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Celebrating ten years of the Liz Cirelli & Minski collaboration, "Flights Of Strings And Beats" is an album that spans multiple genres including trip-hop, downtempo and intelligent dance music.

Showcasing their immense collective talent, Cirelli & Minski skilfully combine experimental soundscapes with crisp rolling beats and warm sonorous bass lines, complete with Minski's intricate and exquisitely played violin layers.

Quoted as being "a highly-accomplished example of musicality meets elegant electronica", "Flights Of Strings And Beats" takes you on an epic journey that masterfully fuses the worlds of classical and electronic music. It captures the intricacies of classical music whilst at the same time delivering the edginess of electronic music.

Cirelli & Minski are inspired and influenced by great classical composers such as Mozart, Bach and Wagner – as well as the more contemporary Debussy, Satie and Saint-Saens. Alongside these classical influences, electronic music artists such as Jon Hopkins, Moderat and Bonobo have also played a role in shaping their distinctive musical style.

Their collective ability to fuse the worlds of classical and electronic music is stunning.

Flights Of Strings And Beats

Journey To Lands Unknown

You're Not Around Anymore - Michael Vickers 

I've been here before all I can say is sorry
Won't do me any good, it's only words
My words, don't back up my actions
I've been here before, you'd think I'd learn by now
Pictures on the wall, they just remind me how
I let you down
You're Not Around Anymore

I'll be fine without you, how
Will I get by without you now?
I'll be fine without you

Broken promises; I lift you up and drop you down
Love don't exist, it's just a word
A word I wish that I respected
Broken promises, man I'm the worst somehow
A moment of madness, a lifetime of hurt and now
You're not around, you're not around anymore

I'll be fine without you, how
Will I get by without you now?
I'll be fine without you
Even if I won't allow me to
I'll get by without you

Spoke on the phone, you'd think that I would listen
But I'd been drinking alone and it's a curse
'Cos girl, I put my foot in my mouth
Spoke on the phone, was lost for words and how
What I planned to say, it didn't work it out
I'm certain now, you're not around anymore
And I keep pretending

I'll be fine without you, how
Will I get by without you now?
I'll be fine without you
Even if I won't allow me to
I'll be fine without you
I'll be fine without you
I'll be fine without you

Words and Music by Michael Vickers

You're Not Around Anymore

yllwshrk with
Angry Men on a Train (background jingoism)

PUKI

Bedsit gothic
Made a career of being insincere
Erstwhile friends tortured by northern hipsters
Those rambunctious slaves to conventionality
Chiming out over delusional spires
He microwaves a cup of baked beans
Ostentatiously obscure
More meat on a butcher’s pencil
Wit, wisdom and vituperation
A boy violently made up
Listlessly dreaming away a tedious and feeble life
He's my bone idle idol

I imagine being nothing, something, anything
Always other than what I am
Money is wasted on the rich
They'd force Da Vinci to work at Wetherspoons
I asked for Lawrence - all I got was Florence
A shoddy bohemia
Kisses and powders and pills
So remember me when you're dancing to Morrissey
Music so good even the CDs jump
It's not about looking glamourous one night a week darling
He's my bone idle idol

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Recorded at Futureworks by Paul Morrice
Mastered by Mark Corrin

My Bone Idle Idol

Askival (Euan McLaughlin), As The Eagles Return (Euan McLaughlin) 

Euan McLaughlin - Fiddle, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitars, Electric Bass, Keys 

Tiernan Courell - Flute, Whistle 

Stephen Henderson - Drums, Percussion 

Recorded remotely during lockdown by Lewis McLaughlin, Euan McLaughlin, Stephen Henderson and Tiernan Courell 

Mixed by Richard Werner at B&B Studios, Edinburgh 

Mastered by Chris Waite

Askival

When We Meet Again

Woke up in a daze;
So mingles light with shade 
In the stillness of the tomb,
When Morning stands guard ’side my room,
And lifts the gloom,
But bears me away from you. 

So begins another day,
Which as your lingering presence fades,
Will in a vacant heart resume
The weary waste of love unused –
O, and my dearest wish again refused,
Remembering how we’d kiss and waste the afternoons,
Yes! This life of longing is a life abused.

You would rise while I would sleep,
The watch your faithful eyes did keep
Was the measure of a soul
Made generous by the wisdom it holds;
Tender and hopeful and whole,
And so I slept, troubled not by dreams at all.
  
Soon I would stir and meet your gaze,
Where now its lingering presence fades,
Back to the grave your ghost exhumed;
This weary waste of love unused –
O, and my dearest wish again refused,
Remembering how we’d kiss and waste the afternoons,
Yes! This life of longing is a life abused:
This weary waste of love, of love, unused.

woke up in a daze FINAL mix

Woke up in a daze

Flitter Flutter

The Anorak Band are super stoked to announce their debut double A-side single, with all proceeds going towards Trussell Trust food banks. Recorded prior to the lockdown, the single pulls in influences from the sounds of the 60s, particularly the works of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, alongside the jazz flavours of Hailu Mergia and Max Roach. 

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Mae'r Anorak Band yn hapus i gyhoeddi eu sengl dwbl A-ochr gyntaf, gyda’r holl elw’n mynd tuag at fanciau bwyd y Trussell Trust. Wedi'i recordio cyn y cyfnod cloi, mae'r sengl yn tynnu dylanwadau o synau'r 60au, yn enwedig gweithiau Brian Wilson a'r Beach Boys, wrth ochr â blasau jazz glywir yng ngweithiau Hailu Mergia.

Y Gath For / The Stingray

osculation[ os-kyuh-ley-shuh n ]

noun
1. the act of kissing.
2. a kiss.
3. close contact.
4. Geometry. the contact between two osculating curves or the like.

Available to buy through Bandcamp: https://paulfcook.bandcamp.com/track/osculation

Osculation - Paulfcook

I used to date a man who I was clearly not compatible with. It got a bit hairy towards the end. He stole some of my stuff, destroyed some of my other stuff, and was altogether a right handful. Having said that, I'm no picnic to be with either so I understand how this mess became mine to clean. Still, it wasn't ideal and this song is about figuring out that at the end of the day both of us could and should do better finding a partner.

Better (Radio Edit)

Honey

If you turn to me
I would not turn away, yeah
Come and ride the tide 
Rising up inside, yeah

Ooh, honey
Ooh, honey
Ooh, honey
Honey
Ooh now

It would be alright 
If you come tonight, yeah
Or I’ll go where you are
Forever isn’t far, yeah

Darling if you come and run away with me
Ever after happily
It would be a one-night stand like constantly
It’s true
Oh you

Ooh, honey
Ooh, honey
Ooh, honey
Honey
Ooh now

Guitars, bass, programming, percussion, and vocals by TYLS
Vocals by Jesse Taylor
Written, arranged, produced, and mixed by TYLS at His Bedroom Studio
Mastered by Dave Blackwell at Hiltongrove Mastering
Video directed by TYLS

Honey

Ddream

Coming Back to It

Mystery Coke Machine

http://penfriend.rocks

I can’t do much of anything when I’m feeling down, let alone write a song about it, but one day in 2019 when I was trudging my way back, I made an attempt to leave a breadcrumb trail for my future self. 

"The Only Way Out Is Through" is my attempt to trap the "shapeless forces" that "pull at me", making them solid by assigning words to them, reducing their power and size to something I might feasibly be able to overcome. The aspirational sentiment that “resistance is crucial, forgiveness is beautiful” is one I find very hard to enact in the moment, but something I can at least continue to strive for. 

Ironically, this song is being released during my lowest fortnight of the last 12 months, so the safety line of lyrics I knotted inside the music is a helpful reminder of brighter days. 

The choice to release music in a universally dark time isn’t one I take lightly. “The Only Way Out Is Through” is the most resonant and useful piece of music I have to offer right now, a rescue raft for whoever needs one. 

That’s what this song is for me.

LYRICS 

Gotta get out of this 
Making a meal of distress 
Fatalistic to the bone 
Thunderclouds in every home 
Gotta get out of this 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart - I never meant to 
The only way out is through 

Gotta get out of this 
Drowning in yesterday's tears 
Intimate conspiracies 
Shapeless forces pull at me 
Gotta get out of this 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart - I never meant to 
The only way out is through 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart 
I never meant to wish on a falling star 
But I won't let it go 

Denial take me away 
Pretend like I'm not the queen of stretching the days 
In all the wrong ways - til they break 
Denial take me away 
I crave your sweet mistakes but 
Resistance is crucial 
Forgiveness is beautiful 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart - I never meant to 
The only way out is through

CREDITS
released September 8, 2020 
Written, produced, performed and engineered by Laura Kidd. Mixed by Dan Austin. Drums by Max Saidi.

The Only Way Out Is Through

Original dance song featuring Ellen Louise and remixed by The Beat Disciples

Can You Feel The Fire

Out now on all major platforms.
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/flux2/handbag-punk

“Handbag Punk” is a Hi-NRG homage to Divine' and Sylvester bursting with familiarity and fabularity!

Handbag Punk - Single

Flux - Handbag Punk (Radio Edit)

"Me and Sarah Jane" is the fourth track from Adrian Walters' album "Starting Somewhere" (2020) described by Here Comes the Flood blog as "a gem that could be mistaken for a long lost early Seventies folk album."

Vocals & acoustic guitar: Adrian Walters
All other instruments: Steve Dawson

Recorded on location at Kernel Sound Emporium, Chicago, Illinois

Me and Sarah Jane

Lemun

I'm very proud to present my newest track 'Feelin' It' with https://soundcloud.com/eric-matthys 
Thanks for listening and supporting me.
If you'd like to listen to the song on another platform here's the link
https://song.link/i/1531341556

Matfroninja - Feelin' It (with Eric Matthys)

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