TV Priest - This Island

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

TV Priest - "This Island" from the 2021 album Uppers on Sub Pop.

With today's Song of the Day, London-based post-punk quartet TV Priest share an early look at their forthcoming full-length Uppers, out February 5th via Sub Pop. In a press statement, frontman Charlie Drinkwater calls the track "an unrequited love letter, and a howl of frustration; a mea culpa and a call to arms." He adds:

"'This Island' is about incoherence and inarticulate responses, both personal and political, in a time and place you don’t fully understand anymore... We wrote this to an increasingly nationalistic and isolationist drum beat playing out at home and abroad, and frankly we are scared and appalled.

As artists we aren’t offering up solutions for living, but maybe we can extend a hand and let someone know that you aren’t alone in feeling under prepared in your responses yet powerful in your convictions.

That small boats can still make big waves. That we have a world to win."

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0:00.0	You're going to. Come live on an item and in his name in his day now was seats on the train.
0:30.0	You'd like to build a new aisle.
0:35.0	Push it out, float alone,
0:39.0	singing all your useless songs. Well, you're drifting out in my way.
0:55.0	Drifted out of my way.
0:57.0	Drifted out of my ways.
1:00.0	Look at sideways from some new traffic.
1:08.0	Strong up shining already out soon.
1:12.0	It was a sunset to a... shining already absolute.
1:13.0	It was a sunset to remember.
1:15.0	As you cross the straits of Dover,
1:18.0	you laughing and waving
1:21.0	and your pin-striped double breast is so heh.
1:24.0	You with my head, my head, my hands.
1:27.0	Where we are trying? in my hands. Well, we're just up in my age.
1:38.0	Tristed out on my wish.
1:40.0	Tristed out on my wish. Dr. Don't fight it. Don't run.
1:52.8	This island will come to you.
1:56.0	The sky is black.
1:58.0	Sometimes up is pretty.
2:00.0	Don't find it. Don't run. But the problem, the world, this island will come to come and
2:08.0	of his island.
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