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Midnight Pine

by Modern Vampires

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    Inspired by a small town in the West Country, Nathan Cable and Ruth Shave tell bittersweet stories contemplating the quieter moments of people’s lives. Cormac McCarthy, Josh T. Pearson and Bruce Springsteen stand out as clear influences at the heart of this bleak documentation of fateful moments of weariness and disillusionment; violence, resilience, and hope. Cable’s modest storytelling and stark acoustic arrangements are anchored by Shave’s mellow and broad synthesizers, forming the sound of Modern Vampires. The duo has self-produced a collection of songs that resonate with an aching restlessness, and which The Wire hailed: ‘A keening edge...rural in the best of all possible ways.’ In November 2018, Modern Vampires sold out their first London headline show.

    The debut album was written and recorded over a period of ten months with only one aim in mind: to serve justice to the real people that lie behind the stories. The pair laid down ground rules at the beginning of the process, limiting themselves to a handful of instruments that would only add scope and depth to the kitchen sink drama and grey backdrops in these West Country stories, leaving the lyric at the forefront of the arrangements. In order to capture the reflectiveness and intimacy of the stories, the entire record was recorded live in bedrooms and living rooms during the small hours of the morning, using only a 4-track tape machine. The record’s raw tangibility is a result of these decisions, which challenged them to focus on the characters’ hearts and souls and deliver meaningful performances.

    Midnight Pine is a tender and quietly political collection of vignettes. ~ Lisa Henderson

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1.
The Crown 04:26
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For thirteen years Jeffery Dunn held it together for his son on a quiet nights he cooks and cleans and settles down to watch the big fight and in the third the phone rings Jenny McGann was in town said she was staying at the Crown Dunn looked at the sleet slide down the windows says tomorrow night I’ll be there from six Hears her crying down the wire thinks God damn Jenny no good liar As the morning pale light came creeping through the home he wakes his sleeping son drinks half his coffee and off they go At work he sells insurance plans to newly wedded couples he looks up as they smile thinks trouble finds us in the end He says young lovers have their struggles but you can’t dig a hole if you can’t buy a shovel Looking back in to the night see’s a little snow coming down dogs chasing their shadows in the town Jeffery walks into the Crown All walks of men drink side by side Jenny McGann calls his name he looks into her eyes blue eye’d rivers flow back in time Says honey don’t look at me with those eyes why you gonna come around here this time say’s the last was the last time you broke the boys heart its not the first time darling you’ve wanted a new start Jenny McGann and Jeffery Dunn walk through the front door of their home in the kitchen he takes a chair she checks their sleeping son Dunn watches the snow black out the windows thinks trouble finds us in the end.
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Boys 03:25
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Tina can I have a teenth morning light bleeding in Tina can I have it all so sweet morning in the household I go down to the carnival I can’t find my boy’s I can’t find my boy’s I can’t find my boy’s Now come the days of begging now come the days of theft now come the days of walking in a street without a home where there walk no soul left where there walk no soul left I can’t find my boy’s I can’t find my boy’s I can’t find my boy’s And where were you in the middle of the night wrapped in the arms of a warmth so tight.
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Tough Love 03:25
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Last night I saw you in the doorway as I was standing in the rain where two hearts meet between the wood and the chain I’d stumbled off the deep end between those concrete cracks picking up the pennies from my pocket and putting each on back Is our love not tough enough is our love not tough enough or am I just giving in when you’re just giving up or am I just giving in when you’re just giving up Well it’s valentines for reprobates and I was first in line I thought if I just walked away you’d be two steps behind lights turn down so low I guess she wonders what it’s worth to keep a little spark burning it’s just a flicker in the universe Is our love not tough enough is our love not tough enough or am I just giving in when you’re just giving up or am I just giving in when you’re just giving up.
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Midnight Pine 06:26
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He awoke in woods in the cold of the night he’d reach out for his child sleeping by his side nights beyond darkness and days more grey than before like the onset of glaucoma through the peep hole of a door A beam of light hit them hard in their eyes uncle Charlie and his men had caught them by surprise dogs bolting and crazed for the fear and the thirst their barking cracking through the stones of the Earth His head hit the dirt then a boot on his throat the men yanked the ropes and put the dogs in a choke a figure gripped the boy and dragged him into the brush and the trees tearing out the filler from his jacket sleeve in the midnight pines in the midnight pines Half a dozen men round a circle on his father the boy heard the blows to his head harder and harder sucking on the last of the cool night air his breathe it laboured in a hopeless despair He spluttered and wheezed on a bed of leaves he mustered what he could and begged brother Charlie please Charlie’s boot on his throat just the wind and the pine snapped right through the bone to the vine in the midnight pine in the midnight pine There was no account no mark for his life they dug an unmarked grave too short for his height his body just slumped like a drunk in a doorway Charlie took the boy and said I’m sorry for what you saw Some months later in Ashfield juvenile for beating a boy all bloody and wild three years later a young funny looking man he stepped out of Ashfield with a letter in his hand His uncle had written him and told him where to come for the answers to what his father had done in the midnight pine in the midnight pine.
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High Price 04:08
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Always wanted to be a soldier since I was three years old but then I grew a little older Thats when my asthma put that dream on hold spent time working on a dairy farm for a while I thought I’d made it good but then I lost my mother thats when I found the YPG brotherhood Pay a high price roll the last die don’t think twice I told my father I was travelling shit I don’t like to lie I travelled on the sand roads to Rojava And when I arrived I told him I was alright Pay a high price roll the last die don’t think twice My nom de guerra was Givara Rojava I was a soldier in war for something worth fighting for In the siege of Manbij city days and nights spent pushing that line bullets flying men were crying sleep was hard to find I see a young brother running running for a beat up door rigged to blow and it blew out blew his ass straight to the floor Pay a high price roll the last die don’t think twice I dropped my gear and I was running so fast a thirty metre dash into the darkness of the blast In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king I ran into my mother arms and the rest feels Just like a dream.
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Body Shop 03:04
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William slides the gates out as buzzards cry and glide across the lake headlights coming up the road they park onto the pits and strip the cars to their bones His father opened up a body shop he’d toil night and day until he his heart gave out and William the found the debts he could never pay He’d do ten cars in a night with a little snow to help him speed up the game and walk out in to the day light to pay off the debts inherited to his name One cold evening Will looked on to the lake the wind carried the silence then they were charging up the road on the breeze the police sirens He ran out into the lake out in to the deepest darkest place he crawled on to the banks held up beyond the trees barely breathing They were shutting down his daddy's body shop raping all the memories of the cornerstone he turned into the brush leaving his footprints in his homeland.
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Slow Dive 04:21
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I knew a girl she was a sweet sweet thing I was twenty one and she was seventeen I’d walk her home almost every night I wanted to be something more in her life I never was and now theres a cold wind blowing and time keeps going but I’m still there in the place on that street I hear her voice call out to me it’s a slow dive drowning out a mortal man’s mind She’s settled down now she's all grown up she raised two kids in the basement of a corner shop some nights I see her when I go in to buy a beer and scratch cards but I never win I never win and there’s a cold wind blowing against my hand wrapped around the can and if I stood if I stood real still I’d hear her voice flowing down the hill she's a slow dive drowning out a mortal man’s mind Her ghost white skin and cherry plum eyes her bastard kids her husband died and I am stumbling I am four sheets to the wind she is staring for a moment and then she cries She cries and it cuts so it cuts so deep it makes me turn and reach out to sweep her tears and all of those wanting years I hear her say something sweet she's a slow dive drowning out a mortal man’s mind.
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Out In The Bay 03:50
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I was working for the local fishing company and one cold morning they called me and Rory back from sea their business had folded they were shutting it down they gave us our last of our cut and sent us downtown Rory and me had been drinking all through the day and at some point I must have passed out and he swept my keys away Some nights I wake up and I’m out in the bay I caste my nets into the waters and watch I them drift away I walked through the front door I climbed up the stairs I walked into the bedroom and they were just lying there and no I didn’t I didn’t think twice my father always told me you can’t steal another mans wife Some nights I wake up and I’m out in the bay I caste my nets into the waters and I watch them drift away And I hear a sweet boy calling out my name I reach down into those cold waters and I fade away I go down.

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released September 28, 2018

Lyrics by Nathan Cable
Music by Nathan Cable & Ruth Shave

Produced by Modern Vampires

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