Name: Madness
Duration: P00H02M33S
Description: The song was written in response to the cascade of upheavals of 2016 - the election of Trump, the Brexit vote, the many terror attacks, the escalation and entanglement of the war in Syria... all these, along with my own struggles to sleep, to find calm, to stay stable in the midst of it, made for Madness. I hope it understands you.

Madness

by Dizraeli

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humbledumpling Dizraeli is that rarest of things, a true artist. An auditory craftsman who imbues all that he does with a surplus of soul an this track is no exception. A percussive and off kilter folkish journey through the twisted corridors of contemporary insanity. It's a jam.

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The song was written in response to the cascade of upheavals of 2016 - the election of Trump, the Brexit vote, the many terror attacks, the escalation and entanglement of the war in Syria... all these, along with my own struggles to sleep, to find calm, to stay stable in the midst of it, made for Madness. I hope it understands you.

lyrics

There’s a madness in the world today
A billion fragments in a tidal wave
The wave crashes up the old Green Lanes
And everybody’s eyes are barmy

Must hurry there’s a frantic rush
Up in the cafes and the cancer bus
In seven minutes we turn back to dust
And everybody’s eyes are barmy

Eyes are barmy and our backs are sprained
Muscles spasming in nasty ways
Faces glisten like we’re cast in clay
Ah look at everybody’s eyes

None of these signifiers answers us
Professor Sanake and Captain Crush
Lady Ladbrokes and the Abacus
Everybody’s eyes are barmy

And it’s a crash it’s an emergency
It paints a long and livid purple scream
All up the turnpike to Bounders’ Green
ah look at everybody’s eyes

A machine collapses at the hospital
A stack of polystyrene boxes falls
And out the panic room a monster crawls
Everybody’s eyes are sick

So stop your scribbling and stay your pen
They’re putting needles in the rain again
A planet governed by insane young men
And everybody’s eyes are barmy…

Aaaaaooooooooohhhhhhhh…
It’s madness

Just too much it’s too
Much
It’s much too much it’s too
Much
It’s just too much it’s too
Much
It’s much too much it’s too…

credits

released February 8, 2019
Drums, synths, found sounds, percussion, vocals : Dizraeli
Additional vocals : Leonie Evans
Additional bass synth : Danalogue
Clarinets : Ewan Bleach

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Dizraeli Bristol, UK

Multi-instrumentalist MC, singer, producer from Bristol, UK,
distributing explosions that journalists find hard to describe.

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The Barrel House Ballroom

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Oxford, UK
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