Michael Timmons - The Lightness of the Dread

Described by music blogger, Listen to Monger as, "a slick but lo-fi electro-disco spoken-word masterpiece."   A collaboration with Scottish Poet/Spoken Word Artist, Chris Ingram aka Wee Scots Poet [ft. BBC Wales & BBC Radio 6], "All The Little Things" is a Nu-Disco Spoken-Word groove for dancing around your home to. Upon hearing the preview, Jaguar [BBC Intro Dance & Mix Mag] said, "This is everything.  I want more." 


Here is the Spotify Link:
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"All The Little Things" is my second release of 2021, and follows up on "Eye of the Storm" [ft. Fresh on the Net Fresh Faves (Batch 390)].  My music has been played by DJ Tobi Lynn of Amazing Radio US, featured on KGUP ’s daily rotation, as well as attracting the attention of Abbie McCarthy [BBC Radio 1] “Enjoyed listening to this, ace production 👏🏼”.

Chris Ingram won the Burns Award aged five.  He has performed alongside the likes of British Sea Power, 9 Bach, Ben Waters, Cate Le Bon, and Dizraeli. Described by Tom Robinson [BBC Introducing Mixtape] as, “Some of the finest writing I've heard come through BBC Introducing", and “One of our picks for Artist of the Week for 2020" by Scotland on Sunday.1

We've already been lucky enough to be picked up by Artefaktor Radio's Sneak Peek Show [Mexico], Trust the Doc [w/ Neil March FOTN Moderator] & Monday Night Ride Out via Exile FM [UK], Radio RKC's #TheWelcomeShow [France], and added to Indie Live Radio's rotation [New Jersey, USA].

Disco is the electronic genre of hard times.  Right now, people need their Saturday Night Fever.  

***Lyrics***

Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo

The Wee things
All those little things

You and me, we can be a Toucan
Rainbows at the end of your nose
Time blows bubbles emerge from rubble
Haldon collide with me, let's gaze through Hubble.

The Wee things
All those little things
The Wee things
All those little things

Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo

See it all glorious microscopic
Mandala seahorses so kaleidoscopic
Like sunshine kisses, she makes it better
It's midnight, slide into that slipper Barbarella

The Wee things
All those little things
The Wee things
All those little things

The Wee things
All those little things
The Wee things
All those little things

Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo

The Wee things
All those little things

Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo

***Credits***

Music: @tobisonics
Words: Wee Scots Poet @ceg-records
Mix Engineer: @Emilsson
Mastering Engineer: @tobisonics

All The Little Things

This is track 4 from my new album The Lightness of the Dread which was out on January 28th. This song is hopeful but not exactly full of laughs.


Catch in Light

Lens catching light, the flicker moves from left to right
To the drawing pad, a portrait of a closing eye
With dramatic force, open the emotion course
And the rigid smoke seeping in under the doorway
Would you believe this?

Every fear was creeping in
Every fear was creeping in

When catch in light, fallen on the absent flight
To a damage task, surreal end to chemicals
With the Eastern coast, a sum of a team entwined
Clip a neighbour’s side, onto the curb and through the night
And the horror stones, stalking in when you’re alone
Would you believe this?

Every fear was creeping in
Every fear was creeping in
Every fear was creeping in  



Catch In Light

"The closing track from the new album 'The Lightness of the Dread'. This song was recorded in one take according to Timmons. A bittersweet love song that beautifully captures the pain of loss."

Cardiac Arrest 

She was 21 when they started to run
He was devoted to with a child-like adoring view, all new
He lost the lighthouse key and was driven to his knees

Oh you’re feeling so
Oh you’re feeling sold

It was cardiac arrest, they worked on his chest
Then they all burst in with a blue tint to their skin
He’s in the audience of her supermarket show
He’s everywhere she goes and in everyone she knows

Oh you’re feeling so
Oh you’re feeling sold

Cardiac Arrest

10 Days Before You Died

Lyrics: 
Tell your brother I saw him
Tell your brother I got it
Tell your brother I knew him when he was at his best

It’s all about the anger
It’s all about the workers
It’s all about the lovers, clawing each other’s chests

Now you know I’m a liar
Now you know I’m a liar
Now you know I’m a liar, will you clothe me with the rest?

Frozen up and dried, is the other side unbound?
The lightness of the dread rests, the roles begin to set
You can’t speak

I can’t stand the sight of
only seeing a brave face
Let yourself through the back gate
The fade you undergo

Now you know I’m buyer
An uncontrollable hire
The empty room and the fire being risk assessed

We would dance in the front room
We would dance in the front room
We would dance in the front room

Frozen up and dried, is the other side unbound?
The lightness of the dread rests, the roles begin to set
You can’t speak

Credits:
Written by Michael Timmons
Produced by - Andy Miller at Gargleblast Studios 
Input from "Backseat Driver" - Andy MacFarlane (The Twilight Sad)
Mastered by Kenny MacLeod

Empty Room - Single

Empty Room

Factory Tax

Thank you for listening. 

The Agonal

You steam roll jack in the morning, you fed the line
Your personal theatre alarm and the make-up kits
The agonal

You preach, the wooden slots, I was crushed to death
You force the highest creepers and the midnight dance
The agonal

You never said
No you never said
No you never said it would last this long

No you never said
No you never said
No you never said it would last this long


credits
from The Lightness of the Dread, released January 28, 2022
Drums - Neil Woodside

The Agonal

The Lightness of the Dread

Town Hall

Shouting In Silence

English Wonky Pop to lift the spirits in these dark days

Grab the new album Chippa now snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/chippa

Clerk Of The Office

Coast with me to increase the chance of us
Help me drown the frequent ‘hand me down’ sentiments
Honestly, as faith goes, under reeds on a sleeper through
Bolts and locks and sulphate
Baseball cards
You’re underweight

When I see you at Hanshin
It’s in the corner of the room
And it’s leaking through the landing of the close
It’s a fact I need you most
When I see you at Hanshin
It’s in the corner of the room
And it’s leaking through the landing of the close
It’s a fact I need you most

When I see you at Hanshin
It’s in the corner of the room
And it’s leaking through the landing of the close
It’s a fact that I need you most
It’s fact I need you most
It’s fact I need you most

Taken from new ep 'Pastel'

Written and performed by: Michael Timmons
Recorded and mixed by: Andy Miller in Gargleblast Studios
Omnicord by David Lan
Mastered by: Paul Gallagher
Back-Seat Driver: Andy MacFarlane

Artwork: Dorothy Johnston

Hanshin Railway Line

Still Future

Written By: Marina Florance
Released on all streaming platforms Dec 14th 2020
Credits:
Marina Florance: Guitar, BVs, LV, Production and Mixing
Ben Walker: Resonator and Piano
Mark Jolley: Bass
Tobisonics: Mastering
Artwork Photography: Gary Florance
Lyrics
Too many dreams have been broken
too many hopes pushed aside
of all those words we’ve spoken
how many truths, how many lies
Lonely runs both ways
if I could read your mind
Oooh I’d know just what to say
know the words I should hide

What have we got right now
all that’s me, all that’s you
Gonna live my life right here in this moment
under a sky of blue, under sky of blue

But you can see right through me
and you can read my mind
and you know just what to say
know the words you should hide
But too many dreams have been broken
Your hopes pushed aside
and of all those words you’ve spoken
how many truths, how many lies

What have we got right now
all that’s me. all that’s you
Gonna live my life right here in this moment
under a sky of blue, under sky of blue

A Sky of Blue

A Sky Of Blue

"A man of some lovely words in song” – Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music
"Sparse, understated and heartfelt" - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music
"exceptional songwriting...full of so much delicate and heartfelt emotion, it's hard not to get lost in" - The Skinny

"From East Kilbride, Timmons creates beautiful fragile music, sustained by reverb laden finger-plucked electric guitar."

Cardiac Arrest

Michael Timmons

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