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Empty World

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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(Kom / Sharratt / Nicoll / Haynes)

lyrics

I wish I could hear the B52s for the very first time again
Ricky and Fred, Kate, Cindy and Keith, forever and ever, amen
I wish I could remember all the names of the trees that used to grow at the back of the yard
And listen to the sound of the rain on the leaves, and see a raccoon’s eyes light up in the dark

But it’s an empty world

I wish I would’ve learned karate or at least thought about learning karate
If I could’ve trained my body not to laugh at my brain I could’ve maybe trained my brain to control my body
I wish I could see the lights come on one by one in a block of flats
Each little square, there’s a person in there, and I’d just sit around and think about that

But it’s an empty world

I miss the sound of karaoke cowboys trying to sing Sweet Caroline
I miss the rides I never rode on and I even miss the lines
I miss the screaming of the kids on the tilt-a-whirl
Don’t want to be in an empty world

I miss the sound of strangers lecturing other strangers about their children
I miss the different smells on every floor of my apartment building
I miss the kiss of summer beaches and the filthy taste of soft-serve swirl
Don’t want to be in an empty world

credits

from Garbage Island, track released April 2, 2022
Ariel Sharratt: tenor saxophone, vocals
Mathias Kom: guitar, vocals
Jud Haynes: electric bass
Jake Nicoll: drums, flute
Mara Pellerin: vocals
Krista Power: vocals
Kelly McMichael: vocals

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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. ... more

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