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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 457

Hating On A Heartache

Heartbreaker

A blues-influenced soulful track that describes an artist's battle with anxiety in the modern day.

Can't Escape The Blues

Just Wanna Let U Kno

Vocals by Dr Fabola
Production/ Instruments by Ville and Mat Leppanen at The Animal Farm
Music & Lyrics Jools Musik

Jools

Just Wanna Let U Kno feat. Dr Fabola

'So Paranoid' is a celebration of the glorious intoxification of love.
The song encapsulates the feelings of overwhelming claustrophobia that can exist within a fiercely intense relationship


So Paranoid (MASTER).mp3

8Line

For Us By Us is the first single from Webmoms' forthcoming EP of the same name.

Featuring Ghetto Orange & Lottievstheworld
Written and produced by Webmoms
Co-written & additional guitars by Will Eason
Mastered by Glimlip

This is made For Us, by Us!

Webmoms - For Us By Us

“‘Return To The East’ is about going back to your roots, back to simplicity and in turn overcoming doubt, reclaiming personal identity and finding clarity and strength in who you are. 

It was written during a visit to my hometown of Montrose, on the East Coast of Scotland. I was on a bike ride towards Lunan Bay on a sun-drenched day when I entered a deep reflection triggered by the landscape around me. The sea, wild grasses and ploughed fields transported me back to my childhood. I was not long out of university at the time and was trying to find my feet, figure out who I was and what I wanted away from the external noise of city life in Glasgow and the influence of others.”

Return To The East

Written and Produced by Euan Blackman
Mixed by Tarek Musa @ Musa Studios
Mastered by Graeme Lynch @ 209 Mastering
Photo credit: Stu Price
Ripe Records 2024
With funding from Culture Liverpool/SIF

Lyrics:

Quarter life crisis
I don’t wanna grow old anyway
Cut my hair and I stain my shirt
All the darkness blocks the hurt

Is it always like this?
Struggling with the bills and microwave
Crush the bugs beneath my shoe
Make a wish that won’t prove true

‘Cause I am nothing to you
You’re just a child with eyes of blue
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive

Small town with nothing
Working 9-5 no extra pay
But I am proud of where I’m from
A little valley where no-one comes

I used to know her mother
She got forced to move out by the state
Corporate greed with a fancy bow
Take a memory, ruin a show

‘Cause I am nothing to you
You’re just a child with eyes of blue
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive
Oh alive

Oh I am nothing to you
You were my brother I never knew
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive

I am nothing to you
You’re just a child with eyes of blue
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive

NOTHING2U

Made almost entirely using a Roland TR-8S and some entropy strips.

Garlic Soup

a queer love story told through song 🌈

Sally the Monster Slayer

Pain & More

That Was a Fire

Onyx

Watching Wax

Nobodies master 16bit

Mirage

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Hating On A Heartache

Sophie Kilburn

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