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Hell on Bent Street

by Georgia Knight

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I see myself in a darkened glass Tie myself to the sinking mast You ain’t who you say you are I see myself in darkened glass I see myself in a wide black arch Pass over air and a liquid lunch Smoke the seal with a single punch I see myself in wide black arch Well I know too well what you can’t handle Serve it every day with wooden paddle And a friend to help you shovel it all in I see myself in darkened glass Phone call I’m alone at last If I die on the street, sweep up like plaster Or maybe I’ll be blown back in the wind In a plume of white, come apart in the gale That blows at night and rain back down On your window pane and rain back down On your window oh
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I’m gonna leave a good man soon I’m gonna leave him when I choose I’m gonna leave when the time suits me right I’m gonna leave him in middle of the night I pack my things and go Take only what I can carry Goodbye husband, goodbye wife Goodbye big house, goodbye heart strings Goodbye little baby, and goodbye long hair Earring and necklace too, I’m gonna leave you Gonna leave you and you I’m going out to run with the big boys now I’m leaving him in a bad situation Well I’m going out catching matches now Let them burn for a second, then flick them to the gutter In a pile with one another I’m gonna leave
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We Float 05:03
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Take me with you Let me alone I’ll be your friend I want a home Cos I’m hell bent I’m hell bent I’m I’m gonna let him touch me Even though he is foul I feel I am a cannon Point me out the window now Now I’m hell bent I’m hell bent I’m hell bent I’m I was your patience, but you lost me Now I’m wearing thin I’m wearing thin, I’m wearing thin I’m wearing thin Refrain *All you’re gonna want to do is get back there We Float – PJ Harvey We wanted to find love We wanted success Until nothing was enough Until my middle name was excess And somehow I lost touch When you went out of sight When you got lost into the city Got lost into the night I was in need of help Heading to black out 'Til someone told me run on in honey Before somebody blows your goddam' brains out You shop-lifted as a child I had a model's smile You carried all my hopes Until something broke inside But now we float Take life as it comes So will we die of shock? Die without a trial Die on Good Friday While holding each other tight This is kind of about you This is kind of about me We just kind of lost our way But we were looking to be free But one day we'll float Take life as it comes
5.
I see myself in a darkened glass Tie myself to the sinking mast You ain’t who you say you are I see myself in darkened glass I see myself in a wide black arch Pass over air and a liquid lunch Smoke the seal with a single punch I see myself in wide black arch Well I know too well what you can’t handle Serve it every day with wooden paddle And a friend to help you shovel it all in I see myself in darkened glass Phone call I’m alone at last If I die on the street, sweep up like plaster Or maybe I’ll be blown back in the wind In a plume of white, come apart in the gale That blows at night and rain back down On your window pane and rain back down On your window oh
6.
Take me with you Let me alone I’ll be your friend I want a home Cos I’m hell bent I’m hell bent I’m I’m gonna let him touch me Even though he is foul I feel I am a cannon Point me out the window now Now I’m hell bent I’m hell bent I’m hell bent I’m I was your patience, but you lost me Now I’m wearing thin I’m wearing thin, I’m wearing thin I’m wearing thin Refrain *All you’re gonna want to do is get back there We Float – PJ Harvey We wanted to find love We wanted success Until nothing was enough Until my middle name was excess And somehow I lost touch When you went out of sight When you got lost into the city Got lost into the night I was in need of help Heading to black out 'Til someone told me run on in honey Before somebody blows your goddam' brains out You shop-lifted as a child I had a model's smile You carried all my hopes Until something broke inside But now we float Take life as it comes So will we die of shock? Die without a trial Die on Good Friday While holding each other tight This is kind of about you This is kind of about me We just kind of lost our way But we were looking to be free But one day we'll float Take life as it comes
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Cheersquad Records & Tapes are super pleased to bring you ‘Hell on Bent Street’, the exhilarating debut EP by Melbourne musician Georgia Knight.

“Quietly seething… Like indie-goth-jazz. I love it.” – Jodi Phillis (The Clouds)

Melbourne’s Georgia Knight has a singular and uninhibited style which sits at a cross-section of genres with influences spanning Sparklehorse, Sandy Denny and Dirty Three. Belying her youth, her music has some of the darkness that’s been synonymous with Melbourne music, since Nick Cave and co held court at St Kilda’s Crystal Ballroom in the late ’70s. Indeed, former Wreckery frontman and original Bad Seed Hugo Race is a recent collaborator. It is a darkness which feels very real. Not for Georgia any tongue-in-cheek dolefulness. Her music may share some of the ramshackle qualities of some of her inner northern contemporaries, but the discord seems more-deep rooted. Her music, guitar-based, and vibrantly electric despite its pared back nature, is elemental with a rootsiness grown from the crumbling bitumen and ageless bluestones of Melbourne’s inner city streets.

To capture a feeling of urgency and escape, her atmospheric EP was recorded live during a short run of recordings. Inspired by the Dirty Three to go freely where the song goes, the arrangements came together in the studio. The powerful 3-piece of Georgia Knight on guitar and vocals, Nick Finch (Cash Savage and The Last Drinks, Graveyard Train) on bass and Holly Thomas (Freya Josephine Hollick, Quivers) on drums were recorded live by Alex O Gorman at Purple Wayne Studios in Melbourne.

Georgia says of this period: “I was listening to a lot of Dirty Three, Kate Bush and PJ Harvey around then. I love PJ’s record ‘Stories of the City, Stories of the Sea’; it sounds totally conjured up from and for a place. I had started playing her perfect song We Float, in order to get inside it, and it felt so good playing it with Holly and Nick that we put it on the EP.

I tracked a few extra vocals and guitars at Soundpark in Northcote. Around that time I’d also started doing some session work, and Idge from Soundpark got me listening to Sparklehorse, Spencer P Jones and a lot of Lee Hazelwood.”

Knight entered the scene as a teenager, having attended folk festivals with her parents as a kid. She started playing in an indie act and at the iconic Corkman pub sessions whilst studying sculpture at VCA.

After fronting alt-country band The Hot Springs, Georgia Knight began performing solo; songwriting, finding her voice, and performing on other artists recordings and sharing lineups alongside Darron Hanlon, Cash Savage, Ben Salter, Cable Ties, Hugo Race, Maple Glider, Angie McMahon and Blake Scott (Peep Tempel).

“In the same emotively revealing style as Angel Olsen, Bruce Springsteen and Big Thief, Georgia Knight’s disarming howls operate on a higher plane than anything else you’re likely to stumble across.” – Opinion Police

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released February 10, 2023

Words and music by Georgia Knight, except for We Float by PJ Harvey.

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Georgia Knight Melbourne, Australia

Georgia Knight is known for her resonant vocal range which can change in an instant from ear-whisperingly close to frenzied thrash. Her guitar playing style is similar, with uninhibited chords recognisable in a cover of Big Star’s ‘Kanga Roo’ on an out-of-tune 12 string.
Knight’s roots span trad-folk to grunge, citing Nina Simone, Sandy Denny and instrumental trio Dirty Three as influences.
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