Name: Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Man by T.E. Yates
Duration: 2 min 32 s
Description: First full-length studio album by Mancunian singer-songwriter T.E. Yates featuring his full regular band plus additional musicians. Released on Debt Records 26/05/2017. For more information about the album visit www.teyates.com

An Dannsa Dub

SANCTUARY

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Written by Amy Illingworth, Lily Sturt-Bolshaw, Sam Perry & Tom Hammond (Copyright Control. Produced by Lily Sturt-Bolshaw. Mixed by Dave Holmes. Mastered by Stuart Hawkes

Artwork: Adam Illingworth / @ajc_wip

Sirens is a song about the best kinds of friendship. Being able to be there for someone else is sometimes exactly what you need when you're feeling lost or alone.

Sirens

Sit at the window
Watch nothing go by
Hear your voice so far away on the other end of the line
Counting all the times you said to me
We’ll be alright
I could write them down and pin them up
At my bedside

Spinning around like sirens
The people
But all that I hear is silence
You pull me through and talk to me

How did you know that I 
Needed someone to be
There how you know that I 
Need someone to be there for 

Sit at the window
Flashing our lights
Maybe we’re still far away but we know we’re safe in the night 
Wide awake and dreaming of the day
We’ll be alright

How did you know that I 
Needed someone to be
There how you know that I 
Need someone to be there for 

Spinning round this crowd full of sirens
But I’m alone and hearing nothing but silence 
So won’t you fill the walls with the thoughts in your mind
I need someone here to talk to about all this time
That we're spending

Sirens

Rubbing smudges from my eyes
Now things are falling into focus
It's only now I realise
How much I let go by unnoticed

But now, now I see the birds

But somehow I was missing something
A little too self-involved I guess
'Cause I always made a point of looking
But I was too focussed on the emptiness

But now, now I see the space
Now I see the light

Living in a world of pure imagination
As if I were condemned to dream
But I've begun to see that magic 
Ain't nearly as unreal as in might seem

'Cause now, now I see the birds

And I wonder how one comes to see the things they couldn't see before
I was blind but now I see the beauty that I never truly saw 

And so, not another moment wasted
Oh, not another moment more

Now I See the Birds

Collaboration featuring OrangeG, Kev Sharp, Jeff Harrington, Keri Kintner and Kelly Kintner.  Brady Jo on lead guitar and behind the mixer. Mastered by Clint Slate. 

“Smoke and Mud”

All of my life’s been Smoke and Mud
My hands are cut and caked with blood
I’m so tired of these fields, this road, my loneliness 
I see a fire on the river, smoke and mud gone to my head
I see a fire on the river, smoke and mud gone to my head

I was struck blind on the side of the path
I heard a voice say “Why ya’ doin’ that?”
My brother brought me the word in a matter of days
And the scales fell from my eyes straight away
See a fire on the river, smoke and mud cleared away.

I am a conqueror I am devout
I loved some women, I sing, I shout
I pray for the lord, “Lord take my enemies to the grave!”
The lord sees my heart and walks with me the rest of my days
See a fire on the river, smoke and mud cleared away

He was born to be crucified
We were born to die just alike
My eyes wet with tears, lord take this cup from me
I see a fire on the river, smoke and mud coming my way
I see a fire on the river, smoke and mud coming my way


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Smoke & Mud

Music from the forthcoming psychological horror feature film by Trash Arts called Senseless. Read about film here and link to trailer  - https://blazingminds.co.uk/exclusive-new-trailer-art-house-horror-senseless/
Download EP#1 here - https://theretinalcircus.bandcamp.com/album/senseless-the-anxiety-see-saw
Download Ep#2 here - 
https://theretinalcircus.bandcamp.com/album/senseless-spiral-of-spite
All music composed by Craigus Barry  2021
Features - 
Ruth Wilson - Ebow Hammer Dulcimer which I turned into a drone organ
Craigus - everything else

BROKEN SWORD (MIX 2)

First full-length studio album by Mancunian singer-songwriter T.E. Yates featuring his full regular band plus additional musicians. Released on Debt Records 26/05/2017. For more information about the album visit www.teyates.com

Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Man

d'après Polo Burguières, d'après Luther Strong fiddler à Hazard, Kentucky.
DUO VARGOZ
Guillaume Vargoz: harmonica
Robin Vargoz: violon

07 Old Time Reel Hog Went Throught The Fence

King Henry's Reel  >>  Sally Come Down The Middle

Dear friends. Some fruits from the first stages of The Shining Tongues, recorded under quarantine with contributions from various comrades. Photographs of mammals holding mirrors. Infinite love. Will She Sleep features contributions from Alabama 3’s Orlando Harrison, Robin Jax of RobinPlaysChords and Artur Hajdasz of Made In Poland & Tilt.

Will She Sleep

Masters revision #4, received February 10th.

Digital masters, 96khz 24bit.

Where Did I Go

 "Nick Drake's 'Hazy Jane' with a touch of Roy Orbison"

- BBC Radio Manchester -​

"Tom plays mandolin, harmonica, banjo and musical saw for Victorian Dad but when left alone for long enough he will dream up worlds of stirring laments and fever-inspiring aural daubings about everything from trainspotters to doll assembly lines"

​- Debt Records -

Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Man

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