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Fluke

by Claire Welles

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1.
hello and welcome to today's presentation, the new long playing album by Claire Welles called Fluke, brought to you in both analogue and digital formats depending on your chosen listening device, as prescribed to you by your local council. it is strongly recommended that you listen to the following program using headphones, opiates and hallucinogenic drugs
2.
Energy 04:11
you've got so much energy to burn off today let me help you burn it off in an unfamiliar way oh behave, they can say but i'm gonna let you off anyway when you're near i'm ok when you're not i feel so strange you've got so much energy to burn off today you can ride a bicycle or you can ride me all day turn the page, feel enraged so much better to just fade away act your age, oh behave when you're near i feel ok i've got so much energy to burn off today no amount of exercise will ever change my way i have drank a lot tonight and i've forgotten what i meant to say when you're near i'm ok when you're not i feel so strange you've got so much energy to burn off today
3.
Mogadon 04:07
spent so much time thinking of something i can't tell you, wont look at me the same way words rain down beyond the front garden i see them fall like people from a building i've got a ceiling, ive got central heating you'll have it too whenever you stop scheming so enough of your wailing, just keep inhaling got mogadon i have bad thoughts every morning every night, try as i might spent 40 years making up the numbers i'm comfortable with my role in society i've got a ceiling, ive got central heating you'll have it too whenever you stop scheming so enough of your wailing, just keep inhaling got mogadon the coffee's going cold and the radios off stare at some grass til my brains going soft sitting in the park with my back to the sun nothing to be done, waiting in the sun i'll wait in the sun, wait in the sun nothing to be done, I'll wait in the sun
4.
President 02:22
everytime i go to bed i dream about the president everytime i close my head i remember everything i concentrate on his eyes like i'm an idiot spy everytime i go to bed i dream about the president everytime i wash my hair i forget about everything i forget all the sex forget to clean my specs everytime i go to bed i dream about the president waking up and half past 6 to find myself soaking wet were a match made in heaven even though he was born in 1947 everytime i go to bed i dream about the president everytime i go to bed i dream about the president cos everytime i go to bed i read about him...
5.
Man Ray 03:20
man ray, what would you say? i've been wikipedia-ing you all day pure filth on a roll of film you can't get away with anything nowadays we live in very boring times and yet we always wonder why i can't look you in the eye man ray, what would you make of the new technology we crave? would you send it away on a long holiday there's so much variety in change we live in very boring times and yet we always wonder why i can't look you in the eye man ray, what would you say if the entire world turned out to be gay? would you give me a kiss, could you live through this? i've been thinking out loud today we live in very boring times and yet we always wonder why i can't look you in the eye
6.
Fish & Chips 04:00
sweep the hair out of your eye give away another smile you've had enough of everyone read the news, it gets you down now your doing yoga secretly your terrified of 5G so you head back home out in the sticks living on a diet of fish and chips left your job in manchester but that's ok cos you were only a cleaner your looking older everyday and all your friends have gone away now your doing yoga secretly your terrified of 5G so you head back home out in the sticks living on a diet of fish and chips say you've been vegan since 2013 cos the working classes are eating meat your dyeing your hair cos you're going grey and none of your bandmates are getting paid now your doing yoga secretly your terrified of 5G so you head back home out in the sticks living on a diet of fish and chips
7.
wandered around in an older place it was a stranger place in my head noticed the signs had been erased this was a special place in it's time none of the people knew my face and nobody paid any mind felt like a dog in a cat shelter out of place and out of line got on the train from a younger place it's the kind of place you can hide none of my friends will travel north because they're all afraid for their lives but none of the people knew my face and nobody paid any mind felt like a dog off it's lead and now i play with fire well i dreamt this song and it came out wrong it didn't last very long well i dreamt this song and it came out wrong halloween, oh halloween eggs and flour on a window screen we were delinquents, we were wrecks but we didn't care cos we were only kids all of the people knew our faces and we were given hell felt like a dog that had been put down and unwanted gift around town well i dreamt this song and it came out wrong it didn't last very long well i dreamt this song and it came out wrong
8.
Radio Jingle 00:22
9.
The Future 02:31
the future's scary, i know its closer with every blow and you dont need to make any plans cos today is out of your hands i think we are due for a war more expensive than ever before the east and the west and the north and the south they're all against the law ive forgiven yesterday for burying itself in the rubble let the bodycount rise, let it double we were just beginning to accept ourselves i think we are due for a war more expensive than ever before the east and the west and the north and the south lined up against a wall the future's scary, i know and it's closer with every blow
10.
Reticence 03:46
when i painted the picture my brain was shot couldn't look in the mirror cos it hurt a lot then i puked in the corner coming up on a pill felt just like a teenager i felt very ill some people have children to fill up their time some people take substances to get out of their mind so i puked in the corner coming up on a pill felt just like a teenager i felt very ill i hid in a room til i was 22 left the door wide open for you to come on through
11.
Council 03:40
didn't go to the old shops today cos they had gone away, they had gone away didn't go to my old house today cos it wasn't there, yeah it wasn't there i made a fool of myself at the council i made a fool of myself at the council didn't go to my old school today cos im the wrong age and it had gone away didn't go to the boozer on the corner cos you weren't there, you were never there i made a fool of myself at the council i made a fool of myself at the council flasks of tea at 4am life is heaven when you're only 10 jumping around in the back of a transit van i made a fool of myself at the council i made a fool of myself at the council
12.
Housewife 04:48
i don't call anyone by their nickname and if you're thinking of knocking on the door i'd sooner you stayed away my nephew is on all the drugs he gets them on the darkweb i've asked him for some valium though he hasn't got back to me yet i've got scars on all my arms from when i used to hurt myself when i save enough money i'll buy a tattoo big enough to blot them out when i first got pregnant i found the attention was quite embarrassing and now i've been pregnant 5 more times it's an addiction that's quite menacing after everyone leaves i'm left with the mess i'm happy to tie up the loose ends it's all a matter of sweet routine and i don't wish that i was dead the television is so bright and colourful it keeps me company during the daytime hours the adverts reflect my personality i'm really quite happy inside this bubble
13.
Away Days 04:23
walking away from you on Tuesday night no-one is around and there's not a single light it's incredibly cold right now but i don't mind it won't be long until i'm out of your sight cos when im alone i waste all my time playing silly games painting silly lies and when i get older i'll remain the same away days walking towards you on a Thursday night no-one is around and there's not a single light it's getting warmer now and i dont mind it won't be long til i'm back inside and when im alone i waste all my time playing silly games painting silly lies and when i get older i'll remain the same away days
14.
Kissed 02:27
i kissed your head and said goodbye why did you have to die? why did you have to die? i whispered something in your ear trying not to cry trying not to cry an embryo, a new idea a brand new life a brand new life i kiss your face and say goodbye why did you have to die? why did you have to die?

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released April 18, 2020

written, produced & mixed by Claire Welles
recorded May-November 2019
photo by Paul Jones

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Claire Welles Liverpool, UK

One of Liverpool’s finest underground provocateurs. Fiercely singular in her approach to music yet with a musical nous you simply can’t teach.

A long history of recording music, Claire has straddled almost every musical styling yet imbues her music with a rich melodic tendency which makes her experimental pop ease into your being over time. If you let it.
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