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

With so many fantastic samples to choose, I decided to go with this up-tempo selection. The central theme for this song is about how we are all the same at the end of our lives. The up-tempo nature of the song contrasts with the dark undertones contained within the song.

Deep Beneath The Ground

Written/ Produced/ Mixed/ Performed by FLOCO
Diapason Instrument built by Lee Scott Newcombe
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Photography and Artwork by Hometownboredom

About You

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.

Breaking The Line

House Of Bears

Last Transmission

Left To Find

Becoming Bear

A tribute to a friend's angry bees, via worries about ecological collapse, Marge Simpson and Top Gun

Keep your neb out John, it's none of your beeswax
Make sure the honey Johnny stays in the hive
We are wasps with PR, who's the Queen of the colony?
It's in your best interests to keep us alive.

Oh - Where's the honey, Johnny?
Dancing in circles at the edge of the sun
We'll be catching it, waggle dance, feet in the pollen
Don't you jive with the hive
Oh Johnny what have you done?

Ooh-wah-ooh
It's the needs of the bees, its the bees with their needs
Ooh-wah-ooh
Where's the honey Johnny?
None of your beeswax, let's float in the weeds

Chock full of nicotine! Ah you know what I mean
Oh my hexagons have gone all wrong
Got my wings in a rush, can't get enough of the stuff
And I can't remember my way home
Keep it clean for the Queen, don't you know where I've been?
I've been flying too long in the sun
I'll be catching it, waggle dance, feet in the pollen
Bring back the honey, Johnny, what have you done?

(Chorus)

Buzz the tower!

None of your beeswax

Buzz buzz buzz
Buzz the tower, buzz the tower, let's go float in the weeds
Take me to your leader honey, where is the Queen?

Bees knees, Bees needs, none of your beeswax
Bees knees, Bees needs, dance to the sun
Bees knees, Bees needs, none of your beeswax
Bring back the honey Johnny, what have you done?

None of your Beeswax (Rewaxed)

Semghat id-Daqq by Cher Camilleri
Remixed by Hearts Beating in Time
Mixing by Hearts Beating in Time
Mastering by Spectrum Mastering and Vinyl

Semghat Id - Daqq (HBIT Remix)

I am a curious creature
A spiral bound prisoner of sleepy lagoons
And when we meet in the future
I'll be a memory cast in the layers of stone
Of lava and silicon
Under the bladder wrack
Tentacles reaching in warm brackish pools
While rising land masses breed thunder and lightning
That rage as the turbulent world starts to cool

Riding saltwater currents in temperate seas
Underneath the foam and the mare's tails that dance in the breeze
The sparkle and shimmer of wide open skies
The embrace of sediment
Fossil Eyes
Yeah Fossil Eyes

I am an alien being
That drifts on mercurial currents of time
Until the eyes of a curious child
Fall bright on the shadows that I left behind
A life in transition, yeah
Literal, littoral.
Hiding in crevasses away from the sun.
The grinding of shingle banks
Guttural, guttural
Dies with the tide and our world is reborn

Riding saltwater currents in temperate seas
Underneath the foam and the mare's tails that dance in the breeze
The sparkle and shimmer of wide open skies
The embrace of sediment
Fossil Eyes
Yeah Fossil Eyes

Ammonite, Ammonite, cast in the jet
A guest from the past we can never forget
Ammonite, Ammonite, hidden from view
An echo persists when existence is through

Fossil Eyes

A metaphor for self-reliance, but also totally about the climbing knot

Bit by bit, hand over hand
Up by your bootstraps, stick to your plan

All the rapid ascenders, and death-mod descenders
And people so brave they abandon the rope
But I've got my prusik and that's what I'll use
To climb out of the darkness and into the hope

It's fair to say I'm difficult
But show me someone who is not
People are complicated you know
We'd have a tedious world if they weren't
The prusik will hold!

Inch by inch, hold after hold
Up by your bootstraps, out of the cold

Not enough turns and you'll slide down the mountain
Grip on too tight and you're stuck where you are
Don't lose your cool though, 'cos we've got the prusik
It won't let us down, well, it hasn't so far

It's fair to say I'm cynical
It's the way I've become over time
But even I still rely on the prusik
And I'm sure in the end we'll be fine
Grab your prusik and climb!

Is it prusik or prusik? Just dance to the music!
A Kleimheist just isn't the same
Use what you've got, you can't use what you've not
Oh the prusik, The prusik remains
The prusik remains!

Prusik

Written, performed and produced by Dominique Finnegan and Scott Kaufman
Mixing and Mastering - Scott Kaufman

Other Half

Fifty cold years since you turned from his grace
Caterpillar Girl with her hands to her face
She never heard
All his words

One stroke and she's down on her knees
Telephone slightly out of her reach
A burning cold
In her soul

I needed songs not your sermons
But you never knew me
I needed songs not your sermons
But you never, you never knew me

In the ischaemia of things
Peaches and clotted cream for you sins
Decent hacks
Worn out tracks

LP scratches out of it's groove
Paralysed in the darkening room
Nurses words
Turn to worms
Have they heard?

The Old Maid was a banshee
But you never knew me
Songs of discord won't chill me
But you never, you never knew me

Catheter, pill, the thermometer sings
Devil knows of the band you were in
Nurse feign a smile
Take your time

Devil makes work, but ECT will free it
I don't think they succeeded
Fight fire with fire
It's my funeral pyre

Father Pious at the ICU door
Last Rites a little premature
I'm half alive
Don't look so surprised

I had a tryst with a witch
Come here

I needed songs not your sermons
But you never knew me
I needed songs not your sermons
But you never knew me
I needed songs not your sermons
But you never knew me
I needed songs not your sermons
But you never, you never knew me

Caterpillar Girl

Don't worry, now, really don't
But I think that the Sun might be dying
The day was always coming, but 
I thought we had a bit more time
Do you see what I'm seeing? 
There's just not enough coming through
Not enough of those sweet Tau Neutrinos
The question right now is really "what do we do"?

Oh those Solar Neutrinos
They just go right through you
Those pesky little critters
Are giving us the jitters

Yeah, OK I see it, but let's not freak out just yet
Not until we're certain, not until we've double checked
Let's keep this under our hats
We don't want all the fighting and fussing
What if we've got it all wrong?
I don't want to cause panic for nothing

They're in a flap at Fermilab
There's concern at CERN
I knew a girl at the Hadron Collider
They wriggled and jiggled and shivered inside her

Mate...mate, look here, look at this, look
What if we've missed a trick?
What if there are different flavours, like crisps
Our basic palate just can't detect
I think we've gone off half-cocked, jumped the gun
I think we've got all excited for nowt
It's understandable, easily explained, but we've gone and freaked everyone out

People, as you were!
The neutrinos are all flowing fine
And the Sun isn't dying
Not now, not yet, not this time
You know the Sun isn't hot enough
To do what it does?
Quantum Tunnelling? Cosmic Cunning?
One day we'll run out of luck

Stick 'em in the Tokamak
Stick 'em in the Tokamak
Stick 'em in the Tokamak and make it so

Stick 'em in the Tokamak
Stick 'em in the Tokamak
Stick 'em in the Tokamak and watch 'em go!

Oh those Solar Neutrinos, they just go right through you
Hanging out at DUNE trying to fathom why
They're only ever passing by

Well back there it seemed like the end of the world
But I have to admit for a moment, in spite of
The obvious problems it presents for us all
I couldn't help feeling
Excited

Solar Neutrino Problem

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

House Of Bears

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