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The digital album + a beautiful A5 56-page full-colour book of artwork, hand-written scribbles and annotations, amazing fan photies and of course, the words and stories of the songs.
This is STAY ODD
Tracklisting:
1. FUWSH
2. Night Rip
3. Champion? Sound
4. She's a Wee Witch
5. The Invisible Woman
6. Recycling
7. Undo Redo
8. Where They Lie
9. Airborn
10. Exciting Lives
11. Love Letters
12. KILLSWITCH
13. Bill Oddy
14. Best Pals
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Kid A: Had a BMX when I was 6 or 7 measures old
Less white mag wheels, more thin metal spokes
Silver handlebars, black handgrip and chain
And I scratched ma name into the underside of the steel frame
Bike daft, watching Gaz Top, Saturday morning TV
Circling the backyard after BMX Beat
Til the hoose git robbed one day while we were out after school
Took ma bike, even took ma wee sister’s paddling pool
That night, someone sold the bike ti a Da in a local pub
Who took it home and gave it the next day ti his own son
(Let’s call him) Kid B, 6 or 7 too, the world huge behind his eyes
And when they fell on that bike his heart grew ti twice its size
Rode the BMX track at Rawyards from first light every day
Flying over jumps, round banks, skiting on red blaze
Then a few months later riding hame fae the spot one night
Some big boys said ‘wee man gies yir BMX and get on yir bike’
He ran hame, sweating, greeting, sick ti his stomach
His Da asked aboot but never fun oot who done it
The boys that took the wee bike laughed popping wheelies and bunny hopping
Then threw it down a railway embankment and forgot it
Time passed. Weeds grew over the bike
Lost and forgotten among the brambles and nettles
Woven together, knitted into the hillside
Long grass, hawthorn, handlebars and a pedal/ pedals like petals (blooming)
Recycling. It’s recycling
What goes around comes around like the wheels on that bike and it’s…
Next spring, enter Kid C, thinkin’ ‘I can’t do this the day’
Dismayed, gives it a miss, took a left at the school gates
Finds himself walking along beside the railway tracks
In amongst shopping trolleys and Safeway bags
And old faded Tennents cans from way way back
He seen a bike wheel covered in the long grass
He was gonnae walk past but something said ‘you don’t wanty miss this’
Tore the weeds aff like unwrapping a present at Christmas
And there’s the bike frame. An old ghost of luck concealed
Damp seat but no rust or buckled wheels
He pulls it out and drags it up the hill, the brakes even work
So he rides it hame and (then he) cleans it up
Starts going down that BMX track for a while every day
To say it saved him might seem strange but it put a smile on his face
Tearing about wi an unbreakable force right round him
Ever since the lost bike found him
Recycling. It’s recycling
What goes around comes around like the wheels on that bike
A year later Kid C’s riding the bike hame
It’s getting a bit small, soon he’ll be needing a bigger frame
He sees a sad girl, sat on her own in the town centre
Followed by a storm cloud like even the weather’s against her
He knew what to do as his wheels spun roon
Hit the brakes, went over, said ‘it’s your turn noo’
Gives up the bike, her eyes caught between sceptical and frightening
He says the bike found him last year and this is just recycling
She surprises herself, dries her eyes, takes the bike, shoots a ‘Thanks’
He just smiles and wanders off not looking back
Kid D, gets on the bike, feet on the pedals, heading for home
Her own half-smile reflecting in the chrome
Sometimes you do get what you need, it’s a real thing
The world turns, time passes, wheels spin
But just imagine ma confusion and total surprise
When ma wee sister came cruising home on ma old bike
Clocking in over an hour, a real "Who's Who" of voices over the Astronaut's audio productions in many styles. Supported this for the Ast-Ast and some of my favorite rappers: Texture, Solareye, Laughing Gear (Eaters!), Harlequinade (Soleni), Replicator, and Tickle. Love what is going on in Scotland's hip hop tribe. Oddio Overplay
Keening, yearning, captivating and lovely collection of songs, the sense of close performance all the more remarkable when you learn it was made during Covid lockdown in 2020. The ballads and poems set to music on this album might be hundreds of years old, and while they do have an air of immortal, ancient tradition about them, they sound utterly current. Badzie
