LET'S GET LUCID
by BABAL
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album6 panel digipack with original art by Glen Tomney and Russ Brown, booklet contains lyrics and pics of the band.
Includes unlimited streaming of LET'S GET LUCID via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 3 daysedition of 100£12 GBP or more
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Purchasable with gift card
£12 GBP or more
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Smoking with the Devil
Meet the devil; I’ve been smoking with the devil,
I’ve been digging in the bin, for the last fag I gave up I wanna drag…
In a fit of healthful vigor; scoured out now I draw breath, for a lungful of smoke
And I can’t see the joke, that the vapid vaporists do,
What are they missing? With their sucking and hissing; like taking a leak….without the pissing.
My joy is the intake, not the hit; searching for rollies in jumbled up shit!
But this is raving! This is nicotine craving; I’m smoking with the devil, I wanna meet the devil…….
As we lean into hell, with a smoke in our hands
And the devil lights up with a blaze of demands.
Burning our thoughts on a list of commands,
I just wanted fame! I just wanna blame!
Sweet suck succulent face of reddening shame
Walk the coals and feel the pain; you stepped on many
To get your share, no remorse, you didn’t care!
He draws the blood and sinks the bones.
Takes the chips out the mobile phones
Good for scrap, his other business…
Plus, car boots, fairs and garage sales,
Fetes, bazaars and cleaning houses,
Raising Cain and personal hell,
I’ve been smoking with the devil
And now the pay-off for his lordship, the devil,
The final level, success success
All the money, all the houses, all the botoxed spouses,
Now it seems I played for nothing
No better than I thought
Straight to hell
I’ve been smoking, I’ve been smoking, I’ve been smoking with the devil, with the devil, with the devil, with the devil…..
I’ve been smoking with the devil!!!!.....
Karen Langley
Learn to entertain yourselves
Learn to entertain yourselves; before it’s too late,
Take a moment to release the gate that lets in all those neural sparks…. That follow paths, but leave no marks.
No-one can tell you what you’re thinking, all the CCTV and the eyes that see you from every angle of your world,
They can keep looking in, but they’ll never find a crack of light that takes them anywhere good!
When all their eyes are on seek and destroy, seek and destroy; not love!
Moving through time and space, a poetic shadowman leaving golden imprints all around,
What will you leave, what will you leave, what will you leave behind?
A pile of payment slips, some packages from Amazon, some hot tips for e-bay, some twitters, some posts, some blogs some suck-minded numbing dogs of intelligence!
That hack, hack, hack away all your real romance.
That small glance away, to a vista broad and green, to a vista broad and green,
Not like the rain forest, just your little piece of grass, at your window
Take off your shoes, go walk on the wet, wet, wet grass
And let this neural highway pass you by for a while,
Learn to entertain yourselves before it’s too late,
Lift your face away from the blu-ray and say hello; to the day, to the day, to the day……
We do not understand, we are dazzled and dormant, the knowledge will be discordant; we will see the music, we will hear the light!
Dazzling, dizzying, coming undone, dazzling, dizzying, coming undone, dazzling, dizzying, coming undone!......
The sound of love inherent; Divine rhapsodic fellowship;
We lay in lambent light, we lay in lambent light,
Who does not want us to hear?
Karen Langley
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RADICAL
09:52
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Radical
Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Year; how long do I have to sit here?
Are you happy sat down there in your new shoes and your smart hat and your bag?
I don’t want to be like that; I want to be radical.
When do you stop being radical? Does it come with age? Are you born to be thinking a different way?
When will you get peace in your mind?
No more soft-peddling now; I want to be radical.
Speaking from the front of the car, not back seat driving, or skiving in my 9 to 5 late lunch latte long meetings and greetings.
The new investors who steal my vest, even when I do my best!
We want everything for less!
How can we cut, prune, get rid of too soon, the Natural Wastage, the sick and Aged….
Get gone, cut corners! Get gone, cut corners!
I wanna be radical! I wanna be radical!
I don’t want to trim the edges, hide behind Hedges of big-time profits,
Big wave injections to curb the infections
But the deep cut finish won’t win or diminish
I want to be radical! I want to be radical! I want to be radical; I want to be radical!
It’s too far gone; it’s too far gone….
It’s not a bomb, it’s not a bomb, or a man, an incendiary plan!
Change is coming! Change is coming!
See them all running, see them all running!
Doing their sums with their pants falling down, killing the crowd by being a clown, a clown, a clown, a clown with a switchblade under his coat; the clown with a switchblade next to your throat!
RADICAL, RADICAL LET’S BE RADICAL, RADICAL, RADICAL!
Before it’s just a tea-towel, a garden trowel, a box of sweets and frozen treats.
RADICAL CLOTHES, RADICAL SHOES, RADICAL STANCE WITH NOTHING TO LOSE
RADICAL NOISES, RADICAL SONGS, RADICAL VOTING TO RIGHT ALL THE WRONGS!
RADICAL MONEY, RADICAL DEBT, RADICAL WEALTH HASN’T REACHED US YET!
RADICAL PHONES, RADICAL BONES, RADICAL COPS, RADICAL CLONES!
Radical is only the start; Radical just plays its’ part
I WANNA BE RADICAL, I WANNA BE RADICAL, I WANNA BE RADICAL, I WANNA BE RADICAL
Or maybe I’ll just be good and sit in a corner, drink my drink. Can you get me some peanuts? I’ll sit here, I won’t say a word; I’ll be a GOOD GIRL, I’ll do my sums, I’ll do everything you ask me to; just make sure I know what I’m meant to be doing, because I’ve lost my reason TO BE SANE, TO BE SANE, TO BE SANE, TO BE SANE,TO BE SANE, TO BE SANE, TO BE SANE………
I WANNA BE RADICAL!!!!
Karen Langley
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GOING HOME
08:33
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Going Home
Going home, going home, going home,
Rushing wind, rushing wind, rushing wind pins me down to the ground;
Fleeting wings of rooks skid by; the creak of door on rusty latch,
Seagulls breeze, way up high, no two mornings are the same.
It is all a different time, a special shape of Autumn.
Only shows itself to quiet eyes.
A slow drifting gaze,
No light from below; blackest overview, stretching out to sea………..
Where seagulls lift and lift in flight; seascapes hold the dazzling night; ships cut through the foreign maps, between the banks and rocky traps.
Never will come and never will go; before the secrets held below; empty ships and empty shores; Shake the Humans to their cores!!!
Why do they come? They keep returning; what is the lesson they are learning?
Retarded growth, a split chromosome; a Star Bright path to Glorious HOME,
Going Home, Going Home, Going Home……
Karen Langley
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GOING HOME - VOCAL MIX
06:41
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about
BABAL’s latest album release is perhaps their most fluid and fearless yet.
The first 50 buyers of the CD will also get a free CD copy of our new live album “Life is Always in the Wild”, available to buy separately from November 18th. It includes 2 new tracks not yet recorded in the studio – “Truth is an Open Sky” and “Life is Always in the Wild”.
Their 9th album “Let’s Get Lucid” explores encounters with alter-egos and inner conflicting personalities in some beautifully flowing “songs”.
The reality is that these songs have evolved from BABAL improvisations, strong with the sense of foreboding and eclectic themes which BABAL have made their trademark.
Opening track “Smoking With The Devil” affords a great introduction from Rob Williams and Jon Sharp before Karen Langley confides in husky tones “I’ve Been Smoking with the Devil” and leads us through the strange mazes of addictive behaviours and also the pain of living to conformist values. A bluesy epic of a song that sticks in the mind.
The track segues into the next piece “Learn to Entertain Yourselves”, a bittersweet invitation to get out of your techno-head and “step outside onto the wet wet wet grass and let those neural highways pass you by for a while”. This track is a real mix of styles (in it’s favour) with certain whimsical characteristics, hardening into some great circus-style rhythms from Jon, flushed out by Rob’s intricate guitar harmonies and synth patterns.
On then to “Radical”, the single from the album. “Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year , how long do I have to sit here? I wanna be radical” opines Karen in world-weary mode at the start. She takes us into her world of the outsider, coping with the demands and commands of the corporate business world.
Its’ jazz feel really works as Rob and Jon pull the song forward into a frenzied rush, matching Karens’ post-punk angst admirably. “When do you stop being radical?”, Karen poses the question in many forms. A song that comes from a need to self-empower after years of political misrule.
A complete change for the last track “Going Home”; (though there are two instrumental versions of “Radical” and “Going Home” as extras after this last song.) Lush melancholic vocals form the heart of this song, accompanied by beautiful plangent synth and guitar. Karen encapsulates feelings of loss, grief , hope and resurrection in this piece, which was written by the sea, post cancer. Rhapsodic and full of yearning, a finely tuned ending to “Let’s get Lucid” from BABAL.
The first 50 buyers of the CD will also get a free CD copy of our new live album “Life is Always in the Wild”, available to buy separately from November 18th. It includes 2 new tracks not yet recorded in the studio – “Truth is an Open Sky” and “Life is Always in the Wild”.
Their 9th album “Let’s Get Lucid” explores encounters with alter-egos and inner conflicting personalities in some beautifully flowing “songs”.
The reality is that these songs have evolved from BABAL improvisations, strong with the sense of foreboding and eclectic themes which BABAL have made their trademark.
Opening track “Smoking With The Devil” affords a great introduction from Rob Williams and Jon Sharp before Karen Langley confides in husky tones “I’ve Been Smoking with the Devil” and leads us through the strange mazes of addictive behaviours and also the pain of living to conformist values. A bluesy epic of a song that sticks in the mind.
The track segues into the next piece “Learn to Entertain Yourselves”, a bittersweet invitation to get out of your techno-head and “step outside onto the wet wet wet grass and let those neural highways pass you by for a while”. This track is a real mix of styles (in it’s favour) with certain whimsical characteristics, hardening into some great circus-style rhythms from Jon, flushed out by Rob’s intricate guitar harmonies and synth patterns.
On then to “Radical”, the single from the album. “Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year , how long do I have to sit here? I wanna be radical” opines Karen in world-weary mode at the start. She takes us into her world of the outsider, coping with the demands and commands of the corporate business world.
Its’ jazz feel really works as Rob and Jon pull the song forward into a frenzied rush, matching Karens’ post-punk angst admirably. “When do you stop being radical?”, Karen poses the question in many forms. A song that comes from a need to self-empower after years of political misrule.
A complete change for the last track “Going Home”; (though there are two instrumental versions of “Radical” and “Going Home” as extras after this last song.) Lush melancholic vocals form the heart of this song, accompanied by beautiful plangent synth and guitar. Karen encapsulates feelings of loss, grief , hope and resurrection in this piece, which was written by the sea, post cancer. Rhapsodic and full of yearning, a finely tuned ending to “Let’s get Lucid” from BABAL.
credits
released November 18, 2023
Karen Langley - Vocals
Rob Williams - Guitar, guitar synth, bass, programming
Jon Sharp - Bass
© Karen Langley/Rob Williams
Karen Langley - Vocals
Rob Williams - Guitar, guitar synth, bass, programming
Jon Sharp - Bass
© Karen Langley/Rob Williams
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BABAL England, UK
One speaks and a thousand misunderstand
where millions are silent and a thunderous applause erupts
where chatter
overwhelms humility and gossip destroys worlds
the tongues wag, the ears flap and the mind creates a wall
everything has been said but no one has understood
talking with conviction and concluding that knowledge is easy and effects a multitude of expanding smokescreens around truth
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