Smooth Talker, by BankSwallow

Smooth Talker

by BankSwallow

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1.	Intro: Fear, Loathing, and Envy 00:33	buy track
2.	Celebrity W*rship 06:42	buy track
3.	Assbook 08:22	buy track
4.	Reckoning 03:41	buy track
5.	Prick of the Century 06:10	buy track
6.	The Flood, pt. 1 02:58	buy track
7.	Smooth Talker 12:03	buy track
8.	Hope 13:25	buy track

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All proceeds will be donated to UNHCR (United Nations High Commission on Refugees, also called the UN Refugee Agency) to help with the many problems - including the war on Ukraine - being created by contemporary tyrants.

Every Swallow is different!
This one’s a bit of burnt shark sandwich for you...

Celebrity W*rship
- beware the “influencers”! (***)

Assbook
- hats (?) off to Heather McLean and Michal Maciej Bartosik!

Reckoning
-the flood is coming...

Prick of the Century
- if only we could inoculate against housing bubbles and fascist sycophants…

The Flood, pt 1
- one day we’ll be hearing underwater

Smooth Talker
- long live democracy!

Hope
- dedicated to musicians, performing artists, essential workers, and everyone drowning in debt...

Bonus Tracks - Exclusive to bandcamp!
Those who purchase the whole album will receive as a bonus track our experimental tune “Pfft”, as well as the full/combined versions of "Celebrity W*rship" and "Assbook-Reckoning"

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released December 4, 2021

Total time, including bonus track: 57:36

(***) of course, we kindof wear our influences on our sleeves here – let us know if you can pick them out!

Note: Bank Swallowz should not be overly-compressed! These tracks may be slightly quieter than other albums – if so, just turn up the volume a touch

In alphabetical order:

Jody Brumell: Drums
Michael Flynn: Guitars (solos left-of-centre), Keys, Vocals
Geoff Martel: Electric Piano, Sitar
Alan Walks: Guitars (solos right-of-centre), Bass, Mellotron, Vocals
(+ special guests: Real Estate Hornography, and Eternal Springs Choir!)

Front and back cover artwork by Jane Walks, © Jane Walks

The middle section of Prick of the Century is an interpolation of part 3 of the ‘The Tulip Song’ by Kevin Howland and Alan Walks

Pfft is composed by Geoff Martel and Alan Walks

All other songs: music and lyrics by Alan Walks

Copyright © 2021 Bankswallow / SubTerfugue Records

....
Hear more of Jody Brumell with Ace of Wands:
aceofwands.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_efuvxskR9ALHuvv7FdoQ

Hear more of Michael Flynn:
michaelflynn.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEFF_nlzLfOWqWxS4tffHsJIvBVyxlCyi

Hear more of Alan Walks and Geoff Martel:
Acoustic Music:
alanwalks.bandcamp.com
Electric Music:
alanwalks-electric.bandcamp.com

Check out the SubTerfugue Records YT channel:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCPtEMimlPrtfXZwvNAh0JEA

...

Lyrics for ‘Celebrity W*rship’

The glowing of your screen,
your image glows back at we
And it says, that you're Someone…
Compared to you we’re a drop in the sea

We’re staring at your screen,
your face smiles back at we
And it tells we, that you're Something…
Something to see, so much better than we

Stare at the telescreen,
your restless eyes follow me
And I know, they’re watching...
Every key that I type, every word that I write

Stare at the telescreen
While I plot my next move…
…..

Lyrics for ‘The Flood, pt. 1’

And we wait at gilded gate
Rattle the chains where we pay
And we wait the darkening claim
Red mark cannot stem the falling rain

Rain
Fall
Will the rain wash away our stain?

And we wait without delay
The river that flows from the lake
calls for

Rain
Fall
Will the rain wash away the coming flood?

All Lyrics copyright © 2021 Alan Walks

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