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Credits: 

Rohit Dutta - synth on 'If Nothing Else Mattered (feat. Rohit Dutta)'
Harry Teardrop - vocals and mixing on 'Someday (feat. Harry Teardrop)'
Emily Kim - EP cover art
Wesley Park - vocals, guitar, synth, drums, production, mixing, mastering

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If Nothing Else Mattered

The third in this set of Bandcamp EPs finds Honey Smugglers at Bark Studio in Walthamstow in the Autumn of 1990 during initial sessions for a follow up to the `Listen' EP. As it turns out we recorded a different set of songs for the `Closer' EP in early 1991.

Each of the first three songs were longstanding stage favourites and could be heard in most Smugglers setlists. `Anybody But You' embodies the Smugglers groove as well as any of their tunes and check out the spontaneous studio magic as Steve kick starts the piece on an Organ with a mind of its own.

`Pie In The Sky' appeared in live form on an album recorded at The Sausage Machine in Hampstead, (`Now That's Disgusting Music') but this is the studio version. In a gigging situation we used to see how long we could extend the gap in the middle before people would start clapping, but here....just an uneasy, digital silence.

`Beautiful People' was played in a number of arrangements throughout the band's career, this perhaps being the best and most concise. The improvised vocal coda at the end by Chris assures this version's place as first choice. It was a first take vocal.

The final track `Whole Wide World' was a unique cover version which was only ever played this once. It was part of a planned Fiction Records sampler which never happened. It didn't even cross our minds to play it live, great song though it is, I guess we had too many of our own songs vying for position in a setlist of ten.

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Pie In The Sky

commander commander - Phase [2017]
written and recorded
Spring in 2015 to Winter in 2016
In San Francisco & Indianapolis
Mastering by Dave
Cover by Kevin
Drums on The Same Way by Sean
Thanks to
Sean, Gary, Newman, Alex

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All My Lovin'

Written By: Okey Dokey
Engineered By: Jeremy Clark & Johnny MacCallum
Mixed By: Jeremy Clark
Mastered By: John Baldwin

Tell All Your Friend

Hometown

Lyrics:

Baby won't you please stay
I'll help you with your decision
Won't you please stay
Tell me what i have to do oh

Baby I know that you need me, you don't have to tell me
We're both going crazy
Quiet, your eyes what's talkinh
my heart is just sinking
i feel like collapsing

A house, our tree, you won't take the ring
You can't commit, you're calling it split
Goodbye, to the future i wanted
For you and for me, your love isn't easy

Baby won't you please stay
I'll help you with your decision
Won't you please stay
Tell me what i have to do for
You to please stay
I'll help you with your decision
Won't you please stay
Tell me what i have to do for

Written by: Aira
Produced by: Aira, Gianni Garrido

Steven Hyde

Warm Blue

LYRICS:

I should take the day
I admit I haven't been feeling so well
A little sunlight through my blinds couldn't hurt
But instead I got the clouds

I'm just scared anxious
I can't open up
I wonder if you'll give a fuck
I'm scared you wanna give me up
I love you I'll just open up
I kinda wanna go throw up
So maybe I just miss your touch
I'm crazy, let me open up
Open up

I should take the train
I haven't seen your face in a minute
The squeeze won't go away
But i know that you're here to stay


I'm just scared anxious
I can't open up
I wonder if you'll give a fuck
I'm scared you wanna give me up
I love you I'll just open up
I kinda wanna go throw up
So maybe I just miss your touch
I'm crazy, let me open up
I'm crazy, let me open-

Why do I find myself inside you
Why does no one believe in me
In me

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Open Up

Lyrics:
I know that I'm falling apart
Is it my fault that I can't seem to get it right
About to leave my mind is in the clouds
But I found happiness in a place that felt like home
When I looked out your window
The dried flowers don't grow

I went away sometime I
Couldn't help but scream and shout
I come again and all again
I never left I never left I
Never thought I'd end up here
It didn't feel right to leave here
It didn't feel real to see you
Or when I looked out your window

Your Window

MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT25H_LLcWg&lc=UgzCFzOFJGjpVHNnHpR4AaABAg

lyrics: 

Skating around at the edge of dusk
Tie your hair up in a little bun
Don't you wanna see what it's like to have fun?

I'm not afraid

Is it true you're leaving so soon you're moving out?
I never thought you were the one to check out
At the edge of dusk
At the edge of dusk
Are you losing track of time?

I'm not afraid

Closer

Wes Park

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