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Brighton shoegaze luminaries Air Formation return on … with ‘Were We Ever Here’, their first new material since reforming in 2014. Loosely based around the group of songs they were working on in 2010 before their split, the band worked on the EP in secret, stating “We thought it would be a more exciting, organic, experience if we just got on with it un-announced and released it as fast as we could.”

Air Formation formed in 2000, long before their spiritual forebears Slowdive and Loop were once again considered acceptable influences. Since signing to Club AC30, long a bastion of the modern shoegaze sound, in 2005, the band gained a devoted following and for albums such as 2007’s Daylight Storms (which was mastered by alternative rock legend Kramer) and their final LP, Nothing To Wish For (Nothing to Lose), in 2010. Their incendiary live show also saw them share stages with the likes of Vessels and Efterklang.

Ten years on from their first release for Club AC30, the 57 Octaves Below EP, the four songs on ‘Were We Ever Here’ cover every corner of Air Formation’s sound, whilst adding surprising new touches. The swathes of feedback and distortion are all present and correct, along with swooping New Order synths. Slow-building opener ‘I Could Stay’ comes to life in a swooning burst of fuzzed-up bass and hyperactive Ride-like drums. Closing track ‘The Wasted Days’ takes the entire EP into another gear, shifting from kinetic drone-pop to expansive post-rock territory, bringing this record to a close in a shower of noise.

Say the band themselves: “We really feel 'Were We Ever Here' showcases the best of Air Formation, but then takes it on a different path to any of the music has come before.” While their break-up in 2011 involved no fireworks or fistfights, the band do admit that “what once felt effortless and exciting was becoming hard to hold together, and that is no way to make music.” ‘Were We Ever Here’ suggests that the band’s spark has returned. With a vengeance.

Track list: I Could Stay / Last Resolve / On the Floor / The Wasted Days

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Air Formation - The Wasted Days

Laurel - Next Time

8. Ep 4 Ending

lyrics:

Run through snowy parking lots last winter,
In shopping carts-
back when the times were simpler.
You might think that I’m apathetic, 
How many years have passed?
and all those fears, they last. 

Grain and polaroids, obscure aesthetics,
and nothing really matters-
cause it’s all poetic.
The light flickered off for a minute.
It’ll fix itself right?
Yeah it always does. 
Goodnight-

To all of the late black market ventures,
and going to the park- 
dancing on the benches.
The lush green leaves of spring. 
It’s getting cold again,
but it’s not even 3 A. M.

Our hearts don’t warm like cinder,
that’s why we gotta stay indoors 

I’m not going home till the morning.
(all the preachers and the products,
they all want me to see them)
I’m not going home till the morning.
(and the boys that said they love us,
the call went out to leave them) 

I’m not going home till the morning.
(this routine is getting tired now,
it’s far too much commitment)
we can’t remember who we are now,
time’s not so consistent.

But most of all I want it back,
back when we cared 
and when we sat 
under the trees greener than me 
and talked bout nothing we were free.

We've undergone some minor change
but we can't leave we're underage 
and I still want to watch the stars 
and think about the passing cars.

Our hearts don’t warm like cinder,
that’s why we gotta stay indoors 

I’m not going home till the morning.
(all the preachers and the products,
they all want me to see them)
I’m not going home till the morning.
(and the boys that said they love us,
the call went out to leave them) 

I’m not going home till the morning.
(this routine is getting tired now,
it’s far too much commitment)
we can’t remember who we are now,
time’s not so consistent.

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Run and Hide (feat. Jamie David)

The Kamiga Bros.

'I'm Yohan Blake' is available on 
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LYRICS:

Lost i am lost 
In a little place 
With the human race 
One of them, said to me. 
have you seen my wife, 
I'm looking for my life 

I'm Johan Blake, 
Always second place. 
second bloody place. 
Mr Bolt said to me 
'its time to get some moves 
you need a funky groove 

I am a man 
My mother told me so 
and now i've got to go
Got to find me a face 
Have you seen my wife 
I'm looking for my life 



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I'm Yohan Blake

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