Dave Graney and Clare Moore (strangely)(emotional), by Dave Graney and Clare Moore

Dave Graney and Clare Moore (strangely)(emotional)

by Dave Graney and Clare Moore

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richard 75 + minutes of indefatigable, indomitable imagination - an inspired, inspiring, IMPORTANT record rich in delightful flourishes at every turn, untrammeled creative ambition and the chops to pull it all off. just too fucken good, basically Favorite track: Family Gatherings.

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Dave Graney and Clare Moore, (strangely)(emotional).
15 track album (includes two versions of one song.
All instruments played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
Dave Graney, guitars, bass, autoharp, harmonica, vocals.
Clare Moore, drums, vibes, keys, percussion, backing vocals.

Joined by Shane Reilly (Lost Ragas) pedal steel on the opening track, Dave Wray (aka Frank Bennett) on tenor and soprano sax for three songs, Genevieve Fry on harp on one song, Will Hindmarsh (aka Twinkledigitz) and Emily Jarrett on backing vocals on two songs and Catherine McQuade, bass and mixing on another.
Mastered by beats / hip hop producer and drummer Plutonic Lab who had collaborated with Dave Graney on the homage track GRACE TAME IS PRESIDENT in 2022.

Dave Graney and Clare Moore have in recent years been swinging between song focused studio albums (like this one) and more band focused rock albums, (like their previous set In A Mistly).
(strangely)(emotional) is so carefully titled because that’s the age we live in. A person has to be sure and careful of their words. It’s a sensitive area, the world, in 2024. Even though it is also brutal , viral and violent all at once. (The ground we walk upon is contested and just holding together with surface tension). So the words are quarantined from each other, in parentheses so as not to be qualifying or commenting on the other.

The sounds on the album come from vintage drum machines, electric (six and twelve string) and acoustic (nylon and steel string) guitars, pedal steel, harp, harmonica, electric piano, drums, vibes, marimba, mellotron and tenor and soprano sax.
The words are rich, playful and very personal. Dave Graney is a proud Creative Creep.
(strangely)(emotional) comes after a year where Graney and Moore toured the country to joy and acclaim with their 90s band Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes. This album was cooking away in the background all the while.
It’s a Dave Graney and Clare Moore album. They’ve always done their own thing. This time, it’s (strangely)(emotional)

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1.	Back In A Day 04:49	lyrics
back in the day, back in the day people say that did you have a day? a particular day to anchor your life a day to pivot about to swing out like a may pole a legendary day a hey day hey! did you have your day? did you have a day? did you have the day? back inm the day say so much – say so little paper the room some time bog did you have the day? or did you borrow one from the library like everybody else? people walk down the street in a particular way as if to say yeah, back in the day a limp, a sway, a stagger , a swagger something happened you guessed it back in the day better to say back in a day what would a you do back in a day? what would a you say back in a day? what’s a day? it’s not the day just a day for someone but one day they might say “oh this is it! This is the day for me! Not just a me – actually for me!” back in a day back in a day better to say back in a day
2.	Family Gatherings 04:25	lyrics
here’s to all my uncles and aunties in their prime in their pomp in their best cardigans and slacks and summer shifts and flatties janglin’ their keys and eatin’ their cake from their knees Uncle Leo on either side two Margs as well Mart, Park and Andy, Joan and Jan, Lynne and John, Euie and Bub, Adie and Olive, Von and Ron and Des, Bernie and Malcolm, Mary and Celeste dancin’ to the Hucklebuck cryin’ to Maria Elena Bye Bye Birdie! Tom Dooley church and football family gatherings family gatherings- I ran away from them ran away to a circus family gatherings – they stopped at some point they can’t happen now now I’m older and standing at the empty fairground I thought they were all ancient I miss their warm presence the spongey cakes and questions about what I was gonna do hey I wish I had more people askin’ me stuff like that now the kids- all rival attempts-rival versions now I’m ready for my family gatherings it can’t happen I’m not at the party early I’m here late they’ve all gone legends of spring legends of summer legends of autumn legends of winter cool breezes summer winds storm clouds local climate patterns bad luck family gatherings liver spots - war wounds - footy injuries -bugs – curses – omens –rumours - reputations bad names family gatherings I ran away to get another family set to music, people seemed freshly minted there was no background they they didn’t print I wanted that scene around me I wanted in the flash and the noise and the drama I turned away from the family the stories – the legends the kids – the other kids the illnesses – the pregnancies the alcohol and the drugs the drunk adults the drunk children tryin’ to be adults the church – the football – the horses legends of spring legends of summer legends of autumn legends of winter cool breezes summer winds storm clouds local climate patterns bad luck family gatherings
3.	My Cancellation Came Through 05:00	lyrics
My cancellation came through it’s all over for me there was no formal ceremony it was an innocuous bump an innocent turn you just stepped off the curb the mob turned formed so quickly and turned I had runs on the board so I thought my cancellation came through hallelujah they hate me so lyin’ in the street in the hot sun for days- years- I hope I need a spell my old friends even shakin’ their heads just a stray word a gay word a fat word I called her a woman I know I deserve everything I get I’m free now it’s a new world a new morning people think the worst I do just like me we’re all on the same pages I’m free I have achieved herd immunity once you’re cancelled you’re done your passport is stamped they cut out the corner of it you’re deleted returned in the cut out bin
4.	Creative Creep 04:44	lyrics
what did Brian Wilsons dad Murray say when he boxedc him in the ears? “I’m a genius too y’know!” “I’m a genius too y’know!” creative creep there’s been some creative creep around here what are you doin’ here, sir? you’re supposed to be back there with your beans creative creep who are all these people? who are all these creeps? this place was cool used to be just us the elite there were rules strict club rules door policies advertising people and not like Bewitched there’s been some creative creep a lotta creative creep around here don’t fence me in and get in too back off let me be let me be a creative creep back off let me be let me be a creative creep you’re standin’ too close to the flames
5.	Love Story 05:07	lyrics
Love story we fell into each others mouths couldn’t hear a thing that song! How does it go? what happens? teens breath breathed death into me I was a boy she was a girl so she was ahead of me she stank, kind of she had a tongue her breath was rank I wasn’t ready for that Love story teen breath like fire and smoke teen dragon queen hell I was green – a green horn fogged up my eyes wished I had glasses but there was no filter handy to call on Love story young love tight stuff wan’t sweet wasn’t wrong or right it was a fright I was a fool nothing happened and everything happened Love story dragon tears dragon teen that farm girl hot pimples on her forehead her hair was bone dry like mine Love story breathed into me life and death Love story we fell into each others mouths couldn’t hear a thing that song! How does it go? what happens Love Story
6.	I Said No To Myself 04:10	lyrics
I said no to myself, and I listened to whom to whom it may concern to whom – to me Twoomey gloomy Irish name sprung up on a flank at Victoria Park in the thirties I said no to myself and I heard it across my mind all the ways the empty playing fields in the off season doesn’t mean I’m always gonna answer in the negative or positive I’ll keep myself in suspense until the end thank you I said no to myself who am I to deny my sly highs? My lows? sometimes I don’t feel like hearing I keep schtum all my life I said “I hear what you’re sayin’” I heard what I was sayin’ I’ll keep schtum I’ll be on a need to know basis
7.	Ice Bergman 04:50	lyrics
I’m gonna be old in the end times at the mercy of people like you people like me oh we lived through the boom oh what a time we had we stepped over the people ssleeping rough I’m gonna be old in the end times people are gonna walk past me just like I stepped around that guy back there shivering and shaking with his hand outstretched I’m gonna be that guy I’ve been the other guy I’m gonna be old in the end times the robotics the algorhythms the algo-bummed the algo-rhythmaticians the algae blooms thems the algae breaks the algae on the surface the algae on the street I’m gonna be old in the end times
8.	They Walk Among Us 02:33	lyrics
They walk among us sovereign states porous citizens opaque mates florin entities shilling villagers quid pro go pro lingo old guinea town folk their bodies are their own they’ve done the research bitcoin buddies sterling folk pounds shillings and pence over the fence no sense L.S. Demons halfenny people cryptos deep mates they walk among us they walk among us
9.	He's Talkin' To His Base 02:58	lyrics
He’s talkin’ to his base he’s talkin’ through his base he’s talkin’ uphis base worry worry he’s talkin’ out of his base he’s talkin’ over his base he’s talkin’ around his base worry worry he’s sayin’ stuff just sayin’ stuff just guy stuff people say it’ll be great –you’ll see worry worry
10.	I'll Cluster It 03:22	lyrics
See somethin’ I like I’ll cluster it fool myself stupid it’s worked for me I’ll cluster that I clustered this that’s where we’re at I put all my clusters in a row tidy gimme a mess I’ll cluster it make a fist of a hand I’ll cluster it that’s my game I like to cluster I’m neat I like patterns I walk out the door – any door and tunr right no the gate yes, right that’s the way into town from my old house see somethin’ I like I see it everywhere I put it everywhere stupid but I get by I got by dumb luck lucky shot gimme a story a beginning I’ll cluster an end I can’t help it it’s my way my flow I like to throw ssome shapes onto stuff gimme a blank I’ll cluster it
11.	I'm Already Missing The Lockdown 06:17	lyrics
I’m already missing the lockdown even though it’s not over some light breakin’ through the spell is falling we knew what we had to do just sit tight we ate so many chick peas the days were regular we couldn’t do anything wrong we didn’t have to be anywhere we went down to the park and stretched out on the long grass we took pictures to make it real sent them out through our phones I’m already missing the lockdown we couldn’t do anything wrong whatever we did was right we just had to spend the time I had my lockdown clothes a shirt, a jumper and pants I laughed how I was gonna burn them one day
12.	Poor Covid 05:10	lyrics
Poor Covid poor dumb covid takin’ the rap for so much that was bad already a portal – a hole – that appeared and everything got chucked in poor covid thread thread the great unravelling the levelling- the reflection I loved all of that the lockdown the purpose the intensity the right the light on everything the walks the nice poor covid poor dumb covid I gave you a chance for a new start I showed you a new window I framed stuff for you I took away the frame I took your blinkers off I levelled the field for you I gave you time time alone time together I gave you questions questions that needed answers questions that could be answered I stopped the world I stopped the planes and the boats everybody was on square one I showed you how things – normal things – didn’t have to be normal I gave you a breather I cut you some slack
13.	You Were Gaslit For This 06:09	lyrics
Ever get the feeling you’re doin’ something right? Ever get that note? that message? No? who are you listening to? who’s telling you stuff? who’s interpreting? why do you need that filter? it’s the way of the world to bring you down and bum you out you’re too young – you’re too old you’re too early – you’re too late you’re a boy – you’re a girl you’re a woman – you’re a man you’re too loud – you’re too quiet you’re too rough – you’re too soft you’re too heav\y – you’re too light you’re too slow – you’re too fast you’re too strong – you’re too weak this is the only way to go this is the only thing to do you are the only one for this you got this you were gaslit for this
14.	Madly, Softly, Hardly 08:46	lyrics
I’ve been lookin’ for an old friend- any old friend I need to knowwho I was, maybe that’s who I am? my old friends are old older than I feel I am soft and silly am I too? madly, softly, hardly maddening, softening, hardening broke into an old house hey it’s an old school house now! wandering through the rooms, opening drawers expecting to find something behind one of the doors lookin’ through some old window electric cables jumping about madly, softly, hardly when I was growin’ out of my body and into my mind – should I have stopped at some point? did I? you know how you see a big flock of birds – starlings- flying in an enormous formation turning and moving as one, suddenly here then swooping, gathering like a wave, a rush , but there’s no shore, no floor maybe we’re like that? in time? loose and alive like that and we scare ourselves and take flight and then hold tight in a dive but it felt different and we look over at ourselves , a part of ourselves, a shape we once had, in time, yes – that was us – but… madly, softly, hardly maddening, softening, hardening and there are some who can arrange and employ words in shape and sound that dazzles and lived, beside us, for a while, then all the pieces fall away and the words fail. There are others that command those words, like those flocks of birds playing, living so well they build cities and high walls and other worlds, turning this way and that, page after page, tome after tome, brick by brick, stone by stone madly, softly, hardly maddening, softening, hardening you’ve been there! you’ve ridden that flow, tapped that stream, the lode, the vein why are you digging down into the mud to get to that old school house? That day when you were composed? Sure! At that party at 2am – making toast and talking with soft power at cruising speed? But you were raw and a knock at the door stopped that scene and it’s never happened again. It’s like that corner behind the door where you used to hang your coats. In that house you lived in, in that city you lived in for a while in that other country, that really great winter that closed in around you and it was so quiety, snow on the street, on the wind. TRhere was no wind! It was strangely warm and there was a series of forbidden films on the television. The television! Of course you want to go back. But so many elements were at play. So many notes in that chord. What note was at the bottom, and what sweetened it at the top? So many elements. And the tempo of the times, was it set to a train or a plane? Or a pay checque? And the banks closed.
15.	Family Gatherings II 05:12	lyrics
here’s to all my uncles and aunties in their prime in their pomp in their best cardigans and slacks and summer shifts and flatties janglin’ their keys and eatin’ their cake from their knees Uncle Leo on either side two Margs as well Mart, Park and Andy, Joan and Jan, Lynne and John, Euie and Bub, Adie and Olive, Von and Ron and Des, Bernie and Malcolm, Mary and Celeste dancin’ to the Hucklebuck cryin’ to Maria Elena Bye Bye Birdie! Tom Dooley church and football family gatherings family gatherings- I ran away from them ran away to a circus family gatherings – they stopped at some point they can’t happen now now I’m older and standing at the empty fairground I thought they were all ancient I miss their warm presence the spongey cakes and questions about what I was gonna do hey I wish I had more people askin’ me stuff like that now the kids- all rival attempts-rival versions now I’m ready for my family gatherings it can’t happen I’m not at the party early I’m here late they’ve all gone legends of spring legends of summer legends of autumn legends of winter cool breezes summer winds storm clouds local climate patterns bad luck family gatherings liver spots - war wounds - footy injuries -bugs – curses – omens –rumours - reputations bad names family gatherings I ran away to get another family set to music, people seemed freshly minted there was no background they they didn’t print I wanted that scene around me I wanted in the flash and the noise and the drama I turned away from the family the stories – the legends the kids – the other kids the illnesses – the pregnancies the alcohol and the drugs the drunk adults the drunk children tryin’ to be adults the church – the football – the horses legends of spring legends of summer legends of autumn legends of winter cool breezes summer winds storm clouds local climate patterns bad luck family gatherings
16.	Creative Creep (radio edit) 03:10
17.	Love Story (radio edit) 03:30
18.	I Said No To Myself (Barry Adamson Remix) 04:07	info	buy track

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Dave Graney and Clare Moore, (strangely)(emotional).
15 track album (includes two versions of one song.
All instruments played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
Dave Graney, guitars, bass, autoharp, harmonica, vocals.
Clare Moore, drums, vibes, keys, percussion, backing vocals.

Joined by Shane Reilly (Lost Ragas) pedal steel on the opening track, Dave Wray (aka Frank Bennett) on tenor and soprano sax for three songs, Genevieve Fry on harp on one song, Will Hindmarsh (aka Twinkledigitz) and Emily Jarrett on backing vocals on two songs and Catherine McQuade, bass and mixing on another.
Mastered by beats / hip hop producer and drummer Plutonic Lab who had collaborated with Dave Graney on the homage track GRACE TAME IS PRESIDENT in 2022.

Dave Graney and Clare Moore have in recent years been swinging between song focused studio albums (like this one) and more band focused rock albums, (like their previous set In A Mistly).
(strangely)(emotional) is so carefully titled because that’s the age we live in. A person has to be sure and careful of their words. It’s a sensitive area, the world, in 2024. Even though it is also brutal , viral and violent all at once. (The ground we walk upon is contested and just holding together with surface tension). So the words are quarantined from each other, in parentheses so as not to be qualifying or commenting on the other.

The sounds on the album come from vintage drum machines, electric (six and twelve string) and acoustic (nylon and steel string) guitars, pedal steel, harp, harmonica, electric piano, drums, vibes, marimba, mellotron and tenor and soprano sax.
The words are rich, playful and very personal. Dave Graney is a proud Creative Creep.
(strangely)(emotional) comes after a year where Graney and Moore toured the country to joy and acclaim with their 90s band Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes. This album was cooking away in the background all the while.
It’s a Dave Graney and Clare Moore album. They’ve always done their own thing. This time, it’s (strangely)(emotional)

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released April 12, 2024

DAVE GRANEY / CLARE MOORE

(strangely)(emotional)

Dave Graney, vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, harmonica, autoharp.
Clare Moore, drums, percussion, vibes, bass marimba, piano, organ, mellotron, vocals.
Dave Wray, saxophone tracks 3, 4, 5 and 15, also conga and bongos
Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett, backing vocals track 6 and 13.
Shane Reilly, pedal steel on track 1
Genevieve Fry, harp on track 14
Catherine McQuade, bass and backing vocals and also mixing track 8

Cover image and other lightbox collage backgrounds by Tony Mahony
Other photos by Charlie Kinross, Clare Moore and Ilia Kupriianov.

Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
Recorded and Mixed at the Ponderosa. 2021 - January 2024.
Tracks 7, 8, 13 Recorded at Soundpark Dec 2021, Engineer laura hancock.

Track 8 mixed by Catherine McQuade.
Mastered by Plutonic Lab January 2024
All songs written by Dave Graney. Copyright Control

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From Melbourne, Australia.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore were once in the Moodists, singer and drummer respectively.Then there was the Coral Snakes and and now Dave Graney and the mistLY.
Stu Thomas on bass since 2004 and Stuart Perera on guitar since 1998 ... more

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