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    Perfect Future returns with an ambitious sophomore LP that shows the group have really hit their stride. The musicianship has grown tenfold, finding tighter arrangements and steadier footing. And that's before mentioning that this release is a concept album based on WW I. The lyrics read like a documentary mixed with a diary, and do a marvelous job portraying the many ways war is hell

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    well now, perfect future have stepped it up again! a full length lp full of outpourings, thoughts and emotions, a band for people that miss emo when it was all about wearing the heart on the sleeve and not singing about hi fives and basketball. this is melodic and energetic, taking in plenty of influences from around the turn of the century. elements of things like hot cross, at the drive in and yaphet kotto to be found in here. so put your serious glasses on, read a book, and then freak out to this record when you think no-one is looking.

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I needed to explain out my thoughts before I could write out what I've meant to say from the start. Here it is, stripped of meter and un-obscured by metaphor:

In 1914, when the Christmas lights burned brighter than the stars, the carols echoed from the trenches. We forgot about the war. In "no mans land," he showed me a picture of you, his wife. It was remarkable how much you looked like mine. That night we talked in fragments and shared cigarettes. It wouldn't be accurate to say we became friends, but we did exchange addresses so that we could visit and write if we both made it out of that damned war alive. But down the chain of command, fraternization, over night, became an act of treason. I didn't think much of it until I saw him emerge with a white flag. As he smiled and walked closer, I screamed "Go back!" My commanding officer must have heard me, because he turned his gun on me and said "You're the one who will shoot. If you don't there won't be one widow, there will be two." At first, I shot off to the right, hoping that he might get scared, but he kept coming closer waving a letter. I said a prayer, wished that everything leading up to this moment had never transpired, and then I pulled the trigger. The pain never seems to fade. On a reconnaissance mission, a week later, I managed to snag the letter, which warned us of an air-raid and offered us refuge in their trench.

I'm not writing to ask for forgiveness from you, because after all this time I am still unable to forgive myself, and since the day that I killed him every second has been a hell where the pain never seems to fade. A better world must be possible. Another world must be possible.

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from old wounds: warmth in the winter of 1914​​​-​​​1915, released January 2, 2015

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Adagio830 started in 1997 as a small distro out of my bedroom and a little bit later the first release has been out. The Cole Quintet LP got co-released with various other Diy Labels back then and since then we released tons of records by friends and I´m proud of everything single releases I did over the years.
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