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PET DEATHS ALL THE THINGS YOU SAID YOU WERE (I DON'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS)

Evocative London duo Pet Deaths have returned with a celestial new single 'All the things you said you were (I don't believe in ghosts)'. There's a touch of Band of Horses about singer Liam Karima's earnest vocal style set above gently effected electric guitar. Gradually introducing other tasteful instrumentation across its 7-minute-plus duration, pure sounding flute parts and country-tinged bass lines colour the pleasingly melancholy piece. Lyrically addressing those out of physical reach, 'All the things you said you were (I don't believe in ghosts)' is "a letter to a lost soul, to a loved one. Loss plays a big part in everyone's life and when we go through this motion it evokes a dream like state mantra. The words were written on a reflective walk in Dalston along a small river, where ducks procreate and kids sell drugs. I thought about Virginia Woolf, I thought about my friend, I thought about Caroline Flack I thought about Sylvia Plath. It's a celebration of all the things we had and lost. The letter I sent, still waiting for a reply." -Holly Mullineaux 

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