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Shuttered Dreams

by Dan Lyons & The Tenants

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through the condensation on a window of a closed up company store jet setter signs his letters on the dot from the killing room floor sticky fingers, the stench lingers from capital to capital with a capital t its all over, and now the whole world’s on its knees we saw you wishing on those stars last night watched as you pulled back the screen you caught us sleeping on a dream he turns the pages, the bloody pages of the black book in his hand he stole the wages, then spent the wages of the proletariat it’s only so long til he reaps what he sows riding bareback, saddle rash on the middle class rodeo we saw you wishing on those stars last night watched as you pulled back the screen you caught us sleeping on a dream no more lies please tell me the truth you stole my freedom but it's no use mr johnson, are you happy? now the whole worlds turning blue everybody’s dying everyones dying just to tell you what they think of you we saw you wishing on those stars last night watched as you pulled back the screen you caught us sleeping on a dream
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no faith in humans anymore their constant judgement makes my blood run cold i’d rather be in bed i feel like i failed my mission on the grounds of no ambition i’ve fallen out with tradition i’m blind to your precision whilst you were window shopping i was building my own coffin all bells and ribbons kamikaze mission i take myself out into the town sole intention melt down i take myself out into the town sole intention melt down i take myself out into the town sole intention melt down no trust in people any more i close my eyes and feel so scared sometimes and others i’m prepared maybe my condition is a series of bad decisions like moving on purpose out of rhythm i hit the reset button to prove that i can trust in others we’re all the same we’ve all got mothers we’re all the same we’re all the same we’ve all got mothers i take myself out into the town sole intention melt down i take myself down town and wait for the river to wash me away hold my breath til monday morning

about

Recorded live in 10 days, with minimal overdubs, Shuttered Dreams is a blast of uncompromising truth reminding us to stay awake when the vultures are circling. The album was mixed by Sean Genockey (Shame, Richard Ashcroft, The Who, Black Crowes).

Margate in March 2021 was a time to test your resolve. If the wind howling round the closed down shops and cafes didn’t send you spinning out of control the out of season coastal melancholy could drag you down as surely as any dead eye mermaid. Add in a murderous virus and a frozen gig scene and it was a time to stay frosty and fight off the demons. Dan had some experience to draw on.

“Instead of baking banana bread or knitting, I decided to upgrade my home studio but after a couple of months of writing it was obvious that the songs needed to breathe as much as I did. They’re all about real people and raw feelings and I felt they wouldn’t get justice by being turned into zeroes and ones so early in life “.

It was decided to record the masters live with his new band featuring Dom Hall (drums), Henry Gabbott (bass) and Freya Warsi (vocals) and engineer friend, Harry Armstrong. Armed only with a Vox Marauder, a skeleton recording studio, and a pad of lyrics, Dan moved in with The Tenants to The Tom Thumb Theatre which like everywhere was closed for business but had just received Arts Council recovery funding and was offering residencies for artists.

“Musically I wanted to try to work within a strict palette of sound, using the same acoustic and electric guitars for every song, and Henry’s Wurlitzer and Mellotron to flesh things out a bit.” Dan explains, “We played all of the songs live, sometimes up to sixty or seventy times until we were happy with a take, we might then add a bit of extra electric, percussion or backing vocals, but what you hear on the record is pretty much what was happening in the room. That makes me feel proud, as all the records I love listening to were made in that way.”

credits

released September 16, 2022

Performed by The Tenants
Recorded at The Tom Thumb Theatre by Harry Armstrong
Mixed by Sean Genockey
Mastered by Ed Woods

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