Ocean Shell

Music & lyrics : Martin Farrington
Australia - 1980

EST - Yvonne Is Out Again (1980)

You know it ain´t easy
No easy to live
And always have your fingers crossed
Instead of other things

And then came you
You ripped me apart
You saved my soul
And you stole my heart

I did not know who I was
I was lost at that time
And always had my fingers crossed
Instead of all lies

And then came you
You teared me apart
You stole my soul
And you saved my heart

Instead Of All Lies

‘Houston Morphine’ is taken from Laddermen’s debut album Special Kind of Violence out 2021 on Waterfall of Colours.

self-medicated at your funeral
apparently I spoke I did well
that's good
apparently I shook the hand of everybody that knew you 

blood count low morphine high
understand this is goodbye
blood count low morphine high
did you understand that this was goodbye

self medicated at your funeral
apparently I spoke I did well
that's good
apparently I shook the hand of everybody that knew you 

blood count low morphine high
understand this is goodbye
blood count low morphine high
did you understand that this was goodbye

good bye
good bye
good bye
good bye

Houston Morphine

BRATISLAVA 88 - Autosex (2021)

Book Of The Damned

im giving it up

Qlowski - A Woman

Without their contribution to hold your sedan chair
You'd be plummeting to earth
Towards a ground now unfamiliar
Your life is like a monument to small achievements lost
That you'll never see in profile from a platform at the top

A taller tree will never reach its roots without a drop
And none would force the branches down for fear of getting knocked
Recognise the growth that cannot continue unstopped
In spite of much objection it cannot

So enthusiastic returning into frame
Smiling to camera
Never looking offstage
The audience is everywhere electric signals reach
You are a confident performer of words devoid of meaning

A taller tree will never reach its roots without a drop
And none would force the branches down for fear of getting knocked
Recognise the growth that cannot continue unstopped
In spite of much objection it cannot

A taller tree will never reach its roots without a drop
It's time to cut the branches back
All tangled up in knots
Recognise the growth that cannot continue unstopped
In spite of much objection it cannot

Taller Tree

Incandescent

Fall Apart

Slap you round the face with 80/90s new wave!

The Reality TV - Beats - Master

Laddermen is the Texas Post-Punk project of Leopold Oakes, blending rusty reverb guitars with stripped-back acoustic elements to craft the soundtrack for anyone chasing ghosts on cracked asphalt. Moving effortlessly between bittersweet restlessness and rooted melancholia, Laddermen gains comparisons to the likes of Modest Mouse, The Strokes, and Interpol. The highly acclaimed debut album Special Kind Of Violence 2021 charted at number 2 on iTunes Switzerland and got praised as “One of the most beautiful albums of 2021” by Tagesanzeiger.    

On the heels of his debut release, Laddermen played a run of live shows crowned with an appearance at Wave Fest Rotterdam (NL) alongside Post-Punk trailblazers Pink Turns Blue. Special Kind Of Violence defined Laddermen’s undeniable position in the scene as having “articulate urgency” by postpunk.com. The momentum lead to a herald of new singles and the release of his sophomore album, ‘Life Got Lame And Now You’re Bored’ 2024 which landed on Spotify Editorial playlists and reached new heights of refined Post-Punk. The album is the story of sailors falling out of love with their ships, broken ponies leaving their stables, and a nostalgia for moments not yet experienced.    

With a new frontier closing in, Laddermen rides shotgun into a rugged, introspective terrain : a restless boy from Texas pioneering through the isolating metropolis and neon pollution of fading memories. The upcoming releases strip away the polish, trading it for razor wire honesty and is a gritty aching howl for the modern outlaw’s with uncertain tomorrows.

Houston Morphine

Laddermen

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