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Glitter Box

from Play For Today by Ultrasound

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    Play For Today FIERCE PANDA
    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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One word from these cold lips
And the truth will scare
Death waits like a dead weight
In the clear night air

And did we almost lose our way
Behind the grey stone leaders
Or did we merely grab that beat

It seems like we always lose our way
Let down round town and crying
Plunged through a tide of blood lust
Those colonisers bed and

Beat me
Treat me like a lonely girl
Drill me
Then kill me
I swear I’ll never tell

We almost died along the way
Appearing on a game show
Could be the greatest thing we did

Our hands can sketch the stars but
These hands can crush your manhood
You’ve never had it so good
Be careful you might fall in

Love the bones of ancient London
Let fossarians remind them
Here we represent the NUM
And we were hunted by our friends and neighbours
Fences daubed with cruel intentions
We pick the scabs while scratching at the scars
And we’ve been haunted by malefic masons
Raining down on river basins
Rhododendrons lapping at their feet
And those without the means, the cash converters
Wait for news outside the flats where
Paedophiles and killers wait for us, you’ll find me

Out there in the night air
I’m walking home
Keys clutched
Pleading don’t touch
You know this bird can kill

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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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