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Black Part Of Me

from The New Album by Pete Um

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    Warm on the heels of the critically-acknowledged Nochexxx-curated Greatest Hits 10” Can't Get Started comes a full-length 12” vinyl oddity from Cambridge's Pete Um. This time it's a reissue of some old news from 2003, The New Album CD-R redux, in an almost pointlessly limited edition of 100. This is the birth of modern Um, with the sufferheaded voice in stark digital settings and gaffered samples, now expertly remastered for vinyl.

    Contains sleevenotes/lyric insert, custom-made tricky stickered frontage, hand-bodged hole-flap and heavily sexy PVC sleevery. Whole thing cost a bloody fortune :)

    Includes unlimited streaming of The New Album via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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lyrics

There is a Black Part Of Me
There is a little black part of me
Technical! Wack-Michael!
Chubby boy who grew up to be a terrorist
Bonobo chimps.
There is a little black part of me
Oh Um
I forged my chains
I fried my brains
I pull two ways
My heart's a stray
I live for nought
I feel too short
this thing I caught
What hath God wrought?
Oh Um.
Ho hum
There is a black part
My loop is snapped
my girfriend's back
I need a slap
My music's crap
The dogs of war
Have done their chores
Now they lie upon the floor
Licking at their aching paws
There is in fact a tiny part of me which does not belong
A merest sliver of blackness lodged somewhere non-specific and untraceable
And yet I believe the sum of its effects are undeniable
I may seem so good and white but I am really a sort of improbable Guildford Yellowman
Whose course is directed by an unquestionably black centre
It is a shame. I hate this weather.

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from The New Album, released June 19, 2012

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Pete Um Cambridge, UK

"A master of the miniature electro-acoustic song-poem, a form he has more or less invented and crystallised himself, his work displays a sardonic wit combined with a healthy misanthropy, in marvellous micro-collages of voice, instruments, samples, and electronics."

-Ergo Phizmiz ... more

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