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Between Two Rivers

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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Between two rivers there's a Calvary
A rolling mill that drains the hills
And did those hobnailed boots on ancient clay
Walk in endless rain and skies of grey

Hear the ghosts of mouldy soldiers
Marching through the rain
To find their homes again
Past the churches of the Methodists
To rest their lonely bones
On cenotaphs of stone

This is the land I love
Although it sounds so asinine
This is the air I breathe
The only stones I've ever known
Are the paving stones of home

Born between the Mersey and the Dee
All human life is here
We live and grow and die
And when I stand upon the cold white shores
I'll raise my hand and wave bye-bye

Between two rivers made of rain
Made in England is their claim
From blood and bones and pain
And political campaigns

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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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