A playlist full of tracks created by the writers, musicians and producers of our music community, "The MusiCollective" - this is the January 2022 edition, which means we've concluded a full year of monthly playlists already! Go us!

A huge congratulations to everyone involved in this. We have a mix of complete recording newbies, seasoned pros and everything in between. All as incredible as each other. 

The MusiCollective is a community of people that get behind each others' projects, for example by helping with songwriting, arrangements, recording and production. It is a continuation of TGS Records (@tgs-records) which started as a lockdown project and has been snowballing new members in ever since. If you'd like to join us, get in touch by emailing themusicollective21@gmail.com or filling in this short form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgUPAkshXrqaB3yjG3Npa5lZVMs2uqxgzYX77DeZb8HHCYpA/viewform?usp=sf_link

TMC Records - January 2022 playlist

All tracks from Lucoline solo and collaboration projects

All tracks written or co-written by Lucoline and include her vocals; some tracks include her guitar and/or midi instruments

All Lucoline solo & collaboration tracks to date

Sheabou & Lucoline demos

Lucoline demos - solo & with Sheabou

Let Me In

SHEABOU - Close the door and shut the blinds

Song by https://soundcloud.com/sheabou, recorded in 2015

New demos

SHEABOU - This Is The Start

My first full-length LP, but certainly not the last. 

Thanks so much to James Norris for producing this and contributing some beautiful lead guitar, bass, and string parts. And thanks to Kerry Norris for contributing some very cool bass lines!

Spinning

This song was inspired by someone I used to be close friends with as a teenager. Its about growing up, feeling like an outsider, wondering if that person still thinks about you. 

Massive loves to @jenni-grossmann for her beautiful violin and harmonies, once again she has managed to lift my song to the next level!

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You had me believing we were broken
So we painted our faces and grew our hair
Adolescence spelled out in eyeliner
There's no shortcuts through there

Would you still sing my name
If no-one ever listened?
Still write down how it felt
If no-one ever reads?

All the same kind of nothing
But our nothings don't function the same
Soft and lost and lonely
Long, dark and sustained 

Would you still sing my name
If no-one ever listened?
Still write down how it felt
If no-one ever reads?

But to make yourself feel nothing
To not feel anything
Oh what a waste
What a waste

Would you still sing my name
If no-one ever listened?
Still write down how it felt
If no-one ever reads?

Broken (feat. Jenni Grossmann)

Words, music, performance and production ℗ Ell Freeman 2022.

That's how it starts 
Just a tender patch  
That you dare not scratch 
Though it stings and smarts 

But as the days go past 
Even the softest touch  
Still hurts so much   
That's when it starts  

A fleeting feeling 
That whispers in your head 
No healing  
Just fearing 
The day you wake up dead 

Give me just one more chance
Give me just one more chance

With the gathering moss
Your thoughts turn sad
With the pain of loss
For what you never had

While your daily chore 
Helps to numb the sore 
Slow but sure 
You begin to withdraw 

But there’s that nagging feeling
That screams inside your head
If you don’t start living 
One day you’ll wake up dead

Give me just one more chance
Give me just one more chance

One more chance 
One more chance 

That’s how it starts
That’s how it starts
That’s how it starts, I know 
That’s how it starts, I know because
This is how it ends.

Tender Patch

Walk In Your Shoes (prod. Ell Freeman)

Will they, or won’t they? What did you take from it?
Do say, or don’t say, but get it out the way. 
Maybe, just maybe, you keep me hanging on, 
Don’t take this the wrong way, but even we can see it, clear as day…

But it’s the same thing that happens every day, 
All the time they’re edging closer, then they back away,
Just a little step from going all the way,
Will they or won’t they? 

Will they or won’t they? You aren’t the only one
My way or the highway, the same as anyone
More luck than yesterday? Nothing to come undone
Who labelled us this way? Our time has just begun…

They’re drawn closer together, then they pull away, 
They’re thinking the same things, but feeling scared to say,
But they’re both afraid to take a step away, 
Will they or won’t they? 

Will they or won’t they, at the same time,
Walk through the doorway, I’m getting sick and tired
Will they or won’t they, no there’s nothing else
Prices we won’t pay, [or will we?]

But it’s the same thing that happens every day, 
All the time they’re edging closer, then they back away,
Just a little step from going all the way,
Will they or won’t they?

Will They Or Won't They

A song about death and relationships

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I see reflections of you in the crowd
No use keeping up with you now
Too many miles left to go
To waste my time chasing a ghost
I know that you're no longer there
Yet I keep on turning around
I still see your face in the crowd
Too many miles left to go

Left this behind, it's all in my mind
(Please just)
You should be dead to me, why won't you go?
(Let me go)
Left this behind, nothing to find
(Can't keep)
You should be dead to me, why wont you go?
(Chasing ghosts)
Why won't you go?

I want to leave all these shadows behind
To pack up my car and just drive
Nothing left here for me now
Except some ghosts in the crowd
Yet I keep on turning my head
I can't get a hold of the thread
Too many miles left to go
To waste my time chasing a ghost

Left this behind, it's all in my mind
(Please just)
You should be dead to me, why won't you go?
(Let me go)
Left this behind, nothing to find
(Can't keep)
You should be dead to me, why wont you go?
(Chasing ghosts)

Chasing Ghosts (Feat. Lucoline, Andy Wilson, Michael Schiesari)

SHEABOU - Wouldn't Be The Last

Sheabou - This Is The Start

Updated the description for Jan 22 TMC playlist! This is an old one from many years ago, but I don't have any new recordings this month! Better get back to it in Feb :)

Take me back

Acoustic guitar track from Lucoline, Lucy Butler's new project (the singer from Sheabou)