The Words We Say Before We Sleep

by The Music Lovers

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	1.	The Former Miss Ontario 03:20
	2.	Sometimes People Just Do Stupid Things 02:54
	3.	May Ballad 03:57
	4.	Nothing 03:35
	5.	This World vs. The Next World (Revisited) 02:47
	6.	I Don't Know Where I'm Going, But I'm Going To Those Who Love Me 00:30
	7.	Bitter Times 04:16
	8.	Delinquent Lullaby 03:15
	9.	When She Left The Farm 02:49
	10.	Virginia Lights 02:49
	11.	The Gold Rush Variations 04:12
	12.	Sunday 03:48
	13.	I Don't Know Where I'm Going, But I'm Going To Those Who Love Me (Reprise) 00:51

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Original album release: 2004
Original label: Marriage Records/Le Grand Magistery
Cat. Number: 1do-4

Written in the Tenderloin, San Francisco CA. Recorded at night on a fault line in the Oakland hills.
Cover Image by Elliott Erwitt co/Magnum.
All songs by Matthew Edwards.

"The Music Lovers should, by all rights, be major cult figures. The San Francisco band has a distinctive, immediately identifiable sound, an elegant blend of Scott Walker sweep, Serge Gainsbourg slyness, British guitar pop hooks and Dusty Springfield soul. Even better, the group’s leader Matthew Edwards can lay fair claim to being the best songwriter in the world right now, and I don’t say that lightly.”
- BIG TAKEOVER

"Gorgeous and knowing work" - AMPLIFIER

"Like Arthur Lee playing a Bond Theme" - MOJO

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released March 3, 2018

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The Music Lovers San Francisco, California

Formed in San Francisco in 2003 by English singer-songwriter Matthew Edwards. Between 2003 and 2009 the group released three albums and one EP on Le Grand Magistery Records of Detroit. Matthew dissolved the group in 2010. His current project is Matthew Edwards and the Unfortunates..... ... more

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