MSKN - She's Pulling Me Under

“Down and Sorry”

You never said goodbye…
I never said enough…

Verse

I wear regret like it’s stitched in my skin
Every word I said, now cuts from within
You were the calm in my chaos and fire
But I burned it down, lit by my own desire

Pre-Chorus

Tell me—
Would you take me back if I bled the truth?
If I tore myself down, would I be enough for you?

Chorus

I’m down and sorry (clean screamed)
Buried deep in what I’ve done
Tried to outrun the pain, but it always won
I’m down and sorry
And it’s killing me, I’m the broken one

Verse

You warned me love ain’t a game to play
But I gambled it all and threw it away
Now I’m choking on the silence you left
Every memory’s a nail in my chest

Chorus

I’m down and sorry
Buried deep in what I’ve done
Tried to outrun the pain, but it always won
I’m down and sorry
And it’s killing me, I’m the broken one

Bridge

Tear me apart—if it brings you peace
Rip my name from your history
I see it now—I was blind and cruel
You were love, and I was the fool

Final Chorus 

I’m down and sorry
No redemption left in me
But if I had one chance, I’d set you free
I’m down and sorry
And I’d give it all just to hear you breathe…

Outro

I’m still calling your name…
but it’s just me in the silence…

Down And Sorry

Echoes ripping open my mind

The Quiet Barber, first album, on vinyl here: https://elasticstage.com/tqb

Above The Lake

Part 2 of the final track of Then She Reaches For The Gun's 2nd Album
released in Jan 2025 - nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/i-am…m-with-you.

Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 by Mat Ward. At its essence is sound collage, Ward invites musicians, sound artists, poets and anyone interested to send him files to be used, abused and showcased ‘as suggested by the work’. They are not always musical but field recordings, spoken word, engine noises and drunken rants. Animals participate a lot too! The raw material is arranged with one phrase asking for the next in an alchemical and intuitive process that will most often feature dozens of tracks weaving in and out of each other, colliding, harmonising, arguing and laughing along the way.

Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenochrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.The work also features fragmented story telling with the human voice (in many languages) appearing unannounced throughout the tracks offering up snippets of thoughts, conversations, jokes and existential angst. The absurdity of humanities desperate claim to have any real understanding of its place in the universe is revealed through the recorded follies and genuine emotions of the artists. The project is a celebration of chance, diversity and community. It pays homage to all musical tastes and genres whilst maintaining a sense of humour and irreverence that is needed to stay sane in the climate of 21st Century contemporary culture.

Then She Reaches For The Gun is

Humans

Adam Meredith - Ford XD with XF front mods/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electronica/Field Recording/Voice
Andrew Harper - Field Recordings
Angostura Elwar - 2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ariad Music - Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar/Robot Voices
Banalytic - Experimental Electronics
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings/Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dan Hewins - Bass Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby - Keyboard/Piano/Voice
Dylan Banks - Intonarumori/Voice
Frank Wilke - French Horn/Trombone/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Drum programming/Electric Guitar/Joyous Pop Punk
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar/Skyhooks
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Drums/Electric Guitar/Synth
Johnny Python- Bass Guitar/Drum Programming/Electric Guitar/Text/Voice
JZsuperstar - Electric Guitar/Field Recordings/Keyboards
Lady ElectroTrek - Organ
Libby Laksmi - Jazzy Loops/Synth Bass
Loop(c)y - Electric Guitar
Malo Bernard-O’Meara - Drums
Maxx Black - Guitar/Ukulele
Minimal Drone Girl - Cat Wrangling/Field Recordings
Oberlin - Eurorack/Piano
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Keyboards/Phat Electro Bass
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Raul Mainer - DAW Programming/Heavy Metal
Robert Jefferson - Akai Rhythm wolf/GakkenSX-150 ll/Korg Kaosilator/Percussion
Rosin Dust - Violin/Field Recordings
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Beats/Electronica
Stan Magendanz - Electronica
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Clarinet/Flute/Saxophones
Timothy Korstad - Demons/Electronica
Thomas Bergheim - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Electronica/Processed Organ/Text
Tuonela - Demons/Electronica
Vartch - Drones/Things/Trousers (not T-shirts)/Voice
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Ms Pacman
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar/Electronica
Wivresse - Electronica/Voice
Zanshin - Acoustic and Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Bass Guitar/Double Bass/Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Marimba/Noise/Percussion/Piano

Dogs
Boogie
Brophy
Buddy
Hancho
Jack
Momo
Neska
Poldo
Senna
Shyamsundara
Star
Oily (cat)
And many cows from Milis, Sardinia

Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs in a Cheap Motel in Adelaide Part 2 (Yahtzee with Mackerel on the Bed Mix)

The song continues the trend of naming songs after planets in the solar system, this one is Mercury, the lyrics play on ironic and satirical elements to represent the theatricality and spectacularization of current politics.

Mercury

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0b2Doe2VErlzAdQ-Xz21yIncQ#VID_20251214_141820

I’d call you home from that eternal sleep

Shadows in My Veins

Instrumental hump day with another Chiptune (…and yeah, we know, boring, but chill, it’s just for Christmas 😆)! This time it’s one of our Christmas songs released exactly a year ago (https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/santa-the-gunslinger). Santa gets downgraded from gunslinger to… well, you decide what chipslinger means (..and let us know in the comments)! 😂
Enjoy… if you can handle us!!! 😅

👾All our Chiptune tracks are here: soundcloud.com/beatingedge/sets/8-bit-vibes
©2025 Beating Edge


Santa the Chipslinger (Instrumental - Chiptune)

Santa The Chipslinger (Instrumental - Chiptune)

Built From Anger

🎵 Title: “The Fear of Men” 

Verse 1
We start with fear, we end in shame,
Afraid of life, we play the game.
The fear of pain, the fear to die,
It keeps us low, it kills the sky.

Pre-Chorus
We bow to kings, we hide our eyes,
And call this prison “life.”

Chorus (repetitive & powerful)
Fear made us slaves!
Fear made us slaves!
We bow our heads, obey the chains,
And live this life of loss and pain!
Fear made us slaves!
Fear made us slaves!

(SOLO)

Bridge
But what if we rise, what if we see,
The truth that sets us free?

Final Chorus (emotional reprise)
Fear made us slaves!
Fear made us slaves!
But now we break the chains...
We rise again!

Echoes ripping open my mind

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