REAL LIES - SINKING SUBURB
- 1SHIRLEY ROAD
- 2SHADOWLANDS
- 3I REMEMBER HIGH STREETS
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NEVER SLEEP presents a lesson in the dangers of suburban time travel and piss-head nationalism on SINKING SUBURB, the new EP from REAL LIES.
The small-town storytelling of Kevin Lee Kharas and Patrick King channels Stephen King via Paul Weller on their latest release, with a dreamlike narrative taking in family feuds, wayward girlfriends, funfair beatings, the long-defunct high-street poster shop Athena and the tendency for teenage Edens to curdle into dystopias behind your back.
All three tracks instantly conjure their own eerie, electronic atmospheres that shine and surge like the sun across motorway-adjacent football pitches. We left some words below to the conquistadors themselves…
"SINKING SUBURB is about returning to a childhood hometown that has been trapped in a bubble and eerily preserved behind a time-resistant wall as the world has changed all around it. It’s about the surreal events that take place upon that return to an Eden-turned-sinister, where the air glows bottle green.
In SHIRLEY ROAD, I return to my hometown on the run from some unspecified crime and find my dad still dozing on the family sofa, as Cremonese and Atalanta play out a bore draw on TV. The sounds... more
released November 28, 2023
Photo Ollie Radford
Artwork Alberto Guerrini
The small-town storytelling of Kevin Lee Kharas and Patrick King channels Stephen King via Paul Weller on their latest release, with a dreamlike narrative taking in family feuds, wayward girlfriends, funfair beatings, the long-defunct high-street poster shop Athena and the tendency for teenage Edens to curdle into dystopias behind your back.
All three tracks instantly conjure their own eerie, electronic atmospheres that shine and surge like the sun across motorway-adjacent football pitches. We left some words below to the conquistadors themselves…
"SINKING SUBURB is about returning to a childhood hometown that has been trapped in a bubble and eerily preserved behind a time-resistant wall as the world has changed all around it. It’s about the surreal events that take place upon that return to an Eden-turned-sinister, where the air glows bottle green.
In SHIRLEY ROAD, I return to my hometown on the run from some unspecified crime and find my dad still dozing on the family sofa, as Cremonese and Atalanta play out a bore draw on TV. The sounds... more
released November 28, 2023
Photo Ollie Radford
Artwork Alberto Guerrini
