I do not live as half of a double page spread.
I gave up that debtor's dream to dwell in an oil painting,
a brushstroke, a blue fleck.
Or I am a violin - would you have me played
to hear the ancient xylem sing?
Perhaps you would play me, with cursed hands
to hear an unsung spine.
You have a tongue in twines, like little snakes,
turning your teeth to stone and
freezing the dreaming words
in their wake. But,
if I am a violin,
finger-plucked and pliant,
command me with your unspent poetry
and I may bend and fire a flaming arrow at your will.
Or - I might not. For there are days
when every other sound is nothing
more to my evergreen ears than
the incessant self-pity of a car alarm.
And, on those days, I pull
paint-stained hands back to myself,
and stretch, and sigh
in my finest tuning.
On those days, I am content
to sing myself to the unseen spheres,
where songs yet sung,
in flickering echo caves,
as bats in sonic bloom,
await, with patient fate,
my twinned hands and ready tongue.
I am a seedling at the end of summer,
I am a seedling at the end of summer,
I am a seedling at the end.
credits
from 13 Moons,
released February 5, 2021
Bec Garthwaite - vocals, acoustic guitar
Beatrice Lee - vocals (spoken & sung)
Bethany M. Roberts - vocals (spoken & sung)
Claire Vine - vocals, saxophone
Tom Yates - vocals, electric guitar
Recorded by Theo Passingham
Mixed by Alex McIntyre
Mastered by Ben Capp
New album 13 Moons OUT NOW: "A wondrous collection of
curious story-songs, choral singing and carefully layered instrumentation" (Joyzine) with "songwriting mastery that perfectly delivers reverberating folk-pop" (Tap The Feed)...more
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I didn't think I would like this record but it's so infectious in its ability to change from prog to post rock then to psychedelic and onwards into alternative metal. Such an amazing feat to introduce the saxophone and it sounds so cool, this record is outstanding. Darknight
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Psych-folk with a late 60s / early 70s flavour. If you like Nick Drake or Fairport Convention you will enjoy this. It's an observation of change and a celebration of a hazy, high summer harvest. The music transports you to the moorlands and mill towns of Northern England. Dark and open and embellished with beautiful melodies and thoughtful lyrics.
This is album of the year 2021 for me. distant planet
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Fantasy progressive rock is not something I'd ever thought of. Yet Foreign Land, especially the Foreign Land track itself, transported me straight into an unknown, magical fantasy world. Hakim Zulkufli