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about

A narrative about rising shame and panic, in a slow motion detonation of guitars.

I was imagining a deeply repressed character in a world where queer life still felt fully underground, in a society even more aggressively heteronormative than the one in which I was brought up, enough to really lock the closet door. Maybe he believes if he can reject the actual practical process of acting on his feelings, he'd be able to get over them.

lyrics

Shouldn’t be this hard, but he built it up inside
Nowhere near too far for him not to fantasise
The pavement breathes
The streetlights seethe
The tension breeds

Floating faces stare, suspended through the night
Frozen in the air from the brake light red inside
His thoughts alone
Are not his own
But they're all he's known

Standing by the bar, feeling sober as a judge
Nowhere near too far, not until he feels a touch
A burning rise
In sharpened eyes
Two hands meet twice, no

Vanishing intent, and he can’t help feeling strange
Pressure so intense that he left untouched too late
They're not his friends
They're not his prey
They're not the same
A chance for the lonely
Give into if only
He’d catch what you showed me
But he feels the same

He's not made for this
He goes home to his wife and kids
And it grows
And it grows

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from Viewfinder EP, released November 18, 2022

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Gardening London, UK

Anxious guitar-spanking musical project of Niall Rush, a London-based queer dweeb / studio rat

feat. friends, collaborators, and a gnarly live band

discography

Viewfinder EP

Nov 2022
Magpie

Oct 2020
Taste Invader

Apr 2020
Crutch

Sep 2019

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