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Wooden Spheres + Heartquakes

from Smash the Sun Alight by Sterbus

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  • Special "Kingston Benefit" CD-R Limited Edition
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Two panel cardboard sleeve cdr with 2 extra-tracks not on digital version: Cardiacs covers of "Dirty Boy" and "Anything I Can't Eat" (this limited edition was released for the 2015 Tim Smith benefit in Kingston). Contains also a sheet with infos and all necessary "who-did-what".

    Includes unlimited streaming of Smash the Sun Alight via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Birds and second wives
trying to be polite
talk in between dreams
bells on picnic time
nameless bits and toes

but everything is fine now
nothing left to find out
I'll never gonna sleep again…

CAUSE I WANT TO GET YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S WRONG WITH MY TIME…
I WAS AFRAID OF THIS RHYME…
AND YOU, YOU THE WOODEN SPHERE WILL BE THERE RIGHT FOR ME?
YOUR PLACE OR MINE?

Downs and ups unclear
red rider men
troubles in the pool
making me cold
here's the perfect love

same bridge, same chorus

WE TOWERING THE HEIST
THE HALLOWEEN OF MY MILK-SHAKES…

lyrics

This is a particular favorite of mine. The choruses somehow try to reimagine those kind of meters I loved in songs like "Fast Robert", "Don't you ail, flash to the steam" by Spratleys Japs, while the verses are more straight sixties oriented... the guitar intro was originally written in 2007, while the coda was improvised during recording, in a period during which I was listening to a lot of "Fractured"-era King Crimson... What it's wrong with my times?

Sterbus: guitar, bass, vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, drums programming;
Frances "Co" Pernico delle Famose Teorie: vocals on bridges and pre-coda bit.

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from Smash the Sun Alight, released November 16, 2012

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Sterbus Rome, Italy

Sterbus are from Rome, but their true musical spirit wanders much further afield, from the joyful power-pop of The Lemon Twigs to the rainy Portland of Elliott Smith and certainly all the South of England's ground-soils Cardiacs and XTC.

"Solar Barbecue" marks their comeback with a new ALL-INSTRUMENTAL opus centered around funny chords, frantic paces and exhilarating arrangements.
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