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Sunglasses For The Visionary

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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    edition of 100 

      £13 GBP

     

lyrics

This isn't a cheap can of lager
It's sunglasses for the visionary
East river saint
don't paint me in faint
don't make me out black
don't send me back
I'm caned in the dark
I need an afternoon walk
I need a helluva lot
We need a serious talk
I know what I'm doing
At least in this sense
It's just the rest of the stuff
It's why I had to get bent
It's hard to be smart
There's no reason to work
The view is enough
The truth hurts
Sloppy christ
Take-away rice
It's not bad
It's not nice.

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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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