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When you were little did you ever have a terrifyingly real irrational fear?
Something that your young fertile imagination had conjured up in the dark at night.

It could have started with a knock on the window during a windy evening, or a creaky floorboard from outside your door, which then manifested itself as something so much more.

Something that would haunt your thoughts and the very mention of it would send you into a panic.

Well, Garland from the Helmholtz Resonators was absolutely petrified of a certain confectionary mascot.....

This new song explains how a seemingly innocent and happy character that was created to spread joy turned into his worst nightmare

BERTIE B'STARD

The Helmholtz Resonators vs ARTHR
Hold My Hand Very Tightly (Very Tightly) - ARTHR REMIX

JUNE 25TH 2021

A few months back the Helmholtz Resonators released their cover version of a long lost 80s pop song they found on a computer magazine cover tape.
It was a typically 80s flavoured positive pop song inspired by a certain Rick Astley.

ARTHR has taken the track and remixed it into a paranoid dark goth electro monster

Hold My Hand Very Tightly (Very Tightly) Arthr REMIX

SUMMER IS HERE!!!

To celebrate this momentous occasion TOE has remixed the Helmholtz Resonators' track Sunshine into a good times funky samba slice of sweetness

Sunshine Mamma Samba - TOE Remix

Eye of the Triangle

Automaton - TOE Remix

I'm Sorry Wilson............

The Rain

NEW SINGLE – ‘PSYCHO PTEROSAUR’
RELEASED MAY 24TH 2019

Following on from the health anxiety nightmares of ‘Pain in My Side’, Time Dilation Unit bring you another slice of 21st Century angst in this tale of social media psychosis with new single ‘Psycho Pterosaur’.

It's a very competitive world out there and social media is taking over people's lives.  Adding extra pressure to perform for a voyeuristic society that barely actually communicates with one another in the real world.

It creates an 'always-on' environment. It becomes addictive. The need to get more followers and likes, the yearning for attention. Add this to an already intense desire to climb social and professional ladders and you create a monster. A desperate abomination that will do anything and everything to get to the top. A Psycho Pterosaur....

Time Dilation Unit's new song forewarns of one such monster. One who is so blinded by the need to get attention that it literally tears itself and other people apart in the process.

So high on cortisol, it is turning into a nervous, over-stressed, psychotic wreck. A Psycho Pterosaur..... perhaps one should give Instagram a break for a few days?….

www.timedilationunit.com
timedilationunit@gmail.com

PSYCHO PTEROSAUR

VULCAN STUDIOS 13.4.19

Ferryman

Written by Joseph Craven & Bethan Smith (2019)
Vocals: Bethan Smith 
Guitars: RMZ
Production & Programming: Joseph Craven

Ghosting (feat. Bethan Smith)

'The Lonely Sky' is the epic closing track of our third album, 'Dust'. It is an expression of the Humanist impulse to find meaning where no meaning ultimately exists, unless we create it.

THE LONELY SKY

As in the myth of Moriah, a father takes his son
Along a winding cliff where once walked another one
Stoic in his sacrifice, the boy cries out “why, why, why?”
The wind takes the ashes, but there is no reply

I wrestled with my conscience on a bench on Peniel Hill
It could not get the best of me, it could not break my will
Instead it broke my silence, instead it touched a nerve
I cried like a broken man, I wailed without reserve.

There is nothing out there I believe
It is our lonely sky, our lonely sky
Alone in our ecstasy and grief
Below a lonely sky, our lonely sky

When I came to know myself, there was a famine in this land
But plentiful above were stars, peppered like grains of sand
Near Bethel we scattered you like the dust of the earth
I stood there like the stone that marked the place of my birth

There is nothing out there I believe
It is our lonely sky, our lonely sky
Alone in our ecstasy and grief
Below a lonely sky, our lonely sky

If there were a point to this there’d be a god above
We’d shine below like angels basking in his love
But as it is, all we have is each moment until death
We count these off like shekels, more precious with every breath.

There is nothing out there I believe
It is our lonely sky, our lonely sky
Alone in our ecstasy and grief
Below a lonely sky, our lonely sky

The stars glance their light off the black sea
It’s quiet on the windward and the lee
The silence offers answers we reach for with trusting hands
The world we know grows smaller as the universe expands.

There is nothing out there I believe
It is our lonely sky, our lonely sky
Alone in our ecstasy and grief
Below a lonely sky, our lonely sky

Words & Music by Brett Lock

Dust

The Lonely Sky

The United States' Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.

The 50th anniversary approaches and Time Dilation Unit are launching their own space mission – the Trans Lunar Injection EP to celebrate
Landing on all digital music sites on the 20th July 2019 from We Are Wormhole.

New wave space rock psychonauts Time Dilation Unit are sending acid house space waves throughout the universe. The perfect complement to any space mission. 

Almost Like a Powder (Base on the Moon) details the experience of those first US astronauts touching down on the moon’s surface using audio from the actual NASA recordings. The space cadets are amazed at how beautiful the base of the moon is.

Psycho Pterosaur remixed by Pete Warren sounds like Primal Scream working on the Drive film soundtrack with Andy Mackay from Roxy Music in zero gravity; big synths, trippy drums and screaming sax.

Trans Lunar Injection is the musical equivalent of taking off in a space shuttle trying to escape the gravity well of the moon and return to Earth.

TRANS LUNAR INJECTION

PSYCHO PTEROSAUR - PETE WARREN REMIX

ALMOST LIKE A POWDER

Trousers Down

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PSYCHO PTEROSAUR

Time Dilation Unit

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