Slow Changes, by LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR

Slow Changes

by LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR

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1.	Everyone Talks About The Weather 04:34	lyrics	buy track
The midnight thoughts of a cast adrift Astronaut Nature sings And I can’t resist The sorrow of something I miss Hear my silence Be my witness And the favour I’ll return The pressing sky We cannot breathe Here on the outside of everything But we’re kindred spirits and we know We wouldn’t want to feel at home Everyone talks About the weather We don’t I’m not asking to be saved Just an ember to be placed In a corner of your heart Carry me that way The midnight thoughts of a cast adrift Astronaut Nature sings And I’m too aware There’s a yearning that’s leading nowhere Hear my silence All I can conjure I know we’re lost As if that matters! I’m not asking to be saved Just an ember to be placed In a corner of your heart Carry me that way
2.	The Death Of Silence 04:33	lyrics	buy track
Maintaining radio silence Keeping a low profile Facing a world of white noise Just became a trial Talking all the time Do they ever pause for breath? There’ll be no minutes silence For silence and its death Now everyone’s a publisher And there’s ‘no less said the better’ What is and isn’t worth saying Hardly seems to matter Everybody wants to tell you everything There’s no mystery anymore Everybody feels the need to confess I just wish they’d tell me less Everybody wants to tell you everything There’s no mystery anymore Everybody feels the need to confess I just wish they’d tell me less Maintaining radio silence Keeping a low profile As the noise around me increased I became more quiet
3.	Ancient Fiction 03:08	lyrics	buy track
Tired of ancient fiction Tired of superstition I fear no hell Expect no heaven Tired of irrational rituals Tired of a lack of miracles No evidence forthcoming We are born non-believers Then led astray Ideas from our beginnings Myths of the cave Ideas we should have outgrown Poison modern living Time for joined-up thinking The same rules applying to everything Why the privileged protection? Faith is not a virtue Faith is not untouchable Everything’s there to be questioned Such groundless assertions Shouldn’t go unchallenged Belief is not above Rational inquiry Prayers for the victims The definition of irony Tired of ancient fiction Tired of superstition I fear no hell Expect no heaven Tired of irrational rituals Tired of a lack of miracles No evidence forthcoming
4.	Interference 02:57	lyrics	buy track
Instrumental
5.	Short Wave Music 01:14	lyrics	buy track
Instrumental
6.	Tonal Fade 01:06	lyrics	buy track
Instrumental
7.	Slow Tonal Fade 02:28	lyrics	buy track
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FORMATS: 10" Mini-LP [Clear Vinyl] [Limited Edition of 500 copies] / Digital Mini Album

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We already announced it a few months ago, and now we finally have it in our hands - the first release from Bobby Wratten’s new project, LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR. It’s a mini-LP with 7 songs that will be released on 10” transparent vinyl, as well as digitally. And as we have already mentioned, the group’s members include the regular suspects like Beth Arzy, and Michael Hiscock, who was the bassist in THE FIELD MICE (Bobby’s seminal band). This partnership has contributed to pieces like the ones that make up “Slow Changes,” an album where Wratten lets his more ambient and experimental side loose, but without letting go of his delicate and pure pop songs.

“Everyone Talks About The Weather” has one of those trademark choruses that recites a devastating line that is also healing at the same time: “I’m not asking to be saved.” “The Death Of Silence” grows among halos of mystery and emotional turbulence into what is probably one of Bobby Wratten’s best songs. It is simultaneously hypnotic and powerful and full of light. “Ancient Fiction” closes the first side among echoes of JOY DIVISION, Seventeen Seconds era CURE and THE SOUND, with those delicious and emotive arrangements. The B-side leaves more room for sonic experimentation, one of the greatest passions of our admired songwriter. “Interference” is inspired by the mysterious broadcasts of numbers stations and sounds as if a radio were struggling to tune in the melody of a music box. “Short Wave Music” is a weak sign of hope in the middle of the ocean: fragile, elusive, intermittent, but always present. “Tonal Fade” is a sketch that briefly breaks up the previous peace, amid languid E-bows and insistent keyboards, while its cousin, “Slow Tonal Fade,” uses the same tools to create a bucolic, ethereal, pristine landscape. As always, all of this is finished off by the infallible hands of Ian Catt.

This is, definitively, a marvelous appetizer. As has occasionally occurred on some of the work Bobby has released with some of his other projects, this Mini-LP leaves room for experimentation and instrumental pathways. And they also give us some songs that only increase our impatience for the arrival of LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR’s first full-length.

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released February 9, 2015

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LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR London, UK

LIATH is the new project by Bobby Wratten (who has been behind THE FIELD MICE, NORTHERN PICTURE LIBRARY or TREMBLING BLUE STARS). Evanescent atmospheres, crystalline and delayed guitars, sweet voices, minimalism and of course, Pop songs.

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