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Spent the morning watching TV and looking through my phone

by John Wallace Wheatley

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1.
Cemetery Smokes II 01:52
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2.
Heartstrings 04:36
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3.
Last Man Standing 04:15
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4.
Neurotic Dancer 04:19
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5.
In The End 04:03
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6.
Cemetery Smokes I 02:19
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I've Only Just Realised 04:27
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World War III 04:10
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The Singularity 05:35
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10.
The Morning Never Came 06:15
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about

Following the critical acclaim of Suburban Dirts’ Americana epic I Want Blood, frontman John Wallace Wheatley ditches the acoustic guitar and goes electric for his first solo record, Spent the morning watching TV and looking through my phone.
John was inspired to make the album when he chanced upon a huge black gravestone in Bunhill Fields Cemetery that bore his own name. The two versions of Cemetery Smokes attempt to capture the different ways somebody might interpret such a coincidence.

Aside from the usual obsession with certain death, John also tries to make sense of his own contradictory nature as an introverted performer. In Heartstrings (written with the help of cousin, Donald Byron Wheatley, during the recording of Don’s brilliant debut Moondogs & Mad Dogs) John expresses disdain for phonies in the music industry before fully embracing his own phoniness as soon as things go his way.

In The Singularity John “feels so insincere” and admits he “don’t belong on the stage” so procrastinates away his time by reading about potential world ending threats instead.

Album closer The Morning Never Came involves our protagonist experiencing a billion life times in the nanosecond of his death before accepting that “none of this was meaningless”

John describes the album as 50% self conscious soul pop and 50% existential mellotron rock, and feels a bit silly writing his own press releases.

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released November 27, 2020

Produced by Chris Clarke at Reservoir Studios, London.

John Wheatley (lead vocals, guitar, piano)
Joe and Robin Bennett (backing vocals)
Andy Fairclough (mellotron)
Chris Varley (bass)
Steve Brookes (drums)
Additional percussion by David Austin, Jodie Wheatley and Sid Wheatley
Flute on In The End by Bo Wheatley

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Suburban Dirts frontman, John Wallace Wheatley, has gone solo for his latest album, which he describes as one half Existential Mellotron Rock and one half Self Conscious Soul Pop.
John was inspired to write the album when he chanced upon a gravestone in Bunhill Fields Cemetery that bore his own name. ... more

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