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Upwards of Summer

by Ralegh Long

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1.
Watching the sun rising on a distant curve rising in the middle lane of the night You say you need it, you said it's on watch the evening shadows in the rain Take your mind back, take your mind back Take your mind back. All the lonely vistas of your soul. Ruby says come see her in the middle of the night You can watch the T.V flicker in the fading light Endless pictures, looking for a picture of your face push it to the side and move on Something is bothering you I can see it like aflicker in the corner of your eye Something is buried on you I can see it like a flicker in the corner of your eye Take your mind back, take your mind back Take your mind back. All the lonely vistas of your soul.
2.
Nights when the flow of the river is a current leading back to you Whole days leaning out the window wondering what I'm going to do Ain't that a thing, I'm just sleeping on my dreams While I sit counting down the hours til I get to leave Rain laps at my feet reminding me I'm just a figure in a cycle Ain't that a thing, I'm just sleeping on my dreams Sleeping on my dreams Sleeping on my dreams Ain't that a thing, I'm just sleeping on my dreams
3.
I'm on my way home, Bells in the sky count down the hours as the passers pass us by Ice in the freezer, 3 ft deep and I'm counting down the hours now until I get some sleep Upwards of summer, down wind of rain beautiful people I won't see again Morning has broken, so has my mind And I want to see the bridges More than I want to see the tide. Chorus of insects is tuning up A little child takes a sip from his mother's cup The Cats are inquisitive They're eating for release And I'm couting down the hours now until I get some sleep Upwards of summer, down wind of rain beautiful feelings I won't feel again Morning has broken, so has my mind And I want to see the bridges More than I want to see the tide.
4.
Big August 03:17
You know it's going to happen, whether you like it or not The sun comes out and things flatten and evertyhing I've got Turns from water red and blue I see you In the Big August You know it's going to be A better year, wait and see You know it's going to ride down the walls that seperate you from me In Big August, it's Big August Bugs the size of my feet When they're in their shoes Greens the colour of orange Reds the colour of blues In Big Augst, it's Big August
5.
Somehow, these days feel new And what's worse it hurts when you go You're so right Put the music on up the stairs and the wind will blow and the wind will blow all the bags around up into the sky It's so Right Have a swim or two, read a book or two, with a friend or two Have a swim or two, read a book or two, with a friend or two It's so Right
6.
Take It 04:38
7.
Why don't you dry your eyes? Whey don't you go outside? Butterflies are choking on their rivals I spied a real chance, I spied a real chance We go into the woods now where darkness and creepers wait We're walking on leaf mould we left out shoes at the gate I'm turning the corner and I'm looking back, The world returns, my mind returns. Yeah I moved town again But no the sky's the same I did my best to keep my head down But I wasn't happy, no I wasn't happy at all We go into the woods now where darkness and creepers wait We're walking on leaf mould we left out shoes at the gate I'm turning the corner and I'm looking back Into a world of fairground rides open windows sleep before it's dark. I'm getting home It's getting light in the sky.
8.
The Combine 02:57
The Combine is harvesting The last of the fields The windows are darkening The last man walking home I have stood in windows like this unnoticed, I have seen what I have missed I have been haunted by what I have been told The rain is a messenger Alone and unknown To those who before us walk the little hill by Emlyn's court. Those who stood in windows like this Unnoticed, those who saw what others missed Their eyes are haunted by a world in retreat
9.
When it feels like the world's on my shoulder And I don't know where I belong When each moment make me feel older And the world takes the voice from my song Lead me back to my heart on the line When I ask is there anywhere different, Anywhere with the glaze of the new When I ask is anyone listening In the corner there's always you Pulling me back to my heart on the line
10.
Home 04:30
There's something inside you Inside the night A sense of leaving Coming back To an old house When you were youger And it gets you thinking that everyone has told you lies strung you on into the eyes of tomorrow with all there promises I think about taking it back I think about winding it in Down the bumpy track where you fit in Where you fit in Someone is calling From the steps Above the winding of the years And you can't keep the feeling in It falls out of you like rain I think about taking it back I think about winding it in Down the bumpy track where you fit in Where you fit in And all the ghosts of tomorrow The promises of today They all crowd the windows Saying we're gonna make it out ok I think about taking it back I think about winding it in Down the bumpy track where you fit in Where you fit in

about

English Songwriter Ralegh Long released his debut album Hoverance to critical acclaim in 2015. Leaving his adopted London, Long returned to his childhood home to write an album of singular grace and simplicity, steeped in natural imagery and "Spooky pastoralism" (MOJO). Hoverance and its follow-up E.P We Are in the Fields (2016) won praise from The Guardian for their “twilit ambience and demented beauty” and from Sky Arts as "calling to mind the atmosphere of Nick Drake". Both records received support from Spotify as well as from BBC6 Music presenters Lauren Laverne, Guy Garvey and Gideon Coe.

His second album, Upwards of Summer was released in June 2017 and won the HMUK and Pledge Music Emerging Artists Award. CLASH declared it 'the sound of an artist revitalised and brimming with enthusiasm'. Written during a time of personal change, when Long was unsure if he was going to continue making music, and recorded with his touring band - in a process that Long credits with "healing [his] relationship with music" - Upwards of Summer is a revelation. The somber string and woodwind arrangements of Hoverance are nowhere to be seen; the melodicism of his debut is instead fused with the jangle of chorus guitars and anthemic hooks in a thrillingly confident return. The album has received acclaim from Elton John, as well as support from Spotify, and UNCUT who likened it to "Rattlesnakes-era Lloyd Cole", R.E.M and Beck's Sea Change.


"He seems incapable of sitting at a piano and coming up with anything that doesn’t tremble with almost mystical longing ... you’ll be reminded variously of Nilsson, early Todd Rundgren, even Alex Chilton at his most overwrought and wracked." The Guardian

“A great song” Elton John

"Sad, spooky pastoralism of Bill Fay or Nick Drake are touchstones on songs laden with rural imagery and dexterous melody." Mojo 4*s

"Really, really beautiful". Lauren Laverne, BBC6 Music

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released June 23, 2017

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Ralegh Long is a singer-songwriter and producer from London.

"Twilit ambience and demented beauty” - The Guardian

**** - MOJO

“Really, really beautiful” Headphones moment, Lauren Laverne, BBC6music
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