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We All Fall Down by ROOM11

The Best

Ahead of the release of their debut album, ‘Spring Tide’, The Shipbuilders release their latest single, ‘Forest Floor’ via Mai 68 Records on Friday 29th April.
An eerie, psychedelic shuffle that brings to mind the freakier sides of Love and The Coral, ‘Forest Floor’ features a bass-led groove that descends into chaos with an extended outro made up of ghostly, wordless vocals, wailing harmonica and tumbling piano, all blown about by a storm of reverb-heavy guitars and relentless motorik drums.
Speaking of the track, lead singer Matty Loughlin-Day explains “the song sings of an impending storm, prophesised by an old sage and queries whether there is hope left in the town or whether it’s best to return to the land and find safety. Ultimately, the hero of the song is trying to find his best to way to survive on the line between the smug and the damned”

FOREST FLOOR

„Nigel The Gannet“ by The Burning Hell 
off forthcoming album Garbage Island (June 24) https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/the-burning-hell-garbage-island-vinyl-cd


The Burning Hell preview the upcoming and highly anticipated opus/epic Garbage Island with a sweet-hearted examination of the life of an individual in society, a world filled with good intentions but inevitable misunderstandings. 

It just so happens that it’s the story of a bird: Nigel The Gannet. 

(Nigel the Gannet is the true story of a gannet in New Zealand, who briefly became an international media star when he died of old age next to the concrete decoy gannet he had chosen as his mate. Though the press spun his story as a lonely one, the band takes a different perspective:)

Gently referencing XTC’s own Making Plans for Nigel, but trading the capitalist alienation and dread for a warmer new wave of synth hooks and programmed swing, The Burning Hell celebrate the loner, the non-conformist, and a life on the edge, aware of the difference between being lonely and being alone.

The animated video for the song was done by Ariel Sharratt, who says: "Ultimately, as a smallish band if there's something we want to do, we usually have to do it ourselves. That was the case for this video, where I learned some basics of animation and then taught myself on the job. This was my first animation project, and I absolutely loved the process of creating a world for Nigel to navigate -- a world that's like ours: full of incredible beauty, colossal waste and destruction, and hopefully some sort of happy ending."

Video: https://youtu.be/ST4BCEu88po

The Burning Hell - 2. Nigel The Gannet

This is one EP that we recorded in 2009 and it is called "Building Your Feelings" these are four tracks that we were playing on our local shows before recording our first studio album "Can't Write Love Songs" we included also, our track "Catching The Sounds" before, but we decided to keep it until the album release, the best thing is that we had an special guest and collaboration by Milenka Frkovich on our track "Rain" and the set list is:

1. Building Your Feelings
2. Pure Love
3. Night Lights
4. Rain feat. Milenka Frkovich

We hope you like it,sincerely...

Hiram/Runtolife

Building Your Feelings (Remaster 2022)

Building My Feelings

The first single from The Blackheart Orchestra's forthcoming album. Set for release 26.08.22.

Under The Headlights (Radio edit)

Recorded by John Yates and Lsd-licious at Dojo Studio in Leeds - www.facebook.com/dojostudioleeds
Written by China Shop Bull
Produced by Lsd-licious and John Yates
Mixed and mastered by Rob Hobson
Published by Bomber Music Ltd - www.bombermusic.com/

chinashopbull.bandcamp.com/

Public Disorder Act 2 (Remastered)

Enlighten (Remastered)

The first Bar Pandora collaboration with Simply Dread.

Written, produced and recorded by Charlie Tophill and Simply Dread.

Follow Bar Pandora:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/barpandoramusic 
Twitter: http://twitter.com/barpandoramusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barpandora/

Dear Man

Some Call This Normal

Model Citizen

Ultraverse

First single from our upcoming EP 'The Time it Takes'.
Mixed by Mark Broughton.
https://lnk.to/spinningtop
🌀
Supported by the PRS Foundation's The Open Fund.

Spinning Top

[Verse 1]
Some people never feel the rain
They miss every kiss you rain on them
singing me lullaby 
but all about you was a lie

So I didn't hear you calling
by the rhythm of the soft falling

[Pre-chorus] 
Hi! Let's go dancing in the rain
So the raindrops are not in vain
He will wash away, all the troubles of yesterday

[Chorus]
By dancing in the rain,
by dancing in the rain.

[Verse 2]
The smell of rain and your lips of caramel
Did you notice when we fell?
Some people never feel the pain,
never realize that rain is champagne 

[Chorus]
By dancing in the rain, 
By dancing in the
By dancing in the rain.

[Pre-chorus] 
Hi! Let's go dancing in the rain
So the raindrops are not in vain
He will wash away, all the troubles of yesterday

[Chorus]
By dancing in the rain,
By dancing in the rain.
By dancing in the rain
By dancing in the rain

Dancing in the rain

Let the People is the debut album by The Fountains of Paradise. The Fountains of Paradise is Gary Dean Spencer.

Fighter

♬ Buy/Stream: https://ffm.to/glareneon-umbra

Created and performed by me & bitzone
I (voice, guitar, software synths, original Ableton composition)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (samples, percussion, bass, final arrangement, production)
130 BPM, D minor

Umbra 

Deep in the shadow of the night
Your eyes are a breath of love
In this world full of yesterdays
With no place I can call my own
As the light at the break of dawn
Be my hope for another day
Tomorrow, not yesterday

Be my hope
Be my light
Like Northern Star
Shine
Shine
Shine at night
Shine at night

Like the moonlight on the lake
Torn into million shreds
Broken dreams in their dimming light
Drift ashore and turn to dust
As the summer wind sudden gust
Bring me hope for another day
Tomorrow, not yesterday

Bring me hope
Bring me light
Like Northern Star
Shine
Shine
Shine at night
Shine at night

Bring me hope
Bring me light
Bring me hope
Shine
Shine
Shine

Download/Stream

Umbra

It's a bunch of atmosphere and harpsichords until it isn't.

Made By Thawing Ice

Sandbags On The Flood Of My Insecurities

Morning Dew was written in my bedroom on a quiet Saturday night during my second year at university. It’s the thrills and fears of loving someone, more than you may know how, and that moment of sitting with your person, knowing how much you both care.

Morning Dew

Angels

Neck-Deep in the Blyth

Denied

Our second professional studio album done at Empire Sound Studios in Dallas, TX, with our favorite engineer Matt Kennedy! If you like what you hear, come see us on Facebook!

01 Together Alone

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