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Colour Phase

by Claw The Thin Ice

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    The fourth full-length studio album from Claw The Thin Ice.

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1.
We drove around slow Watch up to stars That shone bright in the night Blackstar burns hard Ripples in time The things we know won’t be the same When stars are burning out Inescapable fates and transient shapes Burnout on the ground There’s time to arrive Back home to try And disconnect the sun To draw the blinds To live and to die The things we know won’t be the same When stars are burning out Inescapable fates and transient shapes Burnout on the ground I disconnect myself from everyone and everything From difficult wakes and unconscious states I need to disappear And when your spirit leaves your body I swear it takes me with you away somewhere We float over houses Get lost in the air Though I stand in your bedroom I’m not really here I’m ripped up and rejected My oxygen cut I’ll burn up on re-entry when your heart gives up Cos nobody loves me The way that you do
2.
We waited so long for this day We never get to go away Inside our room we’ve gotta stay Stare out of the windows and say “One day I’m gonna break away Break down the doors and escape” We are two stars from two different galaxies So strange yet so alike Time comes and I make my escape But will I manage to evade Obstacles that line the way Drive into the sunset and say “I’m never coming here again”
3.
Daydream 04:16
Why do all of my dreams Take place in somewhere that I’ve been Before but swore not to return And repeat my lusty nightmares My daydreams are more astral bodied Cerebral and extra-terrestrial And all night I’m tortured by these things When real life feels extra-terrestrial And normal is auto-erotica I want the symbiosis My daydreams are more astral bodied Cerebral and extra-terrestrial And all night I’m tortured by these things My love feels ever-expanding Supreme and never-ending
4.
Tricks 03:49
I’m new to this world I’m shaking off ideas I’ve been used to From my past life Not comfortably Yet walking tall I’ll keep stumbling But I’ll get it right in time I’m still new to the game Still finding my way around here Then went to your house Such a bad idea Started freaking out I’m getting outta here right now Then on through the day The song in my brain Repeating “Don’t want your complications I’ve still got my reservations About the tricks of the trade I’m not ready to learn” You twist out conversations Rig em up with exaggerations So you can stay in bed And I can stay alone
5.
Fantasia 07:29
Sometimes you’ve gotta break from routine and move away Doesn’t matter how far or where you end Just make the change Now I don’t know about you But I couldn’t desert too And I’m too scared to admit I need you to get by These are words I don’t say And I can’t bring myself to change So stay with me So happily at sea Adrift but not lost Not together, but across I wait around in rain And sun and in snow In time things will go my way I’m too weak to tell you face to face So I write it down in songs you’ll never hear
6.
There are days I can remember And the first that we spent together But I don’t want to be a secret to you anymore It’s a pact that we made together In your bedroom during our Indian summer Now I want to live my life in you forever I want to live We lay on your bed with your head on my chest You said “I’m listening to the sound of what keeps you alive” It’s such a simple thing But it means a lot to me
7.
Brain Fade 01:38
Did you forget what you were told to say About your favourite food, your name and your birthday But it’s okay boo I forget too Don’t let this brain fade get the best of you Hey it’s okay Don’t you get down about your fuck up There’s opportunities to make it up But if they hate you like you know they do Just put The Smiths on and say “fuck you too” Hey, no way Lie down in recovery Oh, how embarrassed you must be! Lie down in recovery Oh, how embarrassed! Hey brain fade Not today
8.
Hang 03:28
Hanging on you Choking down a bitter pill You knew that I couldn’t take it But I saw that you still did it You’re so cold, hot-headed Come on and carry unnecessary Create a new reality I’m hanging on Cross my heart with a paper cut A demon hiding inside my guts A whisper, a code between us Poison tongue, fall to dust It hurt like the truth Hang We’ll escape One day we will I’ll hang here for you

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The fourth full-length studio album from Claw The Thin Ice.

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Colour Phase might be Claw the Thin Ice‘s shortest studio album but it’s also their best work to date.
- godisinthetvzine.co.uk

Claw is a well-oiled machine, but they have never sounded more together than on this LP - probably the band’s most dramatic sounding record yet.
With their tightest performances and catchiest, most focused songs so far, I am in love once again.
- birthdaycakebreakfast.wordpress.com

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Personnel:
Ian Breen - Vocals, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Synth, Gong, Loops
Jake Beddow - Vocals, Guitar
Toby Potter - Bass Guitar
John Simpson - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Glockenspiel, Acoustic Guitar

Additional personnel:
Stuart Ogilvie - Double drums and backing vocal on 'Daydream'
Nick Duke - Backing vocal on 'Drive Into The Sunset', 'Tricks' & 'Hang'

Recorded by Joe Clayton at NO Studio, Strangeways, M/CR in March 2019.
Mixed by Joe, Ian and John the following month, and mastered by Lee Anthony Calpee the month after that.
Artwork by Jake Beddow and Layla Sailor.
Group photograph by Milos Hudec.

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released July 5, 2019

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Claw The Thin Ice Manchester, UK

Four dudes making big, sad, loud rock music.

- Four Albums
- Four EPs
- One compilation album


'Colour Phase' out now.

LP5 coming 2023
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