Fourteen Stories Tall / Twisting The Knife

by Pale Lights

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1.	Fourteen Stories Tall 03:47	lyrics	buy track
You live on a mattress of wire You’ve built a funeral pyre The dirt will drag you in Now he's gone The grass is yellowing hay White clapboard turned to gray Dust lies upon the seats Where you kissed Yet you don’t know him So why do you love him? You can move on if you care For yourself and your sake Before it is too late This house is not born of despair These things are not yours They don’t care The mote sinks and rises too Insects now shadow you Nothing can ever Stay the same Shattered glass lies under foot It hurts then when you look You see the past And what is done 14 stories tall And yet you cannot see it 14 stories tall And yet you can’t belong You’ve seen it out of the window You’ve heard about it in songs And books that talk about you Describing lives gone wrong
2.	Twisting The Knife 02:49	lyrics	buy track
Twisting the knife Can’t you forgive her? Will you move on? Can you forgive her? Stuck in the past isn’t real It’s not how you feel What is wrong? Nothing was done In the bigger picture You won in the end I know that you miss her Lost in your thoughts will reveal Something that’s real That is gone You play to the crowd When maybe you shouldn’t Vindication’s what you need But it rings hollow It’s so wooden Won't you give in, please? Twisting the knife Can’t you forgive her Twisting the knife Why do you hate her?
3.	Another Broken Heart (single version) (free) 03:10		download

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released November 20, 2014

Recorded and mixed by Gary Olson, at Marlborough Farms Studio, Brooklyn, Summer 2014.

Mastered by Ron Harrity at Peapod Studios.

Pale Lights on this recording are:

Andrew Adler, lead guitar
Lisa Goldstein, drums
Maria Pace, bass
Philip Sutton, guitar, vocals

with
Suzanne Nienaber, backing vocals
Kyle Forester, keyboards

All songs by Philip Sutton

© Calico Cat (CAL005)

Perfect Indiepop from Pale Lights
It’s a bummer that I opted to take most of last week off, as if I hadn't, you’d have had this Pale Lights single spinning in your head throughout your holiday week, or your black Friday enslavement. Regardless, you’re now going to spend the next 20-30 minutes playing these two songs over and over again. It’s remarkable how quickly this band can add to their already strong catalog, having released the much needed Before There Were Pictures earlier this year. I don’t know which of the two tracks is better here, so you best listen to them both. Hoping to see this on a vinyl release, but for now it’s just a digital single you’ll want to get your hands on as soon as possible.
AUSTIN TOWN HALL
austintownhall.com/2014/12/01/perfect-indiepop-from-pale-lights/

Brooklyn's Pale Lights released Before There Were Pictures, an LP of chiming, jangling guitar pop in May. When I discovered it in July, I opined that it was one of the better jangle pop albums of the year (review here), and nothing since then has dissuaded me from that view. The quartet probably could have be forgiven if they rested on the laurels of that release, but instead they are closing out the year with a fine two-track single, Fourteen Stories Tall / Twisting the Knife.

For me, the obvious touchstones are the Go-Betweens and some of the early Flying Nun bands such as The Bats. Both songs have bright tones and appealing melodies, although the lyrics paint a different picture. "Fourteen Stories Tall" advises a woman to leave a man that doesn't treat her right, while "Twisting the Knife" asks a man why he hasn't left a woman who has done him wrong. Great stuff, and a great little digital single that will brighten your holiday season for $2.
When You Motor Away
whenyoumotoraway.blogspot.mx/2014/11/fourteen-stories-tall-twisting-knife.html

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Pale Lights Brooklyn, New York

Pale Lights are from New York. They are Phil Sutton, Lisa Goldstein, Andy Adler, Suzanne Nienaber. and Maria Pace.

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