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Settle Down

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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It started in spring
But ends with a letter which read
Without you I’m nothing
You tore it to pieces instead
And I put all my faith in the summer of love
Which then threw me away
At the change of the clocks
It’s a circus you said
And I’m just a spectre

You said, settle down

A sliverscreen moment
You took my hand in the dark
And our fledgling feelings
Matured in the beat of a heart
And I put all my faith in the white of your eyes
But the dark was a vortex
That sparked our demise
Behind a sheer curtain
There really is nowhere

To hide, settle down

You’re splitting the bill
And you’re changing my name
One week of silence
And I’m not the same
I’m heady with danger
Reliving my youth
But I’ve got a drawing board
To get back to.

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from Good Luck Songs, released November 24, 2017

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