Foreign Substances

Jessies' song from Toy Story 2, I cri evri time

Guitar/vox - Sean
Harmonies - Tamara

Happy Bday 2 mi

When She Loved Me (Sarah McLachlan) - Obscura Hail

Fatal Crash (Let's Forget It Vol.157)

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I'm always looking for something
but I can’t tell if it's real
I'm playing dead to imagine your reaction 
and exactly how you deal

I'm always looking for something
but I can’t tell if it's real
I'm playing dead to imagine your reaction 
and exactly how you deal


light a candle!
wash off the lipstick
it's my instinct
time is tragedy
tip your waitress and thank who made this
tip your waitress and thank who made this

call my friends and my family
while I'm asleep and tell them what went wrong
pick out the pallbearers, the grave robbers
and show them how it's done

I'm always looking for something
but I can’t tell if it's real
I'm playing dead to imagine your reaction 
and exactly how you deal

I'm always looking for something
but I can’t tell if it's real
I'm playing dead to imagine your reaction 

and exactly how you…. deal

I’m always looking for something (always looking for something)
I’m always looking for something (always looking for something)
I’m always looking for something (always looking for something)
I’m always looking for something 


I'm always looking for something
but I can’t tell if it's real
I'm playing dead to imagine your reaction 
and exactly how you deal

I'm always looking for something
but I can’t tell if it's real
I'm playing dead to imagine your reaction 
and exactly how you deal

Playing Dead

LP preorder

Long Play

The Arborist

Frogman (Let's Forget It Vol.282)

Tamara - Celtic Harp
Sean - Classical Guitar

Money

they're coveting the bloodline
boiling in the cast iron
salt scattered round the star sign
to get on my level
make a deal with devil

they're drinking Metamucil
pop pills like its Panadol
burning both ends of the candle
they'd be on my level
if they weren't 6 feet deep, graverobbing for medals

they play detective 
I'm a private island
study the ego
but my I is silent

darkroom with the negatives
developing a thesis
pin your panic on the clothesline

the higher the stakes, the fire can't deny
burning the flesh of this new millennium

they're living in the sunlight
fighting over land rights
morally corrupt, sycophants' for the end times
building hollow monoliths, blind faith weaponized

playing the victim
as an act of violence
I'd let the dust settle
if they weren't 6 ft. deep
graverobbing for medals

 
higher the stakes, the fire can't deny
burning the flesh of this new millennium

pick up the pace, your life is passing by
don't play with your prey or premeditate
stop thinking, sink your teeth in
don't make the dead wait

scraping skin, lymphatic vessels
spirit waiting, gargoyle, Dettol

they're coveting the bloodline
boiling in the cast iron
salt scattered round the star sign
to get on my level
make a deal with devil

Prey

I'll die and you will follow in time
I am happy, please believe me

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you're the flavour of the month
let the flame burn for the moth
you know we can't get enough
we decided that

Moth

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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

etc. 

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The Count

made with a singing bowl and an EP-133, recorded to TP7

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I don't play games anymore

every star
that you're wishin' on
that you're too far from
will take too long

wasted wishes
promises we mourn
will be your song

poor little Silk worm
waiting for the early bird
from dusk till dawn

spilt milk
life of the funeral
stain on the canopy
crying over everything

every star
that you're wishin' on
that you're too far from
will take too long

Silk Worm

Goth (tape demo)

Sick

Sicks

Skinny Dipping

ISBE

Aim for the Head

Photon Man

Castle

along the border life descends, coveted by mass

Free Will

bury your god
we’re making a deal with the devil
to even the odd
put your faith in the animal

trust in fresh bone
in the body it’s grown
chaos is nothing but chance,
blind energy lost in a dance

You don’t have to pick a side
since noone’s right
you we’re taught to accept
what you’re here to defy

you can let the people pray through the week
find a way of turning the other cheek
and Justify their every action
with the teachings of a faction
see them burn by the fires that take them

bury your god
we’re making a deal with the devil
bury your god

you don’t need to believe a lie
or to testify
you belong to this world
and will long after you die

you can let the fuckers prey on the weak
add up all the points in their kill streak
or you can give an ultimatum
allow the time to understand why people hate em,
or burn by the fires that made em

Loose Tooth

Killstreak

Support

reversed C and Amin because I'm a big dummy, but I guess it still works

Casmir Pulaski Day (Sufjan Stevens)

#SCFIRST

'Swear Jar' is the first single from our forthcoming EP 'Zero' out Friday 25 October via Dot Dash / Remote Control

'Swear Jar' is an optimistic tune about the dumb stuff we fight about in the heat of the moment, and having the patience to find out what the other person really means without judging them on the language they used initially, on the premise that hindsight is the mother of foresight.

____

Lyrics:

it helps to swear if you're hurt,
to scream, and kick, and curse
damning the hypocrites and liars
for what they call friendly fire
when it seemes no suture can make it better
just remember...
it helps to swear if you're hurt

even when you've done nothing wrong
the resentment is just as strong
don't punish yourself for painting fiction
for there's more to be seen in a narrowing vision

if you swear I can tell something's beating you down
we'll dig you out from your underground
it's less like a light switch and more like a dimmer
while the anger is fading, the room will get brighter
same with your language, I understand
there's a spectrum between words like fuck and damn
there's a spectrum between words like fuck and damn
there's a spectrum between words like fuck and damn
so remember...
it helps to swear if you're hurt

#indie #poprock #folk #folkpop #australian #newmusic #alternative

Swear Jar

Stream

'Goth' is the brand new single from Obscura Hail, out everywhere now via Remote Control/Dot Dash Records:

Watch the clip for 'Goth': 
https://obscurahail.lnk.to/zero

Directed by Obscura Hail & Jack Stafford / @re._stacks
Edits, Cinematography and Visual Effects by: Michael Roberts / No Mouse Go


Mixing by Sean Conran & Sam Swain
https://www.samswain.com/
Mastering by Sean Conran
https://soundcloud.com/foundlingstudios

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Zero

Goth

own it

I thought I'd share a tune with you that I've loved for a long time. I implore you to look further into the world of the Ink Spots.

We Three (The Ink Spots)

'Martyr' the brand new release from Obscura Hail appears on Remote Control Records compilation 'Bloom & Simmer' available June 26, 2021. 

Mixing by Sean Conran 

Mastering by Matthew Hadley


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Martyr (Remote Control Records 'Bloom & Simmer' Compilation)

‘Doomer’ is the brand new single from Obscura Hail, lifted from their forthcoming EP 'Siren' – out Friday 18 September via Remote Control Records/ Dot Dash.

Presave 'Siren' and watch 'Doomer' here! obscurahail.lnk.to/siren

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Siren

Doomer

Idle Hands

Produced by Obscura Hail
Mixed by Sam Swain (www.samswain.com)
Mastered by Foundling Studios (soundcloud.com/foundlingstudios)

Penumbra

our new album ‘Playing Dead’ is out everywhere now! On tour March/April/May. Stream/Tickets/Order LP below:  https://obscurahail.lnk.to/playingdead-lp


// MGMT/Booking - kieran@sunsetpigrecords.com
// Licensing - FO PAS + BMG - adam@yoursandowls.com.au  
// LBL - @dotdashrecordings

Sean - Geet/Vox/Prod
Tam - Bass/Vox
Kaelan - Kit/Vox

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