Midnight Pine
from 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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lyrics
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.
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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from Midnight Pine,
track released September 28, 2018
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