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Words & music by Jason McGovern, Eel Diner Jukebox, ASCAP. Keys, guitars, sax and vocals by Jason McGovern. Drums by Andrew Huston. Mastered by Ryan Schwabe.

LYRICS

I'm feeling the steam
Hot, heavy and wet
With only my gin-soaked sweat
To cool me within

I'm breaking out
Like an allergy
Every little part of me
Wants to burst through my skin

Am I alive?
Is this a fever dream?
Will all my lies
Finally catch up with me?

Desperate for breath
From behind my smile
As every unhinged denial
Seeps through my flesh

I'm melting down
Like candle wax
Holding off a heart attack
And feeling like death

Am I alive?
Is this a fever dream?
Will all my lies
Finally catch up with me?

I thought I'd get out once the getting got bad
Cashing out early with what I can
But the siren song took hold of me
And I'm left leaking out my dignity

Am I alive?
Is this a fever dream?
Will all my lies
Finally catch up with me?
Am I alive?
Is this a fever dream?
Will all my lies
Finally catch up with me?

Fever Dream

Everything Feels Ridiculous

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Approach Me Now

“A national musical treasure" The Guardian

Steven Adams, formerly of The Broken Family Band releases new album DROPS on Fika Recordings in November 2023.

Since calling time on TBFB at the height of their success, Adams has released half a dozen albums under various names (Singing Adams, Steven James Adams, Steven Adams & The French Drops), his witty, incisive lyrics and melodic sensibilities taking in DIY indie rock, folky introspection, and off-kilter pop hooks. 

Originally from South Wales, Adams now lives in East London.

“Every record I’ve made has been in a hurry of some sort” says Adams of his new album, “and with this one I took my time”. DROPS is the first album to be credited to him as a solo artist since 2016’s Old Magick, his first new music since 2020, and his noisiest record to date.

Armed with a new batch of material, he began by upping sticks to the Welsh countryside to experiment with drummer Daniel Fordham and bassist David Stewart - both formerly of psych oddballs The Drink. The trio then took the songs to Big Jelly, a converted chapel on the south coast, with co-producer Simon Trought (Comet Gain, Johnny Flynn, The Wave Pictures) to lay down the basic tracks for DROPS.

Eschewing a full band set up (“I wanted to concentrate on one thing at a time”), recording sessions in East London followed with Laurie Earle (Absentee) on guitar and Michael Wood (Hayman Kupa Band, Michaelmas) on keyboards.

Adams then took the recordings home and to the French countryside, to work alone.“I finally got my head around home recording in 2020, while things were a bit quiet. Once I worked out how to record things I realised I didn’t have to think about time. I could let the songs evolve and change once we had the basic tracks down. After a while I started to think of them as paintings; trying something one morning, painting over it in the afternoon and attempting something completely different… it was about enjoying the process, making some bangers, playing around... and giving Simon the producer a mess to sort out when it came to mixing the record". Whenever Tom from Fika Recordings checked in to see how the album was progressing Adams would reply, “it’s taking ages but it’ll sound like it was recorded in an afternoon”.

The result is a dynamic and spirited collection of songs, with Adams's love of 90/00s US underground rock (Pavement's Bob Nastanovich is a fan) to the fore.

DROPS is a sonically compelling piece of work: from bleak/exultant opener Out to Sea and the motorik Living in the Local Void to the weirdly funereal Fascists (where Adams imagines the “little skip in our steps” that we’ll have upon outliving some baddies), and Day Trip's psychedelia in miniature. There are also moments of tenderness: the avalanche of empathy on closing track Cheap Wine Sad Face, and I Tried to Keep it Light’s “worse things could happen… I don’t know how, but give me time”.

Adams says: “I'm preoccupied by the passing of time and the way it affects how we feel. This record is about time and bewilderment and trying to make sense of things".

“…astonishing tenderness in its simplicity … brilliant lyrics.” Q Magazine
“…the tunes are instant and uplifting, but the real wallop comes from the lyrical imagery.” The Guardian
“…barbed modern life chronicles.” UNCUT

Drops

Heads Keep Rolling

Steven Adams - Heads Keep Rolling

Remastered by Mikey Young and reissued by Dandy Boy Records

Won't You

Lyrics:
Don't inhale
Don't take a breath
Don't move an inch
Do what you can
To not make a sound
Fade into the crowd
Just disappear
Try not to be seen
Don't do anything
That might be construed
As you pushing back
Or making a fuss
Just hush up
Close your eyes
Pretend to die
Cause if you move
If you budge
You're done

When I smell that cigarette breath
It takes me back to when my Grandmother said
Stop throwing sad tantrums
When I smell that cigarette breath
It takes me back to when my Grandmother said
You're pissing me off

Second Hand Smoke

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Recalling the defiant thrill of The Killers' Brandon Flowers and the off-kilter attitude of The Strokes, The Dirty Skirts made a giant splash upon arrival in 2005. Frontman Jeremy de Tolly's voice, combined with the band's gifted musicianship, influenced a generation of young alternative indie musicians. With a sonic palette of catchy, floor-stomping, hand-clapping beats, they continue to inspire fans around the globe. 

SAMA (South African Music Award) winning band The Dirty Skirts release their first new music in over a decade. With time to reflect during the global COVID pandemic The Dirty Skirts decided to collaborate remotely to 'test the waters' & instantly rediscovered their mutual creative chemistry & drive to release new music.  

"Blue jean skies started as a sketch paying homage to Amapiano and Aphex Twin’s ambient music. It began with a wash of soft synthesiser and a Gqom / Amapiano hybrid beat, but soon enough, multi-octave vocal lines and lyrics began to pour through. As with other songs on the EP, there’s a juxtaposition here of fragile human relating, with earthly beauty. In this case, it’s a wide open sky, the colour of blue jeans, that provides the theatre in which deeply personal events unfold. It’s a story of falling in love, amidst the struggle of not knowing how to communicate one’s complex inner world. It describes what it’s like when the words won’t come out, one’s body shuts down, becomes numb and frozen, even while falling in love. While writing the bass parts, Passion picked up his fretless, and paid homage to Bakithi Khumalo (Paul Simon) and Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel) with some wonderful bass lines. David wrote gentle arpeggiated guitar lines, often drenched in effects, which lend the song a Shoegaze electronica feel..." - Jeremy de Tolly (The Dirty Skirts)

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Numb and Fronting

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The Dirty Skirts - Numb And Fronting

LYRICS:
We sleep inside four walls
And dream into soft pillows
Nothing's ever spoken
In the morning
When we wake up
To see each other's saddened faces

We know, the truth
About where we're lying down together
It's no good

We know
That the roof above this bed
Is leakin' all over our ivory cover

Deeper and deeper we sink
We're gettin' so deep into trouble again
As the walls close in

Deeper and deeper
Inside four walls
We both drown and dissolve
Can you hear me cryin'

We know, the truth
About where we're lyin' down together
It's no good

We know
That the roof above this bed
Is leakin' all over
Our ivory cover
Oh, god

Deeper and deeper we sink
We're getting so deep in trouble again
As the walls close in

Deeper and deeper
Inside four walls


As The Walls Close In

When the Roman Empire fell I wasn't even watching
So I guess I can't complain now that it's gone
When the soda fountains dry employees will be wanting
As they sit in office halls looking for God

This can't be right
We've been lied to, I've had enough
This can't be right
You and me will work hard till all our tears are gone

When the system disappeared we were the ones remaining
I sit in bathroom stalls for far too long
When you don't know where you are and you don't know how you got there
Well, there's only so much anguish you can start

This can't be right
We've been lied to, I've had enough
This can't be right
You and me will work hard till all our tears are gone

I remember that party, it was colder than hell
After seeing some people that I don't know that well
I will never know why I went there that night
But there's hope I feel
Flipping through to find that part of me that wants to argue
But the sentimental value is known to us alone
Aren't we celebrating? Aren't we elevating?
It's a beautiful beautiful day
Why don't we focus on now just for a bit

I know there is something if we keep on talking
These days I just don't have it in me
But there's hope I feel
I know there is something if we keep on talking

This can't be right
I've been lied to too many times
This can't be right
You and me will work hard till all our tears are gone

This Can't Be Right

Live cover of Lana Del Rey's "Dealer" from her album "Blue Banisters" 🦋

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Dealer (Lana Del Rey Cover)

lyrics


(VERSE)
sold my soul, just for some fucking streams
somehow i feel even more empty
dressed up as my dad for halloween
just to tell me, that i’m proud of me

scared to get cancelled, i dont know why
i dont even have anything to hide
& okay, i know, maybe thats a lie
but some stuff should just never see the light


(HOOK)
vroom vroom
i’m in me moms car
i’m on my way to break your heart
cause breaking you’s my favorite part
yeah breaking you’s my favorite part

vroom vroom
skirt across your yard
i hope you like my tire marks
& plz give your dad my regards
it’s not his fault you have no heart


(VERSE 2) 
have you told your therapist about me
or are you still crying bout that last dweeb?
i know you said he was your everything
but when do you start crying about me?

i think my dad hates me, i dont know why
its probably cause he found out i’m bi
dad, i’m not gay, i just like kissing guys
it all tastes the same, when you close your eyes


(HOOK)
vroom vroom
i’m in me moms car
i’m on my way to break your heart
cause breaking you’s my favorite part
yeah breaking you’s my favorite part

vroom vroom
skirt across ur yard
i hope you like my tire marks
plz give your dad my regards
it’s not his fault you have no heart


(BRIDGE)
are all these people here for me?
or only for the songs i sing?
cause frankly, its fucking draining
trying to please, all of your needs

am i even someone to you?
or just the soundtrack to your youth?
i get it, i’ll always feel used
guess i just expected, more from you


(HOOK)
vroom vroom
i’m in me moms car
i’m on my way to break your heart
cause breaking you’s my favorite part
yeah breaking you’s my favorite part

vroom vroom
skirt across your yard
i hope you like my tire marks
plz give your dad my regards
it’s not his fault you have no heart


THE END

Mickey Darling - vroom vroom (slowed & reverbed)

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (Growling Machines rmx)

Gotye vs New Order - Some Monday That I Used To Know [Filthy Rich Mix]

Twenty one years in the music circuit, off and on, has not mellowed the band. They still sound as belligerent as punks, with a light coating of jaded sophistication. “Pretty Loser” has the snappy drumbeat, edgy guitars and snarky lyrics that one has come to expect from SATI. It’s their version of an “ode to unrequited love,” but one could also interpret it as giving unrequited love the middle finger.

Words and Music by Orven Enoveso

Produced by Ian Zafra and Micmic Demeterio
Recorded and Engineered by Paul Cañada at Zzubu Recording Studio Cebu
Mixed and Mastered by Micmic Demeterio at Backyard Project Studios

Vocals and Guitars: Orven Enoveso
Guitars: Ian Zafra
Bass: Wesley Chiongbian
Drums: Jerros Dolino

Cover Art Photography: Southern Lads / Karl Lucente
Layout: Orven Enoveso

Copyright 2013 Sheila and the Insects
Published 2013 ICO Music Publishing

Pretty Loser - Sheila and the Insects

Dear friends,
this one is for you!!!
Thank you for your support since our beggining!
You can expect more bootlegs from us in the future :)

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Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (Sideform Remix)

Many happy returns to Blue Monday, FAC 73, released thirty years ago today on March 7th 1983

For the anniversary John Digweed and Nick Muir have contributed a special anniversary remix.

New Order “Blue Monday” John Digweed & Nick Muir’s FAC 73 - 13 Mix

New Order- Blue Monday -  John Digweed & Nick Muir FAC73-13 Remix

▶ New Order - Krafty (No.3106 Edit)

New Orderはかっこいい［2011.01.15］

Krafty (No.3106 Edit)

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Pretty Loser - Sheila and the Insects

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