Fowl play? A bright, beautifully catchy number of darkly humorous self-loathing and paranoia, the Canadian artist imagining being mocked by local birdlife, all inspired by a wintertime walk through Amsterdam’s Vondelpark. Reminiscent of the alluring style of Scotland’s Belle & Sebastian with a dash of Nick Drake, Astral Swans is Calgary songwriter Matthew Swann. His most recent album is 2018’s Strange Prison. This and more of his work can be enjoyed on Bandcamp here.
In response to the ongoing injustice and systemic racism against Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour, sales of his new song will be donated to Calgary’s Awo Taan Healing Lodge Society, an organisation giving shelter to women and children exposed to domestic, violence.
All the swans in
Vondel Park say
I dIdn't deserve you anyway
I’m free I don't know If I'm happy
I'm free I don't know If I'm happy
Because combInatIons
Of human persons
Might be the only meanIng
I'm free I don't know If I'm happy
I'm free I don't know If I'm happy
The world speaks volumes
Of these sad truths
All the dogs In
Tiny clothes say
You're better wIthout me anyway
I'm free I don't know If I'm happy
I'm free I don't know If I'm happy
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