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New Leaves

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 :)

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lyrics

I can’t be fooking harrissed
I’m going to live in Paris
Take LSD
Write poetry
And bollocks to me marriage…
I am a grown man
Me too
Yet I am frightened
Me too
The day is very dark
Evening is coming
Today I’m OK
The sun is shining
All we are is flesh & bone
Pressure sounds
Let the pressure drop
Right on pops
Little communist gift token
Something to do while you’re smoking
All we are is flesh & bone
Spandex index
Heavy metal blunder
Carrot juice and quiet
For yesterday’s demon-chaser
All we are is flesh & bone
You paint your name on everything
Yet still no-one knows who you are
Bantam phantom
The kids don’t know
You don’t check for the pickneys
All we are is flesh & bone
Squalor scholar
Art Mullah Omar
Final reckoning preceded
By innumerable others
All we are is flesh & bone
I’m bored of this apocalypse
I’m always off my bleeding tits
Red milk for you’s inside all this
Caned Christ on the crucifix
All we are is flesh & bone
Waiting for that crucial fix
Smiles weakly at the Roman soldiers
“Alright lads”
All we are is flesh & bone
Help me cross the road!
Bughouse…
You’re insane
I bet you think this song is about you
You’re insane
I bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you?
Don’t you?
Baby?
Last night I had a little dream
An old man called me “dude”
I’d moved out of his way for him
For fear of seeming rude
“Thanks” he said, by way of thanks
To which he added: “dude”
It seemed a bit unlikely
But it did make me feel good.

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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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