Hello Pike, I love it! Wonderful voice, wonderful music!

All songs written and performed by Annie Booth & Chris McCrory.

Produced, recorded & mixed by Chris McCrory at Hermitage Works Studios, London and in The West End (of Paisley.)
Mastered by Sam Smith at Green Door Studio.
Additional engineering by Nathan Ridley.

Artwork by Caio Wheelhouse.

Single released by Last Night From Glasgow on 2nd October 2020.

Great White Male

Taken from The Doctrine Of Infinite Kindness, out June 26.

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Landkeepers in disused lines 
Are drinking California wine
And new machines 
Wait in the wings. 

Inventions dressed as relief
The valley has become a thief
And now the dream
Is behind a screen.

I woke early to dial into some sacred frequency.
I woke early to dial into some sacred frequency.
I woke early to dial into some sacred frequency.
Before diving into the drudgery
You know I had to go
Before diving into the drudgery
You know I had to go.

Hypnotised by my routine
Curate my security
I dreamed so long (I've been dreaming so long)
That the world was gone.  (Where has the world gone?)

I woke early to dial into some sacred frequency.
I woke early to dial into some sacred frequency.
Before diving into the drudgery
You know I had to go
Before diving into the drudgery
You know I had to go.

Before diving into the drudgery 
Just hold on to the sides
Just hold on to my mind 
Where everything resides
There was violence on both sides
There was chaos in my mind.

I Woke Early To Dial In To Some Sacred Frequency

A song written for my daughter to hold me to account to all the promises I've made her no matter what life distraction may be. Released with Babywoman Records.

Stars shine over you now while you sleeping,
we'll try to do almost everything 
 To make it all sound for you, but

Words can't put you to bed at night 
and words they won't feed you and hold you tight
A saying can’t,
 fill up the cracks in the wall

So call me out on all the things
I promised
 I said I would do,
Tell me straight if there are things 
I swore
I'd make for you

All I want is the best for you
All of my love is yours 

Your laugh can light up the mood in a dark room,
Inspired your father to write a tune,
To tell how he feels about , but

Words they can't put you to bed at night 
and words they won't feed you and hold you tight
A saying can't fill up the cracks in the wall

So call me out on all the things
I promised
 I said I would do,
Tell me straight if there are things 
I swore
I'd make for you

The Wendy house, the bike repairs, the paint on your walls 
All of my love is yours

Call Me Out

Released Date: 23rd October 2020
www.arboristmusic.com

The Mountain Will Come To You

http://penfriend.rocks

I can’t do much of anything when I’m feeling down, let alone write a song about it, but one day in 2019 when I was trudging my way back, I made an attempt to leave a breadcrumb trail for my future self. 

"The Only Way Out Is Through" is my attempt to trap the "shapeless forces" that "pull at me", making them solid by assigning words to them, reducing their power and size to something I might feasibly be able to overcome. The aspirational sentiment that “resistance is crucial, forgiveness is beautiful” is one I find very hard to enact in the moment, but something I can at least continue to strive for. 

Ironically, this song is being released during my lowest fortnight of the last 12 months, so the safety line of lyrics I knotted inside the music is a helpful reminder of brighter days. 

The choice to release music in a universally dark time isn’t one I take lightly. “The Only Way Out Is Through” is the most resonant and useful piece of music I have to offer right now, a rescue raft for whoever needs one. 

That’s what this song is for me.

LYRICS 

Gotta get out of this 
Making a meal of distress 
Fatalistic to the bone 
Thunderclouds in every home 
Gotta get out of this 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart - I never meant to 
The only way out is through 

Gotta get out of this 
Drowning in yesterday's tears 
Intimate conspiracies 
Shapeless forces pull at me 
Gotta get out of this 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart - I never meant to 
The only way out is through 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart 
I never meant to wish on a falling star 
But I won't let it go 

Denial take me away 
Pretend like I'm not the queen of stretching the days 
In all the wrong ways - til they break 
Denial take me away 
I crave your sweet mistakes but 
Resistance is crucial 
Forgiveness is beautiful 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart - I never meant to 
The only way out is through

CREDITS
released September 8, 2020 
Written, produced, performed and engineered by Laura Kidd. Mixed by Dan Austin. Drums by Max Saidi.

The Only Way Out Is Through

Dressed up in their finery they go, they know that nothing can be changed.
The lives they led were ordinary they know, they go with numbers for a name.
The kettle’s boiled (now, here they come) and the cups are drained (they cannot run).
Their faces, know no tears. Their faces, know no fear.

They line up waiting silently, behold, the cold, but nothing can be changed.
The monsters once were just like they, the cold, behold, with numbers for a name.
The light, it looms (an iron gun) so tantalising (but it’s yet to come).
Their faces, show no tears. Their faces, white with fear,

He takes them gently, subtly, they’re torn, the thorn, but nothing can be changed.
A flower thread right through their hearts, the thorn, they’re torn, with numbers for a name.
With tender fingers (tender fist) he silences them (with his gift).
His face, shows no tears at their faces white with fear.

The last one enters the room of bone. Se doesn’t turn away or fear, he won’t forget her, not for years.
He waits, a flower in his palm. The last she sees his frozen eyes, the last she hears her silent cries.

Dressed up in her finery, she goes, she knows that nothing can be changed.
She though she was just ordinary, but no, she goes

and nothing can be changed.

Dressed Up In Their Finery

Curtain Call

Honey

Static in Verona is the work of Chicago musician Rob Merz, creating dreamy power pop weaved in an eclectic mixture of experimental, electronic and rock. A towering mass of sound built around uplifting, emotionally powerful choruses and epic arrangements.

All Static in Verona's music is available as a name-your-price (even free) downloads on Bandcamp at http://staticinverona.bandcamp.com and on all streaming and download platforms.

Darken Your Door

Another Day, Another Apology

I won’t lie - I wanted to make this quickly. I didn’t want to spend weeks or months agonising over choices that I only I would ever know I’d made. I didn’t want to allow my ego to get in the way of what I had created. I wanted to make it and then respect what I had made.

And so, this is an album that was recorded in an afternoon in January (with the exception of one track which was recorded in May). It is imperfect. You can hear my chair creak; you can hear the world outside my window; you can hear my dog move in his bed; you can hear my daughter making dinner. 

It is what it is: a moment captured in zeros and ones via two microphones. Some of these tracks are several years old, some are new compositions, and some have only ever been played at the moment they were recorded for this album.

So often I stress and worry about each and every little thing but there are many moments when I play guitar that all that worry leaves me; I am in and of the moment. In contrast to when I sing a song, playing instrumental music allows me in some way to bypass the inner critic, the internal filter that anticipates and then checks an upcoming mistake or emotional lapse. 

Perhaps it is because the voice is so personal, such an expression of our physical self, that I cannot turn off this filter, there must exist a barrier between my thought and the sound. Playing instrumental music renders this barrier transparent, invisible, vanished.

And so here it is, Moment.

Moment is available from https://benmorganbrown.bandcamp.com/album/moment with a wider digital and streaming release coming in March.

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Recorded 21/01/21 by Ben Morgan-Brown, except Scarborough Fair recorded 15/05/20.
Mixed & mastered by Ben Morgan-Brown

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