Eighteen hours of groundbreaking TV. An album written as the credits rolled. A washed-up bar band with a backstory full of half-truths. And a wider cast of musicians and artists leaning deep into the concept.
It is happening again.
“We are like the dreamer who dreams, and then lives inside the dream.”
Monica Bellucci, as herself, Part 14
Songs of Awakening is the second in a planned trilogy of EPs, to be released as and when time makes any sense.
It follows the DIY debut Songs for the Trailers (2023) and features the classic line-up of hedonistic late ‘90s barflies The Mysteries – newly reformed but with a legally-obligated change of name.
As well as an artistic response to Twin Peaks: The Return, the songs are a sequel of sorts to Five Miles South (2012) by Samuel Foxton Welles – a short album inspired by the original 1990s TV series.
Like a dream within a dream, the voices from the SFW sessions re-materialise over a decade later with The ‘New’ Mysteries.
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Diane? Diane, it’s happening. It’s happening again, you feel it too…
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My guardian angel, so sweet like cherry pie, I’m sleepwalking through my mind.
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Watch as we materialise, crush your skull between your eyes.
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Let’s rock, let’s roll… Red Room, Blue Rose.
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Come sit by my side if you love me, do not hasten to bid me adieu.
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Stranger things we had never seen. She kept a log, forever green.
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There’s a place that’s a gateway between a real and a dream state.
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America, your time has come: kill the dream and drop the bomb.
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A hotel room is not a home, and that face in the mirror is not my own.
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I drove all night to find you, to drive the past behind you, to drive the demons from this town.
The Bang Bang Bar setlist
