin on ice
When I'm cold in the morning 
When I'm cold in the morning

It's hard enough to lever 
Living in this mangled mess, melted murmours in my chest 
I'm frozen sane
I'm frozen insane 
Lift me up into your arms tell me something I don't mind

Soft skin on ice
Soft skin on ice
When I'm cold in the morning 
Soft skin on ice
Soft skin on ice
When I'm cold in the morning
Soft skin on ice
Soft skin on ice
When I'm cold in the morning


‘Ice’ - is the aftershocks and residue left behind from trauma, It's the scars that still cause pain long after they have closed over. "I'm frozen sane" "Im froze insane" It is the worst of both worlds that you have no control over!"

'I wanted to create a family of songs, I needed an open space to be able to get different aspects of my mind out!

I wanted to make something new, something not everyone will like, but they all will respect it. Music is my way of communicating with people and the world.'
Sam Wickens

All I've Seen

ICE (Radio Edit) - by Sam Wickens

Released on Hyper Robin Recordings: Music For The Quarantined, 20/04/2020.
Samples the 1983 film 'Valley Girl', directed by Martha Coolidge.

Okay Smart Guy

She Said

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