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Navigator EP

by The Plague Monkeys

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Star Country 04:15
Take my words, I will borrow yours Between the substance of thought and the substrate of language A voice was caught That sings to me in my sleep Reservation This dreamed collective Of a death ship and a death march Sails across the proscenium arch To touch that star Reservation On dry land This savage savant was trained I can reap and sow I can drink and go crazy Distilling image out of ether Did I dream that we should meet? Maybe Take my words, I will borrow yours again Distilling sound out of the ether Did I dream that we should meet? As the shore-lights of a harbour And the search-lights of a fleet Or as the night-lights of a plane Your destination Reservation
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Gyroscope 03:27
Another planet in transit A relative motion Dynamo Something made out of spinning glass A coloured revolution Something formed out of points of light An orbital illusion Familiar scientific formulae Your placebo, your control Stone me Don't expect it to yield Stone me Don't expect it to heal Stone me Don't expect it to feel Familiar Where does it end? The divergence of trends How can you hope? Gyroscope When you are left out of the book When your name is erased When you are left out of the book You are a heretic And the devil is in the details Something made out of spinning glass A coloured revolution Something made out of points of light Heretical solution Familiar… Stone me… The devil is in the detail…
3.
If I made a film about life without you It would only take minutes If I made a film about life without you I would crawl through my house I would leave notes on my chairs I would leave snow on the stairs I would feel there My eye is a camera Swallowing light fields Denoting absence So take my photograph, take mine Take my photograph, take mine
4.
Lick horse, kick horse He is tied in a field He knows nothing Of a swan on your shelf Or a rose bowl in a suburban window This killer apathy Stretches over me and forms a carapace A living shell A vicious ring I'm so vaguely sick of everything Bloody foreland Rhesus negative cove Mindscapes of that pure blind Indifference to mankind Loaded as a weapon Where in the system is a virus Retro I thought the perfect metaphor Like a powerful magnet Would hold open the doors Municipal doors Lick horse, kick horse He is tied in a field He knows nothing Of this antibiotic Aroma of death Like sugar on your breath

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*Proceeds from this download will go to Breast Cancer Ireland in memory of Suriya Moodliar*

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DAN HEGARTY, 2FM DJ AND STALWART OF THE IRISH ALT MUSIC SCENE SAYS:

"Where to begin? It's been 20 years since The Plague Monkeys unleashed their 'Navigator' EP. I probably couldn't have told you exactly why I liked it so much at the time, and I'd more than likely struggle to two decades on, but I will attempt to do so!

Do you remember being introduced to the music of artists like Mary Margaret O'Hara, Portishead, or Stina Nordenstam? It's what you might describe as uneasy listening; or at least it is at first. With 'The Navigator' EP, The Plague Monkeys served up an hors d'oeuvre that was alien to my reserved palate at the time, but I quickly grew to love it, and the aftertaste has stuck with me to this day.

The vocals of Carol Keogh weave and float around a spaced out plateau of sounds created by Donal O'Mahony; this sound would be further enhanced when Barry Roden and Thomas Haugh joined the band soon after. The songs haven't lost any of their allure over the passage of time.

Think back to music in 1996, it was dominated by Britpop and the anthems that would soundtrack what was dubbed club culture. What The Plague Monkeys lacked in power chords and BPMs, they made up for with the ethereal imagery in their songs.

I can still remember the first time that the video for 'Star Country' appeared on No Disco (that wonderful show that ran on RTE TV for many years); it was as good as anything that I had seen on the show; this is high praise when you consider the high standards that the show set for itself.

It's not like I have had to re-introduce myself to songs like 'The Plague Monkeys, 'Gyroscope' and 'Few Words Is Better', because the truth is, I've continued listen to this EP regularly over the years. Maybe I will grow tired of it at some point, but my strongest instincts tell me that this won't happen."

Debut EP from The Plague Monkeys released by Crosstown Music, April 1997. © Tundra. ℗ Crosstown Music 1997.

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released April 10, 1997

All titles O'Mahony/Keogh.

Cover Design – Simon Roche
Photography – Simon Roche
Written By – Donal O'Mahony
Written By, Vocals – Carol Keogh

Original 4-Track Recordings
Recorded by Donal O'Mahony
Electric and Acoustic Guitars - Donal O'Mahony

the devil is in the details

the lighthouse is the marriage of a mirror and a lamp
the mirror and the lamp are married in the lighthouse

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Carol Keogh Ireland

THE WICC album one - WOLF will be released on 22nd March 2022.

Carol Keogh, has written and sung with a number of bands including The Plague Monkeys, The Tycho Brahe, The Natural History Museum (with Dunk Murphy) and Autamata.
Keogh's first solo release (backed by The City Fathers), "Mongrel City", was released in 2014.
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