Track 7 in the release series 'Signs of Life'
Written in San Francisco. Walking everywhere, gives a new insight & perspective. Between the avenues, it's easy to see the disparity in wealth & lack of support for those in need; the divisions caused.

Lyrics:

Let’s take a walk along to Market Street,
Maybe it’s somewhere we can find a peace.
There’s no support, 
There’s no strength left in these feet.
What did we fall for when we fell 

Between the avenues?

There’s nothing for no one here.
No one comes here to not disappear.

If I’m the cog, fear for the machine.
But this Goddamn dog’s got its teeth in me.
That’s when this howling started,
And now it will not cease.
It fell so dark, too fast on those streets 

Between the avenues.

Nowhere feels the same 
everywhere I go
To I feel nothing all over again.
Every face is a life that someone used,
Every face is a life that someone used to love,

Between the avenues.

I couldn’t love you anymore,
Any more than I do,
Any more than I used to.
I couldn’t love you anymore
Any more than I used to,
The avenues use.

Signs of Life

Between the Avenues

A cover of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" for Montage Collective's "Androgyny" project: reinterpretations of songs by men.

Sledgehammer - cover for Montage Collective collab

This is an awesome deep, dark Drum and Bass remix of our first release by Pulses.

Birthing Bell (Pulses remix)

Birthing Bell (Pulses Remix)

A remix of our track Signs of Life by the artist Amongst the Pigeons

Signs Of Life - Amongst The Pigeons Remix

Breaking The Line is the closing track from Line of Flight's 'More Than Human' EP'.
This song extents their "80's electro-pop for the 21st Century" (Tom Robinson, BBC6Music) sound to include drums and piano, to a haunting yet powerful and plaintive effect. 
The song focuses on the tensions between individual and global paranoia, loss, and destruction; asking, hoping in the chorus that it's not all not too late.
The EP will be available on vinyl in October 2023, with 6 remixes of their tracks on the B-side. Released via Fairsound-Press On Vinyl.
"Tell me what I need to know, I need you more than ever. I'm here, don't say it's too late. Please let it be now or never"
The sophomore release by Lines of Flight 'More Than Human' is an E.P. of change. Standing in contrast to 'Signs of Life's reflective emotions, triggered by lockdown, 'More Than Human' begins the process of looking forward. They confront what is lying ahead. Lines of Flight explore what humans do to each other and why they do it; what we they do to other animals we share the world with; and what humans do to the planet. 

They saw loneliness, self-sabotage, isolation, paranoia and fear. They saw the natural world remaining here long after we are gone. They saw the pandemic fade away and things returning to 'normal'. They saw that things won't ever be the same but that so much hasn't changed. We are creatures of habit, we are creatures of comfort, we don't change unless we have to, or until it is too late.

More Than Human

Breaking The Line

The sophomore release by Lines of Flight.
'More Than Human' is an E.P. of change. Standing in contrast to 'Signs of Life's reflective emotions, triggered by lockdown, 'More Than Human' begins the process of looking forward. They confront what is lying ahead. Lines of Flight explore what humans do to each other and why they do it; what we they do to other animals we share the world with; and what humans do to the planet. 

They saw loneliness, self-sabotage, isolation, paranoia and fear. They saw the natural world remaining here long after we are gone. They saw the pandemic fade away and things returning to 'normal'. They saw that things won't ever be the same but that so much hasn't changed. We are creatures of habit, we are creatures of comfort, we don't change unless we have to, or until it is too late.

House Of Bears

Last Transmission

Left To Find

Becoming Bear

Open Plains

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Celilo Falls

Practice and Ritual - instrumental

Edgelands - instrumental

Slow violence - instrumental

Open Plains - instrumental

Creeper Climbing - instrumental

Celio Falls - instrumental

Wilderness  - instrumental

The Crush - instrumental

This is track 9 of the 10-track release series "Signs of Life"
The song focus is that in times of acute stress one coping mechanism looking back on past experiences - it’s why people contact lost loves etc; as a way to validate the choices made? So if it were all to end, there’s a sense that we did OK, or at least the bad decisions didn’t have lasting ramifications. Sometimes to say what we really wanted to at the time but didn’t have the courage to, and we’re now spurred on by an existential force. Hopefully, I hope I was a good friend.

Lyrics:

Analogue summers, when the sun never seemed to go down. 
Futures so abundant, they weren’t something talked about. 
But then your voice on that call made an arresting sound. 
Oh, the words stopped me dead then but it’s the feeling that halts me now. Please don’t say you’re going to let me down. 

Suspended sentences: silence speaks. 
So loud. 
If everything made sense, there’d be nothing to think about. 
That is not one crumb of comfort to me now. 
Old-man-wisdom rarely falls from a young man’s mouth. 
I know that I am going to let you down  

The broken hearted policed the gathering crowds. 
There’s no rhyme or reason here, to why I made it out. 
So, we promised to never forget, 
A tie to what was left, we bound. 
A hopeful flower planted in barren ground.

I was always going to let you down. 
I was always going, I was always going,
Always gone.

New takes

Please Don't Say You're Going (To Let Me Down)

This is the debut single from Lines of Flight. It will released via MH|HW Music Ltd on the Marth 5th 2021, across all digital platforms. Special preview release on Soundcloud available now. 

Birthing Bell is the first in a 10-track series to be released by Lines of Flight: 1 track every month, for 10 months which will culminate into their debut album 'Signs of Life'.

Birthing Bell represents past traditions and future absences - the passing of time in unfamiliar places which we don't want to return to but miss nonetheless.

Lyrics:

On this shore
In July of 1575,
They came to take
The land we loved so well. 

It’s a birthing bell,
It’s a boat’s death knell,
Their rugged story is now ours to tell. 

At the ebb tide
Sails a strange fleet,
From the far side.
Came cargo to greet,
He, we all knew well. 

It’s a birthing bell,
It’s a boat’s death knell,
His rugged story was all ours to tell. 

The waves’ goodbye, the cry below,
We’ll all run mad from sorrow.

At the day’s end,
A banner lifted
Onto dry land,
An infant gifted,
She, we’ll all know well.

It’s a birthing bell,
It’s a boats death knell,
Her rugged story will be ours now to tell. 

The waves’ goodbye, the cry hello,
We’ll not run mad from sorrow. 

Lyrics by H. Whale, Music by J. Moss. Produced and Mixed by J. Moss and E. Heaton. Artwork by J. Moss.

Birthing Bell

The second track of a 10-track series from Lines of Flight.
Moth eaten heart is about yearning for a past that no longer exist and how time distorts the memories - knowing you don't want to return to it but you still feel drawn. As though if going back would resolve the situation and the happy ending that is so desired would be there...but knowing deep down this can never be.

Lyrics: Moth eaten heart

You gave me a place to hide from the noise of a downtown life.
Some way to escape the wrestling, spiralling inside my mind.
An island, a seascape, that cradled us in space and time.
And with those strands we began
To tie them fast, to weave and dart
Together. 
Bound to last,
Our shared heart.

Time though erodes and frays, the fabric of us began to fade.
Moth-eaten, we’re stood in this ‘always’ place, as it fell into the sea.
Your change in tone, my change of tack, 
I’m not sorry enough, you won’t take it back.  
I’m torn from the shores, couldn’t cease the collapse,
I won’t be tied, I’d rather be
Anchor-less, an indolent craft.
Drift detached and depart our shared heart

Now you’re here in my dream,
Time’s unstitched seams.
Recall moth eaten memories, incomplete.
How different it could have been,
How different in dreams.
A place in time, still a part of me.
A life apart, held fast in our shared heart.
In our moth-eaten heart.

Lyrics by J. Moss & H. Whale, Music by J. Moss, Mixed and Produced by J. Moss and E. Heaton. Artwork by J.Moss

Lines of Flight

Moth Eaten Heart

It's about yearning to escape, to meet, to reconnect, to reunite, to overcome the hurdles that prevent that; to reach your desired destination at all costs, to get to the other side, one last time.

Lyrics

Driving seat, velveteen upholstery,
Mint green Datsun
Cuts through the midnight snow.
Cigarette smoke, clouds fill my windscreen,
Dash flickers yellow,
Warning lights glow,
Glow red.
Heading out to you,
I know it’s beautiful out there.
Heading out to where you are,
Reach out and hold me,
Hold me, forever.
I’m late I know,
But I’m here now so let’s go.
Ditch side, sun rise,
Our breath melts the morning snow.
Close my eyes and feel your cold hand on mine.
Share our last Marlboro light.
I knew I find a way to get to the other side
One last time.

Credits
releases May 7, 2021
Released May 7th, 2021
Lyrics by J. Moss
Music by J. Moss.
Recorded by J. Moss and H. Whale
Produced and mixed by E. Heaton.
Artwork by Stuff and Things Collective
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Heading Out To You

'I Remember Everything' is out on 2nd of June...synthpop, urban birdlife, memories, rust and ruin and a sense of foreboding and change...

Lyrics:

Railings frame
Sparing birds
Abandoned
Playground stirs
Not by my hand
Not my hands
Coming storms
Fixed objects
Rusted forms
Oh those rusted forms
Tallic bars
Plastic seats
Static moves
The morning heats
The morning heat
Thunder grows
Lighting cracks
This murder
Won't be back
It won't be back
No going back
Go go go
Midnight crows
Keep your jet eyes
Closed close
Go go go
Midnight crows
Close jet eyes
Fly
Fly
Go go go
Statuesque
Falling rain
Every drop
Every frame
Rail against
The rusted form
Static moves
Across their wings
I remember everything
Ornaments
In the coming storms
Midnight crows
Thunder grows
I remember everything
Coming storms
Rusted forms
I remember everything
I remember everything
I remember everything
I remember everything
I remember everything
Go go go

I Remember Everything

Dreamwave-Electro Pop inspired by landscape, memory, and other creatures. 

Lines of Flight are Matthew Henderson and Helen Whale. After forming remotely in lockdown in 2020 & writing songs on their phones, they drip-released their debut album as 10 singles in 2021, following this up with a physical release on vinyl in 2022 after building a fanbase via Twitter. They played their debut gig supporting Saccades (Nicholas Wood of the KVB’s solo project) in 2021, and have recently supported Pale Blue Eyes. 

In April 2023 they released ‘Becoming Bear’,  the lead single from their forthcoming EP ‘More Than Human’, which came out 5th May. The 5-track EP captures a new quality, with the duo recording in the same space for the first time since their lockdown project.


Influences include: 
Depeche Mode, Joy Division, OMD, Gary Numan, The Cure, New Order, Eurythmics, Low, Chromatics, Goldfrapp, I Break Horses, Daughter, Ladytron, Ela Minus, Cocteau Twins, Mazzy Star, Weyes Blood, Sharon Van Etten, Golden Fable, Loma, Austra, Broods

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