THE MOTORBIKE & THE CLOSEST OF CALLS

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1.	THE MOTORBIKE & THE CLOSEST OF CALLS 04:21	lyrics	buy track
Don’t be fooled by this behaviour For we are not as you’d suppose The heart is not a thing for breaking And the mind is not a thing to lose There’s every chance you should have taken And every word you hoped to say But we are not the bright young things That we were only yesterday I got knocked down not two weeks back The motorbike and the closest of calls And as I lay there, in the road Well, I guess I had some time for thought You see we court the ever-present dangers Of dying young or growing old And I’ll never answer all the questions Which torment me when I’m alone Now I’d hate to say I’ve been enlightened When it’s nothing you’ve not heard before But all the talk of past and hopes for future Were left there on the ambulance floor You know, I think I see this now that all we have it time I finally think I’ve figured out what’s been missing from mine So don’t be fooled by this behaviour For we are not as you’d suppose We strip back all the layers of bullshit And get life back to its bare bones Now all my friends are having babies And I’m the one left all alone So I’ll exhaust this hemisphere Then see what’s happening down below I drag my feet along Sword beach The sun hangs heavy in the West See this is where we put down markers Yeah, they’ll say it’s where we were our best So I embrace the unfamiliar And I’ll take the lesser-travelled road I say give in to your misbehaviour And only answer to your rule I’m not trying to change your outlook I don’t have time but we all need friends But if that’s the biggest you can dream Then this is where our story ends
2.	BONES 04:00	info	buy track
3.	ANNE-SOPHIE 02:51	info	buy track
4.	LITTLE SWEDE 04:21	info	buy track

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In spring 2014 I was walking to work when I got run over by a motorbike, when the police visited me in hospital they said the only thing that stopped me breaking my neck was the rucksack that cushioned my head when I hit the road. It was all pretty gruesome and I ended up needing some serious surgery on my leg. I spent the next few weeks in hospital and most of the summer trying to walk again. As with any brush with death it made me reflect on things a little. Soon after, I quit my job, started a new career and I began writing songs again; sowing the seeds of what would become the album 'The Things I Heard at the Party'.

The 3 B-sides were all written and recorded over the years between the 'Say, Scientist EP' and 'The Things I Heard At The Party'. 'Bones' is actually a recording from the session with Al Groves that would’ve been our debut album back in 2008. We're glad it is finally being released. 'Anne-Sophie' is a song I wrote and demoed in 2010, it reflects on a time in my life when I went "full Kerouac", stepped out of my comfort zone and hit the road for a while. The version here was re-recorded later (2015ish) with the full band. 'Little Swede' was a labour of love, it was recorded in 2012 with David Coyle at The Royal Northern College of Music, the song itself was initially quite simple, I had been playing with the line “I always thought the world of you, but you’ve never been the friend I needed” for a long time, so it was great to finally get it to work in this song. We decided to go all out on the production, bringing in brass and strings to build the ending. This is not something we had ever done before and I’m not sure how honestly it reflects our approach and attitude to music, but it was really fun to do, a nice musical experiment - Greg

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released May 4, 2018

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THE MOTORBIKE & THE CLOSEST OF CALLS - WRITTEN BY THE MAPLE STATE
RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY ANDREW FARRER & THE MAPLE STATE

BONES - WRITTEN BY THE MAPLE STATE
RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY AL GROVES & THE MAPLE STATE

ANNE-SOPHIE - WRITTEN BY THE MAPLE STATE
RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY ANDREW FARRER & THE MAPLE STATE

LITTLE SWEDE - WRITTEN BY THE MAPLE STATE
RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY DAVID COYLE & THE MAPLE STATE

COVER IMAGE BY COLLEEN CONDON
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