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James George debut EP 'Missing Crowds'

all tracks written, produced, mixed & mastered by James George except:

I've Been Loving You
written by: James George, Safia Kazim

Artwork by Julie Sajous, Ella Fletcher

Thanks to Lola Vogel

Missing Crowds

Stars (feat. Safia Kazim)

ANCHOR

Quirky, punky, alt rock and drum n bass song. No point in pretending it's not Covid influenced but it also mainly about pretending to be alright, anxiety, self hatred failure and fear. All while smiling to keep others happy when you actually just want to scream help. Recorded at home with my things and instruments. Thank you to anyone who gives this a go, truly means the world to me.

Available to stream/purchase on Friday 16th of July 2021

Sparralimb - The Test

Crocodile DD

Stuck On You (feat. HITMONLEE)

Relief Sheriff

Ocean Da

The Garden Knows

My new song ‘Jarvis Valley’, a melancholic folk pop song loosely based on the works of Dylan Thomas. I recorded this at home and all composition, instrumentation, recording and mixing were done entirely by myself with an acoustic guitar, an 80s synth and a looped beat track. The song features fingerstyle guitar, layered vocals and crescendos into a lighter, more dream-like sound at the final chorus. ‘Jarvis Valley’ is a fantasy place Thomas mentions in a lot of his work. He usually presents it as the place we go after death. I like to think such a place exists. I also reference some of the places I have lived myself and the song represents some of the memories that I have there. I often feel that childhood memories have a dreamy paradisal afterlife quality about them. Jarvis Valley, for me, represents both childhood and death and the happiness that comes with both. I hope you enjoy! 😊

Lyrics:
I know of tales from the valley
Yeah, I’ve heard a prospect of the sea
A map of true love that’s drawn within
The fields that dance green and golden

Yeah, I know this place
I’ve been here before
Yes, I know his face
He took me from the war

I too grew up in declivities
The old ones in White Rose County
The land of the ancient queens and kings
Forgotten by years of industry

Yeah, I’ve known this place
I’ve lived here before
Yes, I’ve known his face
He brought me to the shore

Take my hand and run with me
Through green and gold eternity
Into Jarvis Valley
Into Jarvis Valley

Old Callaghan knows everyone
He watches us dance and sing our song
I swear I have seen him play along
In my dreams where I am dead and gone

Yeah, I’ll know this place
I will call it all my own
Yes, I know his face
He’ll bring me to my throne

Take my hand and run with me
Through green and gold eternity
Into Jarvis Valley
Into Jarvis Valley

Take my hand and run with me
Through green and gold eternity
Into Jarvis Valley
Into Jarvis Valley

Into Jarvis Valley
Into Jarvis Valley

Jarvis Valley

Dark Disney, twisting fairytale about the loss of innocence and the getting of wisdom.

Ripe Fruit

The Rose

Lyrics:

What I ought to do
Is drop a text to you, but I
Can't believe that I am barely through
Dealing with some shit that's overdue

So I think I better jump ship
Probably should've dropped this
Before we had enough to give up, we
Should go ahead and back down slowly

Well?

But everybody fucks up once in a while
Have another drink and I will swing by
And embolden your heart back closer to mine
To mine, to mine

Tomorrow we can start the rest of our lives
Long weekends in Rome, intercity drives
If you let me attempt to make it alright
Tonight, tonight
Yeah, yeah

Can I rephrase it
I'm overthinking it daily
And now my thoughts are rearranging
And I just hope to god you're still waiting

So please let me rephrase it
I'm overthinking it daily
And now my thoughts are rearranging
And I just hope and pray you're still waiting

Hey it's me
Haven't heard from you in like three weeks
I don't know what's going on but
probably best to just call it day 

Cause everybody fucks up once in a while
Have another drink and I will swing by
And embolden your heart back closer to mine
To mine, to mine

Tomorrow we can start the rest of our lives
Long weekends in Rome, intercity drives
If you let me attempt to make it alright
Tonight, tonight

Cause everybody fucks up once in a while
Have another drink and I will swing by
And embolden your heart back closer to mine
To mine, to mine

Tomorrow we can start the rest of our lives
Long weekends in Rome, intercity drives
If you let me attempt to make it alright
Tonight, tonight

Boomerang

Music Video now available on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JowzDfIhcfo
Enough is Enough
End Domestic Violence

The End

Divine Confetti

Last Summer

The latest song from my upcoming album, bed. Available on all streaming and download platforms.

Lyrics:
In black turmoil
As crude as oil
We pull and push
That rock-like bones
Might melt like stone
Liquid you 
Liquid me
A solution

And in that dark, dark place
I could not see your face
Could just construct
By what I touched and heard and smelled and tasted

And in this slick of sleep
Our slackened bodies steep
Mute they mimic the daylit dance
The cracked tectonics of our romance

Vast intimacy
infinitesimal distance

Tricked by this slick
Foiled by this oil
It's sad to say
We cannot merge
Despite our urge
But one day
After days have past
A black hole may
Our way pass
And fuse our scattered atoms 
Together at last

Owen Duff - Pothos

qunbula

Oh John

Pure

Startover -24bit Radio Edit Master Mix

An unashamed rocker.  The lyric is about a songwriter who due to having a writer's block is spending all his time in the clubs and his local pub; playing darts.

Lately by Phil Hambling

NIGHT SOUNDS

Someday Town

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