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Beautiful Sadness

from Play For Today by Ultrasound

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    Epic pop and prog from the reformed five-piece
    Thirteen years between first and second album is lax by anyone’s standards but then Newcastle-born Ultrasound have never been your typical band. An art-school outfit in the Roxy Music mode and with unashamed neo-prog proclivities, they signed to Suede’s label during the post-Britpop feeding frenzy, released a minor classic and then split under pressure in 1999. Thankfully Play For Today picks up where debut Everything Picture left off - with the thunderous baroque n’ roll anthem of opener Welfare State. Epic and heartfelt are Ultrasound’s strengths and few do it better, whether on the snarling, swinging post-glam of Goodbye Baby, Amen or the emotive use of a colliery brass band on Between Two Rivers. “I’ve only ever written music for the future,” singer Andrew ‘Tiny’ Wood said recently. Perhaps Ultrasound’s time has finally come.
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Oh broken super hero
Something in you leads you to the darker side
A church of chrome and neon
Cyborgs dancing beneath a cataclysmic sky

In the Beautiful Sadness
Enchanted we fall
Into beautiful sadness
Dying like swans
Deliverance comes
Takes its things and leaves

With Rock and roll still ringing in my ears
She sings softly
Let’s fade together you and me
Where the lonely shadows sleep
I lost my love but I did not lose my dignity

In the beautiful Sadness etc

Home sweet heartbreak

In the beautiful sadness etc.

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from Play For Today, released May 1, 2020
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Ultrasound London, UK

Ultrasound are an English indie rock band. With roots in the British underground psychedelic and experimental rock scenes of the 1980s and early 1990s, the band emerged in 1997 and soon gained attention for their "operatic prog-glam ambitions" and "violent reworking of the idiosyncratic compositions of Captain Beefheart and the staged ambisexual pop idioms of the likes of David Bowie ... more

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