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In 2014 I moved to Gibsons B.C and built guitars for the winter. We lived in a small stain glass windowed cabin on top of Harvey Hill while we built guitars. When I got home I wrote this song about how I had felt about Cranbrook and the routine I was in. Hope you like it.

Harvey Hill

Ring Around Your Heart

MAY XXVI

Road To Nowhere

Save Me

The Northern Folk’s latest standalone single ‘Get On’, recorded with Callum Barter (British India, Courtney Barnett, Saskwatch), sees them reaching further into uncharted territories, in their most focused release to date.

To be released October 12 2017
Engineered and mixed by Callum Barter at Newmarket Studios, Melbourne
Mastered by Joe Carra at Crystal Mastering, Melbourne
Artwork by Gemma Keating
Written and performed by The Northern Folk

Get On (Single)

Get On

Relationships are hard. These 2 high school sweethearts from Indiana have sonically plotted out a melody drenched tune for how to survive turmoil and uncertainty. "P.D.R" reflects on the duo's journey through the music industry, recent public snub by Hollywood, and overall rocky patch in a weathered relationship.

The song also marks a major milestone for The Bergamot working with world-renowned mixer and producer Matt Wiggins to mix the track (Glass Animals, London Grammar, The Horrors).

"P.D.R." is a forward-looking contemporary interpretation of The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" stacked harmonies, strung out verb drenched Strats, and thick textured harpsichord and strings to round out this lush production. The hook is emphatic and grabbing with a distant synth hooking your ear at first listen.

The song is based on Playa del Rey, a romantic beach town nestled on the south-western tip of Los Angeles where the couple found themselves in their 312,000 mile old "Unity Car" with the window down and the rain falling on both of them. 

"Life just seemed so confusing at that particular point in time - it was all just hitting us as we sat in silence taking in the swells of the Pacific Ocean on our left and the arriving international flights at LGA over our heads." reflects Hoff. "Those planes lit up like fireballs falling from the sky."

"What were we doing there? Why had we come to L.A.? Our car was on the brink - WE were on the brink" relays Speece. "We put everything we had into that track... and everything WE DIDN'T!"

The song weaves the listener through the idea of "Holding on" in the beginning as being held back, yet reprieves with a optimistic turn by the bridge "With everything uncertain, I think we will be O.K." to bring the track back to a positive light and somehow reign in the dream track to inspire and strike an optimistic tone. 

The guitar swells, the dreamy vocals and harmonies - this piece would be a visual accompaniment to Claude Monet's "Rough Sea". The song attempts to create a sonic seascape of lyrical imagery and instrumental precision. 

PLAYA DEL REY (PDR)
Lyrics Written by Nathaniel Paul © 2017
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Down on the coastline
Airplanes and street signs
West of the 405
While we were waiting
I wish you'd just say it
Those words 
Tied up in your head

We were hopeless
The windows were open
Watching the planes fly by
The clouds were rolling
The salty air from the ocean
Those lights
Burning up in the sky

I'm worried
About the words you said
About the words you said
About the words you said

I feel like I've waited all my life
Holding on, holding on
Holding on, holding on

I feel like I have waited all my life
Holding on, holding on
Holding on, holding on

We were alone now
When we let our guards down
Taught ourselves to be free
The thin winter moonlight
Our hands held tight
Our lives drift off to sea

I'm worried
About the words you said
About the words you said
About the words you said

I feel like I've waited all my life
Holding on, holding on
Holding on, holding on

With everything uncertain
I think we will be O.K. 

I feel like I've waited all my life
Holding on, holding on
Holding on, holding on

I feel like I've waited all my life
Holding on, holding on
Holding on, holding on

P.D.R.

Listen to 'Once' from Richard Readey's brand new album Not Ready, released April 5, 2019

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📝 Lyrics:

Leaking,
Like the air in my lungs,
Never been here before,
Never understood your gaze,

Teething, 
Like a child I’m afraid,
From the truth I might say,
Never understood this game..

Who would have thought we were falling,
Who would have thought we were falling,
Out

If this is to be the time
Your hand slips away from mine
Please let me close my eyes,
Remember what we were like
Once
Remember what we were like
Once
Remember what we were like
Once 
Remember... Once

Clutching,
At the last straw you gave,
I could feel you move away,
You haven’t looked at me the same,

Fading,
Like the warmth in your touch,
The story of us,
I guess we didn't read enough,

If this is to be the time,
Your hand slips away from mine,
Please let me close my eyes,
Remember what we were like
Once

If this is to be the time,
Your hand slips away from mine,
Please let me close my eyes,
Remember what we were like
Once

Remember... Once

Once

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Baby It's You

The Future Of An End

Golden Retriever

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Lyrics:
I got caught hopping trains to the west side of Berlin
Not the kind to run away from a race that I can win
Spent the fare on faces I got tattooed on my skin
I’ll never learn
Like the time I said I love you to a heart I had to break
But you can’t call me romantic if I don’t believe in fate
It’s hard to be the one who fell in love with my mistakes
And that I know
Oh I know

You can’t find me on a map
Cause even I’ve been losing track
And I don’t know where I’ll wake up tomorrow

Ooh
Find me where the sun goes down
Ooh
Find me where the sun goes down

Got way too drunk in Budapest
And I never thought twice
About sharing strangers cigarettes
Another drunken vice
I’d rather wake up feeling dead than have a lifeless night
Of that I know
That I know

I know that I can’t change the past
It’s the only one I know
I can’t say what the future holds but I know I’m not alone
Cause’ all the hell I been through I don’t talk about to show
That I don’t need a place to call home

Save Me

Motherhood

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