Such a tune!! Great to have Alex play it live on tonight's show https://soundcloud.com/thepressuredrop/the-pressure-drop-show-4th-december-2023 #radiogold

Fresh On The Net Fresh Fave 

Included in Tom Robinson's BBC Radio 6 Music Mixtape  

"Killer groove" Tom Robinson - via Twitter 8th April 2022

"It's so rare for UK musicians to convincingly reproduce those loose, effortless kind of grooves pioneered in New Orleans, but I have to say this irresistible jam - Parasite Lost - pulls it off without breaking a sweat."  Tom Robinson on air BBC Radio 6 Music Mixtape, 18th April 2022

"The latest offering from the amazing Junkyard of Silenced Poets is the wonderfully titled Parasite Lost. It is essentially a piece of mind-spinning but also highly satisfying Dub mixing it with chords that are partly derived from Jazz and partly from the kind of harmonic language I would often associate with contemporary classical (elements of whole tone and similarly configured chords) although the feel is nothing like either. I hear distant echoes of early Gang of Four and pre-Sweetest Girl Scritti going on, perhaps alongside some of the experimental Ruts B-sides [and subsequent Ruts DC moments] but the sounds here are much more contemporary, much less scratchy and have an irresistible resonance. Captivating, cool and confidently individual." -- Neil March - Trust The Doc No. 66

"Parasite Lost is a kooky rock dub reggae jam like the soundtrack to a suspense scene in a 70s cop show" -- Kerry JK - FOTN Fresh Fave review

music composed & performed by Junkyard of Silenced Poets - copyright & all rights reserved

Parasite Lost

Sail Away - OUT NOW! https://slinky.to/SailAway

www.joehicksmusic.com
www.facebook.com/joehicksmusic
www.twitter.com/joehicksmusic
www.instagram.com/joehicksmusic
http://joehicksuk.bandcamp.com

'Sail Away' - Music and Lyrics by Joe Hicks

Produced & Mixed by Sam Winfield studio91.net
Engineered by Tom Millar
Mastered by Robin Schmidt

Vocals and Guitar performed by Joe Hicks
Drums performed by Ed Broad
Bass Guitar performed by Joshua Rigal
Cello performed by Barney Morse-Brown
Keyboards performed by Sam Winfield
Percussion performed by Tom Millar

Recorded at Studio 91, Newbury, England

Artwork by Casey Roarty caseyroarty.studio
Photography by Jack Margerison www.jackmargerison.co.uk/

SAIL AWAY

I don’t know if I will run aground
When the waves are tall enough to touch the clouds
I don’t know if I can brave the swell
When the world is spinning out of sync, like a drunken carousel

But love is all I need
Come and sail away with me
Hold me closer
Take me higher
Be the air I breathe
‘Cause love is all I need

I don’t know why I am colour blind
Just a broken bulb that flickers black to white
But you’re drawing a rainbow out of me
When I’m fading in and out again, fading in and out again

Love is all I need
So, come and sail away with me
Hold me closer
Take me higher
Be the air I breathe
‘Cause love is all I need

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
When the waves are tall enough to touch the clouds
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
When I’m fading in and out again
Circling the drain and I can’t get out
I can’t get out

Love is all I need
So, come and sail away with me
Hold me closer
Take me higher
Be the air I breathe
‘Cause love is all I need
So, come and sail away with me

Sail Away

Dream + Lie

New song! This song reminds me of the struggle between wanting something so badly and feeling helpless and afraid that comes with being in love. Maybe you can relate? Either way, thanks for listening!

Find the song on other platforms:
https://tonetree.ffm.to/youdontknowit


Verse 1
Oh, I’ve been looking for the last piece of your puzzle
Maybe then, I could set the little things on fire
You know don’t know it, but I´m tired of running in circles
tired of spending time in the spaces between us

Bridge
Oh, you light up the room
even in the darkness 
you’re like a flower in bloom
Oh, you light up my heart
So, I gotta tell you

Chorus
You don’t know it
but I think about you day and night
Oh you, don’t know it
But I can’t get you out of my mind
Oh, It´s breaking, oh it’s shaking, oh it’s tearing me up from the inside out.
Oh, from the inside out
Wish I´d never met you in the first place

Verse 2
Why don’t you slowly collapse into me
maybe then I can figure it out, how to reach you these days
You don’t know it but the sky glows different when you’re here
Oh, I´m tired of spending time in the spaces between us

Bridge
I just want to tell her that I love her
(So why don’t you go ahead and tell her?)
Cause I’m afraid, that I will just mess it up
Oh no, you got to tell her.

Chorus
You don’t know it
but I think about you day and night
Oh you, don’t know it
But I can’t get you out of my mind
Oh, It´s breaking, oh it’s shaking, oh it’s tearing me up from the inside out.
Oh, from the inside out
Wish I´d never met you in the first place

Your Don't Know It

music & lyrics: Vikki Gilmore
Production: Gert Tabberner
Chorus: Matt Rogers (Fleece), Nathan Gagné (Ivytide), Ali Kouri (The Daydreamers)
Drums: Mathieu LeGuerrier
Mastering: David Tallarico, Trillium Sound Mastering Studio

Stranded

Change Your Mind

“Alex Nicol writes hauntingly enigmatic tunes and this new EP is a simply beautiful collection of songs. He sings like an angel and his fragile vocal truly touches the soul!”
Guy Chadwick, HOUSE OF LOVE

“full of floating melodies and dark textures” 
UNDER THE RADAR


“Simple Fires” reflects the concerns and realities of our shared, climate-connected world. The Canadian wildfires of 2023 saw several global cities (including Montreal and New York) report some of the worst air quality on record, causing widespread alerts and evacuations. The smoke not only impacted North America but also crossed the Atlantic, impacting the lives of Europeans. In response, Nicol ponders if what is done cannot be undone. 

“The farther we come, the closer we get to destruction…” Nicol laments, “Simple fires can be mended, but not the kind that’s burning up in me”. 
 
“Simple Fires” is accompanied by an animated official video by Quentin Delobel (Poppip Studio), which paints a moving picture of humans' destruction of nature. Of the music video, director Quentin says, “I followed the feeling of child-like naïveté conveyed in the song and came up with this imaginary yet unfortunately familiar world - one that ends with a dark real life twist.” Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJgsDWxXWQ

Hallmarked with the kind of thoughtful lyricism and graceful melancholia that have become his calling cards, in his latest outing Alex Nicol casts a withering gaze upon a natural world being laid to waste at the hands of ignorance, governmental inaction, and corporate industrial greed.

Alex Nicol - Simple Fires

Danny Watson CDP Radio PR

Recent comments

ThePressureDropShow

Related tracks