Get all 18 The Mekano Set releases available on Bandcamp and save 60%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of TiME-FiX, BURNERFRIENDS, IMAGINARY WEATHER, PAREIDOLIA, I MADE YOU A MAP, BLACK ASPIRIN TWO, BLACK ASPIRIN, 432, and 10 more.
1. |
ALL THE SKY (EDIT)
02:47
|
|
||
|
They don't believe
They suffering
For their bellies are full
And their TV's wide
All The Sky
All The Sky
All The Sky
All The Sky channels
Two cars in the drive
|
||||
2. |
SHADOW-PUPPET POLICEMAN
03:17
|
|
||
|
Guided by the hand
Of shadow-puppet, policemen
Waiting for the world to fit
The shape of your belief
Try to understand
The Sadism of the ruling hand
Superstition rules the land
And the shape of your belief
|
||||
3. |
||||
4. |
ALL THE SKY
04:30
|
|
||
|
They don't believe
They suffering
For their bellies are full
And their TV's wide
All The Sky
All The Sky
All The Sky
All The Sky channels
Two cars in the drive
They bow and kiss
The hand that divides
The hand that takes
Accuses and denies
All The Sky
All The Sky
All The Sky
All The Sky channels
Two cars in the drive
|
||||
5. |
|
|||
|
Stolen food
Tastes so good
Celebrate the freedoms
You have lost
Stolen food
Tastes so good
Celebrate the freedoms
You denied all others
|
||||
6. |
|
|||
|
"And... what's the situation?"
"We Eat White Bread Now... It's fine... ?"
Once we've all been transformed into magical jam factory workers living in a sweet smelling 1930s white Britopia, who will The Daily Mail types turn on for their fear porn fix? Apple Sauce labourers? Scrumpers?
On the horizon, like the blush of dawn, I see a bright future, where Blackberries are re-branded as Britberries; where landlords and successful businessmen wear tweed plus fours and gun down berry poachers, as is their right.
Retired Jam Factory workers smile as they wipe sweat from their brows, picking over-sized English apples in their orchard gardens as a new generation of school leavers cycle on down the road
Chorus:
Different colours, different rules
Different classes, different schools
Different colours, different rules
Different genders, different ways of getting screwed
The paperboy passes by at a sensible speed, in cloth cap and high-waisted trousers with braces, gently depositing copies of The Daily Mail on doorsteps dusted with the soft-bright pollen of this eternal English Summer. At the end of the street a woman scrubs blood stains from her WELCOME mat.
Chorus:
Different colours, different rules
Different classes, different schools
Different colours, different rules
Different genders, different ways of getting screwed
We eat white bread now, it’s fine
The air chimes with the scent of freshly baked white bread, the brassy sounds of bicycle bells, C of E bells and the buzz of British bees. We eat white bread now. It's fine.
We eat white bread now, it’s fine
The newspaper headlines are all becalmed and all is right with the Empire. All of the sex perverts have been slain, celebrity sleaze has been lanced, the working class have been inoculated against work shyness, all thanks to the power and might of great English journalism.
No more talk of Muslims or the E.D.L. anymore. For truly, the British Biro is mightier than the unchristian Damascus steel sword of multiculturalism.
We eat white bread now, it’s fine
(We eat white bread now, it’s fine)
We eat white bread now, it’s fine
|
||||
The Mekano Set Liverpool, UK
Adventures in sounds and spaces.
"like a sexier Human League, like New Order on viagra, like
OMD at their most wilfully obscure." The Devil has The Best Tuna
"Filthy electro-rock... like some kind of beautiful crime." Niall O'Keeffe, NME
"Slick spiky electronic rock that screams darkness beneath a seemingly delicate exterior." Natasha Scharf, Metal Hammer.
... more
The Mekano Set recommends:
Milk (The Mekano Set) with Ade B (Mutate / And Fate Was Foolish)
go to album
Superb tense intense dark electrickery / stark greyscale romanticism
go to album
That brittle, honeycomb-centered voice.
go to albumIf you like The Mekano Set, you may also like:
PERFUMES AND FRIPPERIES
by The Wake
The Columbus, OH goth-rock titans return with their first new album in 20 years, doomed romanticism intact.
go to album
Dark and bass-line heavy post-punk from San Francisco.
go to album
Bleak, throbbing work that lands halfway between coldwave and shoegaze, this Berlin group hits that spot just under the breastbone.
go to album
