Very pleased to pop back from enforced exile just to say hello ("Hello!"
) and let fans and followers know the new album (and indeed the entire remixed back catalogue) are now on Bandcamp to stream or buy.This long-gestating project of deeply brilliant new rock-pop, a concept double-long-player for bass, drums, guitars and Combo Organs (and a bit of Harmonic Synthesizer and the rejected Electric Harpsichord et al too) ! Most tracks have appeared on my Soundcloud over the past couple two or three years, but these are new, entweakened and remixed versions not passed through SoundCloud's famous "Make It Sound Even Shitter" filter, gathered properly together in their right place. Tinged as ever with a deeply personal lyrics, including the beautiful ballads "Stone the Crows", "Little Island/Safe Place" and "If I Had Known Then What I Know Now", the album features the anti-establishment and political side of The Quixotes.
The first half is The View from the Left, the rosy mental afterglow of a peacenik, Corbyn-loving world long since consigned to history even though it never existed anyway, with the political rock of "Overboarders" (the migrant crisis filtered though the happy glow of Facebook), and the dark ballad of "Get Out of Jail Free" (a love story between Rebekeh Brooks and Andy Coulson played out across the London Monopoly board).
The second half is The View From the Right, a state where the myth of personal freedom is quietly subjugated to the point of social breakdown, most notably in the opener, "Autopilot" (mass shootings) and "Dressed in Water" (trolls and SJW's described using armed missiles). But whatever the view, ultimately it's a story of unrequited love: in the end once we finally remove the glasses, left or right doesn't matter, all we have left is a life lost to ourselves no matter what the colour.
Part One
The View from the Left
Side One
1 Technophobe (format c:/daisy daisy)
2 What the Actual Fuck?
3 Jazz Hands
4 Happy Accident
5 Take It All In
Side Two
6 When the World is Getting Boring
7 Stone the Crows
8 Overboarders
9 Mad as Hell
10 Get Out of Jail Free
Part Two
The View from the Right
Side Three
11 Autopilot
12 Edward Snowden in Hell (A Phoney War)
13 Dressed in Water
14 Kiss Me
15 Richard Wright
Side Four
16 Walk a Tightrope
17 Little Island/Safe Place
18 Always Wiping the Same Slate Clean (Winchester '74)
19 If I Had Known Then What I Know Now
20 Is This All That There Is?
The download includes 10-page PDF artwork/lyric sheet.
I dedicate Rose-count Glasses to those who, for whatever reason, refuse to remove theirs!
http://thequixotes.bandcamp.com/
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