The Crown
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
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.
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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from Midnight Pine,
track released September 28, 2018
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