Bright Lights

A strange offering from the safetynett vaults, recalling an evening of sausage/mash and tripping, with contributions from joe summers, julia baur and megga-n

Desire

A previous song was the genesis of this one. I had been playing about trying to program beats for a live version of ‘Pulsar Not A Star’ from a previous album. I was using a newish drum machine that I was still finding my way around so I was probably doing things with it where I didn’t fully understand what the effect of whatever settings I was playing with was going to be. At any rate I couldn’t get the beat I had programmed to sit quite right with what I was trying to play on guitar but it was interesting in itself and some ideas for arpeggiated riffs and intertwined mazy lead lines came out of jamming with it and became some verses and choruses. The groove meant that I wanted some kind of breakdown section so that happens in the middle and I was able to have some fun with adding and subtracting rhythm and percussion elements while the guitar falls to pieces in jagged stabs before pulling itself together for a third and final section where I tried to pull out the Afrobeat-esque qualities of the grooves that remained lurking in the background until this point and spray some sunnier lead lines around the place on the guitar and synth.

The lyrics are (pretty transparently I think) about perspective and our difficulties with empathy and genuine constructive resolution in our discussions, debates and arguments. Especially in the context of our digital revolution and the online spaces it’s created and under the conditions of being constantly goaded into reaction to suit agendas often entirely removed from the discussion itself. But of course, you’re very welcome to argue for your own interpretation of whatever I’ve tried to express. These themes are probably in all of our minds these days whether they’re acknowledged or not.

We Are Not Where You Are

Mumpsimus

Featuring Phoebe Troup on guest vocals
Produced by Owen Turner
Mastered by Scoops Dardaris

Paul Gilley

Forever

The influence of Joy Division come clearly through in this upbeat piece from safetynett

Crumbling Walls

Downbeat elctronica laced with guitars and haunting vocals.

Almost Happy

Satelite

Mov 9th 2018 snowed in. Wandered a little far

Nov 9th snowman blues

Music maker from Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland, now living in Glasgow.  Since my first collection of skewed, folkish blues songs: ‘Cold But Bright’ I’ve tried to resist the artificial limitations of defining myself as a ‘singer-songwriter’ (admittedly, while writing and singing songs.) This has resulted in attempts to investigate some remoter sonic territories.. As well as more songs.

Mumpsimus

Jamie Flett

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