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Generation Next

from Good Luck Songs by Daisy Chapman

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Good Luck Songs is Daisy's third full length studio album, all of which were recorded in Bristol by Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, John Parish, Gruff Rhys). Drawing comparisons from Nick Cave and Regina Spektor, Daisy's unique voice soars high over dramatic string arrangements and her own beautifully delivered 'Nymanesque' piano. Still taking her dark lyrical cues from the likes of Leonard Cohen, this album offers a brighter tone than her previous releases, only hinting at the melancholy but maintaining its soul and warmth, noticeably the song 'Generation Next' is inspired by the younger artists moving up through the musical ranks in Bristol, a journey Daisy took herself when she moved to the city 19 years ago. Daisy continues to draw on both experience and history to form her stories - from the tragedy of ‘Idilia Dubb’, a girl who met her fate trapped up a tower in 1851, to the poignant reminiscence of old England in ‘I Used To Own An Empire’. The album took longer than usual to record, mostly due to the fact she gave birth to a daughter in May 2016, but this didn't stop her working hard! She toured round Europe for a month with prog rockers Crippled Black Phoenix, and another month with her European quartet 'The Songbirds Collective', all whilst heavily pregnant. And later this year, Daisy will be travelling with them to Taiwan, taking her music further afield than ever before.
Expect beautiful music and harmony from its purest form, to its most voluminous as Daisy certainly knows how to craft a song and arrange the instrumentation so that the listener is constantly engaged.

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Well I’ve travelled California
Gilroy town to Monterey
Crossed San Bernardnio forests
To the shores of West LA
Reached the peaks of central Europe
To the flat lands of The Hague
But still there’s something calling me back home

To the old guy ordering water
Sipping bourbon from his pocket
To the girl who’s on before me
Hoping that she’s just got spotted
To that faint old stench of beer
From last night’s student party
I’m just making way for generation next

Make them tall, make them pretty
Let them grow old in this city
Let them learn from the misguided
And ignore advice as I did
Won’t make me feel small, make me unwell
If it did I’d run like hell
I’m just making way for generation next

Well a gaggling choir of school girls
Rolling papers on the dockside
While thirty-something hipsters
Shake off last night’s nitrous oxide
To the girl group chatting loudly
As my set succumbs to quicksand
Each of them proudly sporting
Last year’s festival wristband

And the yoga mums in the park
Are singing softly to their daughters
Nouveau vintage coffee caravan
Selling over-priced water
Graffiti’s up from ransom
It’s protected by the council
I’m just making way for generation next

This swing bridge city’s tailbacks
Keep hill dwellers from the centre
And the taxi queue at Temple Meads
Puts off the Welsh weekender
Seagulls stealing ice cream
From May through to September
I’m just making way for generation next

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from Good Luck Songs, released November 24, 2017

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