Our playing is tight, our singing's all right
Is there something that's rubbing you wrong?
In tune and in time, the sound's equalized
Is the problem the band or the songs?
If you knew how long we've been working at this, oh
You'd say we should be awesome, man
We are collaborators, interrogators
Our first band's a well-oiled team
Trying to bloom from a struggling sprout
Drifting in confusing dreams
Where we're handing a cracking chalice spilling cloudy vodka
"Have a drink, aren't you thirsty?"
Yes we are! Recognize us now!
What can we do? Let's keep at this thing until we graduate
We're not that great, but give it time
And we will be awesome
We're gonna get signed, man, I'm sure of it!
credits
from The Cliff,
released October 25, 2019
Words and music by Stanton Hall
Stanton Hall - voice, bass guitar, percussion
D. Ricardo - voice, guitars, percussion
Max Curry - drums
Do you like melodies and intelligent lyrics? Do you appreciate well crafted songs played amazingly well? Then check out this gem. You can't go wrong with a Bye Bye Blackbirds album. They could make bigger t-shirts though. ;-) John Ashfield
Having a predisposition to power pop, plenty of these songs clicked on first listen for me - relating hard to karaoke first dates (“In Love with Everyone”), ethernet-based romances in Oceania (“Jas from Australia” - Nick from NZ here!) and annoyance with Portland’s sterile, monolithic hipster-activist culture: “so many different kinds of white people” nails it, really (“Lucky Devils”). Mo’s tunes are real earworms, but you’ll welcome their tunnels - also, he has great hair. erinmack