The opening track on the new Echo Machine album "Accidental Euphoria" which crashed into the Scottish album charts at no.2 in April 2024, and hit no.5 in the UK Record Store Chart. 

A song about feeling like you are being followed. All the time. By some unnamed presence. Some kind of 21st century fog, making everyone on edge.

Anticipation

Have Some Shame

The Crest of a Wave

Look to the East, Look to the West

Pop Goes Pop

Talk

Near-Life Experience by FloodHounds

Produced by Gavin Monaghan at Magic Garden Studios
Mastered by Dick Beetham at 360 Mastering
Artwork by Jack Flynn

Drums - Lauren Greaves
Bass - Anna Melidone
Guitar/Vocals - Jack Flynn

Lyrics

Eyes Peeled, on Red Alert
Another crisis you need to avert
Yes I know that feels so absurd
But believe me, it's more trouble than it's worth

Guard down, been here before
Another crime scene for you to ignore
Yes I realise this means war

But you're losing your grip and you can't let go
When you run so fast but you feel so slow
And you think of every single moment in your life when you felt alive
So let it go

Take a minute and drink it in
I need to know you're receiving it
You've got this message inside your head
You're alive but you feel so dead
So dead
You feel so dead

Crash land on solid ground
Familiar face in a one horse town
The kind of place where you should turn around

But you're losing your grip and you can't let go
When you run so fast but you feel so slow
And you think of every single moment in your life when you felt alive
So let it go

Take a minute and drink it in
I need to know you're receiving it
You've got this message inside your head
You're alive but you feel so dead
Feel so dead

Take a minute and drink it in
I need to know you're receiving it
You've got this message inside your head
You're alive but you feel so
So dead

Near-Life Experience

Brushfire

Death Is Cheap

A song about looking for the sun, even during the storm.

It started with drone style tunings on a favourite old nylon string guitar and this song popped up almost fully formed immediately.

Solo it started out as an acid-folk thing, but when taken to the band it changed completely into a hybrid psych-shoegaze-funk-rock-madchester banger! It's the kind of full-on up tune we've wanted to do for a while now, with Chris's insistent break beat that got us all jumping - it's one of the most fun things to play.

The final, fuzz-soaked section is a mighty band jam led by Holly's driving bass - an example of the improvised grooves we play during our live sets amongst the songs. Here's to all the Sun Queens...a celebration of warmth, kindness and vitality everywhere.

Song for the Sun Queen is the first of a series of singles the band are releasing, leading to an EP coming out in February 2025. Released on all major digital and streaming services by Lincolnshire record label Old Tin Box Recordings. The song will be soundtracking an independent film to be released in 2025.

lyrics
I am here for you my Sun Queen
I’ll do anything you ask
As each day you rise
Wonder fills my eyes
All doubt is left behind

I need your warmth each day
The message you relay

High, hang high
Come light
My sky…

releases August 9, 2024
Chris Lody – Keys, synths and beats
Holly Hall – The bass and backing vocals
Esme Dodsworth – Effected vocals
Mark Merrifield – Guitar, vox and things
Jimmy Osborne – Processed guitars, fx and backing vocals

Produced and mixed by the band
Mastered by Tom Milner, The Pump House Recording Studio, Lincolnshire
Artwork by Lee Conybeare
Video by Esme Dodsworth

Song For The Sun Queen

Let It Go

Dedicated to Rose Lubin and her family.

https://steinhardtfoundation.org/jewishprideaward/about-rose-lubin

Rose

Fragile

Don’t Get Lemon is the collaborative artistic work of longtime friends Austin Curtis, Nicholas Ross, and Bryan Walters. After touring the west coast off of their debut album, “Hyper Hollow Heaven”, DGL returned with new singles Autocratic Gore and Blow-Up, including a remix by De Lux. With DGL’s triumphant second album, “Have Some Shame” the art-pop trio have expanded their sound to glittering new heights as they dance between shimmering synth-pop and stomping glam rock.

This heartfelt sound forms an idiosyncratic identity that also wouldn’t be out of place in a classic John Hughes 80s film soundtrack .

Singer Austin Curtis’ looks and stage performance sits comfortably between the sensual sway of Elvis Presley and the chameleon fluidity of David Bowie. Each performance is an internal battle between masculine and feminine forces punctuated by northern soul style dance movies and the desperate magnetism of Joy Division. Flanked on both sides of him, guitarist/keyboardist Nick Ross and bassist Bryan Walters provide a daring and original take on new-wave acts such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Talking Heads, and Simple Minds, as well as contemporaries like LCD Soundsystem, Alex Cameron, and Cold Cave. Together with Curtis’ smooth yet desperate croon, recalling Morrissey and Bryan Ferry, the Anglophile Texans stretch their hands across the Atlantic to fashion a genuine grasp of pop culture past and future.

The Crest of a Wave

dont get lemon