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Imperfect Constellations

by Carmody

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DownByTheRiver9 I got to this via a review on Rocking Magpie - so glad I did. I’m loving this album. It’s rich in so many ways. Thanks to RM for the guidance - such an excellent resource. Favorite track: Blood.
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1.
Hurricane 04:10
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Come to me like a hurricane wild and free the edge of the world hadn’t found you then dark song of the sea do you dream in colour anymore? Sometimes I wonder if you dream at all Come to me my sweet ritual pure and true you spoke of the days that had wrecked your heart worlds lost in youth do you dream in colour anymore? You say you don’t remember dreams at all If I soak my warm hands in your cold skin push my weight between your everything If I catch some light against the skin that you wake in would you feel it all? Come to me and explain yourself bitter fool you carry the ache of someone else I hear it speak through you we don’t dream in colour anymore we try not to remember dreams at all If I soak my warm hands in your cold skin push my weight between your everything If I catch some light against the skin that you wake in would you feel it all? How I’ve tried to see a little love in your eyes but the years keep taking how I’ve tried to raise a little joy in these times but the years keep breaking how I want to see a little peace I thought you could find If I soak my warm hands in your cold skin push my weight between your everything If I catch some light against the skin that you wake in would you feel it all? If I soak my warm hands in your cold skin push my weight between your everything If I catch some light against the skin that you wake in would you feel it all? Feel it all
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Moon 04:48
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Close your eyes and whisper thanks before the wine I stand beside you though I’ve never understood you’re still waiting for the someone You wake up early just to know your silence by the time I’ve woken you’re already gone you’re still waiting for the one I’m still waiting for someone I don’t follow the moon and the way that it moves like you do point to shapes in the stars I don’t know what they are like you I don’t follow the moon and the way that it moves like you do point to shapes in the stars I don’t know what they are like you And in your voice I hear a broken yearning speak of desire like you were never there you’re still waiting for the one I’m still waiting for someone I don’t follow the moon and the way that it moves like you do point to shapes in the stars I don’t know what they are like you I don’t follow the moon and the way that it moves like you do point to shapes in the stars I don’t know what they are like you I don’t follow the moon and the way that it moves like you do point to shapes in the stars I don’t know what they are like you Sing ah, sing ah, sing ah
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Yosef 03:56
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Come show me how you love a little I clipped wayward wings not to feel flight come let me know your tenderness the silent songs in your caress keep my heart tied Oh forgotten telepathy ancient tongue you won’t speak with me casting out all my dreams to your scattered skies So I might find you one day I might find you my love it won’t deny you all that you hold inside She sang of a magic ring that made her finger green I’ve come to learn just what she means in the dark of seeing light Oh forgotten telepathy ancient tongue you won’t speak with me casting out all my dreams to your scattered skies So I might find you one day I might find you my love it won’t deny you all that you hold inside Cause’ there’s a moment where you want to throw yourself open hold your arms out to the sun, let some hope in and I want to learn why, I want to know why cause I’ve seen you ablaze, seen you a-light unravelling at night sometimes and I want to learn why, I want to know why So I might find you one day I might find you my voice, my love, could it remind you what it’s like to come untied Cause I’ve tried to taste the salt that fills your eyes to cover up all that divides lost places in time.
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Blood 03:57
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I can hear your words on my tongue blood I can hear your gestures in mine blood My father taught me kindness, my mother taught me strength and there’s someone in my line who taught me how to find the dark till there’s no light left Oh blood, oh blood a tapestry of years that weaves through all of us Oh blood a tapestry that weaves through us I can see your bitter in my eyes blood I have known your sadness with time blood Felt the warm ache of laughter, I’ve cried swimming pools in your name and there’s someone in my line who’ll trespass intertwine wildfires I cannot contain Oh blood, oh blood a tapestry of years that weaves through all of us Oh blood a tapestry of years that weave through all of us, through all of us, through all of us Oh, the weight that lies so heavy in your spine Oh, imperfect constellations that rewrite your life Blood, Oh blood a tapestry of years that weave through all of us imperfect constellations that rewrite your life, write your life oh blood, oh blood oh blood, imperfect constellations that rewrite your life oh blood, a tapestry of years that weave through all of us imperfect constellations
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Forgiveness 02:03
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We don’t talk about, talk about forgiveness forgiveness forgiveness forgiveness We don’t talk about, talk about forgiveness forgiveness forgive
6.
Replace 03:24
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Freefall backwards, trying to let go you lie raging, trapped in it all for now just bones, singing sad songs bodies shifting, just to belong Take time, you took mine, long overdue salty water, a faceless blue great God divider, a light undone birds in cages, still calling on Forever changing, I can’t replace him Forever changing, I can’t replace him Forever changing, I can’t replace him Forever changing Supernatural, when skin aligns I’m not weightless, only with wine your heart wasted, broken divine coining phrases, to pass the time elemental layers of truth, unfolding outwards like flowers in bloom Constant distractions within the room I’m not here, I’m not here, I’m not here Forever changing, I can’t replace him Forever changing, I can’t replace him Forever changing, I can’t replace him Forever changing, I can’t replace him I wanna know you’re there Forever changing, I can’t replace him I wanna know you’re there Forever changing, I can’t replace him I wanna know you’re there Forever changing, I can’t replace him Forever changing, I can’t replace
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Morning 03:43
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Quiet devotion in my day still my eyes play tricks on me and it was golden and unbroken always feared that things would change For every song that we sung for every hour that has gone without you for every word I can’t find struggle to make the right lines without you Won’t be there in the morning telling me it’ll be alright know the world’s still forming but you’re out of sight Won’t be there in the morning telling me it’ll be alright know the world’s still forming but you’re out of sight, always in my mind I see your face now in everything cause my heart it won’t believe In the unspoken and unnamed for a life I can’t reclaim For every song that we sung for every hour that has gone without you for every word I can’t find struggle to make the right lines without you Won’t be there in the morning telling me it’ll be alright know the world’s still forming but you’re out of sight Won’t be there in the morning telling me it’ll be alright know the world’s still forming but you’re out of sight, always in my mind Won’t be there in the morning telling me it’ll be alright know the world’s still forming but you’re out of sight Won’t be there in the morning telling me it’ll be alright know the world’s still forming but you’re out of sight, always in my mind
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Trespasser 03:11
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Oh trespasser, I know I should not harbour you here oh trespasser, into my heart you’re swallowed though it’s been years And I think there is a scattering of you in every world in me cause no matter the turnings of the moon I’ve never felt you leave I can’t forgive my mind summons you at night I can’t forgive my hunger sees you between my thighs I can’t forgive my skin your touch is memorised and I can’t forgive I can’t forgive I can’t forgive my mind summons you at night I can’t forgive my hunger sees you between my thighs I can’t forgive my skin your touch is memorised and I can’t forgive I can’t forgive Oh trespasser, I feel you are a part of me now oh trespasser, each movement I make I feel you somehow and I know that there is nothing I can do, the future’s no divide I’m unaltered by each setting sun, and every changing tide never felt you leave, so constantly you rise and fall with each moment in my body I can’t forgive my mind summons you at night I can’t forgive my hunger sees you between my thighs I can’t forgive my skin your touch is memorised and I can’t forgive I can’t forgive I can’t forgive my mind summons you at night I can’t forgive my hunger sees you between my thighs I can’t forgive my skin your touch is memorised and I can’t forgive I can’t forgive
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Strange 03:39
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Walking through the cemetery I sang happy birthday that means everything to me in an empty church I hear them play in the arms of the angels it’s strange like dreams so strange Just take my hand, don’t unhand me and tell me it’s alright picture the pinhole of light that returns in the night sky so strange I learnt the lines that they said at your wake it was ‘in love we are made, in love we disappear’ no one should go unnamed, feed the birds speak to the strays in dreams so strange Just take my hand, don’t unhand me and tell me it’s alright picture the pinhole of light that returns in the night sky Just take my hand, don’t unhand me and tell me it’s alright so strange collecting each image that falls into view it’s so strange these souvenirs that become part of you it’s so strange it’s so strange Just take my hand, don’t unhand me and tell me it’s alright picture the pinhole of light that returns in the sky
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Brother 04:15
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You weren’t from the waves came out the sky fell from your world with each goodbye you weren’t from the grey carried the sun in your eyes fell to our world But I hope you know that we will draw love around you tonight four hearts a circle brother we’re aligned The sound of the past calling you home you took the space we’d never known you weren’t from our blood but you knew in time stretched out our arms And I hope you know that we will draw love around you tonight four hearts a circle brother we’re aligned and we will draw love around you tonight four hearts a circle brother we’re aligned
11.
Sorry 02:08
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Tell me once you thought you’d live as long as the stars once you held the grit of life in your palms why don’t you tell me? once in your reflection you called yourself king watch how we waste to nothing Tell me once I learnt the stories of your youth I want to give them back to you can you hear? can you hear? hear my call to prayer I want to bring you back there can you hear? Can you hear? hear my call to prayer I want to take you back there I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry
12.
Still 03:28
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Can we go back to what we knew? Still drive the same way home after seeing you can we go back to what we had? Dancing in your living room the years fall too soon Cause I tried to find our history in your eyes and I tried to keep all your unlived dreams alive now I hear you’ve gone back to your mother tongue the only place you belong Still you feel you running through my blood still you though your mind is playing dark still you still see a king in the mirror and still you I know that you are Still you feel you running through my blood still you though your mind is playing dark still you still see a king in the mirror and still you I know that you are I can’t pretend that nothing’s changed still put your records bring you back to better days for a moment you appear something beautiful in feeling you so near Cause I tried to find our history in your eyes and I tried to keep all your unlived dreams alive now I hear you’ve gone back to your mother tongue the only place you belong Still you feel you running through my blood still you though your mind is playing dark still you still see a king in the mirror and still you I know that you are Still you feel you running through my blood still you though your mind is playing dark still you still see a king in the mirror and still you I know that you are
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Memory (feat. Laura Misch, Alfa Mist) 03:22
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Memory of you like a penny falling to the bottom of the sea as you leave Those thoughts of you like glitter falling through the air tried to catch you there catch you there If memory is all I have, let it be a part of all I am If memory is all I have, let it be a part of all I am Reflected in you like a crystal scatters light across my room will you see it soon? I wake in you like loss you can’t explain, as I move in your veins give sadness her name If memory is all I have, let it be a part of all I am If memory is all I have, let it be a part of all I am part of all I am If memory is all I have, let it be a part of all I am
14.
Well (feat. Tom Misch) 02:31
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I lie in this well by myself the skies still waiting I try to rephrase days I’ve made but tides keep changing constant universe uncomfortable, illuminous I’m still spinning out of time with you I want to resist an empty kiss cause I can’t take it I search for a god I can’t believe why must I keep on praying constant universe uncomfortable, illuminous I’m still spinning out of time with you constant universe uncomfortable, illuminous I’m still spinning out of time with you
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Mother 03:44
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Is there nothing I can do to save you now? Feel helpless as I was in that first breath Is there nothing I can do, no power in my voice feel helpless as two newborn lungs Mother I’m sorry, I’m a part of your blue and when you gave your love was there a hollow space in you? Mother I’m sorry, I’m a part of your wreckage and when you gave your love could I learn to protect it? When you gave your love I never learnt to protect it Can you be reborn when you’re falling apart? Twist this hurting into gold, I’ll be there at the start I know my song won’t soothe your ways won’t be baptised, cleansed of heavy, lonesome days Mother I’m sorry, I’m a part of your blue and when you gave your love was there a hollow space in you? Mother I’m sorry, I’ma part of your wreckage and when you gave your love could I learn to protect it? When you gave your love I never learnt to protect it Will we swim? Will there be singing when the waters come when the waters come Will we swim? Will there be singing when the waters come when the waters come when the waters come when the waters come when the waters come when the waters come

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Imperfect Constellations is predominantly about family. The family we are born into, the family we create, and the lovers and people we meet who all interweave and mingle to shape who we are, and who we become. It explores how we carry experiences from past generations that can dictate out present narrative and affect how we relate to the world. I was inspired by the concept of constellation therapy. I thought it was fascinating to put strangers in a room and ask one person to map out their relationships using people they had never met before, in the hope that they would be able to unravel something about their history. I also remember reading about the constellation Orion when my dad was dying. They said that one of the brightest stars on Orion’s belt was dying and that its disappearance would alter the whole skyline and the way it looked. I thought this related to dad, as when someone dies it changes the whole infrastructure within a family and you have to explore who you become without the constellation you created together.

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released July 6, 2022

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Carmody's sound harks back to the lyrical magic of songstresses from the 70s, blending dreamy folk with the zeitgeist electronica of today. Recently crowned “South London’s electronic soul queen” by Notion magazine and reaching tens of millions of streams, Carmody has sold out shows in the UK and Europe, captivating audiences with her spell-binding vocals and lyrical prowess. ... more

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