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This is a previously unheard track that was the B-side to the single 'I Don't Want To Dance' that was due to be released just weeks after the band split up back in 2008.... We Are Back!

Beautiful Inside

Playing Favorites

Ambrose was born out of inspired emotions after binge-watching the series, The Sinner, season 4. The storyline, the atmosphere, the cold, open-water surroundings, and the intense beauty of mystery, hope, and desperation gripped me. 

The lyrics are written almost from the narrative of the main character, Detective Ambrose (hence the song title), and its glacial and desolate feel was really inspired after travelling to Iceland in April, 2022.

Ambrose

The Sound Of An Empty House

© Mia Kowal - Music & Lyrics
Production: Peter Bladh @www.disxposed.com
Vocals: Alessandra Votta
Violin: Julia Stein @www.whoknowssound.co.uk



V1:
Lonely hangers - dusty shelves
Plates playing hide’n seek in the sink
Echoes of our love, chime like distant bells
While the scent of you is still so distinct
I hear the sound
I fear the sound of an empty house

CHORUS
Like an actor without a part to play
I’m chasing your touch till morning light
Time slipped through our fingers - I wish me back
Back to laughter and hope burning bright

V2:
Roaming dim-lit halls - restless thoughts
Ain't giving me any chance to unwind
Life shattered on the floor like broken cups
Rips me apart leaving chaos inside
I hear the sound
I fear the sound of an empty house

CHORUS
Like an actor without a part to play
I’m chasing your touch till morning light
Time slipped through our fingers - I wish me back
Back to laughter and hope burning bright

BRIDGE
(Instrumental part)
There’s no room for sorrow’s storm anymore
When there’s an ocean outside my door

CHORUS
Like an actor without a part to play
I’m chasing your touch till morning light
Time slipped through our fingers - I wish me back
Back to laughter and hope burning bright

The Sound of an Empty House

I flipped the mattress out the window on the fourth night, all your dirty little witches hunting 45s, I ain't tripping on a bitch like this next time, I'll be different, next time, 

Still stuck tho troubles got truck loads, don't want bust hoes, bitch gotta get gone, you wanted flipped into positions with some next bloke, Fuck you for that, fuck you for this & fuck you for next 

I know your dirty little games, twisting all my words all your twisted little ways.  Playing with my head always messing with my brain, dirtied up my name, I feel dirty when we lay, 

I feel dirty when we lay yeah... 

Trouble tripping on that vision is my worst case, double dipping in the missionary cursed race, I just wanna flip position, not be third place. 

You just wanna live it low, slumming on that next joke, I was tryna bringing it home, you just wanna home run, you know the games you were playing were kinda fucked up. So fuck you for that, fuck you for this & fuck you for next 

I know your dirty little games, twisting all my words all your twisted little ways.  Playing with my head always messing with my brain, dirtied up my name, I feel dirty when we lay, 

Dirty dirty, dirty little games twisting all my words all your twisted little ways.  Playing with my head always messing with my brain, dirtied up my name, I feel dirty when we lay, 

I feel dirty when we lay. 

Dirty

Tell me you’ll be back before November’s done.

More Fool Me

A collection of Haiku in 5-7-5 format to Ambient Music

Hai-Am-Koo

'Rinse and Repeat' released 12 February 2025.
'Hazlewood' released 2nd October 2024.

Recorded by Daisy Edwards at KX.
daisyedwardsaudio.com

Mixed by Ruby Smith
rubysmith.xyz

Mastered by Simon Scott (Slowdive, Three Quarter Skies)
simonscott.org

Rinse and Repeat

you never know how fast life can change... one second everything is there and the next it can all be gone. time is fragile.

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fragile

Produced by Eric Tormey
Backing Vocals by Charlie Buurman Davies

Death's Door

Train Room - Station Road

05 - IP DIP

Some good news in a bad world. Like the return of a prodigal son, we're back with a new track called, rather predictably, "Prodigal Son". Hopefully this is the start on a 'single per month' strategy for 2025, but like all January gym memberships maybe we'll have run out fo steam by February. See you on the treadmill....

Prodigal Son

Music by Red Quarters
Produced and recorded by Brandon Petit @ Modular Rodeo

Neither/Nor

Impressed

I’m finally out from under the clouds.

This is a song from the EP "Here" - stergin.bandcamp.com/album/here

Stergin, the eclectic indie artist known for genre-bending explorations, is set to release Here, the first of a two-part EP series that will culminate in the full-length album Here And Now. Written over a reflective and wildly creative 10-day residency on the Atlantic island of Gomera, Here embodies the joy and curiosity of its surroundings—surf pop vibes, playful synths, and dreamy vocal choirs.

With only a laptop, microphone, a mini keyboard, and a beat-up guitar, Stergin crafted songs that are fun, whimsical, and textured with sounds both intimate and psychedelic. Expect indie rock and twee pop riffs mingling with surf and chamber psychedelic twists—a mix that one friend has aptly called “Napoleon Dynamite in band form.”

The EP’s track, “Roly Poly,” captures a memorable moment from Stergin’s island life. Each night, he encountered a troop of tiny centipedes (affectionately nicknamed Roly Polies), which he carefully escorted outside before bed. “At first, I was a bit horrified,” Stergin laughs, “but eventually, we made peace. Now they have a song!”

LYRICS

Roly Poly roll
role into my arm
Roly Poly roll
I won’t do you no harm

Roly Poly roll
I role into your arm
Roly Poly roll
you won’t do me no harm

I see you
Crawling all around
On my walls 

Easily fall into my arms
In my arms
Roly Poly roll
role into your arm
Roly Poly roll
I won’t do you no harm

Roly Poly roll
role into my arm
Roly Poly roll
I won’t do you no harm

Roly Poly roll
I role into your arm
Roly Poly roll
you won’t do me no harm

Easily fall into my arms
In my arms
Roly Poly roll
role into your arm
Roly Poly roll
I won’t do you no harm

Roly Poly

post punk

Tell it to my heart

The first official track by xMDx feat. OD

Birdman

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