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All I Need

from Garbage Island by The Burning Hell

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    Gatefold LP with art by Emmie Tsumura. Ecovinyl -- random colour splatter from reused off-cuts at pressing plant.

    As a companion piece to the album, the Garbage Island Ornithological Society is proud to announce the publication of the first edition of the Illustrated Field Guide to the Birds of Garbage Island, edited by Mathias Kom and featuring work by Shary Boyle, Toby Goodshank, Booboo Tannenbaum, Jeffrey Lewis, David Ivar 'Yaya' Herman Düne and many more.

    The first 100 Garbage Island LP orders from each record label will receive a free copy of this groundbreaking ornithological study of future imaginary birdlife.

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lyrics

Nobody cried when the last radio DJ died
He might have been a decent guy, with a great collection of 45s
But there was no one left to hear them, to hear his strong opinions,
To listen to his stories about the band he used to be in
And he looked like he was sleeping, slumped on the mixer in Studio B and
You and I searched the station for provisions and supplies
I took some novelty sunglasses they’d once given as a prize
Which I still wear all these years later on the other side of the equator
These mirrored aviators reflect the whitecaps and the breakers
Yes I am quite a stylish sailor

All that I need is just you and the sea
And some food and fresh water and something to read,
An endless vista, the fancy pen I got for my bar mitzvah
And a semi-decent pair of water skis:
That’s all I need

The beach of broken glass is turning back into the sand it was made with
Is this what the Mariner meant when he said dry land is a myth?
I know I once proclaimed I loved the things that people make
But come on, for heaven’s sake, everybody makes mistakes
I miss the trees I miss the lakes, I hate the things that people break
Down at the edge of this churning shifting floating raft of flotsam
There’s a colony of concrete gannets the ornithologist has forgotten
We set them all up in a row, and we put on an epic show
You play an improvised banjo, strings made out of nylon rope
Stretched on a mannequin torso, look how wild the gannets go
There’s some magic here I know, this pelagic archipelago

All that I need is just you and the sea
And this souvenir shirt and this old DVD 
Of the Jerk (it doesn’t work), and this toy Star Trek phaser, 
And my blazer with the patches and the tweed:
That’s all I need

All that I need is you and the sea
And this picture of us recording ‘No Peace’
A few moments of glory I’ll exaggerate in stories 
That I’ll scrawl on scraps and ask you to proofread:
That’s all I need.

credits

from Garbage Island, track released April 2, 2022
Mathias Kom: guitar, electric bass, vocals
Jake Nicoll: drums, flute, harmonium, vocals
Simon Read: vocals
Charlie Glasspool: vocals
Steve Sharratt: vocals
Jesse Sharratt: whistling

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The Burning Hell

The Burning Hell is the ongoing musical project of songwriter Mathias Kom and multi-instrumentalists Ariel Sharratt and Jake Nicoll, often including additional comrades and collaborators.

Their densely populated genre-shifting songs are packed with an abundance of literary, historical, cultural, and pop-cultural forebears, heroes and villains, subjects and objects, stories and hooks.
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