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Bird Queen Of Garbage Island

from Bird Queen Of Garbage Island by The Burning Hell

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  • 7"+comic: The Burning Hell - Bird Queen Of Garbage Island / Birdhouse In Your Soul
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    a limited edition 7” vinyl with an accompanying comic book written for the project by the French graphic novelist and illustrator Emmanuel Moynot. Exclusively on that 7” you’ll get the Single B-Side, a cover of the They Might Be Giants song “Birdhouse In Your Soul”

    Includes unlimited streaming of Bird Queen Of Garbage Island via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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I dream in oily fluorescent swirls, I speak in plastic
My wardrobe is nylon and PVC, my band is elastic
It’s hard to find decent drumsticks but we’ve got bird bones and bits of buckets
And my drummer can hit she can really raise a ruckus
What’s this crystalline crunching beneath my feet?
It’s just hundreds of fragile skulls of penguins and parakeets
Some died miles away and flotsamed here some expired through violence
And when I say violence I mean I am the Bird Queen of Garbage Island

What’s up with the duck with the plastic quack?
35 North 135 West
Who’s the little girl with the map on her back?
42 North 155 West
Ask the macaque, ask the leatherback:
Polyethylene feathers and a high-vis vest
I am the Bird Queen of Garbage Island

Gannets and gulls, petrels, puffins and pelicans,
Make me a temple of nets and fish skeletons
Next take the buoys, bottles, dongles and ping pong balls
Build a wall all along the horizon and ten times as tall
I lost an eye to an albatross with mischief in his heart
But I replaced it with this ball-bearing painted to look the part
I’m a leader with a singular vision, or if you prefer, a cyclops tyrant
All hail the Bird Queen of Garbage Island

What’s up with the duck with the plastic quack?
35 North 135 West
Who’s the little girl with the map on her back?
42 North 155 West
Ask the macaque, ask the leatherback:
Polyethylene feathers and a high-vis vest
I am the Bird Queen of Garbage Island

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from Bird Queen Of Garbage Island, released December 3, 2021
Ariel Sharratt: drums, packing tape, vocals
Mathias Kom: guitar, tin can, vocals
Jake Nicoll: triangle, Scotch tape, typewriter, synths
Darren Browne: electric bass

Written by Mathias Kom with Ariel Sharratt, Jake Nicoll and Darren Browne. Mixed by Jake Nicoll and mastered by Norman Nitzsche.

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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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