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

Breaking Through

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

Te rappelles-tu quand tu te rappelais d’avant la vie
Le paraît-il temps où tu ne savais pas la mort

Te souviens-tu l’odeur de ton premier souvenir
Le parfum du bonheur de ton dernier fou rire

Te reviennent-ils ces ça farte qu’on essayait de casser
Le paraître des heures où on savait jouer

Te rappelles-tu que tu te rappelais d’avant la vie
Te souviens-tu l’odeur de ton premier souvenir

Le paraît-il temps où tu ne savais pas la mort
Le parfum du bonheur de ton dernier fou rire

Avant d’être emportée
Avant d’être retournée
Dans les étoiles
Sans les et toi

Te rappelles-tu cette paresse
Que l’ivresse de la mort
Toute cette tendresse
Que la caresse du sort

Te rappelles-tu cette paresse
Dans les étoiles
Que l’ivresse de la mort
T’avait redonné

Toute cette tendresse
Sans les et toi
Que la caresse du sort
T’avait transporté

L'ivresse paresse de la tendresse de cette caresse

Down & Out - Single

Slow Weekend (B-Side)

routine (take 2)

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

Happy Valentine’s Day!

we’ve been working hard in the studio and are excited to release music soon but for now enjoy this Valentine’s Day bedroom session of our song simply meant to be.

Simply Meant To Be (Acoustic) 

hope this song helps you feel less alone through these strange times. we're all in this thing together, but ya know, separately. thanks everyone <3 stay safe!

Free download: https://drenchfries.bandcamp.com/track/shut-in

Lyrics:
I'd be countin down the days if I knew where to count down from
My mind is spinnin out of control as I'm watching from 
the side lines
ooooh
such a strange way to be fending for our lives

Close my eyes and think of the times that I should've just come thru
I wanna huddle outside a dive in the soft glow of 
the moon
with you
knowin that the show ain't happenin soon

Feeling down, feeling helpless as the ICUs get slammed
What our leadership is thinkin I won't ever
understand
understand
while we wait for some resemblance to a plan

Written, recorded, performed, and mixed by Levi Nattrass
Mastered by Connor Gilmore
Cover artwork by Levi Nattrass

shut-in

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

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If Nothing Else Mattered (feat. Rohit Dutta)

Closer

Foreign Feel (redux)

when we go (take 1)

00:00  closer
04:41 foreign feel
07:24 if nothing else mattered


sorry havent been working on solo stuff but heres slowed stuff thats good for sleep. my voice sounds so deep hahahahahaha

Foreign Feel (redux)

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