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Falkirk Attic EP

by Boulder Fields

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1.
Cage 03:10
It ran for years but these are cold days now And in this cage I take the sun Safe on the sill These were my days until you came These were my days until you came Love to torment me With your wicked hook nails Telling me it's a lover's caress And all that you say is true Well more or less Well more or less. Maybe a bird could one day fly from you. This cage is safe but I can't leave Be free from you. Will I ever get away? Do I want to get away? Love to torment me With your wicked hook nails Telling me it's a lover's caress And all that you say is true Well more or less Well more or less.
2.
Told you both it wasn't true, Yeah-yeah, but you both knew. By the time I worked out what I had to do, Time ran out, so I ran too. To feel a pain that isn't really there. But never heals, that's how it feels Like losing precious things I'd put away. Never found, never found. Make promise rings out of anything And dedicate ourselves to every cause In winter coats and with stupid grins We let it all sink in And if we never get to somewhere safe Somewhere we can bear to live alone We'll throw ourselves into the atmosphere And just leave us there ‘Cause we'll be safe, for sure Not sure what else I can say Yeah-yeah, you've heard it all So turn myself into some kind of friend. That's how it ends, that's how it ends. But know that pain that wasn't ever there Will never heal, will never heal And I still can't find these things I put away But we'll fine, we'll all be fine Dismembered tenderly while laying out Our list of alibis for every sin. With excuses that were paper thin We knew we'd never win. But we ran rings around anyone, Yeah, anyone who tried to pin us down. And if this sadness tries to drag things down I won't mind, I hope you remember. I know I’ll remember…
3.
I'm building a home by a mountain river I'm building a place to stay I'm building a home by a mountain river Where I know it will be washed away I'm building a home by a mountain river And that night when the flood comes down Everything I have will be gone by the break of day Everything I have will be gone by the break of day I carried a load that almost broke my back And I carried it up that hill I carried a load that almost broke my back Broke my spirit and my will I carried a load that almost broke my back And until that flood comes down Seems to me like I'm going to have to carry it still Seems to me I'm going to have to carry it still Now I can't swim to save myself Can barely swim at all I can't swim to save myself And the river's almost through these walls So all I can do is sing this song Now that the flood's come down And everything I am will be gone by the break of dawn Everything I am will be gone by the break of dawn
4.
Northerly 04:02
Another weekend Sees me driving north again. Rain batters the windscreen Maybe should've got the train Wind's picking up now But at least it means that it won't freeze So I'll take the back road And look out over cold grey seas Where the memories of a friend still lie And while currents surge and churn They'll work his legacy Still in my memory Still in my memory We'll sort of talk and listen And we'll sort of carry on. Held on in the hard times And still her will stays strong And disappointments she can hide But can't push the hurt aside And so we are crushed, Regrets weigh so much Regrets weigh so much This is what I'll cling to And hope I can stay true To my faith in strangers And to my faith in you And to my faith in fragile love And those who are near me now And to my faith in fragile love And those who are near me now Remind me of this Remind me if you can
5.
Monstrous 03:22
So maybe there's this monster That lurks inside of me Best you don't see it Best we let it be Best let these kind of monsters Hide themselves where no one else will see Or lock them in the wardrobe Then don't forget to throw away the key Best let that kind of monster Cry themselves to sleep alone at night But I am not the monster The monster's just a little part of me It's painful and it's lonely Knowing there's a monstrous side of me. But maybe you've got monster Somewhere in your family tree And maybe you're part monster Just the same as me Then we could be together Huddled in a corner on our own And we can stop pretending And just be monstrous right down to the bone But we'll be gentle monsters And never bother anyone we meet A pair of happy monsters Getting on monstrously.

about

On two of this summer’s uncharacteristically blisteringly hot, Scottish summer days, Cam Fraser headed to Falkirk with Boulder Field’s fiddle player Amy Geddes and mandolin player Iain MacLeod. The plan was for them to be joined by other members of the band and to start work on some demos. But due to last-minute illness, that plan had to be ripped up, but determined to come away with something, the trio set to work on stripped-down arrangements of some of Fraser’s older songs.

These tracks represent a significant new direction for Fraser. His previous work with The Cateran and more recently, Borrowed Books, was rooted in alt.rock, indie and even punk but Boulder Fields has much more of a folk feel. For Fraser it’s a long overdue reacquaintance with acoustic music. “I grew up in the 1960s in Inverness, in a small hotel that back then was the meeting place for the Inverness Folk Club. My parents were big fans and loved having folk musicians playing in the bar, so I guess it’s in my bones. Even when I was thrashing through chaotic thirty-minute sets with The Cateran, alongside Black Flag, Husker Du and Dinosaur Jr, I was still listening to Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young. But it was during lockdown that I properly connected with playing more acoustic music and shit as that whole period might have been for so many reasons, I’m genuinely grateful for it forcing me into a change of direction that I’m enjoying more every day. I’m not in any way done with electric guitars, bass drums and piano, and I’m looking forward to getting back to a more Americana sound, but it’s been such a treat to make this EP with Amy and Iain.”

credits

released November 19, 2022

Amy Geddes: fiddle, viola, vocals
Iain MacLeod: mandolin, banjo, vocals
Cam Fraser: vocals, guitar

Artwork: John MacPherson

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Boulder Fields is Cam Fraser's Americana/folk project and features some of Scotland’s finest musicians, playing smart, memorable songs as they weave between alternative/indie, Americana and Scottish folk. As live performers, they combine superb playing with a dark intensity and an undeniably Scottish folk energy that’s capable of sweeping up any audience. ... more

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