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North

by We Are Aerials

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The Haar at the Edge of the World The edge of the world At the foot of the sea So romanticised By the dissatisfied Where the buildings are grey Where your time wastes away Where the people complain About social decay Parochial longing For community days Blighted and blackened By the immigrant ways Didn’t you say that this place could get under your skin? Oh We say so many things, although some of it, some of it’s true The edge of the world Where beauty’s obscured Where the haar clouds your view Where there’s nothing to do In October the clocks go back And down comes this blanket of black Till you pine for the sun Like father like son Didn’t you say that this place could get under your skin? Oh We say so many things, although some of it, some of it’s true Didn’t you say that this place could get under your skin? Oh We say so many things, although some of it, some of it’s true And the rain falls in sheets Makes rivers of streets Your views are obscured…
3.
Titanic 02:30
Titanic Desperate not to be known For thirty years of guns and bombs and stones We shift our focus in its wake To something we can celebrate Our former economic rock The industry at Belfast’s docks A fame you can take to the bank We glorify a ship that sank Another angle to employ Regeneration, pride and joy Renown you can take to the bank We glorify a ship that sank
4.
Gaslight 03:19
Gaslight Hark! Do you hear how those violins play? Your trials and misery all on display The choice of a smile Seems to come at a cost So talk to Saint Anthony Are you not lost? Eyes to the camera You carry the cross With everyone looking at you Such tiny violins Darling, for shame Act like you do And then pass me the blame Capricious and callous You waster of words Deliver me drivel Dissembled demure You swoop and you strike Like a predatory bird Now everyone’s looking at you Gaslight, gaslight, gaslight
5.
Numbers 01:35
Numbers Woke up half tore And half restored The hard-earned blow out From the night before Not quite awake But through the haze I know I shouldn’t But I’m counting off the days
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Death Squeeze Who scattered the pages? Your filing awry You’ve been searching for ages You’re tongue-tied All your roads seem to bend Where once they were straight We all know where it ends Such a lot on your plate Death squeeze when you fall asleep Small talk as you’re on your knees To kill time like a new disease To kill time till it brings you peace Now again you are sleeping It’s all that you do Tell you everything’s ok Though I know it’s not true Shallow rise of your breast place Says it’s late in the day And may your God forgive me I’m tired of the wait Death squeeze when you fall asleep Small talk as you’re on your knees To kill time like a new disease To kill time till it brings you peace
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Vessels 02:49
Vessels Hold on To your drive Your time will arrive Your time will arrive This could be Could be your rebirth Don’t you know your worth? Don’t you know your worth? All the silver All the gold Wouldn’t see you sold Couldn’t see you sold Hold on Don’t you know your place For You’re the only you we’ve got And you cannot be replaced
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Haar Reprise 04:41
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Faultlines 03:25
Faultlines Well your fault lines Meant the plates were always gonna shift And your thought lines Leave me searching through the wreck of this Oh, the collapsing of empires Oh, the collapsing of empires What price, trouble For a little shine from the rubble My little ruin My little ruin

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released April 12, 2019

Written, recorded, & produced by Me
Mixed & mastered by Paul Casey
Titanic recorded & produced by Eoin O'Callaghan
Additional recording on Gaslight by John McCullough
Additional recording on Death Squeeze by Conor Mason

Me: vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, keys, ukulele, percussion
Paul Casey: bass on the Haar at the Edge of the World
Eoin O'Callaghan: Piano, effects, keys, & electric guitar on Titanic
John McCullough: Piano & wulrlitzer on Gaslight
Conor Mason: bass & drums on Death Squeeze

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WE ARE AERIALS Donegal, Ireland

"Beautiful" - Tom Dunne (Newstalk)

“Such a wonderful song...already very fond of that” – Gideon Coe, BBC 6 Music

"I was transfixed" - Kate Brennan-Harding

“Everything they do is brilliant” – Fenne Lily

“an exquisite album filled with beautiful, meticulously-crafted songs” – Eclectic Music Lover

“transports you to the heavens” – Indie Chronique

"genius songwriter" - Stephen McCauley, BBC
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