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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A ‘paranoia of sound’ surrounds spoken word performer Johny Brown on this deep dive into the 21st Century splintering of consensus, the explosion of extremist politics, and the havoc wrought by Covid-19.

    Spoken word / sound art / drone

    12" lathe-cut record produced in-house on a valve-driven RCA studio-quality lathe from the rock n’ roll-era. Recorded and mixed to open reel, and mastered to 12” disc by Dog Tunnel, Slurred Words 2 has the feel of an artefact from a more coherent past. It is also a warning to be on guard against misdirection as we drift towards fragmentary and intangible digital futures.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Slurred Words, Volume 2: Detrimental Connotations via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days
    edition of 50 

      £25 GBP or more 

     

  • Cassette + Digital Album

    All physical formats are strictly limited editions produced in-house, recorded and mixed to open reel, and mastered to cassette by Dog Tunnel. Slurred Words 2 has the feel of an artefact from a more coherent past. It is also a warning to be on guard against misdirection as we drift towards fragmentary and intangible digital futures.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Slurred Words, Volume 2: Detrimental Connotations via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days
    edition of 25 

      £6 GBP or more 

     

lyrics

OFFICIAL SENSITIVE
How many hours have you wasted?
How much time have you had on your hands?
How much of this have you accounted for?
How many remarks are lost to time?
How much promise has shaped your destiny?
How much of this is on record?
How many records have you owned?
How many great songs have owned you?
And in listening to the great songs how many drinks have you consumed?
How many hangovers have followed?
How many books have you read in time?
How many sentences of real beauty?
How many passages of ugly fail?
How many moments of simple truth or rash conjecture, complicated notions, impossible situations?
How many happy or unhappy endings?
Resolution is fake / a man’s character decides his fate / discuss?
How much joy in the spirit of collectivism?
How many sad enforced lost and lonely nights?
How much destruction caused?
How many times constructivism won the day?
How many moments of illumination creamed by enlightenment?
How many conspiracy theories seen through?
How many great adventures abandoned?
How much delusion does a man need?
How many people have you charmed?
How many friends have you insulted?
How many enemies have you flirted with?
How many alien beings have you embraced?
How many people have you slept with?
How many people have you not slept with?
How many people have hurt you?
How many people have you hurt?
How many people have you offended?
How many people have you rejected?
How many hows I’m asking you here?
I’d count them all but it’s useless and futile, just too time consuming
Still it seems as if we’re just getting started here
A penny of your why’s for a few more of my hows…
How many liberties have I taken?
How many laws have I subjected myself to?
How many times have I grovelled to the boss?
How many times have I laughed like a king?
How many times have I bullied, taunted, mocked those less able or as well-disposed as myself?
How many times have the bullies ganged up on me?
How many times have I endured hatreds, injustices and outright despicable criminal mentalities?
How many times have I achieved a justice?
How many times have I won?
How many times have I lost?
How many plans made?
How many dreams fade?
How many contracts signed?
How many conditions agreed to?
How many agreements torn up?
How much was rain, how much was sunshine?
How many hospital beds?
How many hours in doctors waiting rooms?
How many ablutions?
How much strain how much stress?
How many pills in the times you were depressed?
Counted against the days of sheer happiness?
A much smoother surface and no tint in the wash
How many Fred Perry shirts?
Lacoste, Lyle and Scott, Tachini?
How many names have we owned in our time?
How many personas have we inhabited?
How many times have we flattered to deceive?
How many great notices have we received?
Unreserved and fully deserved, though most often the opposite of that.
How many actors have read our lines?
Played out our parts, made love for us, endured hate for us?
Died great sacrificial tragic deaths on stage for us?
How many great centre forwards have scored us our goals?
How many fleeting figures on the wing?
How many dependable characters able to harness the defence?
How many like us were willing to go out on the offence?
How many offensive texts, actually?
How many junk e-mails, drearily?
How many letters of old?
Of paper and pen with a story to be told.
How many twitter posts
How many Facebook accounts?
How many tumblr memories, instagram snaps
How much echo how much digital crap
How many wars though, it always boils down to how many wars?
How de-sensitive are our feelings considering war, porn, crass politics?
Are we spiritual minded still?
Have we held on to those early ideals?
Are we experiencing personal growth?
How is my heart these days?
My heart?
How is my heart these days?
To think how many times my heart has been torn
To work out the times I have died and been reborn
But it’s getting late.
How much time can you waste now?
How much time have you still on your hands?
How much longer can we keep going on?
In this uncertain fashion, this worrisome style, opening wounds, spinning the mind, concluding nothing
It’s getting late
And who are we, what are we made up of, is it to be this, thus…

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from Slurred Words, Volume 2: Detrimental Connotations, released November 15, 2020

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