PUT ME IN THE WATER DEEP
COUNT THE MINUTES
DO NOT WEEP
THERE IS NOT MUCH TO SEE HERE
A BAG OF HOPE
A BOX OF TEARS
I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU

YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU

TOO MANY PENNIES IN MY BED
A CHILDHOOD DANCING THROUGH MY HEAD
PULL YOUR LACES FEEL THEM SNAP
TAKE THAT STRAW OFF OF YOUR BACK
I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU

HOLD THE PAIN AND HOLD THE LOVE
AS BELOW WELL SO ABOVE
BANG THE DRUM AND SING A SONG
GET IT RIGHT GET IT WRONG
I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU

BREATHE THE PAST INTO YOUR LUNG
YOU WERE OLD YOU ARE YOUNG
BRUSH AWAY ALL OF THE BLEAK
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND DO NOT SPEAK
I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU

BLOOD IS CURSING THROUGH OUR VEINS
THERE ARE NO ANSWERS
PLAY THE GAME
TAKE A BUCKET GRAB A STICK
MIX IT UP AND SPREAD IT THICK
I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU, I… YOU

Single Artwork - Dan Holliday.

Blind

Lark - Decorate
Emma Richardson of The Pixies on Bass.
Mastered by Paul Galpin.
Artwork by Christina Niederberger
Film by Al Jackson.
Written, Recorded and Mixed by Karl Bielik at LBR Studios, London.
Released 13.11.24.

Lyrics
Shiny leather
Are you afraid to bend
She’ll decorate the hate
With wallpaper of men
Shiny leather
Are you afraid to bend
She’ll decorate the hate
With wallpaper of men
Abandoned funfair ride
A recipe of lies
Abandoned funfair ride
A recipe of lies
There sits a mountain
A bag of felt tip pens
There was a mother
And a father and a friend
Shiny leather
Are you afraid to bend
She’ll decorate the hate
With wallpaper of men
You’re no longer me
And I’m no longer them
Sins of the father
Tattooed on children
Shiny leather
Are you afraid to mend
We’ll decorate the hate
With wallpaper of men
There sits a mountain
A bag of felt tip pens
A bag of felt
Shiny leather men
A bag of felt
Shiny leather men

Lark - Be Still
All Songs Written, Recorded and Mixed by Karl Bielik at LBR Studios, London.
Mastered by Paul Galpin.
Released 31.01.25.
Ava Bielik - Backing Vox and Heartbeat on She Breaks,
Paul Burke - Guitar on Be Still, Blind, Powders, She Breaks and The Underpass.
Rayna Ferner - Violin on The Ink House.
Robert Hall and Lorna Milburn - Backing Vox on The Ink House.
Emma Richardson - Bass on Decorate.
Joe Ryan - Drums on Blind, Powders and She Breaks.
Tarn Willers - Bass on Powders.
Goodbye Man - Courtesy of Care in the Community Recordings.

Front cover art - Ben Walker.
Back cover art - Donna Mclean.
Label art - James F Johnston.
Photography - Lydia Whitmore.
Art & Design - Ciaran O'Shea.
www.karlbielik.com
LARK007LP.
All rights Standard Lamp Records 2025.

A Side
Be Still
Blind
Decorate
Goodbye Man
She Breaks
Shimmy

B Side
The Underpass
Answer
Sixpence
The Ink House
Powders

Decorate

Closing Time

Lark - The Operation
Written, played and produced by Karl Bielik at Terrace Studios, London.
Mastered by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse Studios, London.
Cover Photograph by Lorna Milburn.
Released 12/12/2016. All rights Standard Lamp Records 2016.

The Operation

Lark - The Operation

The Scritti Politti remix of 'A Failed Scheme'. 
Single release on the 28th of November 2011.

A Failed Scheme - The Scritti Politti mix

Lark remixes by In Flagranti, Scritti Politti, The Bees, Brendan Lynch, Andrew Weatherall and more.

29.06.18 Can I colour in your hair - Andrew Weatherall mix

Lark remixes by Andrew Weatherall, Brendan Lynch,  In Flagranti, Scritti Politti and The Bees.

Lark - 'Tardis' - The Brendan Lynch remix

The Erol Alkan re-edit of 'The Animal's Claw' by Lark as featured on Mixmag's Disco 2006 CD

The Animal's Claw - The Erol Alkan edit of the In Flagranti edit

Lark - Stay. 
Featuring guest vocalist, Australian artist Kate Fleming. 
Previously released in 2006 on 'Stage Fright' a vinyl album curated by artist Leigh Clarke including tracks by Ian Breakwell, Bob and Roberta Smith and Conor Kelly.

Stay - Single Version

Lark - Can I colour in your hair.
A 7" release on Care in the Community Recordings with a B side remix by Andrew Weatherall.

Can I colour in your hair

Lark carve a grimy, gritty groove, the atmosphere chilled, the mood cracked. 
A blend of heavy basslines, raucous sounds and turbulent lyricism, paint a volatile picture of the landscape the band inhabits.
Lark is an independent London based band founded by Karl Bielik, a nonconformist and often idiosyncratic songwriter, frontman and artist. 
Romantic, dissonant, feverish and alive, Lark is an unsound sound. 

Lark have been remixed by Andrew Weatherall, Brendan Lynch, The Bees, Erol Alkan and Green Gartside.  

Selected Press
Uncut - ‘The wonky unsettling world it creates is very much Bielik's own’
Mojo - 'A dark subcurrent of industrial noise runs under raspy vocals punctuated by driving basslines that fuel this idiosyncratic album'
Q - ‘Verbal darts over brutal guitar shards and cheap synthetic beats’
The Quietus - ‘That rare breed of band that creates and inhibits an environment entirely of their own making’
Louder than War - 'One of the albums of the year... one of the most exciting albums around'
Rough Trade - ‘Fantastic, sounds like a drunken, dense and dark take on a stooges riff mixed with the repetition of The Fall’
Loud and Quiet - ‘Jerky beats, repetition, strangely cryptic lyrics, wiry guitars and manic psycho-bluesy vocals’
Vive le Rock - 'Swathe upon swathe of FX-laden sonic attack, as Bielik tears out his tortured soul'
Time Out - ‘Another dose of uber-anxious lurching and lo-fi post punk’
Metro - 'The menace lurking just beneath the surface is as contemporary as it is compellingly groovy.'
Norman Records - 'Between the ramshackle party punk of The Cramps and the more eccentric skronk of Beefheart'
Gigslutz - 'An ode to the dysfunctional; brimming with guilty, gritty, passive aggressive tracks.'
Penny Black Music - 'Bielik's songs are gorgeous... funny? No. Worth the agony, most certainly, yes.'
Whisperin' & Hollerin' - ‘Lark carve a grimy, gritty groove... the atmosphere is vaguely chilling, the mood cracked’
Clash - ‘breaks boundaries and connects the dots… rich in invention and fresh ideas’
Artrocker - ‘Full of Magnetic Fields style charm’
Joyzine - ‘Explores the depths of the human condition’
Punk Online - 'It's what makes punk music what it is and Lark are just another dimension’
Music Emissions - ’Stunning in its range of ideas and raw poetic power’
Americana - ‘Rawness, urgency and a sense of claustrophobia by the truckload’
Foxy Digitalis - ‘The vocal tirade is what makes this whole thing’
Alternative Ulster - ‘A sonic masterpiece of instantly recognisable singularity’
Big Distraction - ’A Grimy dark rock 'n' roll beast of a record... ideas simply buzz out of the speakers’
Blaue-rosen - ‘a sonic space which is enveloped in a dark, static melancholy’

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