Charming indie pop.  Like it a lot.  Added to my May 21 Freak Radio playlist

May 21 Freak Radio playlist

I dabble with the gross and obscene
I'm hidden and I'm rarely seen for what I am
I wrote a story so unclean
There was nothing I really mean
Oh no I'm self-destruct

CHORUS
Cuz I'm a dickhead
Well that's what she said
She said or maybe thought?
Like my rapport
I'm not always that self-aware
Cuz I'm a dickhead
Well that's what she said
She said or maybe thought?
Its made me fraught
There's something there!
Well I need fresh air!

I'm barely conscious and don't detect
When my brain is clearly disconnected (duh duh duh)
I take my troubles and deflect
I could not bare what I could wreck
On no I'm self-destruct

CHORUS

I’m a Dickhead

I've been scarcely giving eye contact
They didn't say much at all
I'm somewhat surprised the green is packed
The snob in me is appalled 

So blow the pipes the cob-webs left
Reminders we don't move
The sound waves leave my mind bereft
Its more a drone than groove

CHORUS
There's a tear formed in my eye
Memories returning
Just ignore the passer-by

I'm waving with a mild success
A sign language I learnt
The bridge is just a charcoaled mess
You can't burn what has been burnt

CHORUS

Passer-by

Christian Moll - Synth / Bass / Drums https://soundcloud.com/christianmoll
Brian Butts - Guitar

Cosmopticon

Christian Moll | Brian Butts - Voltaic Horizons

Are You Real

Sister Flux

The first single and last track from 'Abandonware,' the ambitious new album by Ryan Newmyer/Jen Goma of A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Kurt Feldman of Ice Choir.

pre-order now at https://romanaclef.bandcamp.com/

These games we play
Are another way
To redefine the pleasure
Of sign and decay

Has that romantic streak marbled your heart?
Spend all your days picking up pieces
Of a life, that by all rights hasn’t fallen apart

Do you know what I mean?
What power gives my words meaning?

You told me, long ago, that your friends were your family
Now that you are angry with them all the time
I guess they really are

Disappointed, or Relieved?
Such easy cruelty
I can’t believe you'd be so naive

Any bond can be poisoned, 
If you’re to be believed

Despite what people say
Ours is no heroic act

Love and Decay
Yet we live against the day

Grow up and apart
Grow old and get smart
From the ghosts that share your name
Hone your art

Do you still live like you did?
Takeout five nights in a row
Laundry’s at the wash and fold
And good god, you’re looking old!

Over your shoulder
At a world getting older
What can we bring?
We still haven’t learned a thing!

Roman à Clef - Abandonware (Josh And Jer)

Vocals, Lyrics, Darbuka, Brushes, Bassbeat, Recording & Mixing by Neli CoKo.  This song was composed to be part of that playlist: https://soundcloud.com/silent-zen/sets/climate-change
no loops, unmastered

Bremen, Germany, November2016, All Rights Reserved

earthpicture by http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79803

Neli CoKo - Forgiveness

All songs written and recorded by Phantom Handshakes
Mastered by Carl Saff
'I Worried' lyrics taken from the poem by Mary Oliver

For The Hills

Phantom Handshakes is a lo-fi, dream pop collaboration between Federica Tassano and Matt Sklar.

Prolific musician, author, photographer and oddity.  With influences ranging from the lofi pop of Guided by Voices, the gothic melodrama of Nick Cave, the glam of Bowie and the nakedness of Iggy Pop - this is Marc Freak.  Former frontman of Freak Circus and Dead Joe.  An experiment in DIY and lofi.  The odd bum note here, the even odder bum note there.  But with art do we care?

For The Hills

Phantom Handshakes

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