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Earth / Percent – Earth Day

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A 2022 Compilation (non James) Album featuring James.

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A digital-only Conservatory Version of Beautiful Beaches

 

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Beautiful Beaches (Conservatory Version)

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Release Name: Earth / Percent - Earth Day
Artist Name: James
Release Date: April 2022
Format: Compilation (non James) Album
Catalogue: n/a
Related Release(s): All The Colours Of You (Album)

A digital-only Conservatory Version of Beautiful Beaches

James – Beautiful Beaches – Conservatory Version | EarthPercent (bandcamp.com)

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The Campfire EP

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The Campfire EP CD, a 2021 EP by James.

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A limited edition, numbered EP CD recorded around the campfire during practice sessions at Broughton Hall in May 2021.

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Miss America / Recover / Magic Bus / Just Like Fred Astaire

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Release Name: The Campfire EP CD
Artist Name: James
Release Date: 19th November 2021
Format: Studio EP
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Related Release(s): All The Colours Of You (Album)

Filmed at Broughton Hall Estate in Yorkshire in May 2021, the EP features intimate versions of three tracks from James’ latest album, All The Colours Of You along with the classic Just Like Fred Astaire, taken from their 1999 album, Millionaires.

In the band press release Tim Booth said “The beginning of the new James 9 piece began at Broughton Hall. The sessions there felt magical. This is a slice of the magic that we created around a campfire one evening…”

Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk

The Campfire EP is a success on many levels, it feeds the James’ fanbase’s love of them taking songs and twisting, turning and breathing new life into them by adjusting the perspective on them. For the All The Colours Of You tracks it’s a companion piece to the album that we’d love to see them explore for future records whilst the inclusion of Just Like Fred Astaire in this form is a welcome alternative take.

Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk

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James – Magic Bus (Campfire Session)

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‘Magic Bus’ Lyrics:

All aboard magic bus
Take a ride become one of us
Here we all bring our minds to accord
We had maps we got lost
We had plans they got tossed
We dropped out for the love and the trust
Pledge you my troth

By these bones
By this blood
Who we are is enough
By these bones
By this blood
We exist for the buzz
By these bones
By this blood
We’re divine we are dust
We’ll find god when we’ve lost all we’ve got

Only fools ride this bus
Uninsured, we are driverless
We aspire to the heights of a ziggurat
Spirit moves through the cracks
Our guru is a cat
Who lives both in this world and in that
Pledge you my troth

By these bones
By this blood
Who we are is enough
By these bones
By this blood
We create for the buzz
By these bones
By this blood
We’re divine we are dust
We’ll find God when we lost all we got

James – Miss America (Library Session)

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Library Session version of ‘Miss America’, from the up & coming ‘The Campfire EP’

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Miss America’s wearing thin
She’s all tiaras and glamour
Can’t stop the boss from keeping his hands off
Its all snakes no ladders

Miss America says live the dream
So long as you’re born white
Killed the natives and jailed the slaves
Move more to the right

May God bless you
And your golden sons
May God bless you
And your love of guns
May God bless you
And your passion for freedom
Sold to the man with the tan

Looked so good in the photograph – just smile
Not so good when the lights go dark
Heels about to break
She’s not straight
Her judge cries
Fake

Miss America’s rescue plan
Rocket ships to Mars
Fouled the nest so we’ll start again with
Billionaires and film stars

James – Getting Myself Into

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What could go wrong
Was the last song played on deck
She’s there and she’s gone
I’m already half past wrecked

If I knew what I was
getting myself into I wouldn’t have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have fled

The love of your life
Or a trophy wife
Cinderella at midnight
All I got is a shoe

If I knew what I was getting myself into I wouldn’t have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have fled

Thought I gave it up for Lent
Burning all my bridges down
Sailors dream of home
Husbands the open road
Some unwritten law
Keeps me burning all my bridges down
Mermaids on the rocks

If I knew what I was getting myself into I wouldn’t have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have fled

Bury Jack
Bury Jack’s magic
beans
Magic beans
Pray for me
Pray for me
Bury Jack
Bury Jack’s magic
beans
Magic beans
Pray for me
Pray for
me

Black hole swallows a neutron star
Back at the bar
It’s half past mid-life
Blue light shift giving birth to a star
I’m half gassed
Supernova

If I knew what I was getting myself into I wouldn’t have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have fled

Magic Bus

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Magic Bus is the ninth track on the CD and eighth track on the vinyl of the album All The Colours Of You. An early demo version of the song, called Life, was released as part of the Deluxe Digital release of the album.

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All aboard magic bus
Take a ride become one of us
Here we all bring our minds to accord

We had maps we got lost
We had plans they got tossed
We dropped out for the love and the trust
Pledge you my troth

By these bones
By this blood
Who we are is enough
By these bones
By this blood
We exist for the buzz
By these bones
By this blood
We’re divine, we are dust
We’ll find god when we’ve lost all we’ve got

Only fools ride this bus
Uninsured, we are driverless
We aspire to the heights of a ziggurat
Spirit moves through the cracks
Our guru is a cat
Who lives both in this world and in that
Pledge you my troth

By these bones
By this blood
Who we are is enough
By these bones
By this blood
We create for the buzz
By these bones
By this blood
We’re divine we are dust
We’ll find God when we lost all we got

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Song:Magic Bus
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Album: All The Colours Of You
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Wherever It Takes Us

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Wherever It Takes Us is the fifth track on the album All The Colours Of You.

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She’s weaving from car to car
Checking the doors
Leaving, leaving bloody hand prints on the paintwork
All locked!
Shots!
Drops to her knees gasping
Wheezing
Can’t breathe
The gas mask’s leaking
Acrid smoke
Hot Pain
Her …her slip’s on fire.
She flaps at it
Swan winged wrists
Flap flapping
Beat the embers out
From her crouch
She tries another handle
A mauve Pontiac
Unlocked!
She scrambles in
Slams the door shut
Ducks down
Peace.

We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
We’re all in
It breaks and it shapes us
We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
Let’s ride

She strips off her slip
Blotted heavy with blood
Tosses it
On the pink leather back seat
Smoke coils out of a zigzag cut on her palm
She sucks on it
Metallic taste
Underneath the jagged flap of skin
Whisps Of DNA unwind
Uncoiling
Dissipate, float away
An upgrade
She laughs
Words pour out of her mouth,
Bubblegum,
Like, like, like hieroglyphs
Bioluminescent opaque shapes
Fill up the Pontiac
And here it is
Here it is

We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
We’re all in
It breaks and it shapes us
We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
Let’s ride

She’s in the multiverse,
Connected lives overlapping
Like a,
Like a hall of mirrors
Lives
Lived and shed,
Affecting her now
Gig, gigabytesof history
Like a, like a, like a map
Ancient cultures,
Where men sit around the fire singing whilst the women keep bringing the children in
She strips off her skinsuit
It puddles at her feet like wormcast
Every cell illuminates and expands
Spools upwards
Melting dissolving
Into, into code
Light
She dives in
Illumination
And here it is, here it is
She’s made of stars

We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
We’re all in
It breaks and it shapes us
We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
Let’s ride

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Song:Wherever It Takes Us
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Album: All The Colours Of You
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XYST

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XYST is the closing track on the album All The Colours Of You.

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Throw me a bone here
I’m down on my luck
You won life’s lottery
Now you don’t give a fuck
Throw me a bone here
You’ve so much on your plate
Strip the fields like locusts
Then flush us down the grate

At what cost innocence?
When we’re crushed
Jump the fence
Don’t forget you’re one of us
You’re one of us

It’s medieval
Lepers at your gate
Homeless and lonely
There’s no net to take our weight

At what cost innocence?
When we’re crushed
Jump the fence
Don’t forget you’re one of us
You’re one of us

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Song:XYST
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Album: All The Colours Of You
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Hush

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Hush is the sixth track on the album All The Colours Of You.

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Was surprised you showed up to my wake
Guess you wanted proof I’d made it through the gates
Hush a body in the lake takes more weight
I’m not looking for revenge,
I love this place
Hmmm Hmmm
Time to cultivate patience
It’s not too late
I will, I will, I will wait
Hmmm
Fall in love with creation
Interlaced
I will, I will, I will wait
I’m aligned at the best of times
In death I have true faith
I will wait. I will wait. I will wait.
As above not so below
Love instead
What I would moan
Moan
Time to cultivate patience it’s not too late
I will, I will, I will wait
Fall in love with creation
Interlaced
I will, I will, I will wait
I’m aligned at the best of times
In death I have true faith
I will wait. I will wait. I will wait.
My humming in your sleep keeps you awake
Try writing off this friend that you can’t shake
Hmmm Hmmm

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Song:Hush
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Album: All The Colours Of You
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ZERO

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ZERO is the opening track on the album All The Colours Of You.

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We’re all gonna die
That’s the truth
Quit measuring time
By money and youth
Time’s no straight line
Time’s a slope
My credit’s declined
Keep dancing with hope
We’re all going to die
Prescriptions and pills
So live to your shine
Don’t live unfulfilled
Life’s a free climb
No ropes
Let go of the mind
Lie back and float

Some days I go no
Some days I go yeah
Some days I go woah
Some days I go yeah
Woah
Yeah

We’re ageing like wine ‘til we don’t
I’ll be by your side
I’ll sing when you choke
We’re all gonna die
No joke
So live to your shine
Before you go croak
Some days I go no
Some days I go yeah
Some days I go woah
Some days I’m a yeah
Woah
Yeah
Woah
Yeah
Woah
Yeah

Oscillator
Up
Oscillator
Down
Oscillator
Oscillator
Round and round

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Song:ZERO
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Album: All The Colours Of You
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Miss America

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Miss America is the seventh track on the CD and ninth track on the vinyl of the album All The Colours Of You.

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Miss America’s wearing thin
She’s all tiaras and glamour
Can’t stop the boss from keeping his hands off
Its all snakes no ladders
Miss America says live the dream
So long as you’re born white
Killed the natives and jailed the slaves
Move more to the right

May God bless you
And your golden sons
May God bless you
And your love of guns
May God bless you
And your passion for freedom
Sold to the man with the tan

Looked so good in the photograph - just smile
Not so good when the lights go dark
Heels about to break
She’s not straight
Her judge cries
Fake
Miss America’s rescue plan
Rocket ships to Mars
Fouled the nest so we’ll start again
With billionaires and film stars

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Song:Miss America
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Album: All The Colours Of You
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Unavailable.