this section is breaking my heart right now. so good!

really dig these harmonies. they add a lot of character to the song.

My favourite song, had to hear it the moment I woke up

One of my favourite songs ever!! On my blog via @JamesSpindler

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Art & Alex; (c) Arthur Records, 2009, The Banquet Years Records, 2010
Recorded in Studio 2123

I am Yours

Steve Lamacq chats with Damon about #everydayrobots on BBC Radio 6Music.

Sven

Fell From The Sun - TOY and Jane Weaver

Johnny Marr is set to mark this year’s Record Store Day with a numbered limited edition 7” release of his interpretation of Depeche Mode’s 1993 classic ‘I Feel You’. Marr played the track live during the closing shows of last December’s North American tour. The single’s b-side is a live version of The Smiths’ ‘Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want’. 

I Feel You

Radio On

Buy it Now: https://thebanquetyears.bandcamp.com/track/fall-from-grace-with-the-sea

Fall from Grace with the Sea (05:50) 

Why are you sad? Why are you weeping? 
Has the engine broken down? 
The Owls don't hoot, they only frown. 
I wish upon a solution, but the heavens let us down. 
Where shall we go, where shall we look? 
Is the solution within a book? 
Where is the ladder to the sea? 
Can the uncanny puppet breathe? 
The enemy comes from within. 
The enemy comes from within. 

You've been holding us back for ages, 
You've been taking us for a stroll. 
We've been living without any wages; 
Now we don't know where to go. 

You've been holding us back for ages, 
You've been taking us for a stroll. 
We're like sailors who fall from grace with the sea, 
Now we don't know where to go. 

All us modern kids are wasted; 
Wise old men on mountaintops: 
They are sitting there placated, 
Waiting for the sky to drop. 
None of us know what we're facing, 
The end of all we love; 
The end of all we love. 

You've been holding us back for ages, 
You've been taking us for a stroll; 
We've been living without any wages, 
Now we don't know where to go. 

You've been holding us back for ages, 
You've been taking us for a stroll; 
We're like sailors who fall from grace with the sea, 
And we don't know where to go. 
We're like sailors who fall from grace with the sea, 
Now we don't know where to go.
credits
from Vortex, released 07 February 2015 (Digitally)
Written by A.Schipper 
Mixed by M.Watt 
Performed by A.Schipper (Guitar & Vox), Harrison Lee (Lead Guitar & Backing Vox), M.Watt (Everything else) 
Panther House Studios, Mount Pleasant, London

05 Fall From Grace With The Sea

Buy it Now: https://thebanquetyears.bandcamp.com/track/isolation

Isolation sets me free - 
Isolation helps me breathe. 
Hoping to find a place 
Hoping to find a cave 
In the sea. 
Isolation, with me. 

Isolation sets me free - 
Isolation helps me breathe. 
Hoping to find a place 
Hoping to find a cave 
In the sea. 
Hoping to find a place 
Hoping to find a cave 
Within me.
credits
from Vortex, released 07 February 2015 
Written by A.Schipper 
Produced and composed by The Banquet Years 
Mastered by M.Watt 
Performed by A.Schipper & M.Watt 
Artwork by A.Schipper, adapted from Hiroshi Yamazaki's "The Sun is Longing for the Sea"



08 Isolation

Buy it Now: https://thebanquetyears.bandcamp.com/track/hearts-apart

There ain't no hell too harsh for the purest hearts; 
There ain't no hell too harsh. 
I wanted to tell you everything I knew, 
I wanted to tell you everything I felt, 
I wanted to tell you everything I ever dreamed about - 
So you could tell me, we could be together forever 
So you could tell me, we would never be apart - 
So you would tell me, our hearts would never be apart.
credits
from Vortex, released 07 February 2015 
Written by A.Schipper 
Performed and Produced by A.Schipper and M.Watt 
Mixed and Mastered by M.Watt 
Panther House Studios, Mount Pleasant, London 
Artwork by A.Schipper, adapted from Hiroshi Yamazaki's "The Sun is Longing for the Sea"

09 Hearts Apart

from the album "A Raw Youth" in stores September 18, 2015
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Shave The Pride / They Fuck You Over

Le Butcherettes "They Fuck You Over"

A concerted effort to write a "happy song" in which ragtime and springtime are both explored.

April

Little Choir

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/19/esperanza-spalding-william-blake-the-fly/

CONTEXT / POEM TEXT

Esperanza Spalding performs "The Fly" by William Blake

Singer, Songwriter, & Guitarist for THE BANQUET YEARS', London-acoustic-duo ART&ALEX; This site contains mostly acoustic demos of his songs and some covers. Enjoy.

I am Yours

Art - The Banquet Years

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