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Why Them?

ONE HORSE RACE by FLOODHOUNDS
RELEASED FRI 21st Feb 2025

Produced at The Magic Garden Studios with Gavin Monaghan & Liam Radburn
Artwork by @jackflynnphoto 

Contact: Jack@floodhounds.com

Stream on all platforms here:
https://kycker.ffm.to/onehorserace

ISRC: UK-N49-25-00127	

LYRICS:
Am i the only one here out of place
Riding the wrong way in a one horse race
They'll ride themselves into an early grave
That's just the way it goes

It's so rare that it's win and not lose
When life is dealing you bruise after bruise
Or is that just another weak excuse
For all the folds you made

So if you're gonna go and roll that dice
Don't expect a real fair fight
And if you're gonna play the game
You might find that's all in vain
If another winner takes it all
Pride comes right before the fall
So when you're feeling low
I hope that you know
That's just the way that it goes

Take another step into that light
It's a risk but the gold is in sight
Play it safe and you'll have nothing to show
That's just the way it goes

Instead you're gonna step up to that line
Put your life in your hands one more time
Then you're gonna feel the highs, the lows
The prize, exposed, the signs, you know it's true

If you're gonna go and roll that dice
Don't expect a real fair fight
If you're gonna play the game
You might find that's all in vain
If another winner takes it all
Pride comes right before the fall

So when you're feeling low
I hope that you know
That's just the way that it goes

One Horse Race

The Luckiest Man

The second single from South / East London band Cloud Studies. It's the follow-up to their debut 2024 single ‘Ghosts’.

PRESS RELEASE
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For Fans of: Dreampop, Shoegaze, Slowdive, Film School, My  Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Stereolab, Beach House, DIIV

Cloud Studies formed in 2024, as means for Adam Cresswell and Martin J Langthorne to explore the sonic possibilities offered by the large arsenal of effects pedals they had acquired.

‘Cloud Cartography’ was the first song written by Adam for the band as a means to set the tone for the direction of their sonic explorations. It was inspired by visits to the Derryveagh Mountains of Donegal in Ireland, and fighting off the elements as sheets of rain beat down upon the mountainous landscape.

The song is about trying to make sense of a constantly changing world and our efforts to document and understand it.  In a library, the protagonist meets someone attempting to map and catalogue the clouds. They find themselves standing together on a mountainside battling the elements, their undaunted optimism constantly challenged by the impossible nature of their undertaking. 

Sonically the song presents a panoramic, full-spectrum wall of sound; dreamy synths, layers of reverb-drenched guitars from Adrian Taylor and Martin J Langthorne, ethereal vocals from Adam Cresswell, underpinned by a tight insistent rhythm from drummer Nat Guest.

Cloud Studies:
Adam Cresswell, Vocals, bass; Nat Guest, Drums; Martin J Langthorne, Guitars; Adrian Taylor, Guitars

Produced by Adam Cresswell.
Mastered by Toby Campen Mastering.
Recorded at Nan's House Studios (Liverpool) and Bellasonic Sounds (London).

Cloud Cartography

CLOUD STUDIES: Cloud Cartography

Debut single from the upcoming Siiga album 'Nostalgia Burns'.

THE LCD

The first EP release from the creative collective Tora Luna! 

Springtide Moonride

Venus, Temptress

Praying Mantis

Wayfinding

The Water

https://catbearmusic.com
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~~LYRICS~~
(Music and lyrics by Zoe Konez)

I’m wretched when
The fomo hits
I don't wanna stand there looking out of the window, but 
I don't wanna stick out when everybody here, fits in

Approachable
Disposables
I don’t wanna go if I don't know there's an exit
I don’t wanna go if there’s no way to get out but then

Who cares?
Who cares?
When the lights go out and I’m all alone 
Got to figure it out or no-one else does
Who cares?

I’m all out of
Neglectful of
Voices thoughts opinions and hanging around with them
I don't want to start something if we’ll just fall out again

The messenger 
Speaks semaphore
All I’m doing, is trying to, let someone know, that I
I don’t hold a grudge, but I know, I’m not meant to be out

Who cares?
Who cares?
When the lights go out and I’m all alone 
Got to figure it out - gotta have some fun
Who cares?

Who even cares?

Who cares?
Who cares?
When the lights go out and I’m all alone 
Got to figure it out - gotta have some fun
Who cares?

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Written, recorded and produced by Zoe Konez
Performed by CATBEAR
Mixed and mastered by Oz Craggs at Hidden Track Studios
For licensing enquiries please email hello @ thisistreehouse . com

Who Cares?

Moonpools' cover of All Saints' song "Pure Shores" out via Young and Aspiring.

Written by Shaznay Lewis, Susannah Melvoin & William Orbit
Performed by Moonpools
Mixed and produced by Matthias Gusset
Master by Benjamin Gut at Gut.Audio



Pure Shores

From grassy squares to the undergound
Suburban explosion a queen is crowned
down country lanes with an e type sound
white lady assassin to whom I'm bound

Where were you my dear on that empty street
potempkin houses with no place to meet
abandoned weapons
water coloured sweet
cynaide scented candles, our lovers final treat.

Lyrics: Kieran Flynn
Performed and arranged by Richard Hall

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Based in Shropshire, UK.

Influences
RESIDENTS, PHILIP GLASS, DAVID BYRNE, FRANK ZAPPA, THE BEATLES, BAUHAUS, SISTERS OF MERCY, DAVID BOWIE, LOU REED, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, PARLIAMENT, SYD BARRETT, PINK FLOYD, PSYCHIC TV, NEU, MOMUS, MINISTRY, CHARLES IVES, BEACH BOYS, KINKS, THE FALL, JOY DIVISION, DEPECHE MODE, GARY NUMAN, LEONARD COHEN, STONE ROSES, GIORGIO MORODER, GEORGE CLINTON, THE CURE, DALIS CAR, JOHN ASTLEY & RICK ASTLEY, KILLING JOKE, ALIEN SEX FIEND, ROBERT FRIPP, DEVO, B52’s, IAN CURTIS, FAD GADGET, TALKING HEADS, GORILLAZ, MIKE PATTON, JON ZORN, LES CLAYPOOL, STEVEN REICH, TOM WAITS, THE EX, TOM CORA, THE CAKE, NAPOLEON XIV, KEVIN AYERS, ROXY MUSIC, FRANK TOVEY, RUPERT HINES, ROBYN HITCHCOCK, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, SPARKS, BILL NELSON, JOHN CALE, TRIO, JULIAN COPE, HEAVEN 17, LLOYD COLE, TUBEWAY ARMY, FRONT 242, NITZER EBB, COCKNEY REBEL, SHRIEKBACK, VICTOR SNOW, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, THE THE, BABYBIRD, JOHN LENNON, ULTRAVOX, DAN DEACON, BACH, SQUEEZE, ANDREW ELDRITCH, IGGY POP, MIDNIGHT OIL, BILLY CHILDISH, BUTTHOLE SURFERS, VELVET UNDERGROUND, LOVE AND ROCKETS, ART OF NOISE, LOOK PEOPLE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Neil Diamond, The Travelling Wilburys, Jimmy Nail, R Kelly (#/), Chris Chan.

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