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Flat Earth Theory

by Who Killed Nancy Johnson?

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    We took all four tracks from 2018's Flat Earth Theory EP (only available until now via download or stream - see what we did there?). We added stunning and exclusive wall-of-sound remixes of the four tracks from 2017's Cops and Robbers EP, plus three bonus tracks not available anywhere else. Stuck it all on a CD in a beautiful cover featuring original art.

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1.
Strip 01:53
Come under the light I can look in your eye Something mysterious Lives deep inside Shake out your hair I want to see less Slide out of your shoes Take off your dress Unpeel your skin From each sweet curve Divide your heart and Unpick each nerve Roll out your bones And let them drop Keep on stripping down Please don’t stop Unseal your cranium Let me see you think Your cerebellum Tickled pink Strip to the magic I Strip to your soul Show me what you got to show You are the goal Must have closed my eyes Where did you go Where the centre ought to be Only an o
2.
Alien 04:05
So I got this new idea - took root inside my ear And settled down - made itself at home It coloured all I saw - black and white and red and more It gripped my mouth - hardened out my bones Living inside me - growing inside me Blood bud button in my brain forcing out a flower of pain Living inside me - growing inside me Ready to tear, ready to burst - something human, something cursed It’s all beyond control - comes from deep inside my soul This need to join - identify the hive Sometimes it’s fun - sometimes it blackens the sun With scattered blood - yeah, it’s ready to kill to live Pick a side - you gotta pick a side Wear your colours with a sense of pride Choose a tribe - You gotta decide - It’s a rising tide - You gotta pick a side And the glamour that binds to a football team Is the same glue sticking to a fascist dream The banners and flags by the execution pen Breed passion and rapture in religious men The woman who’s blind, the woman with sight They both stop thinking cos they both know they’re right The thing that moves already scars me Looking through the bottom of a dark glass darkly Pick a side - you gotta pick a side Wear your colours with a sense of pride Choose a tribe - you gotta decide Float your faith on a rising tide - the time has come And it’s growing inside - living inside Float your faith on a rising tide
3.
Every day at dinner she’s banging that drum Not gonna do what her daddy done She’s gonna live fast, take life on the run Every day living in the sun And every day at dinner he just gets mean Doesn’t want to hear he’s a - has-been Life seems simple when you’re seventeen, he says, Mind your manners, keep it fucking clean All mouth, all mouth and trousers Take ‘em down a peg or two All mouth, all mouth and trousers You need a good talking to All mouth, all mouth and trousers Keep on talking til your face turns blue All mouth, all mouth and trousers Why should anybody listen to you? Thirty years later she’s banging that drum He mustn’t go and do what she went and done He needs to work harder, he needs to knuckle down He needs to start swimming or he’s gonna bloody drown And every day at dinner he just gets mad Doesn’t want to hear, he’s just a lad She don’t understand, he says, she’s so bloody sad Mind your bleeding business, you’re as bad as your dad
4.
Dark Horse 04:05
Outside I’m the same I say the same things people say I play their simple games like naming faces, facing names I turn the other way when fires start I’m not to blame I throw the match away my fingers itching from the flame I believe a dark horse is inside of me The sense I make, the sense I make is make believe A different kind of fantasy is burning me inside Takes me for a ride Image is the key A way to hide a history It sets my darkness free and keeps the past a mystery Look and you will find symmetry in every line Patterns in your mind forming gods and ghosts and signs I believe a dark horse is inside of me The sense I make, the sense I make is make believe A different kind of fantasy is burning me inside Takes me for a ride And tells me to go Get on with the show

about

Who Killed Nancy Johnson?'s second EP.

"In breaks in recording we were talking about conspiracy groups on Facebook that argue that the earth is flat. A lot of the songs are about how ideas, theories, beliefs, what's inside, interact with reality, so the name kind of fit. The lyrics of Dark Horse were tweaked deliberately to get the phrase in.

"All four songs have become key parts of our live set. Strip is usually our opener and Dark Horse the finale, so the running order makes this a bit like a mini-gig. The production keeps a live, raw feel as well, with the guitar pumped up and in your face. We feel this is a much closer representation of what we're like in the flesh than our last release."

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released February 16, 2018

Recorded November and December 2017 by Al Heslop at Creative Control Studios, Bracknell, Berkshire. Mixed by Al Heslop. Mastered by Al Heslop except Dark Horse, mastered by Pete Maher. Released 2018 by Skin Slip Records. Album art by Marcus Newman.

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"A brilliant band... full of energy... a really cool post-punk feel" - New Music Saturday

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"It's really worth getting to see these guys" - Punkarolla

"Jaw-droppingly good... more hooks than a deep sea fishing line" - Scene Sussex
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