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Ain't No Blues in the Ol' Bronze Sky

by Trashcan Phoenix

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'Ain't No Blues in the Ol' Bronze Sky' is an apocalyptic blues infused horror about our future under climate crisis if the rising far-right coalition wins. In ancient Greece, scholars realised there is little/no reference to the colour blue, apparently because the concept didn't exist yet - instead the sky is refered to as "bronze". In their nostalgia for an idealised before time (Make America Great Again, Take Back Control), the far right may lead us back to the old times where the sky is bronze once more.

Trashcan Phoenix’s music is a film noir evocation of artists like David Lynch, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Portishead. It is by turns melancholy, mischievous, sensual and nightmarish.

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I can see for miles and miles, but you cannot see me…
Won’t you come down?

Abraham killed Isaac, Saturn ate him whole -
The rich and the retirees keep shovelling the coal.
We all gotta suffer, but you, you gotta die,
And there ain’t no blues in the ol’ bronze sky.

Desert eats the jungle, locust eats the wheat
From the hanging jaw of victory, the scale of our defeat.
A broken down oil rig rears up to the on high,
And there ain’t no blues in the ol’ bronze sky.

The pious filled their buckets to bail out the flood –
We shot holes in them buckets, and meanwhile Atlas just shrugged.
It was the countryside’s decision, as the cities capsized,
And there ain’t no blues in the ol’ bronze sky.

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released September 2, 2022
Music and lyrics by Martin Bowman

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Trashcan Phoenix London, UK

Trashcan Phoenix’s music is a film noir evocation of artists like David Lynch, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Portishead. It is by turns melancholy, mischievous, sensual and nightmarish.

It is the solo project of Martin Bowman, based in London.
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