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Mr Fogg
Oxford-based musician and founder of Kicking Ink Recordings.
"Genius" - NME / "Stunning" - Dazed & Confused / "Wonderful" - Zane Lowe, BBC Radio 1
office@kickinginkrecordings.co.uk
First single from my first album in seven (!) years In Paradise. Pre-order the album on ltd 12-inch vinyl or digital download via https://mrfogg.bandcamp.com/ and get this track straight away.
Radio edit: https://soundcloud.com/mrfogg/living-underwater-radio-edit
Just-for-fun techno-ish remix of Living Underwater, inspired by memories of Space Ibiza in the early 000's.
Radio edit of Living Underwater, the first single from my first album in seven (!) years, In Paradise. Pre-order the album on ltd 12-inch vinyl or digital download via mrfogg.bandcamp.com/ and get this track straight away.
Lyrics:
We are brilliant We are lucky And we don't need your help The best food The best genes We look after ourselves
And you know If we got here Then so could anyone else Before point at me Take a look at yourself
We don't crawl out of the swamp Unless we get what we want Unless we get what we want Unless we get get get oh no We don't crawl out of the swamp Unless we get what we want Unless we get what we want Unless we get get get oh
Look yourself in the eye You'll see you could be like me My brains My luck My dollars is all you need
We don't crawl out of the swamp Unless we get what we want Unless we get what we want Unless we get get get oh no We don't crawl out of the swamp Unless we get what we want Unless we get what we want Unless we get get get oh
Where I live, deep in the countryside, the roads are empty of cars. There are no planes in the sky. It is perfectly silent.
I spend all day at home with my children, and when I leave the house once a day I see nobody else on the footpath.
We are sealed off from the rest of the world with the sunshine and the apple blossom.
On the surface, we are living in paradise. But we are only here because we are in the midst of a global crisis that is killing thousands of people every day. Holding those two ideas in your head at the same time is exhausting and disorienting. And this song is the best way I know to express that.
Lyrics:
We are forced to live In Paradise The four of us Don't go outside We play games and build and climb And the sun shines
When your car's not racing There's less blur at this pace, and How clear I see your faces
I am the threat that you see through I am the heat you don't feel Till I'm under you
We are forced to live In Paradise The four of us Meanwhile outside They put their face against the fire Day after night
If you hear me complaining About cancelled trips on planes, then Show me where I'm failing
I am the threat that you see through I am the heat You don't feel Till I'm under you
Taken from the new album "Youth"
Written, arranged, produced and mixed by Mr Fogg
Violin - Antonia Pagulatos Cello - Leonie Adams
Lyrics:
I'll take the first flight home Try to hold on Till I touch down
'Cause there's still so much Left to say And no-one left to hear
When I rewind I'm just a camera On a Crane
That's not me Collapsed in the street Driving through saltwater
'Cause this can't be
Yesterday 45 unelected men and women became new members of the House of Lords. These people - selected at the whim of the Prime Minister - will now vote on the laws of the United Kingdom until they die or retire, without having to bother themselves with the dirty business of elections. That we still have an unelected second chamber is indefensible for a modern democracy and hypocritical for a country that advocates democracy around the world.
Among the 826 peers that now sit in the House of Lords are 26 Church of England bishops - the Lords Spiritual - who describe their presence in the House of Lords as an "extension of their general vocation as bishops to preach God's word". The idea that preaching God's word is an acceptable or desirable activity in a modern parliamentary institution beggars belief. Not least when unelected bishops are arguing and voting against motions that have a majority of support among elected representatives in the House of Commons, such as legislation to allow same-sex marriage.
No House For These Thoughts is a song about these bishops.
Mr Fogg - "Time To Ascend"
Taken from the forthcoming album "Youth".
Written, produced and performed by Mr Fogg. Mixed by Valgeir Sigurdsson.
Trumpet - Dave Bacon Cello - Leonie Adams