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Eat This Music (16 October 2019)

Said a little too much
Or maybe not enough to keep the light on
So watch me flicker and fade away
Into the dark, to slip away from you

You tear me open
I’ll try not to dwell on you
But you tear me open
Just for once I wish I could forget

Letting you go would be such a blessing
Forget it it’s over don’t want you anymore
Head in the clouds and I’m letting it sink in
This love was all just wishful thinking

Don’t tell me I can’t do anything
Without at least a little taste of it

Just when I think I’m cominG up
I always fall back down
Torture my limit
Drink myself to the ground
I need a little less, such a stupid mess
But I’m filling up to get over you

Falling down and spinning round again
Again my body feels so heavy

I think I’m getting better I’m trying all the time
You’re such a heavy burden on my mind

Dwell

Timeless

Seeker

I’ve Got Reason

PREMIERE OF 'know me better' on Nylon SEPT 12! Take a peep here: https://nylon.com/leah-capelle-know-me-better

Performed by:
Leah Capelle - Lead Vocals, Guitar (Electric,) Bass (Electric), Bass (Synth,) Additional Synthesizer, Additional Percussion, Background Vocals
Hayley Brownell - Drums, Drum Programming, Additional Bass (Synth), Percussion, Synthesizer
Jay Marcovitz - Drum programming, Additional Synthesizer, Additional Percussion, Additional Guitar (Electric)

Produced and Engineered by: Jay Marcovitz
Additional Production: Leah Capelle and Hayley Brownell
Mixed by: Jay Marcovitz
Digital Editing by: Jay Marcovitz and Tony Ni Evans
Recorded at: Igloo Music
Mastered by: Howie Weinberg Mastering
Single Art: Skylar Brunzell (Photograph,) Didier Konings (Artwork,) Leah Capelle (Art Direction)

Lyrics:
All the plants are dying, I cannot let them grow
‘Cause they remind me that you said you had to go
Don’t you think it’s funny that I haven’t left the house 
Though this place is soaked in memories 
and I cannot get them out?

I just called to tell you that you’ve been on my mind
That I’m trying to be strong while you’re leaving me behind
But all you had to say was you “need more time
That we cannot be friends, you’re not ready to be fine”

So why is your name still showing up on my phone,
I thought you want to be alone?

I’ll give you what you want
I’ll give you what you want but
You should know me better
You think it won’t hurt
You think this won’t hurt but
You should know me better

Fill up with distractions so you don’t have to feel 
So the life we built together, none of it was real
Push your pain down in a bottle, save it for a night
For when you start to realize that I might have been right

I know this will hit like a shot to the chest 
but you don’t miss me yet

I’ll give you what you want
I’ll give you what you want but
You should know me better
You think it won’t hurt
You think this won’t hurt but
You should know me better
Don’t try to act like this is not a death
I’m losing track of how this’ll end
I’ll give you what you want
I’ll give you what you want but
You should know me better

I let this go too far
The distance in who we are
You should know me
You should know me
I put you down, ran my mouth
Only to see it now
You don’t know me
I don’t know you
You should know me
You should know me

I’ll give you what you want
I’ll give you what you want but
You should know me better
You think it won’t hurt
You think this won’t hurt but
You should know me better
Don’t try to act like this is not a death
I’m losing track of how this’ll end
I’ll give you what you want
I’ll give you what you want but
You should know me better

About this song:
"know me better" is a break-up song for the hurting, for those trying to put the pieces back together, and for those who might need to just dance-cry the pain away. 

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know me better

One thing you won’t be able to avoid on Bambara’s Stray is death. It’s everywhere and inescapable, abstract and personified  – perhaps the key to the whole record. Death, however, won’t be the first thing that strikes you about the group’s fourth – and greatest – album to date. That instead will be its pulverising soundscape; by turns, vast, atmospheric, cool, broiling and at times – on stand out tracks like “Sing Me To The Street” and “Serafina” – simply overwhelming
 
Bambara – twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh, singer/guitarist and drummer respectively, and bassist William Brookshire – have been evolving their midnight-black noise into something more subtle and expansive ever since the release of their 2013 debut Dreamviolence. That process greatly accelerated on 2018’s Shadow On Everything, their first on New York’s Wharf Cat Records and  a huge stride forward for the band both lyrically and sonically. 
 
The album was rapturously received by the press, listeners and their peers. NPR called it a “mesmerising...western, gothic opus,” Bandcamp called the "horror-house rampage" "one of the year's most gripping listens," and Alexis Marshall of Daughters named it his “favorite record of 2018.”  Shadow also garnered much acclaim on the other side of the Atlantic. Influential British 6Music DJ Steve Lamacq, dubbed them the best band of 2019’s SXSW, and Joe Talbot of the UK band IDLES said, "The best thing I heard last year was easily Bambara and their album Shadow On Everything."  The question was, though, how to follow it?
 
To start, the band did what they always do: they locked themselves in their windowless Brooklyn basement to write. Decisions were made early on to try and experiment with new instrumentation and song structures, even if the resulting compositions would force the band to adapt their storied live set, known for its tenacity and technical prowess. Throughout the songwriting process, the band pulled from their deep well of creative references, drawing on the likes of Leonard Cohen, Ennio Morricone, Sade, classic French noir L’Ascenseur Pour L’Echafraud, as well as Southern Gothic stalwarts Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.
 
Once the building blocks were set in place, they met with producer Drew Vandenberg, who mixed Shadow On Everything, in Athens, GA to record the foundation of Stray. After recruiting friends Adam Markiewicz (The Dreebs) on violin, Sean Smith (Klavenauts) on trumpet and a crucial blend of backing vocals by Drew Citron (Public Practice) and Anina Ivry-Block (Palberta), Bambara convened in a remote cabin in rural Georgia, where Reid laid down his vocals.
 
The finished product represents both the band's most experimental and accessible work to date. The addition of Citron and Ivory-Block’s vocals create a hauntingly beautiful contrast to Bateh’s commanding  baritone on tracks like “Sing Me to the Street”, “Death Croons” and “Stay Cruel," while the Dick Dale inspired guitar riffs on “Serafina” and "Heat Lightning" and the call-and-response choruses throughout the album showcase Bambara’s ability to write songs that immediately demand repeat listens.
 
While the music itself is evocative and propulsive, a fever dream all of its own, the lyrical content pushes the record even further into its own darkly thrilling realm. If the songs on Shadow On Everything were like chapters in a novel, then this time they’re short stories. Short stories connected by death and its effect on the characters in contact with it. “Death is what you make it” runs a lyric in “Sweat,” a line which may very well be the thread  that ties  these stories together.

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Bambara - Serafina (from the 'Stray' album out 2/14)

Lie Out Loud

Go Out With You

Taken from the new album 'Thumb World', due February 21, 2020 
Available to pre order now from https://fire-records.lnk.to/PT_ThumbWorld

Pictish Trail live:
11 Oct: Glorious Traces, The Glad Café Glasgow, UK
12 Oct: Bellfield Hall, Portobello, Edinburgh
13 Oct: The Spree Festival, The Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley, UK
03 Nov: Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK w/ Steve Mason
04 Nov: Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK w/ Steve Mason
05 Nov: Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester, UK w/ Steve Mason
06 Nov: Gloucester Guildhall, Gloucester, UK w/ Steve Mason
07 Nov: Rhos Yr Hafod, Llanon, UK
08 Nov: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK w/ Steve Mason
09 Nov: O2 Academy, Leicester, UK w/ Steve Mason
10 Nov: Crescent Community Venue, York, UK w/ Steve Mason
12 Nov: The Old Fire Station, Carlisle, UK w/ Steve Mason
13 Nov: Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool, UK w/ Steve Mason
14 Nov: Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK w/ Steve Mason
17 Nov: Sub89, Reading, UK w/ Steve Mason
18 Nov: The Boileroom, Guildford, UK w/ Steve Mason
19 Nov: The Loft, Southampton, UK w/ Steve Mason
24 Nov: Fat Sam's, Dundee, UK w/ Steve Mason
25 Nov: La Belle Angele, Edinburgh, UK w/ Steve Mason
27 Nov: Whelan's, Dublin, UK w/ Steve Mason
28 Nov: Empire Music Hall, Belfast, UK w/ Steve Mason
06 Dec: Old Cinema Laundrette, Durham, UK (Micro-Edition™)
08 Dec: South Street, Reading, UK (Micro-Edition™)
09 Dec: Café Totem, Sheffield, UK (Micro-Edition™)
10 Dec: Oxford, The Wheatsheaf, Oxford, UK (Micro-Edition™)
11 Dec: Prince Albert, Stroud, UK (Micro-Edition™)
13 Dec: Ramsgate Music Hall, Ramsgate, UK (Micro-Edition™)
14 Dec: Lost Map Xmas Showcase, Daylight Music, Union Chapel, London, UK (Micro-Edition™)
14 Dec: Outer Limits Showcase, Studio 9294, London, UK (Micro-Edition™)
15 Dec: Lost Xmas Showcase, The Lexington, London, UK (Micro-Edition™)
17 Jan: Celtic Connections, Saint Lukes, Glasgow, UK

Fire Records announce brand new material from Johnny Lynch, AKA Isle-of-Eigg dwelling electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder Pictish Trail. Kaleidoscopically out-of-this-world ode to heavenly surrender ‘Slow Memories’ accompanied by a stunning animated video by renowned Scottish designer Swatpaz (Davey Ferguson) – is the first track to be previewed from Johnny’s fourth album Thumb World, which is due for release on Fire Records on February 21, 2020. Four years in the making, Thumb World is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed Scottish Album of the Year Award public vote winner Future Echoes. Pictish Trail is on tour throughout November supporting Steve Mason.

Pictish Trail - Slow Memories

Track 3 of 4 from the EP, "As The Sun Hits (Vol. 1)"

Thanks to @lowlypalace for the premiere

As the Sun Hits Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2e9zwaWvmKVdqOqkg7NsTe?si=QslEqoARSBus6RE1n7qbEw

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Miss You

2 Weeks To 4 Months

Routine Death - Tubeway Revolution

Paradise

A collaboration with BBC R1 / 6Music celebrated vocalist Ila (Tallsaint / Loux), ‘Let Love Be’ is a dizzying assault on the senses with Chemical Brothers-esque electro-clash beats.   Harking right back to the genesis of the band, the new track is looped from beats and melodies forged during the very first Hello Cosmos sessions and before they’d even settled on a name or being more than a studio experiment for fun.

“The song title of ‘Let Love Be…’ was originally written on honeymoon about my better half, Dr Roxy” says Ben, “but it seems to have taken on a potent message in the current climate. The guest vocal is by Jordan Hodson, it’s our first time working together but hopefully not the last. She has a really versatile range which is rare to find.”

Hauling together its constituent parts, from Ben’s repetitive vocal line to the Weatherall-wavelength riding sonics, Cosmos comrade Joe Thompson welded each into the chugging juggernaut we hear today. With a final fit-out at the legendary Greenmount studios, the finished version is a mesmeric 5+ minute wig-out which I can be heard in its full glory on a new EP entitled: ‘Let Love Be the Island Upon Which We Stand’ set for release this Winter.

Immediately following the band’s ‘Run For President’ EP (released Summer 2019), the upcoming 4-track release will include new material ‘Let Love Be…’ and ‘Shores Of Mankind’, plus two stimulating remixes courtesy of Joe Thompson and Richard Norris (Beyond the Wizards Sleeve, Circle Sky). It takes a more electronic footing than the previous release but blisters with the same melting-pot of influences approach that’s defined their style.

With a message of hope, love and unity underlying the upcoming EP, in something of an act of karma Hello Cosmos will be releasing the EP’s title track as a single on Oct 31st - a day many are anticipating as one of deep divisions. On the same evening as the record’s release, the band will be inviting you join them at a special gig at Manchester’s Soup Kitchen to launch the forth coming EP; a night of resilience and rock’n’roll to ride through these troubled times.

LET LOVE BE THE ISLAND UPON WHICH WE STAND

NEWCASTLE. 
New EP 'Second Skin' out now!

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