A New Life Awaits You, by Nick Haeffner

A New Life Awaits You

by Nick Haeffner

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Andy Waltzer It's been many moons since Nick Haeffner released the captivating and uniquely beautiful The Great Indoors. Like that album, this isn't just a set of songs, it's a varied and entrancing experience. There's psychedelia, experimental sound collage, unexpected rhythmic shifts, and songwriting that rests everything on a strong foundation. There's a cover of the great Joe Meek tune "I Hear A New World" and the title words could describe stepping into Nick Haeffner's "New Life".

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1.	I Hear a New World 03:16	info	buy track
2.	King Baby 03:54	info	buy track
3.	Steel Grey 2020 03:31	lyrics	buy track
Steel Grey, calling you home Back to the place where you once were Steel Grey, light up the sky Send down a message to you All resources are spent Please give us some time We are fading away Please spare us a thought Too many days We've spent alone Too little time to plan ahead Now we find ourselves in this situation Strung out on waiting for you
4.	Goodbye Mr Pushkin 03:28	info	buy track
5.	Everything Begins Again 03:49	lyrics	buy track
What do you want from me? Are you my destiny? Time, time, time, time, time Time, time, time, time, time What do I want from you? My immortality So this is it Time just won't quit Like a rolling river Time just picks you up And let you down I'm not the one I thought I was Perhaps I'm two or three (I am myself of an electrical nature) Time, time, time, time What do you want from me? Are you my destiny? So this is it Time to admit Like a rolling river Time just picks you up And tears you down
6.	My Ghost 04:46	lyrics	buy track
Early as the lark Shining in the dark Crazy for the spark Always in my dreams With me yet unseen When will I see you my ghost? I do not fear you, my ghost Walking on the shore Be my paramour No one knows the score Stay with me a while Let's be reconciled Love is something wild When will I see you my ghost? Dyring to meet you, my ghost
7.	Wake Up Charlie 04:46	info	buy track
8.	Terminal Pylon 04:20	lyrics	buy track
I don't know why, why is it so? I don't know where, where did it go? This city is a wilderness This city's full of hopelessness I don't know how We got so far I don't where or who we are This city filled with loneliness
9.	His Emissary 03:07	lyrics	buy track
I know Black crow, he knows Tide is rising up Whisper down low Got to act fast Can't keep on Slipping away All that's solid Melts in the air We move silently through the air We don't see what surrounds us Unaware
10.	Outsider 02:12	info	buy track
11.	The Sunlit Member's Room 01:42	info	buy track
12.	This Last (take one) 02:51	lyrics	buy track
The moonlit night Is out of sight The cherry blossom makes me smile A photograph Light from the past Unto this last A tune from long ago Don't know the words And still it gives me peace of mind An autograph It makes me laugh Unto this A light from distant starts Shines on us now And yet we are so far A dancing star Lights up the past Unto this last Unto this last Unto this last Unto this last

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"9/10" Jacopo Benci, Classic Rock magazine

"Nick Haeffner is a favourite radio station broadcasting from outside time, a cascading swoon of hits from a parallel world; from a future English musical landscape that might have been. A New Life Awaits You hums with all the blissful psychedelic energy and vision of Haeffner’s magnificent 1987 debut, The Great Indoors. It’s a waterfall of possibilities, right when culture is at its thirstiest, and if we have any sense we should drink deep until we can barely stand. This is an album full of wonders, from one of the country’s most wonderful secret voices. It’s a distillation of almost everything I like or have liked about music. Don’t miss it."

Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta)

'Excellent...exquisite acoustic guitar playing'

Shindig Magazine

'Inteliigent, imaginative and finely crafted songs' Neil March, Fresh on the Net

"The album has a light sci fi feel, beginning with Joe Meek’s ‘I Hear a New World’, on which he is accompanied by William Hayter on Cahon and Lilybud Dearsley adding vocals, which she also does on a number of these songs. Highlights for me are the following song ‘King Baby’, on which Nick plays everything himself, playing all guitars, organ, dulcister, cittern and bass, it is a fine song indeed, plenty going on, it is melodic and inventive. ‘Steel Grey 2020’ another on which he plays everything. The album is dedicated to Martin King a close friend and Mr Pushkin his cat. For the excellent atmospheric instrumental ‘Goodbye Mr Pushkin’ he is joined by Nat Yelverton playing electric guitar and Dan K.Brown on fretless bass. The self explanatory ‘Everything Begins Again’ is a quirky song with some fine lead electric guitar. And so it goes ‘My Ghost’, is inventive, ‘Wake Up Charlie’, is a psychedelic prog fest of delirious vocals, a nonsensical deep dream of a song, a troubled sleep. ‘Terminal Pylon’, is another highly inventive song, lightly proggy with synthesised vocals and fluid guitar lines enhanced by William’s Djembe. ‘His Emissary’, is a lightly funky song with plenty of percussion. ‘Outsider’, is a fine instrumental which takes us to album closer ‘The Sunlit Members Room’, another short instrumental on which Nick plays toy piano and synths." Andrew Young, Terrascope

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released October 21, 2019

Produced by Nick Haeffner
Post production by Brian O'Shaughnessy and Richard Norris.

Design by Paul Brand, photo of Walthamstow Wetlands by Nicolai Hart-Hansen.

Recorded at Grand Hotel Abyss, except drums on Everything Begins Again recorded at Bark Studio and Djembe on Terminal Pylon, recorded at R2R Music Studio,

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Nick Haeffner London, UK

In 1980 Nick Haeffner joined post-punk band The Tea Set, recording an album and several singles and gigging extensively including supports for U2, Iggy Pop, The Clash and XTC. His solo album The Great Indoors was released on Bam Caruso records in 1987 and was re-released in December 2019 by Hanky Panky Records. ... more

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