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Apple

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1.
Waspdrunk 03:16
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Here we are again Watching the Stour creep up Noah’s Ark Lane All those prayers we prayed for rain And now we pray it back again Here we are again Watching the apples fall with the September rain Every year we pray for fruit Then watch it rot around the root The sweetness of decay Drips blessing on these autumn days Waspdrunk on prayers we’ve prayed We try to pray them back again Here we are again Ending the day with that old prayer book refrain The same prayers don’t taste the same When prayed in the sweetness of decay The sweetness of decay Drips blessing on these autumn days Waspdrunk on prayers we prayed We try to pray them back again
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Apple 03:37
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Green gold red Burnished and blessed Like some royal orb Weighted for your hand Crafted snug into your palm Teeth tear satin skin Sinking down and in to the cosmos that you hold Precious crisp white flesh Tussles with your breath To find home inside your frame Apple Green gold red Broken and bled Like some sacrifice Weighted for your woe Pulp and pip and stalk and sweat Just to say the word When it’s out of reach Is to taste it perfectly And yet dream its fall As an autumn feast For the wasp and worm and bird Apple
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Hornet 02:36
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Hot head hornet Fussing Buzzing round you Diving Bombing Swooping Flying fury Flaming anger Fuelled on rotting apple Red orange yellow orange black blur If you’ve got to fade If you’ve got to fade Fade fierce Hot head hornet Butting double glazing Thrusting head long All his ire blazing Broke wing stutter Fuzz buzz Falter splutter Red orange yellow orange black blur If you’ve got to fade If you’ve got to fade Fade fierce If you have got to fade
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Noah's Ark Lane 03:13
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Slippy slop Old memories slosh And wash me back up Noah’s Ark Lane Spit a spot of rain My muddled puddle Drains to Noah’s Ark Lane In the dappled dark of weed and water What can you see? What can you see? I spy a sly pike grinning wide! I feel a blood surge forcing through! But still I’m smiling with you Watching from Noah’s Ark Lane Dog dirt bleaching white In bright sunlight Beating on Noah’s Ark Lane Burnt straw Cinder smut On milky linen Hung on Noah’s Ark Lane Through the dappled dark of ash and embers What can you see? What can you see? I spy a field fire stretching out! I feel a flame caught up in me! But still I’m smiling with you Watching from Noah’s Ark Lane Here we are again
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Night Prayer 03:04
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When my grandfather lay dying Every night his daughter came And together they prayed night prayer As he faded He never failed to mouth those old familiar words But they came untethered And floated free And became to him pure music “Keep me as the apple of an eye Hide me under the shadow of your wing”

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Apple

A micro-album of songs grown from the seed of Waspdrunk

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released December 1, 2023

Produced by Matthew Simpkins
Mastered by Dr Eric James, Philosophers Barn Mastering

Songs 1, 3 and 5 written by Matthew Simpkins
Songs 2 and 4 written by Matthew Simpkins and James Simpkins

Arranged by Matthew Simpkins with Ben Brown, Nick Daldry, James Simpkns and Toby Bull
Vocals arranged by Matthew Simpkins & Ben Brown

Matthew Simpkins: vocals and instruments
Ben Brown: vocals, drums (track 1)
Toby Bull: Trumpet
Nick Daldry: drums (track 3)
James Simpkins: drums (tracks 2 and 4)
Martha Simpkins: vocals

Photographs: Jamie Niblock

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Rev Simpkins UK

Notorious sinner-songwriter, folk symphonist & Anglican priest.
The Rev’s unique psychedelic gospel and gritty folk owes as much to the Old Testament, & the dark folk tales & barren landscapes of Essex & Suffolk, as it does to his musical heroes Bert Jansch, Captain Beefheart & the Kinks. He comes from a long line of priests whose fiery performances characterise his own style. ... more

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