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Degenerate Art

by Oskar's Drum

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    CD comes in a gatefold card digisleeve with 8 page booklet featuring lyrics by Patrick Fitzgerald and photographs by Karl Harris

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1.
This Dancing 05:15
If you touched me You’d turn my bones to buttons If you moved me You’d muffle bad screams Butter my jeans With your slingback strutting I’d succumb if you touched me I’d belong you big thug There’s only this dancing, dancing, dancing To keep us sane There’s only this dancing, dancing, dancing To keep us sane Just keep swinging K-keep yourself on your feet Let's stick to the dance floor Let's stick to the beat Get out of the game! Gotta get out of here Get out of the game! Gotta get out of here There's only this dancing, dancing To keep us safe There’s only this burning, burning Deep inside my veins There's only this yearning, yearning Deep inside my veins Deep inside my dancing Deep inside my dancing
2.
Hotel 04:12
Stuck in the dark Hotel window Turn down the heat I’m sweating for two Night sweats are leaking T-shirt is dripping The corridor’s quiet I must get ice Breathe in, breathe in My phone is asleep There’s no frequency Burning, I’m burning Call it a night These neon shadows fight Hiding behind These rancid curtains They flicker back Just stale cigar Don’t get caught I’m always learning Don’t give the boys Any clues or cards Nothing opens up in here Everything is locked Inside this cubicle The simple truth is dodged Nothing opens up in here Everything is hot Outside the air is sweet In this hotel I rot I fret and rot Breathe in, breath out My smoked lungs are shot There’s no getting out Burning, I’m burning Call it a night These neon shadows frighten the heart out of me
3.
I’ve been here before Before the wars This very square Where they burned the books, then the boys We’ve been here before 1932 once more This is the forest But now there’s no sign of it Of the men, of the women, Of the boys, of the girls And their bones Of their bones You come here again Bringing your people This time we’ll win you say Your banners spinning You can’t see the fire The scorched lands behind you And their bones He’s come here to heal To lead his people They look like him Not like other people I know We’ve been here before It's 1932 once more The camp where we gathered Now there's no sign of it With these men, with these women With these boys, with these girls And their bones Have my bones
4.
Walker 05:39
Blackthorn wants my jacket Hawthorn wants my hat Bramble wants the skin of my shins Magpie wears his crown Black Crow wears his knife Goldfinch wears his bright yellow gown She flew in July Fern, foxglove, butterfly She drew me a blueprint Simple yellow worlds In the hospital sun You hear the murmurs? There is no time It has poured and will pour Through fingers for years Water and sand Carbon and diamonds Longer than breaths Please relish every little flash A kingfisher leaping A dancing blue jay Goldfinch in his bright yellow gown We go out walking in the woods today Carry the body, carry the clay
5.
Suffocation 05:01
Out in the cold night the porch lights glitter You press toward me I feel you shiver Thought we were done, then this touch Could years of isolation be losing their frost? Mad, bad at times, achingly blind Here in the warm house We sit in quiet Who’ll be the first now to break the silence? The fire is warm, invite me close You stare and stare and stare till my blood runs cold How much silence can I take tonight? Oh god I missed you, oh god how much How much kindness in your hands? Oh god I missed you, oh god how much How much sadness in your eyes? The cat is curled up tightly The dog is twitching limbs Come watch the moon rising up Let’s dance, sway, dance to its silvery beat How much anger sparkles in your eyes? Let me in Don’t suffocate
6.
Dome 05:27
An empty world Coloured ice pale blue Frozen forms No me, no you A glass white sky Thinned out and airless A glass white life Skinned off and careless I want a dome To sleep beneath To sleep to sleep To sleep without meds It's not the fighting That leaves me feeling cold I haven't lost my courage I have no second soul I want a dome To sleep beneath To sleep to sleep To sleep without meds You left I closed the dome You left I closed the door You left This fight for breathing One lungful at a time I ask for moral oxygen One truth of his to match mine This empty world It's pale paler blue I watch these empty skies No planets no stars
7.
Magnetix 03:42
The lamplighter comes, spill on fire Kerpow and zapping with his neon hands This city needs its light, he says It’s time to illuminate, he cries The dark electric parade. The cages are open, the animals are out Electric lions and software cows If you're coming Make it soon And if you're coming I'll keep the doorway open for you If you're coming make it wild Magnetix thighs majestic lies Please don't ground us We want space We want outer space Make the robots safe Make our robots safe For the children No bites, no shocks, no sharp cuts Tonight it's every light Lit and bright Here we come
8.
Her eyes, her scowl Blow me down Her sisterly conspiracy She takes the key and leaves She's smashing She's nailing her hands To the piano She's smashing She's chaining her hands To the piano again tonight Let's crack the bedroom door Let's crack the bathroom walls She's cut his head, she's cut his head off, hoppla! Her tongue, her crown Hold me down Her thumb, her frown Blow me down
9.
This is the pillow That will hold your head As your tongue recedes and your skin contracts The pallor waxes and the livid spots bloom Your eyelids retract leaving discs of brown This is the pillow That will hold our heads Our tongues are cracked and our jaws are slack Arms and legs with so much skin Will lie unaware, they won’t twitch again This is the pillow that’s wet with lover’s tears And this is the normal way Life disappears This is the pillow that's wet with lover’s tears And this is the normal way Life disappears This is the pillow That will hold all our heads
10.
Say No 04:55
Say no in a haircut Say no in your morning song Say no in your walk to the park in the morning Say no in your poem Saying no on badges Saying no, over and over again Saying no, until it’s numbing And the lights come up at the end of the show And the lights come up and it's time to go Say no It’s tiring but resistance Is the joy of holding your breath Until the orange man is frozen Reaches enlightenment or death The terrible beauty of a tiger’s teeth A bird pecking on glass The snow falling in Outer Mongolia The rainbow at your baby’s birth All gone Let’s sing no in the morning Let’s sing no together at night On the streets where we silently gather Till the lights come up at the end of the show Till the lights come up and it's time to go

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Degenerate Art is the second album from Oskar's Drum. The first album - A Cathedral of Hands - was released to critical acclaim in 2016:

"strong stuff indeed"
Q MAGAZINE

"feverish and transporting"
MOJO

"sweeping soundscapes of melodic, distinctly '90s alt.rock"
UNCUT

"Patrick's voice still sounds really, really good and the whole album has such a timeless feel about it"
BBC 6 MUSIC [Gideon Coe]

"The welcome return of Patrick Fitzgerald from Kitchens Of Distinction. Gorgeous heartfelt songs that swoop and soar. Lovely stuff!"
PICCADILLY RECORDS [Manchester]

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released October 26, 2018

Written by Yves Altana and Patrick Fitzgerald
Produced by Yves Altana
Harmony vocals on This Is The Pillow by Danny Ashberry
Monumental Photography by Karl Harris

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Oskar's Drum are Yves Altana and Patrick Fitzgerald [Kitchens of Distinction, Stephen Hero] with live accompaniment from multi-instrumentalist Danny Ashberry

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