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Millennial Pink

by Soft Rubbish

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1.
when you see a flower and you wanna rub your face in it and you do cos you don’t care what people think when you think you’ve seen a ghost and you wanna walk towards it but you don’t cos you don’t believe in ghosts you see an empty branch you wanna swing on it you see a hearse drive past you wanna be in it when I’m blind and dumb and deaf lights go out lights go dead light a candle light a candle wait it out in the dark in the dark in the dark shadows on the wall loom like higher powers shouting out to neighbours in the park staying in bed and out of the rain losing is easy when you’re not in the game not in the game when you’re staring into space and you wanna take off take leave of all this bullshit tearing us apart when you wanna be an alien leave it all behind fly to the moon find a new friend touch a new star you see an empty branch you wanna swing on it you see a hearse drive past you wanna be in it shadows on the wall loom like higher powers shouting out to neighbours in the park staying in bed and out of the rain losing is easy when you’re not in the game not in the game not in the game not in the game not in the game www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJpOcbetrL8
2.
Soft Rubbish 03:38
sitting in the gutter so many motley pieces of trash sitting in the gutter so many motley pieces of trash little dolly all broken to bits cos tomorrow they're gonna come and put you in the truck and that means that i've had enough and that means i won't see you again and that means i can start again lustreless faded stars have fallen washed up crinkled dried up dead beat bastard dead beat bastard junk oh well cheap they say is cheap my friend warranties voided oh well little dolly all broken to bits cos tomorrow they're gonna come and put you in the truck and that means that i've had enough and that means i won't see you again and that means i can start again
3.
1999 02:45
Everyone has hang-ups Everyone has spewed at a party But not me Not me Everyone is winning Everyone is goofing and giffing But not me Everyone has touched their bit Everyone has toiletted their musk away But not me CHORUS Everyone is normal Everyone’s abnormally purple Everyone has hang-ups Everyone has spewed at a party Somebody please wake me when it’s 1990 Somebody please wake me when it’s 1990, 1990, 1999 Everyone is a chameleon Everyone has a beautiful onion But not you Not you Everyone is finding their identity Everyone is losing their marbles But not you Everyone’s smashing their mod cons Everyone’s running to their mother Everyone’s shaving their beard Everyone’s joining a band Somebody please wake me when it’s Everyone is normal Everyone’s abnormally purple Everyone’s fucking robots Everyone’s an asshole! Somebody please wake me when its 1990 Somebody please wake me when it’s 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 99! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv_9YLldrMY&list=PLfPH-KiDV8Slou0ClA6QVg79l2eiGnDmf&index=1
4.
Landline 04:35

land line land line i miss you 
land line land line talking to you 
hanging up and dialling all your special codes i memorised land line land line i push your buttons scandalise lies lifes truths and gossip breaking news and bombshells stifling our laughter and our tears i said too much 
waited for your dial
 i talked too long was forced to hang up land line 
land line

 land line land line my head is restless 
ending forests the autumn leaves surround me your my life line 
iʼm dying to talk to you 
hello how are you have i caught you at a good time this reception is amazing
 what say that again 
i canʼt hear you we must have a bad connection 
land line land line can you hear me calling talk to old my mate 
catch up on the stories 
wish all the family
 my best regards 
send my love i said too much 
waited for your dial
 i talked too long was forced to hang up land line 
land line 
land line land line
 my heads whirling 
no one seems to care that iʼm hurting hello how are you have i caught you at a good time this reception is amazing
 what say that again 
i canʼt hear you we must have a bad connection send my love 
what say that again send my love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq63BQ4HmM0
5.
Math 03:51
Excuses obtuses obtuses excuses It just don't add up You do the math Excuses obtuses obtuses excuses It just don't add up You do the math It just don't add up you do the math It just don't add up you do the 1 and 2 Let me look inside you're head Let me look inside you're head What's the matter with you boy What's the matter with you let me look inside you're head 5 + 5 multiply 2 x 2 who are you? Let me look inside Let me look inside you're head I was worried so worried What I would find If I dared to look inside The treasure trove Of your own madness That only you can understand Let me look inside dare I ask Let me look inside just this once Let me look inside Let me look inside your head Excuses obtuses obtuses excuses It just don't add up You do the math Excuses obtuses obtuses excuses It just don't add up You do the math It just don't add up you do the math It just don't add up you do the Sixes Sevens Contradictions Square root my mind mind mind mind mind mind Shifting Sands Algorithms Bent Straight Crooked Lines lines lines lines lines lines Let me look inside dare I ask Let me look inside just this once Let me look behind your mask Let me look inside your madness Excuses obtuses obtuses excuses It just don't add up You do the math Excuses obtuses obtuses excuses It just don't add up You do the math It just don't add up you do the math
6.
Potholes 03:49
There's a face in my face Potholes on the road Big ones and small ones and people inside them People are running away Woah where are the running? Why are they hiding? I don't want to know I went for a ride on my bike I don't want to know Through lanes of traffic Boomgates Noughts and Crosses Games that never end until somebody dies Round and around and around and around and Swings and roundabouts It wasn't supposed to go round and around and Swings and roundabouts I ride like sonic boom Frisky wheels stick the tar loom Speed will get me there soon And the traffic lights flash before my eyes And you kept going where you were going Where were you running Why was I hiding? Why Why? Do we both run away Why why When we're having so much fun Why are we Running away When everywhere that I go I go you go you go you go There's a face in my face Potholes on the road Big ones and small ones and people inside them People are running away Woah where are they hiding? I don't want to know
7.
Wasted 04:38
Wasted wasted My life on this x 2 Sugar wasted in cups of tea Shoulda exercised my body more regularly Broken mirror of my vanity Ripped every page of my diary Sunny days wasted in doors Shoulda done a few less chores Climbed more trees watched more birds Shoulda listened to my sisters cutting words Remember you got something that somebody else wanted Bet your bottom dollar they still want it Your friends aren’t who you think they are They’ll stab your back keep up an act Cos people can be just like that they’ll take you for everything you have When I left home I didn’t know how to cook or sew I had to learn the hard way But I got by on simple things like truth and lies I had to learn the hard way Ripped every page of my diary 
If nobody cuts the roses will they just rot away 
If nobody shoots the ravens Will they fly to the end of the highway Wasted wasted my life on this on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4RIUNinEc
8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPVuzhMuFnQ&feature=emb_logo
9.
Hisbbur Tfos 03:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPVuzhMuFnQ&feature=emb_logo
10.
9991 02:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPVuzhMuFnQ&feature=emb_logo
11.
Enildnal 04:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPVuzhMuFnQ&feature=emb_logo
12.
Htam 03:51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPVuzhMuFnQ&feature=emb_logo
13.
Selohtop 03:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPVuzhMuFnQ&feature=emb_logo
14.
Detsaw 04:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPVuzhMuFnQ&feature=emb_logo

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This album was made on stolen land where the Wurundjeri, Woiwurrung and Boon wurrung people of the Kulin Nation are rightful custodians. We acknowledge them as members of the oldest living culture on earth with deep ancestral connections to land, water, trees, animals and sky. Soft Rubbish are engaged in Reconciliation and addressing unfinished business Australia has with First Nations People in all our projects.

Watch our videos here:
www.youtube.com/channel/UC9F6miwcV_hhO_o4tzWVfyQ

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released May 1, 2020

Recorded by John Lee at Phaedra
Mixed by Robin Waters at Glamour Trowel
Mastered by David Walker at Stepford Audio
Photography by Phoebe Powell
Design by Matthew Revert
All songs written and produced by Julie Montan and Soft Rubbish
Extra production by Robin Waters
1999 recorded by Zac Schneider at Phaedra

Artists who appear on these tracks in alphabetical order:
Joe Foley
Raven Foley-Montan
Amy Franz
John Lee
Julie Montan
Amanda Roff
Mat Sincock
Renato Vacirca
Robin Waters


Boundary-crossing post-grunge simplicity, psych-punk complexity with a timeless charm of nineties power-pop Soft Rubbish are not here to make friends but to speak truth to power. Soft Rubbish formed in 2015, recorded and debuted on the Listen Records compilation alongside artists such as Pikelet, Love of Diagrams and June Jones. The Debut LP Millennial Pink reflects the effect of eco-terror on human life and promotes a bio-philic (love of nature) stance as the world spins off its axis. We hope it strikes a chord of balance for you.

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of making this record: Robin Waters, Lisa Salvo, Tomas Circosta, Marisa Zamora, Steve Cross and David Walker. Thanks to Joe Foley for after hours support in this albums making. Thanks to Renato Vacirca for being part of the formative Soft Rubbish band and legendary Monika Fikerle who took over on drums. Gratitude also to Mat Sincock and Matthew Revert (Paper Crisis) for an ongoing dialogue about cats and the colour pink. Thanks to photographer Phoebe Powell for capturing the hot young spark in us ageing hippies! Thanks to Sam Orchard for great video making. Thanks to Matt and Lentil Purbrick at Minimum Wines for our signature 'Millennial Pink' blend.

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Soft Rubbish are post-grunge simplicity, psych-punk complexity with a timeless charm of nineties power-pop.

Julie Montan, Joe Foley, Monika Fikerle, Mat Sincock.

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