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Moody, brooding verses with underlying filthy distorted bassline. Lyrically, highlights the toxically positive catchphrases which constantly drip into our ears.

LYRICS:
Smiles around town If you’re upside down
It’s joy division Rose-tinted vision
No elephants in the room 
Some have it worse than you

Can’t be happy when I’m sad 
Can’t see the good when it’s bad

Turn that frown around
There’s silver linings in every cloud
You gotta laugh, don’t cry
It’s all rainbows and butterflies

Can’t be happy when I’m sad 
Can’t see the good when it’s bad

Look on the bright side 
You’re lucky to be alive

The Void EP

Toxic Positivity

MAGIC SEAS - This Time

Comfort and Despair

McCartney IV is really a song about owning up to the ways you’ve hurt people, and recognising that love is more important than anything else. It’s a love song. I think it’s silly. And very serious. And hopefully romantic. People tell me they like it. Of course, the influence of a Beatle is worn on it’s sleeve (literally). 

I wrote it on a ukulele, an instrument I know almost nothing about. I do a lot of inclusive music workshops for disadvantaged and Disabled kids, and there’s always a ton of ukuleles in the music cupboard. Figured I’d better have a go.

I’m mostly known for playing the MiMu Gloves, so it’s a bit scary and exciting to do something without them, and on an instrument I don’t know how to play even. It’s new and strange to do something gentle and nothing like the big loud noise I make with the gloves.

People tell me it helps them. That it’s optimistic. I think so. I think it’s a song with a purpose.

McCartney IV

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McCartney IV

Dyskinetic

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