The Moonlandingz - Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Lias Saoudi - will release their eagerly-awaited new album No Rocket Required this Friday, April 25 on Transgressive Records.
They have already shared early singles “The Sign of A Man” and “Roustabout” ft. Nadine Shah, and today they share one final preview that shows another side of the record. “It’s Where I’m From” was written 15 years ago by Flanagan after breaking both his arms in a bike accident. He was told by doctors he wouldn’t have full use of his arms again but in a defiant haze of Morphine he’d go to his home studio and attempt to write songs using one finger and a thumb on a mellotron, a midi keyboard and drum machine.
Flanagan explains of the track, “‘It’s Where I’m From’ was the very first song I wrote after my accident. I think I hit some kind of sweet spot between Johnny Cash doing ‘Hurt’ and something off Scott Walkers ‘Scott 2’ album, the track grounds you! I got busy with other projects and the track ended up dumped in a box at the back of a cupboard for well over a decade. During the final days of The Moonlandingz album recording sessions I rediscovered the CD with pretty much an album full of these beautiful songs on them, so I brought the rough demo to The Moonlandingz session. I got my friend Oliver Harrap to put some live drums over it, Alex White put some beautiful additional sax and flute on it and I put a new guide vocal on it with the intention of getting someone else to sing it before I completely re-recorded my original demo parts with my co producer Dean Honer!”
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