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Recorded in Cork and Dingle. Mixed by BBF and Mastered by Eoin Hayes, Rebel Recordings, Cork
Cover designed by Fiona O Mahony-Conjun Box and Siobhan Bardsley

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Penumbra

There’s something terribly amiss
All these songs of love and bliss
There’s something terribly unsure
We get our hearts back on a skewer

We built a shrine in honour of a king
And dance on the grave of the memory
And like the hammer and the sickle
It all comes down to just a trickle

Chorus

Don’t deny the other side
There’s always something to play seek and hide
Does confusion make us wise?
Or is it just another
Compromise


I knew a man who had no ears
He hadn’t realised in years
Discovered his body at the bottom of a glass
And found himself attending daily mass

I knew a woman who was crazy
It just transpired that she was lazy
When there was no one left to blame
She sifted through her own suffering and shame

Chorus

Don’t deny the other side
There’s always something to play seek and hide
Does confusion make us wise?
Or is it just another
Compromise


Middle 8th

Fill the Ark with chosen ones
For this rain May never cease
Let the lens of O’Tuama
Capture souls that shall never be released
Acolytes of Elvera
Northern white crap and pink skinned men
Gimp masks and dead mackerel on leather laps
To scare the girls of Montennotte
Try in vain to slay the beast
With poison and with lead
And in black ice
Lower him again
For the colossus is unkillable
A high priest of aberration
He dines
On cyanide and tea cake 🎂 (J. Kelly SOSU)


All this sounds like I’m so bitter
Someone buy me a hurley and a sliotar
I’ll take it all out on those
Sitting here naked in my clothes

There’s something terribly amiss
All these songs of love and bliss
There’s something terribly unsure
We get our hearts back on a skewer


Chorus

Don’t deny the other side
There’s always something to play seek and hide
Does confusion make us wise?
Or is it just another
Compromise

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released December 14, 2022
Additional vocals by J. Kelly

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Big Boy Foolish Cork, Ireland

Big Boy Foolish are Ricky Dineen and Liam Heffernan, a post-punk duo from the northside of Cork City. They both appeared on Kaught at the Kampus (Reekus Records).
Dineen was guitarist in the seminal bands Nun Attax, Five go Down to the Sea? and Beethoven.
Heffernan played with Mean Features and Nun Came Back and he has worked as an Actor.
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