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The Beatniks

from Second Rodeo EP by Emily Breeze

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“Oh I've got to play that!' I really had to share that with everyone” - Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing Radio

“This one I really like, it's just kind of really drew me in” - Amy Lame, BBC Radio 6 Music

“Always bringing the energy - James Threlfall, BBC Introducing In The West

“Reminds me of The Beautiful South” - Gwenno, BBC Radio 6 Music, Huw Stephen's Round Table

"I liked lots of moments in it. it felt like it was on this road, driving down a road and I was super interested" - Jordan Rakei BBC 6 Music

“An interesting piece of historic cultural excavation from Emily Breeze,” - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

“That might be one of my favourites! It's just channelling brilliance. - Mark McNally, Postcards From The Underground

“I love that something very special” - Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music

"Loved the way the sort of speaking voice just draws you in, you just wanna hear what she's saying" - Craig Charles, BBC 6 Music

“Absolutely blew me away” - John Kennedy, Radio X

“Some lovely pop-noir there, somewhere between Self Esteem and Dry cleaning” - Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music

“21st Century answer to Patti Smith, performing deeply personal poetry over grooving post-punk rock n roll” - Tom Robinson, 6 Music

“Emily Breeze IS talent..love her, she’s amazing” - Robert Carlyle (on Twitter)

SECOND RODEO is the follow-up to Emily’s 2023 album RAPTURE, a record which saw a breakthrough in Emily’s 20-year music career with further support at Radio X, Amazing Radio and BBC Introducing, XS Manchester and QBS Radio(Qatar).

SECOND RODEO contains more tales from a life well lived as a hopeless romantic, dreamer and degenerate, which range from depictions of the rituals and habits of teenagers in the late 90s in ‘1997’ to a Beatnik-inspired hymn delivered at breakneck speed in ‘The Beatniks’, to a multiverse-spanning tale of the cosmic life cycle of a relationship in ‘We Were Lovers’… to a fuzzed-out shoegaze cover of Paul's Simon’s iconic ‘Graceland.

lyrics

The Beatniks believed we should excavate our dreams
For some strange state of ecstasy
It's in your pulse and your heartbeat and the way that you breathe
It's in the myths that we make out of our memories
It's in the rhythm of the city and the song of the streets
The whispering trees to the flowers of the fields
It's in the cycles of the moon and the sermon of the sea
It's in the never ending march of technology
From the flint to the wheel to the sentient machines
Who are learning to paint and write poetry
Its in the spirit that passess between you and me
Some strange state of ecstasy

Today on this one and only day
That you and I will never live again
Let's stay in bed and watch T.V
And drift into eternity

Cos I'm sick of being cynical for the first time in my life
You know these days are getting darker
And I've lived 15000 nights
Having a beer with you is holy
There's no such thing as wasted time
So come on lay your hands upon me
Trace the cables and the wires

Cos 18000 gods believe, the scientists they all agree
In some strange state of ecstasy, yeah some strange state of ecstasy
You know, Patti Smith she sang to me, Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed
About some strange state of ecstasy, some strange state of ecstasy

Today on this one and only day
That you and I will never live again
Let's stay in bed and watch T.V, Let's stay in bed and watch T.V
Let's stay in bed and watch T.V, Let's stay in bed and watch T.V
Let's stay in bed and watch T.V, Let's stay in bed and watch T.V
And drift into eternity

credits

from Second Rodeo EP, released April 19, 2024
Emily Breeze - Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
Rob Norbury - lead guitar
Andy Sutor on Drums
Helen Stanley on keyboards
George Caveney on bass guitar

Recorded in Bristol at Robot Club and produced by Stew Jackson
with mastering by Steve Street.

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Sugar Shack Records is a sister imprint of Bristol Archive Records and Reggae Archive Records. Established in 1985, we have released critically acclaimed Rock and Reggae albums.

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