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    VINYL ALBUM RELEASE
    "Lurid Tales Of Wrecking And Repose".
    ( Music Videos at www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1tgfK81t1M&list=PLmNVfEzKuXVqhOysfLNna5uyNHGgKWZY9 )
    HAND PRESSED at Berlin's first and only pressing plant INTAKT in October 2019. Featuring cover art by Peter Aldrich of the Despairing Mariner. Very Limited edition of 80 copies. Black vinyl, of course. Rear cover liner notes (see photo) with personnel and performance details.

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"False Lights" is an epic treatment of the Cornish Wrecking folk tale. It builds over ten operatic, punk-rock minutes and features a pirate choir which is both lynch mob and Winchester Cathedral. The story of the merciless pirates broods and spins out of control in a sonic maelstrom-finale of wind swept voices and strangling feedback. Oh my.

lyrics

The Cornish cliffs at night
And the wild wind whips
The Beach

We carry false lights
To lure the ship onto
The reef

Her sails snap and shred
And the crew clings to
The rail

From the shore
We launch into the mouth of
The waves


CHORUS
Hand to hand
Together we
Strive
Hand to hand
We carry false
Light


We climb her gunwales
Our skin soaked in
Brine

The crew recoil
As one by one we quench their
Cries

All hands drowned
And so the cargo becomes
Ours

The clipper breaks up
She sinks and the cold wind
Howls

CHORUS


We ride the green breakers
Sideways back to the
Shore

Many hands as one
Unload the whisky and salt-
Pork

Towns folk spread out
Below the Cornish
Cliffs

Hand to hand
The cargo's ascent is
Swift

CHORUS
CHORUS

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from Lurid Tales Of Wrecking And Repose, released July 8, 2019
Guitar, vox, piano and final storm effects - Tony Millman
Auto Harp - Michael Plater
Bassoon - Elise Millman
First female vocal - Paige Duggan
Choir - Claire Raine Perrin, Sarah Emily, Heather Fiona and Alice Moylan
Written by Tony

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Tony Millman on navigational instruments, Michael Plater on psychiatric wigs and powders, Andrea Millman on plaint and false hopes. And a vast cast of international collaborators.

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