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Side A 18:06
3. SALVATION I found no salvation in either the left or the right, only sympathy for the struggle I've been through No structure to build beliefs on, no sense of reliability, only a deep understanding of what i'm never going to achieve Pathetically I cling to this guff and unwillingly sob Cling to the old way of living while embracing a new kind of approach in memory of the old world you revive a laughter and shred of respect, but the darkness is upon us. I proudly defecated on all the careful construction I had prepared a whole life in the making Well-wishers are not welcome I have actually destroyed a perfectly functional machine Oh shit! And the constant crowing fails to lift any sense of urgency I remain prostrate and swaddled 4. SOIL OF WAR Recall crag-tops and outcrops grazing horizon Sooted stone houses and steep valley sides A babbling Calder cuts its old crooked line Recalling these things under flashing french skies Flowers of enemy fire over head Friends and comrades twisted and dead Inextricably tied to dark pennine moors A man starts to grow in the soil of war 5. PROBLEMS The rumble in our bellies belies a longing In strictness I found nothing but strictness In hate I found so much relief In problems I found problems Ignorance is your salvation I have not coped I have coped a little or I always seem to cope I have not changed I have changed a little or I always seem to have changed 6. FAITH IN WOMEN In squares I lost my faith in women, waiting for all kinds of meeting In gardens of spring scent fulfilling weep for loss of chances fleeting Friends can remain friends as long as you don't attempt to get in touch The depths grow deeper Stop your moping lazy fucker Happiness a concept meant to scupper The brains potential yours to bugger Should it be known it was lost to a lover? While said friends plunder flippancy i was working for a steady wage Although we struck up conversation i can relate to nothing you say With cracking smile and crossed wires which give away my age Stop your moping lazy fucker Happiness a concept meant to scupper The brains potential yours to bugger Should it be known it was lost to a lover?
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Side B 22:58
7. TAKE THE EDGE OFF Took my hand in it's clenched fist walked me up to your illustration of an overwhelming vista Takes the edge of the words that you were about to say Throw your love to the cursing winds and piss the time up the wall Soon we will pass away and what then? Nothing 8. MARTHA She was my Martha, my Alice, and my Kathleen A rugged redemption had rose up in me Alas, I was doomed from the outset It starts at her house and takes me into town I crumpled the paper on which I'd writ it down The work of some prattish imposter I was smitten for sure, did I think that aloud? T'was insufferable, crushing and embarrassing now You know that she turned out to be gay Grabbing my tackle and take the bus into town Grapple with bulls horns and fail to come down In me there was nowt but a weakling It's life as I know it and it's not so great I struggle to work and I procrastinate And now the train it is leaving

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'UnAbleTo', David Thomas Broughton's first effort since 2011's Outbreeding, blends his distinctively rich baritone and folk sensibilities with cut up dance beats and harsh noise loops, making an album completely different from anything that's come before.

A jumble of electronic samples, feedback mishaps and manipulations, mixed with folk songs. All played into the pin mic of a Macbook, colliding on Ableton Live in haphazard and randomised arrangements. A study in seeing what happens. Loops phase, falling in and falling out, locking into ambient sprawl or cutting into manipulated noise.

The lush and strange first single is "Problems", which is as much folk-pop genius as it is a propaganda piece for a new - as yet, unknown and undefined - type of faith. youtu.be/bRsAfPjdg4E

In the physical realm, UnAbleTo is limited to 100 hand-numbered cassette tapes, while also existing perpetually in the digital realm, here provided as two tracks of side A (Untitled 280710, Untitled 3, Salvation, Soil of War, Problems, Faith in Women) and side B (Take the Edge Off, Martha, Rather Forgive).


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released October 29, 2013

Songs and music by David Thomas Broughton
Mastered by Evan Hashi


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Acclaimed live performer. Creating poignant endurance tests for his audiences.

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