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Maps & Plans

New single - Island Girl
by Teanna Bianca featuring Cross Blood

Island Girl ft Cross Blood (Prod Certi)

Written and performed by Where We Sleep (Lead guitars by Axel Ray)
Mixed and mastered by John Cranmer

The new EP, Experiments In The Dark EP is Available now:
https://wherewesleep.bandcamp.com/album/experiments-in-the-dark-ep

The Desert (featuring Axel Ray)

Magnetic Pull

Annie I sold your namesake
You’ve fallen to a new school of thought
Everyone’s got their camera
Primed and poised for the money shot

All dressed up in your new clothes
Stand up front and don’t even dance
When I’m a person of interest maybe
You’ll give me a second glance

Well it’s not the mother’s milk that drives you mad
It’s the singing of the fashionable and bad while I
Go to sleep through the 
Light and the heat

You’ve got no taste or talent
Queen of the standing room
You took all Annie’s edges left her
Nice and round for you to consume

Well you know there’s one success that’s ironclad
It’s the singing of the fashionable and bad and now
No one cares for what
Isn’t theirs

It’s so cool to care now, Your heroes will let you down
I don’t have a lot to prove, You’ll soon be the new old news
I don’t know when why or how, But words cut me deep somehow
I drink in the afternoon, And dream of that silver spoon

Well if you look close enough at your sycophant circle jerking
Desperately trying to understand the numbers
Middle of the night what do people like
They just don’t like me I think that
I could be anybody, anybody that you want
Annie in my ears and nobody is on my 
Side you’re a pretty thing such a pretty thing
Drown my sorrows cough up my
Sins with the could-have-beens
Sins with the could-have-beens

Vocals, Guitars, Sax, Piano + Synths by Francesca Pidgeon
Drums + Percussion by Jack Mee
Bass by Aaron Collins-Wood
Trombone by Tim Chatterton
Screams by Gina Walters, Jon Horner + Owen Lamont
Mixed, Mastered + Engineered by Chris Mulligan

Ironclad

Hold On To Me

Landslide

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Keith Johns is a Miami-raised folk artist who crafts dynamic, beautifully layered music that reflects the variety of emotions present in all of our lives: at times joyful and celebratory, at times sorrowful and longing. He delivers richly nuanced stories in his unique voice with lyrics that are soulful and honest.

Keith released his debut EP entitled ‘Maps & Plans’ as a free download in April 2014 through Noisetrade.com, where it was featured on the front page and reached the top ten downloads in the country, as well as being spotlighted on numerous other national music sharing sites. Keith and team are currently in the studio wrapping up his first full album, ’Grateful Fool’, coming Fall 2016.

Hold On To Me

Keith Johns

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