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Rating: I can't help it, I just have to keep listening to the sweet notes of this album over and over again. It was recommended to me by a friend, and I started listening to it during a moment of relaxation, not even finishing it completely. However, I couldn’t stop myself from going back because the notes of "Postcard From A Dark Star" (the first song on the album) had captivated me.
From there, I was led to the notes veiled in sadness and melancholy of "Dangerous Heady Love Scheme" ("Love is not true when it’s infatuation - The bond is not there in fascination"), songs where love always takes center stage and the unreachable pursuit of happiness becomes ever more out of reach ("There’s a light that shines - It’s always distant - It goes on and off and on and off" - My Name Is Sad And At Sea), and so one must collect themselves to make sense of everything or despair ("In my warm cigarette room - Every time I go to sleep I weep weep weep weep - Every time I start to cry why why why why" - Warm Cigarette Room).
Merz actually goes by the name of Conrad Lambert from Bristol (at least he should be living there), a curious character with friends in at least 48 countries, relatives in Mongolia, and a great traveler (so it is told on the official website).
The sounds are electronic melodies that inevitably capture the listener, and the piano lines add that touch of sweetness without ever being cloying, leaving ample space for Lambert's voice to enchant us with his breathless sentimental quests.
I want to see you on the Web to shake off (maybe!!) the namesake Alessia who will follow you in all your searches.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Dangerous Heady Love Scheme (04:30)
Here it comes again
Bringing with it pain
Taking me from my healer, my healer
I find I do not need
Some dangerous heady love scheme
There she goes again
And what have I with her
She was my friend
But now she’s too precious
With the wind blew my senses
Always with the wind comes
Dangerous heady love scheme
Some dangerous heady love scheme
Love is not true when it’s infatuation
The bond is not there in fascination
Now I am still
I feel a little ill
Nervous in her presence
This distance from my friend
Adoring her again
Can only bring me lower
Here I go lower
With a prayer I ask for release
On my knees in prayer
From dangerous heady love scheme
“As the breeze blows
The slender trees yield
If the wind is in the west the tree leans to the east
If the wind is in the east the tree leans to the west”
We are yielding our hearts
To the accidents of life
We slender trees
Watch out!
For dangerous heady love schemes
Some heady love scheme
Here it comes again
There it’s gone again
07 Warm Cigarette Room (04:19)
Everything’s how it’s supposed to be
In my warm cigarette room
Every time I go to sleep I weep weep weep weep
Every time I start to cry why why why why
Oh my warm cigarette room
My warm cigarette room
Everything’s how it used to be
In my warm cigarette room
And everything comes right to me
In my warm cigarette room
Every time I go to leave
I breathe breathe breathe breathe
Every time my hope is gone
I run run run run
To my warm cigarette room
My warm cigarette room
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