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Homester

Bubble

Believe

Johnny

Summertime

I Was Wrong

Statue Still

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LYRICS

Pastel shades in the early heat of May
But all I see is grey
Monochrome scenes feels like it’s all through a screen
But who am I to say what’s real

Is something wrong with me?
Rings like a silent scream 
My sadness is compiling
It’s summer and I don’t feel like smiling

The long days shouldn’t feel this bleak
But it feels like I’m on a losing streak
The smell of suncream and salty air
I feel nothing and I don’t care

Is something wrong with me?
Rings like a silent scream
My sadness is compiling 
It’s summer and I don’t feel like smiling

Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 
Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 
Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 

The long days shouldn’t feel this bleak
But it feels like I’m on a losing streak

SOOT SPRITE - It's Summer and I Don't Feel Like Smiling

6:41 Sapien marks the beginning of an exciting new musical direction for Headshrinkers. Their new single encapsulates the drudgery of modern life, with Garran’s unflinching poetry delivered relentlessly atop a driving, unnearving bassline, coupled with a pounding drum beat and searing guitar lines.

6:41 Sapien

The Luxembourg Signal - 2.22

Nothing More

Fine EP, 9th December 2020 on Big Indie Records.

No Gloom

"Brooklyn's Russian Baths released their debut album back in 2019. A year later, they've returned to album standout "Responder" for an entirely new "Night" version of the song. Where the original is a dark, driving rock song, the new take is haunted, twinkling like the midnight sky, with skittering drums, melancholy piano and an open road's worth of atmosphere." ~ BrooklynVegan

Striving to control others (emotions, desire, behaviors) corrupts. This seems like a chronic symptom of the worst in masculinity.

A responder talks back, but does it listen? Not equipped with the tools to be vulnerable, one voice denies reality, refuses to connect, exerts more control, idolizing restraint ("the way I held every face card") and admonishing its counterpart ("you way you scolded me"). With denial (to self and other), all's bound to collapse. Both know it will happen. Neither wants it.

I guess it's also an exploration of the big 80s breakup love ballads of the Patty Smyth featuring Don Henley variation, but the dark sexual politics of the heartbreak are more explicit. This is the night version.

I was listening to a lot of the xx and Sinead O'Connor when we wrote it and when re-recording it, I was listening to PJ Harvey almost exclusively. I wonder if this bleeds into the atmosphere.
credits
released February 5, 2021
Russian Baths are Jess Rees & Luke Koz

Keys ~ Jade Shames
Drums ~ Daniel Gallardo

Mixed by James Frazee

Russian Baths - "Responder (Night)"

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SOOT SPRITE - It's Summer and I Don't Feel Like Smiling

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