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Make Me Young, etc.

by Thumpermonkey

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    It's a CD -

    It's in an 8-page Jewelcase, which means it is exactly the same size as all your other Jewelcases, and therefore fits your racking. This is important to a lot of people.  

    Michael has written out the words for you, so you can potentially sing along. Please submit a video of you doing so.

    There's also some beautiful artwork by Lee Mason (lee-mason.co.uk), showing the last thing you'll see before the apocalypse properly kicks off.

    Tracklisting
    1.Veldt
    2. Cranefly
    3. Figstorm
    4. Buttersun
    5. Deckchair For Your Ghost
    6. Make Me Young, etc
    7. Tempe Terra


    Total time - 40 minutes

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Yes - It's a record. You can play it backwards and summon the future ghost of The Protagonist.
    Like the CD - you have some lyrics. In English.
    There was talk of a Martian version, but that was scrapped.

    It has two apparent sides and a 3rd extra-dimensional side that you'll need a patented Rockosmos MultiD Player to access>
    Available from the future.

    Artwork by Lee Mason (lee-mason.co.uk)

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  • T-Shirt/Apparel

    In the future
    Our Martian descendants will power their planet by mining the emotional guilt derived from pissing off and leaving the rest of us to be obliterated by a continental sized asteroid.

    Here's a comprehensive map drawn by bassist Sam Warren to illustrate the whereabouts of the mother lodes of anxiety.

    And it's generally just a cool design.

    Especially if you're into astro-orienteering.
    Which is a thing.
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  • Poster/Print

    It's a BLACK AND GOLD poster version of the tee shirt.
    It's screen printed by artisans. Signed by the band.

    It was drawn by Thumpermonkey bass human, Sam Warren.
    It looks like a GUI for a computer in David Lynch's 'Dune'.

    Available framed or unframed - but if you want it framed go to
    www.rockosmos.com/make-me-young-etc
    ...and pick the drop down option - as there isn't scope here.
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1.
Veldt 05:23
I don't know if I'm paralysed, or if I'm standing still, just in case it's perfect... But when I try to describe the noise in this room, words that come to me sound like entomology, and that's when I’m furthest away from naming it again. One night out on the veldt, fell into that glowing cave. I had no idea there were such spaces in me. I can't believe I've become fascinated again. Nothing like I thought that it would be, hidden in here. Things that glow down here don't burn my skin. Did you always know that this was in? I'm fascinated again. Part of me's laughing But part of me's something that I'll never ever name. I can't believe I've become fascinated again. Back above the ground, I cannot speak. Came back minutes old, 'cos you led me here. I would not have found this on my own.
2.
Cranefly 04:35
3.
Figstorm 05:08
4.
Buttersun 01:17
5.
My deckchair's in the garden for the final show. Every suicide novella, ends as spiderlegged code - A vague scribble of confused intimacy. People like me, people who they say cannot love; it's gas like that which starts me thinking I should prove them all right in the most abominable ways. Long mindless tentacles of heat stretch from the sun, germinating some nameless desire I can’t fathom, 'til I close my eyes. If you populate your identical dreams with tiny creatures. they'll keep talking, and keep talking, and keep talking, and keep talking, every voice describes an asteroid colliding with the planet, somehow if it isn't my fault, then the story doesn't make sense. Then I feel them find you miles away and dig you up, and lock you in a vault: I've never been so scared I'll never find your body. Though i'm hiding in plain sight I can't remember why i'm hiding and I struggle to remember if I'm the one who killed you. It's a relief to know they can't hold me to ransom, cause what I did or didn't do doesn't matter; I'm not suicidal I just want to sit down. I've given up pretending memories retain any real authenticity I've set a deckchair for your ghost so that we can both watch flames lick at the celestial horizon....future kin will breathe our dust, uninformed. If you populate your identical dreams with tiny creatures. they'll keep talking, and keep talking, and keep talking. They can't help me to remember why I'm hiding, and I struggle to remember, and the story doesn't make sense. Then I feel them find you miles away and rouse you into preternatural life; somewhere that I can’t hear you. They can’t help me to remember why i'm hiding cos I struggle to remember if I'm the one who killed you. I'd rather lose the marrow inside my bones than an argument that I'll never understand.
6.
7.
TempeTerra 05:19
God's mouth sealed back in 69 by synthetic magnetosphere. Sublimate ammonia from asteroids. We cleave from our pressurised containment. Left the idiots on earth, One more literate idiot who's going to give birth to more idiots. Your house gets loud so fast. Isn't this enough? Everybody be quiet. I Chew-Z at Tempe Terra. Imagine the sea from the melted cryosphere lap the toes of all you noisy people. I can imagine the last of the mirrors tumble from its geostation Scattering mylar embers on children's rough and tumble, footprints in the orange bedform I can't believe we made it here, that we're still alive and making copies of us. When we expire we remain; disordered. Drift down, and down, and down... Isn't this enough? All the light that falls upon your face altered in its course. So stop trying to fill your scrapbook; take a look at where you are.

about

“If you choose to ignore this email, remember that you only have a few short years to make your mark”

In 2012, following the release of Thumpermonkey’s “Sleep Furiously” album, singer Michael Woodman received a random email from a fan called Max whom, feeling an affinity with Woodman, felt obligated to share with him his revelation of the end of the world.

Woodman, initially wrote the email off as an artefact from an oddball, but in the following months he found himself beginning to think about Max’s message and the mysterious person behind it with increasing frequency. Woodman never attempted to reply to Max, and to this day, Max has never contacted Woodman again.

“Make Me Young, Etc” marks a clear evolution for Thumpermokey. Guitarist and pianist Rael Jones’s day job as a screen composer infiltrates and inflates the music into an epic cinemascope fever-dream – a backdrop to Woodman’s unique stream of consciousness vocal style, perfectly suspended in a score to a film that doesn’t exist.
“Make Me Young, etc” exists in homage to the unknown Max, and poses the question; if you knew tomorrow was the end of the world, would you be able to let go of all your regrets, and live differently for just one day?


For South London four-piece Thumpermonkey, “Make Me Young, etc” is their 8th release. The band have slowly gestated over the past decade and a half, out of Michael Woodman’s early solo bedroom writing and emerged as a fully formed band around 2006’s ”Chap With The Wings, Five Rounds Rapid“.
The six year period since 2012’s acclaimed cult album “Sleep Furiously” has resulted in two thought provoking and quite extraordinary records, 2017’s “Electricity” and 2018’s “Make Me Young, etc” certainly a career defining highlight.

“Make Me Young,etc” is released on Rockosmos on Friday 26th October 2018 – which coincides with the end of the world.
Don’t make no plans.

credits

released October 26, 2018

Thumpermonkey is:
Michael Woodman – Vocals, Guitar
Rael Jones – Keys, Guitar
Sam Warren – Bass
Ben Wren – Drums


Recorded at Urchin Studios
Recorded by Dave Moore and Andy Fell
Mixed by Al Green
Mastered by Robin Schmidt
Produced by Thumpermonkey

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Thumpermonkey London, UK

A person in space, walking, or adrift, but safe, exploring, freedom, discovery.

A clockwork piano contraption, like a giant ballerina box, but turning a big totem pole, around which smart office dressed people slowly dance with dead glazed eyes as a slightly out of tune slow Satie-like Lydian melody loops round.

White men in pith helmets hunting large animals to extinction.
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