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Five Minutes Full of Light - A Punch of Jaunt

Upon listening to the album, erstwhile guitarist Matt S wrote in to Calamity HQ. In a five star review, he described the album as 'very, very good' and 'a weird mix of incredibly dense morbidity and an almost uncomfortable punch of jaunt'.

Five Minutes F...

Rag and Bone (ver. 2) - How My Artistry Is Criminally Underappreciated.

When I showed a demo of this to Matt P (producer, dreamweaver, visionary), his initial reaction was: WHY??? Rag and Bone the first (see Calamity EP) did not need a Rag and Bone the Second.

I listened carefully to all advice and then ignored it, as is my...

Morning, Morning: Far Away Cities

You may be thinking that I have written about this song before. WRONG. I have written about the single version before, which is very, VERY different.

This one has a fade out. It has the sound of some vents, roaring up from the Thai restaurant under the ...

Drifting Through, Sunday Noon: Being and Idleness

Then a voice on high said: 'Nail your colours and sail into the VAST EMPTINESS'.

You drift through the cosmos for many days, until you find a room suspended in space. It is the box room at the back of an old creaking house, overlooking a garden.

(God d...

After The Smog: Making People Uncomfortable on Purpose.

In a dark dark street in a dark dark house in a dark dark attic, there was A DOOR.

This door lay propped against the back wall. Old, stained and sorry for itself. Onto this door, Steph painted The Ghosts - the spirits of the forgotten world.

POST INDUST...

Industrial Thunder: The Machines Were Screaming...

Picture, if you will, a sunny afternoon in July.

I had a tune knocking round my head. Sounded sort of folky as I strummed out the chords. Mother earth's washed out ethereal son. Write some lyrics about faery lands forlorn or somesuch...

(They are at th...

The Landlord: Contemplating An Enclosed Existence

GOOD AFTERNOON VOID!

How are you this week?

I am John Clare - misfit romantic, self taught peasant - and I come to tell you of the evils of ENCLOSURE.

This song is more about landlord-ism than landlords specifically, though them too. It was partly insp...

Satellites: A Denunciation of Nick Robinson (Lizard)

Now muse, let us sing of space hardware...

https://soundcloud.com/itsacalamity/satellites

I wrote Satellites in 'the attic period', and it is one of the oldest songs on the album, from 2016. The chord pr...

The void

If you spend all your time talking to the void then the void will eventually talk back.

24/01/21

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A Brief History of Unrest

The album began in the attic of a haunted house in the Autumn of 2016. I was sitting cross legged on the floor, as is my wont, with an old semi-broken 8 track recorder before me. I pressed record, strummed a bar or two, sang a few words in a hushed voice....

Definitions

DEFINE yourselves.

Perenially misunderstood?

The band that ruined Christmas.

Apocalyptic pop or something like that. alternativeindiedreampopforthemassesanddiscerninglistenersalike

(Band, 7, seeks fans for moral support and validation, GSOH vital.)

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Morning, Morning

MORNING, morning everyone...
how are you?
do come in...
take a seat, have a cup of tea.

LISTEN TO THIS:

[https://soundcloud.com/itsacalamity/morning-morning-single-version](https://soundcloud.com/itsacalamity/morning-morning-single-versi...