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Secret Holiday/ Victory Blues

by The Puddle

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    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

    The 7th album by The Puddle is George D. Henderson’s response to 30 years of under-appreciation for their urgent psychedelia, sweet pop sentiments and garage rock undertones. Secret Holiday/ Victory Blues burns with a quiet fury.

    With their 1986-93 Flying Nun Records catalogue long out of print and a decade lost in the mist, The Puddle are making up for lost time in spectacular fashion, with 4 acclaimed albums since 2007.

    "Hugely reminiscent of Vic Godard, these songs could easily be from some long-lost Subway Sect album. And if that doesn't make you want to investigate then frankly I fear for your sanity and your soul."
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    LP and CD also avilable in the UK from www.occultation.co.uk
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A shiny silvery disc encoded with data representing the music of The Puddle and encased within a gate-fold card wallet sleeve featuring the peculiar photographs of Ms. Hayley Theyers and the Children of Huia.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Secret Holiday/ Victory Blues via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Limited Edition LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    There's only 200 of these beauties on midnight black 150gm United Record pressing vinyl. The cover is high quality semi-gloss card and there's a photo/ lyric sheet insert too. Nice.
    UPDATE: These are no longer available from The Puddle Bandcamp page. The final 4 copies (as at Feb 2018) are available from our label fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/secret-holiday-victory-blues

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1.
Decline to Fall Never let them tell you that It's later than you think Pick up the final straw To use it in your drink And in some country where It's always party time Slow decline Sip your stiff red wine No-one who knows you Could ever expose you like we do We can't help it You're a party to this too You're sinking faster than A leaking submarine Still telling tales of all You should have done and might have been There but for the grace of God I'd follow you some more Good angels stopped me That's what I pay them for No-one who knows you Could ever expose you like we do We can't help it You're a party to this too Never let them tell you that It's later than you think You take the final straw And drop it in your drink And in some country where It's always party time Sad decline You'll sip the stiff red wine No-one who knows you Could ever expose you like we do We can't help it You're a party to this too
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Secret Holiday Let's take a secret holiday Sleeping in the leaves along the way Tell the world to go away Until we get there They never let us take a break We must atone for each mistake But sometimes the chains just break We see we gotta be free! (free as a bee) We should take a secret holiday Butterflies are floating in the bay Where the pale horizons sway Until we get there They never let us take a break We must atone for their mistake But then sometimes the chains just break And we see we gotta be free
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The Vitalist 04:18
The Vitalist Oh I suppose the stuff flew up your nose Leaving you perfectly blameless Everyone knows that now you're wearing clothes Who saw you before you were famous Entropy roars while life still explores and builds up new creatures in changes As from the tall, so with the small more of an instinct than aimless The Vitalist preens, you've come from his dreams telling him sleep will be painless But he'll sleep no more, not even a snore now that he knows what the game is I'll come to the point and light up this joint: let all of God's creatures be shameless.
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Hydrogen 6 02:53
Hydrogen 6 When the stars are in the right place and the Moon is at the start When the tides pull you gently to and from the dark Then the Sun will soon be rising in the park And the sky is just a magnet the sky is still a magnet the sky is but a magnet For your heart
6.
Tender Validation I have not been brought up in these matters of the heart I am still uneducated Still I know where I can start to work you out and win your heart I just put my foot into it if I step one step near you so I will put my feelings in a song and I'll sing it all night long Until you come along to stop me I mean not to be critical of love that I get given But I still find the happiness I seek Just dancing cheek to cheek with you your step's unique you're not a freak Lay your weary head upon me I will be your pillow Tell me everything you think you know You see I love you so now close your eyes and just let go
7.
Victory 03:50
Victory Art is the harshest mistress Art is a cry of distress wonderfully expressed Who needs the rest? A mirror crossing a busy road with a headful of ideas He pioneers She is a golden omen You could not find a woman who's more in tune with the Moon Underneath her laughing eyes let a hundred flowers bloom In her room Her kisses taste like Victory Her kisses taste like Victory Her kisses taste like Victory over Death
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Oh Hayley (You're Right) Well you're always on time and you always call the shots Oh Hayley you're mine but you still get me tied up in knots Oh Hayley you're fine and that's one thing I never forgot and all of this time Your love's been keeping me hot Just like Napoleon your sense of smell is sharp Just like Napoleon inspiring works of art Just like Napoleon 5'2" and dark and just like the battle of Borodino you're no walk in the park Oh Hayley You're right Oh Hayley You're right
9.
Little Red Coat Put on your little red coat and come out with me tonight our love is all she wrote they said to hold me tight the Weasel and the Stoat will not forget to bite but you are at my throat and we'll make it through alright Take off your little red coat and lie with me tonight unwrap your five pound note Honey come inside the Weasel and the Stoat will not forget to bite but I am at your throat we'll make it through alright Put on your little red coat and come out with me tonight our love is all she wrote they said to treat me right the Weasel and the Stoat are not afraid to bite but you are at my throat so we will make it through alright
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This is an instrumental. There are no lyrics. Only the words that randomly pop into your head when you hear it.

about

"Secret Holiday" and "Victory Blues" are two 5-song EPs recorded in separate sessions at the Auckland Warehouse Studio of the legendary Bob Frisbee. Rather than release two EPs, they are combined as one album, with each EP taking up one side of the vinyl LP edition.

credits

released March 5, 2012

Words & Music (c) George D. Henderson
The Puddle are:
George D. Henderson - vocals, guitars, some keyboards
Gavin Shaw - bass, some backing vocals
Alan Starret - Viola and keyboards
Ian Henderson - Drums & percussion

with:
Graeme Humphreys - some keyboards on the "Victory Blues" EP

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The Puddle Dunedin, New Zealand

With their 1986 – 93 Flying Nun Records catalogue long
out of print, The Puddle finally re-emerged in 2006 with 4 acclaimed albums released on Fishrider Records.
The Puddle have always been the most stubbornly underground of the bands associated with the
Flying Nun imprint. Their debut Pop Lib was recently included in SPIN magazine’s list of the best Kiwi pop releases alongside The Clean.
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