Dead Melodies

by Jon Samuel

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Wintersleep keyboardist, Jon Samuel, has announced his forthcoming solo record, Dead Melodies – slated for release on February 1, 2019 via Hidden Pony Records/Believe Digital.

Samuel charges through Dead Melodies’ title track with carefree vigour, riding the song’s adrenalized motorik rhythm toward a joyous, anthemic chorus that wields its title as a badge of stubborn defiance rather than defeat.

“When I wrote the song, it was a couple of years after I had finished making a record that nobody listened to,” Jon explains. “I just wanted to write a song about how art and music are undervalued—it’s literally worth nothing in a lot of cases. You make a record, spend a lot of time and money on it… and then it’s basically just free. And disposable, too, because there’s just so much of it. So that was the basic idea of ‘Dead Melodies’—I’m going to put this out there, and maybe nobody hears it, and it might be worth nothing!”

lyrics

NO ONE CAN EVER REPLACE 

WHAT WE’VE NOW GIVEN FOR FREE

TAKE THE TIME TO RETRACE 

COLLECT AND REWIND THE TAPES

REEL THEM IN CASE BY CASE

REDACT AND SEND THEM AWAY

OUT INTO EMPTY DEEP SPACE

CONSIDER IT A COUPE DE GRACE

WHO’S LISTENING ANYWAY?

TO THE SPACE BETWEEN THE NOTES

FOR THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE 

LET THE STATIC PREVAIL 

ALL AROUND ARE

DEAD MELODIES DEAD MELODIES

RINGING IN MY HEAD

DEAD MELODIES DEAD MELODIES

RINGING IN MY HEAD

WE’VE COME FACE TO FACE

WITH THE DOLDRUMS OF OUR AGE

FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE CHASE 

AFRAID TO BE OUT OF PLACE

RUNNING THE RAT RACE

BLACK DEATH AND 

DEAD MELODIES DEAD MELODIES

RINGING IN MY HEAD

DEAD MELODIES DEAD MELODIES

RINGING IN MY HEAD

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released October 26, 2018
Written by Jon Samuel
Produced & Recorded by Loel Campbell
MIxed by Tony Doogan
Mastered by Harris Newman

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