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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 340

You're Not The Freaks

Lyrics:

Quintessential English sounds awake a reverential English town
Put down your bags, put on your shoes, 
We’re going underground.
To where the river flows and where the heartbeat gets a little bit louder. 

Cause I am calling from a pay-phone, asking ‘what do you believe?’
Is that the way the compass points or is it the way it’s been perceived?
Save up your pennies, though talk is cheap 
And your credit card keeps whispering: ‘Ask and you shall receive’.

You should be afraid of the price of doubt,
The river’s running through but it’s not running out. 
Sometimes you might feel like you’re stuck in a cage
Don’t wait for the dust to settle, don’t wait for the tide to change.

We do pirouettes with promises and lie about our weaknesses
The traffic flows, the feeling grows, but what’s lost has now been found 
And as you awake to find a city made of glass
A universe indifferent to your culture or your class
Step away, step away and put away that mask.

Cause I am calling from a pay-phone, asking ‘what do you believe?’
Is that the way the compass points or is it the way it’s been perceived?
Save up your pennies, though talk is cheap 
And your credit card keeps whispering: ‘Ask and you shall receive’.

Cause you should be afraid of the price of doubt,
The river’s running through but it’s not running out. 
Sometimes you might feel like you’re stuck in a cage
Don’t wait for the dust to settle, don’t wait for the tide to change.

The Price of Doubt

Unknown Album (17/10/2007 15:03:31)

Never Hide Behind Stone

This is a track from my debut ep 'EASYAS...[growing up] out on Oct 16th.

Half Of It

PSYCHO COMEDY - PICK ME UP

Sophomooreik returns with EASYAS…[letting go], his third EP showcasing his authentic storytelling and unique mix of trap, electronica and alternative hip-hop. 

Sophomooreik, whose real name is Liam Moore, is firmly establishing himself as a shrewd and perceptive storyteller, using his own experiences, and those of the people around him, to construct a semi-fictional, semi-autobiographical yet always authentic narrative that develops over each track. 

24-year-old Moore grew up with an appetite for discovering and exploring new music and would spend hours rummaging in HMV. This was where he discovered Eminem and became drawn to rap. At just 10 years old Moore was challenging himself and his peers to write verses on beats, they would head home after school and return the next day to perform what they had created. It was at this very young age when Moore became aware of the depth of music, how in addition to the melodic aspect of the music there were rhyme schemes. He spent his time studying and analysing the ways in which words were put together and this became his main focus, inspiring him to take music more seriously. “It was the linguistics of it all that caught me; the rhyming was technical and I never wanted to just say things for the sake of the rhyme, it was deeper than that”. 

The NW Londoner set his sights on music, and as he began forming connections with producers, his sound developed. He now works closely with producer Beecher and together they create dark, trap sounding beats that tap into more melodic and harmonious sounding tracks. This collaboration allows his lyrics to dictate the flow. “I work out what I want to say first and then I look into the beats, I want my lyrics to do all the work and lead the music, not the other way around,” Sophomooreik states, and he stays true to his word.

Half Of It

Sophomooreik [so-foe-more-ik]