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  • Limited Edition CD Nostalgia Collection
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    White top ink-stamped CDr with black diamond bottom. Disc is housed in a stamped card sleeve which forms part of an 16-page A5 monochrome print booklet featuring tracklist, liner notes and original collage artwork.

    Also included: 2x double-sided matte art cards with album artwork and tracklist; nostalgia themed collection of prints, letters, newspaper and book extracts; 3x original vintage (1930s-60s) photographs of people and place memories; ‘Screens' original collage retro print; typed and signed lyric sheet for 'Screens’; 'Garden of Sorrows' original acrylic flowers print; album art stickers; plus, a hand-numbered contents card. Everything is contained in a stamped card portfolio with string fastener.

    Includes unlimited streaming of An Act of Forgetting via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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lyrics

We walk, or drive, go on rails, fly.
One foot in front of the other.
Where are we going?

Walking on cracks.
Eyes locked to screens.
How much do we notice?

The way my right foot angles out slightly compared to my left.
How unusual the green of the grass appears against the scree of man-made materials.
How balletic the sway of trees move in the wind.
Contrasting the repetitive rush of vehicles and the trance movements of humans.

The blurry faces.
Wearing masks for our mental health.
Who are we? Do we recognise ourselves?
Can we trust the mirror, when the mirror is out of our control?
The mirror that society shapes.
The mirror that skews our own opinions of ourselves.

Who are we? What am I?
Our societies are arrhythmic:
there's always a constant acceleration to be somewhere, to go somewhere.
We buy into the cult of speed.
Parents walk at their own pace and drag their child behind, like an animal.
We do as they say, because we are afraid to fail.

Society runs and runs all the time, infinitely.
Without breaks, the crash and systematic failure can only be around the next corner, or buried in a rushed piece of code.
Those who control speed, have the power.
They spread their propaganda along a network of speed, a chain of ideologies.

Progress, progress. Or get left behind.
The fear of standing still.
We're told to move, to run, to jump.
To think fast, or to think later, or not at all.
Where speed is the limit, it will only get faster.
We need to slow down.
To ignore the cult of speed.
To rest. To review. Contemplate.
But how?

We have no time to try our different lives.
Different versions of who we might want to be,
could be, maybe already are.
We have to choose our last lives, our current lives, now.

VHB (Very High Buildings) take us up and out, away from the ants and the flurry.
Looking up for space.
Looking down at controlled chaos.
Communities in the sky, squashed together.
Individuals on the ground buying into a package, a programme, a sermon.
Sardines packed together, sharing an idiorrhythmy.
Living together, but also apart, like monks.

We are individual planets orbiting a communal galaxy.
Only though if we respect each other's personal rhythm and space.
Or else we are rootless,
floating in space, in infinity.

We live in a strange place.
A place of disembodiment,
of ghosts, of madness,
of instants, of shards of time and experience.

Listen. Pause.
Hear each other's voices.
The different grains.
Away from the noise.

We speak in lyrics, cut-up and reassembled.
Ancestors of William Burroughs.
Too much something gets in the way of our intended narrative.
We are pushed.
Pulled.
Cut-up.
Stretched.
Censored.
Beaten.
Manipulated.
Hypnotised to think in certain ways.

Words have become hollow.
A tactic.
Bandages over right
and wrong and love and hate.

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from An Act of Forgetting, released September 2, 2021

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