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The Slow Painters (LP)

by The Slow Painters

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1.
Egon 04:02
Well my acquaintance They’re all jugglers and clowns, and so am I Do you think? What you say? And Eva she still loves me Even though I don’t like the symphonies Fabulous and miserable I sing Egon, you’ve gotta love someone Oh, for what it’s worth, I do I do I do Find you fascinating Would you come staggering down the street? Oh, well naturally not, we live inside ourselves It tumbles down in old Vienna town I like hearing you talking Doors opening and closing Of people you meet and all that I miss See, oh oh see, in the snowy streets A figure on parade In the windows and say Just look at me now Egon, you’ve gotta love someone Oh, for what it’s worth, I do I do I do Find you fascinating Would you come staggering down the street? Oh, well naturally not, we live inside ourselves Woah oh, everything is weird And I love myself What a wedding it would make Woah oh oh no, woah oh oh Egon, you’ve gotta love someone I think he knew He had a girlfriend you know And he was married, oh no
2.
So we’d play tough and ride through the fall Bumper sticker chaperones Second thought and second hand Couldn’t cut it, became bland Closed my eyes so you couldn’t tell Straightened up then rang the bell I hate myself tonight Cough syrup is the only fun that I ever had She said, «you’re cold, man» She said, «you’re cold, man» The lights are on on the second floor Of the apartment house tonight But there’s nobody home
3.
Gloria, going wrong You know this here won’t last for long But you’re not just any other girl, renowned You said you’d been right to the top of the world And I know, all the days are marked with red In your calendar Sighs run ‘til the end of the street, so long You know, I stand corrected, ardently affected, so long Get gifted, get lifted See the way my eye it twitches Tremble like the tremolo The way it rattles out the radio You are the one I’m running from The only one I’ll ever The only one I’ll ever
4.
Parklights 03:28
Said you want to be alone, I have always been alone Just don’t know anymore, when your clothes they are on I awoke late one night, and I heard all the quiet And I got all excited, couldn’t tell you never can No teens See the charcoal ignite, all the furniture in flight That what’s alien is real, cannot stand my absent stare A black hole, suit yourself, pulls the strings on me Don’t you want to talk about it?
5.
See all the empty days That I am set to stay Dwindle into the horizon of The calendar Running out of time Tick tocks in my mind I ain’t dealt with anything Won’t you let me back in A new shirt to your skin The space that’s in between Is mine to keep from the disappointment that lures To tell you something that’s true I always knew we were going to lose It killed my valentine The gaps she left behind I just wanted to say About the holidays To mischievous grins Highly held chin «You were so much more fun before What made you so sore?» So sore So sore So sore
6.
Page torn out, let the city into your room I’m hearing the sound of the words that she said I picked up the phone receiver today I know where you’ve been, I know who you were For sure, Saturday evening And I’m just hanging on Turned into Somewhere in the city is an unknown Who decides if not tonight The city lights Humdrum once, let the Saturday night turn you out Be a murdered smile, darling the Phone cord that you’re dangling from For the word, says in a book, Sasha don’t look For sure, Saturday evening And I’m just hanging on Turned into Somewhere in the city, is an unknown, Who decides if not tonight The city lights
7.
No Teens 02:27
The ghosts are in my dictaphone To know that I am prone To hate her Typewriter without-a-paper Twinkle twinkle printed star Indulge-a my jealousy Ha ha–, ha ha– It’s wherever you are
8.
Gloria 05:06
Walk through that door I’ve no love for myself, I’ve no love for the bottle Sally Hayes Don’t take that tone with me Junipher Greene, how could you do it? Mercury said, looks like you blew it And you’ve read all the books And you’ve travelled around You’re out for the seventh time Don’t fade on me, St. Partially Open the door Say what you will, I could not do it Mercury said, looks like you blew it You are no one tonight You are no one tonight Junipher Greene, how could you do it? Mercury said, looks like you blew it
9.
C# 01:42
I never see you alone anymore But I ran into a lamp post in 1996 So I couldn’t know for sure If it was always for somebody else, Audrey Wasn’t it now? Wasn’t it now? We were typists The Good Companion Model T You never answered, you just smiled and looked at me When you walk around the snowy town, you whirl around So now you can disappear, into the footprints left last night A sweet repose, what I miss the most January arbitrary, are you all too bright? In early November, December, remember, remember The emotional trash, the emotional trash And who’s to tell one end from another You can be anyone, you won’t be just anyone Joseph goes to town, you lurk around the lost and found On rainy days, when I don’t have all that much to say A sweet repose, what I miss the most
10.
Drum & Snare 04:52
The way you walk so self-assured Purple shades have turned to blue Drum & snare, you’re everywhere Go on rattle through my bones Don’t you go a-miss austere Sitting naked in a chair Slip of tongue and change of heart By the rhythm that she goes Can’t take me down to the sacred store Spill your secret, that’s just the way it goes The beat that makes me come apart And who’s to know which day will be the last The way you walk so self-assured Purple shades have turned to blue Drum & snare, you’re everywhere Go on rattle through my bones

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Never has a band name been more fitting than that of The Slow Painters. 16 years after forming in Norway’s capital, the four-piece finally released their self-titled debut LP on August 28th 2020. It’s a testament to lost opportunities and outsider pop songs too good to let go.

The band came of age in the dodgy end of britpop, but have since ventured deep into The Great Indie Rock Songbook. Their ten song debut blends britpop’s forerunners with noisy-yet-melodic indie rock.

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released August 28, 2020

Recorded at Six Feet Over Studios. Produced and mixed by Sjur Lyseid. Mastered by George Tanderø. Artwork by Andreas Fossheim.

Keepsecretrecords / Diger Distro

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