The Old Man Is Back Again

from Ghosts by Mink Shoals

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We take this Scott Walker tune and filter it through a lens of Rowland S. Howard and These Immortal Souls. Cinematic, Spaghetti Western Soul

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I seen a hand, I seen a vision
It was reaching through the clouds, To risk a dream
A shadow cross the sky
And it crushed into the ground, Just like a beast
The old man's back again
The old man's back again
I seen a woman, standing in the snow
She was silent as she watched them take her man
Teardrops burned her cheeks
For she thought she'd heard, The shadow had left this land
The old man's back again
The old man's back again
The crowds just gathered, their faces turned away
And they queue all day like dragons of disgust
All the women whispering
Wondering just what these young hot-heads want of us
And entres vie he cries
With eyes that ring like chimes
His anti-worlds go spinning through his head
He burns them in his dreams
For half awake they may as well be dead
The old man's back again
I see he's back again
I see a soldier, He's standing in the rain
For him there's no old man to walk behind
Devoured by his pain
Bewildered by the faces who pass him by
He'd like another name the one he's got's a curse
These people cried
Why can't they understand
His mother called him Ivan then she died
The old man's back again
The old man's back again
I can see him back again

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from Ghosts, track released October 27, 2020
Mellissa Bell (Vocals)
Kevin Friedman (Guitar)
Keith Richard McCarthy (Bass)
Christopher Douglas (Drums)
Nathan Ricker (Keyboards)

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Mink Shoals Portland, Oregon

Translucent soul dipped in fuzz.

Mink Shoals fuses a love of vintage psych-pop with influences from shoegaze, psych-rock and trip-hop.

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