Song taken from 2011 recordings at Whitewood Studios, Liverpool. 

4/11

We Walk In Straight Lines - The Endless Unraveling

Exit Strategy (unmixed)

It 's not even midnight
And you re already drunk as... I dunno.
This year wasn 't easy
365 days full of told you so 's .

Am I supposed to shed skin, twist , step aside?
Substitute the hard truths for some fresh lies?

I will still be here tomorrow for your sins and mine

I m kissed, hugged and back-slapped.
Never usually bother with foreplay.
The sentiments hollow.
Shaped to fit the occasion like clay.

A thousand burning embers in the night sky
Washed out to sea watched by deadlight eyes.

I will still be here tomorrow for my sins and yours.

I want it all, all of your mouth
I want a cursed and diseased spouse
I am reborn
Self sabotage, drinks taken large, bucking, impaling naysayers on bull 's horns.

Drifting on the edge of a group
I cannot lose or shake but oh so often I have tried.
Ticks and limpets, witnesses of the lowest times that just stretch on and on.

Piss strewn streets turn ice rinks.
First year 's kiss littering my bed.
No fairy tale ending.
The threat of last minute goals hangs like lead.

Uncomfortable goodbyes, a push, a slammed door.
A cigarette, a warm can, resolutions on tour.
Dried mouthed, too tired to be bored.

The hire signs on...

Bio

Jonny Russell, Mark Booth, Sergiusz Zasada & Chris Hassan make up the transgressive square that is We Walk In Straight Lines, an awkward, world-weary head-f-ck of excess baggage, mood swings and paranoia. Rarely at rest, now, them Straight Lines are hammering away at rusty nails on tired floorboards desperately trying to sure up the ground beneath them. Their self-titled EP is a furious smorgasbord of hollow vindication played out to an imaginary menagerie of morbidly obese cats and sapless bullfrogs. Fresh from Liverpool Soundcity where the band supported Field Music at one of the showpiece gigs of the festival, the band are constantly developing their sound which takes in echoes of the Walkmen, the National and Husker Du. Beneath them is only mud and crust and ever-depleting lilypads of grass; listen to them hop from sod-to-sod. Listen to them struggle. Validate it. Hold it.

"(We Walk In Straight Lines)... a band who write and play with that kind-of urgent intensity that Steve Lamacq is always on the lookout for; the kind-of feeling that they simply had to make this music or else they would explode..." - Tom Robinson - BBC6 Music

"Dark, uplifting and still mega radio-friendly" -- Bugbear Promotions (Dublin Castle)

"We Walk In Straight Lines offer real depth as they go off on their unexpected tangents" -- Liverpool Soundcity Magazine

"...next up was the very hotly tipped We Walk In Straight Lines who threatened to steal the show with their fast paced, original indie post-punk. They are certainly ones to keep your eye on this year..." - Object of Dreams Magazine

"We Walk In Straight Lines are the band I am most excited about in Liverpool at the moment, they represent a truly original, exciting and intelligent alternative to a lot of the drudgery dominating the scene. Spiky, poetic and fast paced, with a brilliantly awkward urgency they are the band no one's talking about, but everyone should be... just the way they like it." - Tom Johnson - Lazy Genius Director

"After an in depth listen to their stuff, all I can say is that I'm truly impressed. The band is full of energy and shows a lot of potential... they give you a strong blend of structured chaos, which is complemented nicely by portions of soft, elegant melodies." - Wild Honey Pie Blog

"(We Walk In Straight Lines)...really very, very good live and show a musicianship and creativity that is sadly lacking in the majority of bands in Liverpool at the moment." The Masque, Liverpool

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