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Written by Tom Jacob
Performed by Dear Robot (Tom Jacob + James Dolman)
Produced, mixed and mastered by Tom Jacob

Is it ever right to try to get someone to change their mind?
And is it really right to fight for something that was never mine?

They say that if you love someone, if you love them then you'll let them go.
But now the moment comes to pass, it's a virtue I don't want to know.

The truth is that the future's clear; it's one I can't imagine,
Where several years down the line I struggle to remember
The way you grind your teeth at night 
And how it feels to hold your jaw until it stops.

I wish I could wish it all away.
I wish I could say, "I'm okay. How are you?"

Okay

‘Soap Opera’ is the first single to be taken from Mesadorm’s new album ‘Pollinator’ to be released on 8th April 2022. 3 years in the making, this music has been through 3 producers, 1 near fatal incident and a worldwide pandemic. Front woman Blythe Pepino now taking the reins with production, this album is a melting pot of inventive catchy tune-ery, embodying something not dissimilar to the simplicity of the lowly love song before sweeping sweetly into a barrage of anti-establishment cacophony. All of which is painstakingly clear from the very opening of ‘Soap Opera’;

“Soap Opera is the court jester. An overt and sarcastic expression of my rage and depression at being an English person after realising that I have no pride in that part of my identity at all. I wanted to write a song about what I really think of this country, at this moment, in a way I could just about get away with…because we (and more of us than we think) are blinded by an old reputation of power and righteousness. That’s the scary bit. I don't think enough people really, deeply believe that we could be headed to overt, rather than disguised, fascism because we have this idea of ourselves as saviours - our national identity bleeds into our individual identities which we want to be generally ‘good’. So, in this tune I enjoy poking that nerve. It’s time that we are able to see ourselves for who we really are so that change can happen” - Blythe Pepino

After composing and producing original songs for the Netflix show ‘The Irregulars’ and working on a cover by Sam Brooks, (self-produced release ‘Numb’), Blythe Pepino took charge of production duties in early 2021, a choice that has created an incredibly unique piece of work. In Soap Opera, you can hear a perhaps ‘irreverent’ (Pepino) approach to the treatments of synths and vocals that come from a more unaffected place, landing itself firmly in the realm of Lo-Fi without losing any of the technical intricacies that Mesadorm have personified in the past. The playful meaning and intention behind the sound created by Mesadorm when they composed the essence of ‘Pollinator’ in 2018 has not been lost, but enhanced and encouraged to shine through leading towards a bolder element of truth wrapped up in a nice warm blanket of familiar nostalgia.

Pollinator

Soap Opera (Clean)

Painter

Produced and Mixed by Sean Genockey
Mastered by Ed Woods

Subject/Object

Released on Babylegs Records 1st December 2017.

Heterogaster

Tell Me

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She's A Rose

Nowhere

Produced by Aaron Zahl.

Full lyrics:

My head it hit the pillow, and I stared up at the billowing dark.
And though I couldn't see you, I knew you were smiling.
It made it so much worse.

How is it that such kindness I could mistake for loathing?
And what does it say about me that all your words came to mean nothing?

Alone with myself I am a god.

You know, I tried to laugh, but that frail bird - it never took flight.
You walked your fingers up my arm and said everything was all right.
It made it so much worse.

Was Narcissus beautiful for the rippling murk, or despite it?
And is my bedroom mirror so beguiling? 'Cus, you know...

Alone with myself I am a god.
But when I'm with you, I'm nothing.
When I'm with you, I am alone.
Alone with myself.

Was it something that I lost when I traded life for the shivering blaze of the screen?
A world where I'm omnipotent; the stage is set - pick any scene.

'Cus when I'm with you, the world is not a stage;
It's a dress rehearsal for a show that's never played.

Alone with myself I am a god.
But when I'm with you, I'm nothing.
When I'm with you, I am alone.
Alone with myself.

Alone With Myself

Bruno Schmidt - MOJ mixes 18

MESADORM
Management - daisy@babylegsrecords.com

Soap Opera (Clean)

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