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CARDI N MIGOS SLIDING OVER SOME RNB.

ENJOY.

CARDI B FT. MIGOS - DRIP [RAKEEM REMIX]

Bring On The Law

Moody, brooding verses with underlying filthy distorted bassline. Lyrically, highlights the toxically positive catchphrases which constantly drip into our ears.

LYRICS:
Smiles around town If you’re upside down
It’s joy division Rose-tinted vision
No elephants in the room 
Some have it worse than you

Can’t be happy when I’m sad 
Can’t see the good when it’s bad

Turn that frown around
There’s silver linings in every cloud
You gotta laugh, don’t cry
It’s all rainbows and butterflies

Can’t be happy when I’m sad 
Can’t see the good when it’s bad

Look on the bright side 
You’re lucky to be alive

The Void EP

Toxic Positivity

MAGIC SEAS - This Time

Trojan Horse

Comfort and Despair

'I Tried' is a new track by Sorrow Stories.
Featured as the single for Part 1 of this new EP.

Featured on Sorrow Stories - I Tried EP (Part 1) https://sorrowstories.bandcamp.com/album/i-tried-ep-part-1

Original track written, performed & produced by Sorrow Stories
Mixed with Mitia Wexler
Mastered with Fabricio Viscardi (of Aesthetische)
(2022)

Sorrow Stories - I Tried

V1

My world is a tiny view
with eyes wide open
I don’t know what to do
To escape this fate of doom

Chorus 1

The only place I can go
Is the roads you drag me down
The only time I can feel
Is when I am not around

V2

My time here has gone
I’ll never get it back again
I don’t want to look behind
There’s only memories ahead

Chorus 2

I’ve travelled oh so far
To reach this same dead end
For a while, I was seeing stars
Staring up at my ceiling

Bridge

You don’t know how much I’ve tried
(I’m so tired..so tired..)

Chorus 3

The only place that I know
Is the roads you drag me down
The only time I feel free
Is when I am most bound
I’ve travelled nowhere far
To reach this same dead end
I know that wherever I go
It leads to nothing

All lyrics by Tina Forlorn

I Tried EP (Part 1)

I Tried

I tried EP (Part 1)

Sorrow Stories - I Tried

Written and recorded by Nature TV
Produced by Solo Major
Master by Ed Woods
Art by Tom Shearing

"This one is about being led on or more appropriately, reading into things that weren’t real, which is something I would assume most people are familiar with. You fall under someone’s spell, and those spells can be so convincing, until you make your move and realise what a fool you’ve been"

Long Rein

Sober - From the LOVERS EP, Released 2nd September 22

Sober

Flowstone

Away We Go

McCartney IV is really a song about owning up to the ways you’ve hurt people, and recognising that love is more important than anything else. It’s a love song. I think it’s silly. And very serious. And hopefully romantic. People tell me they like it. Of course, the influence of a Beatle is worn on it’s sleeve (literally). 

I wrote it on a ukulele, an instrument I know almost nothing about. I do a lot of inclusive music workshops for disadvantaged and Disabled kids, and there’s always a ton of ukuleles in the music cupboard. Figured I’d better have a go.

I’m mostly known for playing the MiMu Gloves, so it’s a bit scary and exciting to do something without them, and on an instrument I don’t know how to play even. It’s new and strange to do something gentle and nothing like the big loud noise I make with the gloves.

People tell me it helps them. That it’s optimistic. I think so. I think it’s a song with a purpose.

McCartney IV

Astronaut

Astronaut (Edit)

Prologue is the first track and a soft introduction from the EP- Lighthouse.

The Lighthouse is an upcoming EP of contemporary piano music and electronics by Ieva Dubova. 
Looking to be released on Bandcamp on 3rd of November. 

Combining electronic textures and contemporary piano this EP will dive from tonality to atonal episodes and extended techniques. 

Consider the upcoming EP an emotional journey of sound.

Lighthouse - 1.Prologue

first track taken from "The Dark Jazz Project" album out 14th November on Irregular Patterns.

https://thedarkjazzproject.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-jazz-project

Great Skies - by The Dark Jazz Project

She hasn't heard it yet, but this is written for my wife x. 
From my forthcoming album "Your Stupid Life".

Lifeline

'Imposter' is taken from my 10th solo album, ORDER CHAOS. We all seem to have dopplegangers - I've even been told I look like Pete Townsend (from a distance)! It seems that the Action Man With A Giraffe's Head also has one (well, he is famous, after all - he can't walk down the street without being recognised). But, The Imposter better look out, as someone's on his case!
Album due out 13th October, 2022.

Imposter

'Grateful'. HyperFollow Preview Page (DistroKid): https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/benjaminbm/grateful

'Grateful', getting featured on the Electronic Mix III featured playlist on Amazing Radio UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWNUrrbVAKI&t=201s

'Grateful', getting played on BBC Upload on BBC Radio Bristol on 13/6/22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjmBvK6Irl4

'Grateful', getting played on BBC Upload on BBC Radio Bristol on 28/6/22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRwkBiuJnaM

Grateful

‘How Do You Cope While Grieving For The Living?’ (HDYCWGFTL?) is the new debut album from Milo Gore, released 20/08/20.

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Driven and talented, with a fierce love of music, Milo Gore is on route to becoming one of the UK’s most exciting and thought-provoking artists. With a blend of genres, Milo Gore draws influence from a variety of innovative artists such as girl in red, Penelope Isles, The 1975, Bears Den and Idles. His band members, and closest confidants, encompass an intriguing mix of Pop, Punk and Alternative Rock, adding to the raw and impassioned sound that highlights their shared ideology of being ‘stronger together’. 
 
Milo Gore’s debut album ‘How Do You Cope While Grieving For The Living?’ (HDYCWGFTL?) boasts an incredible production team including, Producer Pete Prokopiw (Mumford & Sons, Florence & The Machine), Mixing Engineer Andy Savours (Sigur Ros, The Horrors, Arctic Monkeys) and Mastering Engineer Guy Davie (Jamie T, The Streets, King Krule). 
 
'A fizzing piece of pop-edged indie that lights the path for their new album.' 
Clash Magazine - ‘Green Eyes’ Video Premiere.
 
A record of love, loss, drug addiction and a battle against mental health, this album sends an encouraging message of personal acceptance. Milo comments ‘If you aren’t happy within yourself, then you can’t make other people happy. Only once you have learnt to love and accept yourself, can you begin to love and accept others. This album is really about how I came to understand that.’

I Hear You

Hopeless Optimism

Patterns & Phrases

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