This is a cover/tribute to one of our favourite bands and a taster for things to come from our second EP. 

All music performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jeykll & Jeykll
Video/Art By Meg Cronin

This is originally a Radiohead song (Words and Music), we do not own the rights or intend to monetize this video/recording in any way.

Vocals/Sax/Keys: Meg Cronin
Drums/Guitar/Bass/Trumpet: Cathal Nally
Recorded at Nallycat Studios
Mixed By Savo Milosevic
Mastered by Soundy McSoundy

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (Radiohead Cover)

Music/Words: Meg Cronin and Cathal Nally
Vocals; Sax; Keys/Synth; Violin: Meg Cronin 
Guitar; Trumpet; Drums; Bass; Mandolin: Cathal Nally

Produced by Jeykll & Jeykll
Recorded at NallyCat Studios
Engineered by Cathal Nally
Artwork by Meg Cronin

The song is written from the perspective of someone who wants to fix a relationship that has already ended. Realizing it's something that she really wants, or thinks she wants, she fantasizes about a reset. The lyrics are dreamlike, delusional, innocent, an invocation, an enchantment. She imagines a situation where they meet again by chance and decide to start over 💚

Lyrics
I’ve come to tell you, I’ve changed
I’m ready to take the blame
I was fast asleep but I’ve come around
I want to put back up what you’ve taken down
I’ve come to tell you, I’ve changed

Can we meet as strangers and start again?
Can we meet as strangers and just pretend
Meet just for the first time, and be friends
Meet just for the first time

We’ll find each other, one glance
You’ll walk towards me, take that chance
Then you tell me that we’re going to work it out
I’ll laugh till I cry, you’ll know what I’m about
I’ve come to tell you, I’ve changed

Can we meet as strangers and start again?
Can we meet as strangers (and) just pretend?
Meet just for the first time, and be friends?
Meet just for the first time
Can we meet as strangers and start again?
Can we meet as strangers (and) just pretend?
Meet just for the first time, and be friends?
Meet just for the first time

Fix This

The central themes of the track are the vastness of the universe and  its implausible but real connections despite this. Everlasting nothingness yet positivity as a disposition that can actually be borne out of reason (gratitude for the fluke of our existence). Movement and momentum, searching out the vast universe hopefully and everlasting nothingness at the same time. Optimistic resolutions, accepting our infinitesimal smallness, but asserting our absolute definitive substance (Spinoza-esque) in the cosmic soup; resilience, letting go, honesty, god-awful truth, revival, effusive embraces and absolute presence; adaptation and deliberate movement in any direction you choose . Big, searching, expanding, epic.  

The track is heavy on the instrumental and arrangement side. Bass, Guitar, Violin (Strings), Keys, Trumpet, Sax and Vocals all feature. We were going for epic. 

Our single's release artwork (ink drawings on sepia background) takes inspiration from said themes and drew some inspiration from a still from the film Manhunter. Two people essentially on the same side, but with alternate perspectives/approaches, having established our own little beachhead, facing the universe.

Don't Forget to Daydream

Endless Aimless Collisions

Jeykll & Jeykll - Endless Aimless Collisions

The Sum of All Tears is the second single off Jeykll & Jeykll''s EP "Don't Forget to Daydream". The song centres around themes of resilience, reconciling the limits of what you can know and the "truths" that stand up well in the cold light of time. It asserts that you can maximize your experiences by being more open to an appreciative attitude, one premised, perhaps, on a gratitude for existing in the first place and that for all its travails, all the good that happens in your life is essentially a bonus after that. A view that is not necessarily naive, but rather an attitude that can survive the most pessimistic interrogations because you are flooding your perspective with the kind of light you can rely on. Reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3...

The Sum of All Tears

Jeykll & Jeykll - The Sum of All Tears

Definitely the most indie and to a point grungy tune on the EP. "Late Night Arrival" is perhaps the more pessimistic yin to Don't Forget to Daydream's positive yang! Being Introspective and somewhat angular in places, the song is about acceptance, moving on and learning. It's also about bad news that comes out of nowhere, how to deal with that and reconciling the image you once had of a particular past with what you now know it to be.

Lyrics:

Sorrow as your bride 
Hollowed out by fear 
So easy to throw out the familiar 
The cold worked fast- 
on hard-won ties 
on hard-won ties 

The portraits still glisten 
But to follow is slow death 
Time to admit that we were barely alive 
And stop dressing up- 
All of our crime 
All of our cries 

Pay a toll each night 
And offer up one word 
Kill the thing that was so prized 
To live and not lie with desire 
To live and not lie 

Studying ourselves 
In an ancient light 
Collecting thoughts on our frozen ground 
Time too full now for travel 
Travel to deny we were lost

Credits:
ReleaseD August 5, 2019 
Words/Music: Cathal Nally and Meg Cronin 

Meg Cronin: Vocals 
Cathal Nally: Guitar 
Jake Walsh: Bass 
Cian O'Sullivan: Drums 
Christian Best: Percussion 

Engineered/Mixed by Christian Best (Monique Studio, Midleton, Cork) 
Master by Ruairi O'Flaherty (LA) 
Artwork: Jenny Horgan

Late Night Arrival

Jeykll & Jeykll - Late Night Arrival

Don't Forget to Daydream/Ebb is the title track off Jeykll & Jeykll''s debut. The song has three distinct movements and was inspired in part by two different Ted Talks on the value of daydreaming and Einstein's thought experiments such as mentally chasing beams of light (photoelectric effect). This song is both an invocation of that spirit of imagination/creativity and an invitation to a stellar daydream. A kind of auditory blanket that affects an environment conducive to do that and also acts as a sensory shield at the same time; designed for taking a moment, or 6 minutes, out from the barrage of stimuli we're subjected to and just listening, thinking and imagining. Meditative, transporting, disarmingly provocative we hope...  

Regarding the three movements In the track, initially there is the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed spark of its existence; then a greater sense of wonder, of things growing organically and a continual development from these tangible roots which comes to a something of a resolution/acceptance. Finally there is the outermost exploration (Ebb) which touches the void, the unknown, muses on the ethereal, the extra-dimensional and stretches out towards whatever your conceivable dimensional and temporal boundaries are.  

Apart from functioning as a kind of injection of altered-consciousness, a meditative space and a catalyst for thoughts less usual, we feel this track will lend itself very well to a sympathetically (or appropriately juxtaposed) themed film production or visual arts production and we are very open to a collaboration of this sort with this tune. 

Hope you enjoy the track!

Written by: Meg Cronin and Cathal Nally

Meg Cronin: Violin(Strings); Keys 
Cathal Nally: Guitar 
Jake Walsh: Bass 
Cian O'Sullivan: Drums 

Engineered/Mixed by Christian Best (Monique Studio, Midleton, Cork) 
Master by Ruairi O'Flaherty (LA) 
Artwork: Jen Horgan

Don't Forget to Daydream/Ebb

Jeykll & Jeykll - Don't Forget To Daydream /Ebb

Jeykll & Jeykll (Irish songwriters/musicians Meg Cronin and Cathal Nally) released their debut EP "Don't Forget to Daydream" in 2019. The First single "Endless Aimless Collisions" was released in June 2019 followed by "The Sum of All Tears". J&J's first video (EAC) followed (animated/illustrated by the outstanding Tia Friedel) as well as a feature video for The Sum of All Tears. Releases followed with The title track, an instrumental epic in three movements as well the angular/introspective "Late Night Arrival". In November 2021 J&J released a cover of Radiohead's Weird Fishes and will be releasing their next single "Fix This" on Friday May 6th 2022.

Jeykll and Jeykll formed in 2018, performing multiple gigs as a duo around Cork City (also performing together in MB, MRC and as Jazz duo) most notably at the Kino during the Cork Jazz Festival 2018; thereafter festival regulars. They launched Don't Forget To Daydream at Crane Lane Theatre in October 2019. 

The duo draw on multiple genres. Influences include Radiohead; Stan Getz; Manics; The Smiths; Unknown Mortal Orchestra; Charlie Parker; Lee Morgan; Billy Holiday; Esperanza Spalding; Son House; Rory Gallagher; Chic; Heatwave; The Metres; Vulfpeck.

On DFTD, J&J were graced by the outstanding work of Christian Best (Engineering/Mixing/Percussion), Ruairi O'Flaherty (Mastering), Jake Walsh (Bass) and Cian O'Sullivan on Drums; they were also very lucky to have the wonderful artwork of Jen Horgan.

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