Medicated​-​on​-​Sea

from Scared of Swimming by Lensmen

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Every town has its moment. When real estate moguls swoop in after the artists have had their moment and convert what was once ours into theirs...

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Medicated-on -Sea

At Medicated-on-Sea
we made the waves at last,
watching the Sun
as it spattered mercury pools over mackerel shoals.
The glare drove our eyes to the horizon,
the glare drove our eyes to the horizon
curving from pier to pier.

Still and lost,
we drew on its endless calm,
the harming’s numbing hush
the crushing that had brought us.
We came to this ocean’s drifting kiss
where it gripped us,
trying to forgive us,
trying to forgive us
at the edge of our sea land.

Meanwhile the winds had changed
the turbulence at our backs,
the stacked hacks jabbering across coffee shops that
the new city of Hackney-on-Sea,
the new city of Hackney-on-Sea
was now no doubt the place to be,
was now no doubt the place to be.

At Medicated-on Sea,
where the sun runs out slowly,
we left that water’s edge
to a thousand-starling helix
black brush stroking the last chilling burn
settling in the dusk air,
to the herring gulls hunting burger scraps,
the leaning dinghies soliciting jailbreaks,
while the mugging continued briskly
in the corridors of the town,
while the mugging continued briskly
in the corridors of the town.

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from Scared of Swimming, released November 21, 2017
Alun Hughes on voice
Gavin McClafferty on bass,
Jason Wilkinson on drums
Richard Pead on guitar
Daniel Fisher on keyboards

Recorded at DB Studios, Stroud, May 2017
Miixed and Produced by Lensmen
Engineered by Andrew Butler
Mastered at Optimum, Bristol

Cover image Isa Clee-Cadman

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Lensmen UK

Lensmen four piece are dark and atmospheric.

Formed in Stroud Gloucestershire in 2016 their explorations of the passions with diverse influences from post punk, new wave and psychedelia.

Drawing on themes of death, dying and property speculation they provide a soundtrack to our lives.

Alternating between hard and soft, quiet and loud, Lensmen tell the stories that bind us all together. ... more

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