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The Optimist

from Old Chestnut by Ned Collette

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    *INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ESPECIALLY EUROPE - you may want to order yours from Ned Directly in Berlin to save on postage: music.nedcollette.com/album/old-chestnut

    and US BUYERS Feeding Tube Records out of Massachusetts are doing a slightly different version of this release which you can order here: feedingtuberecords.com/releases/old-chestnut

    12" vinyl in deluxe gatefold cover w. 6mm spine and lyric printed inner sleeves.
    Hand-drawn cover artwork by Maria Torres.
    Mastered beautifully and cut for vinyl by Rashad Becker at D&M in Berlin.
    limited edition of 300.
    Black Vinyl

    Includes unlimited streaming of Old Chestnut via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 300  3 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      $45 AUD or more 

     

  • CD version
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Long playing CD in gatefold card sleeve.
    Four page lyric insert.
    Hand-drawn cover artwork by Maria Torres.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Old Chestnut via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    LIMITED TO 450 COPIES WORLDWIDE! (Only 100 of which are available here) 2x12" bottle green/bluebell coloured vinyl in single jacket w. 6mm spine. Includes lyric printed inner sleeves and colour A3 poster. Hand-drawn cover artwork by Maria Torres. Mastered beautifully and cut for vinyl by Rashad Becker at D&M in Berlin. Includes download code.

    This edition is split release between It Records and Feeding Tube Records in the US. Pressed at Burlington Record plant.

    *Pre-Order - Please note these have not landed in Australia yet. I expect them by the end of June.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Old Chestnut via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 21 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $40 AUD

     

  • Second Pressing: Ultra limited edition split colour swirl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    *PLEASE NOTE - found one last copy - opened gently to confirm it was the swirl version ( you can't tell from the sleeve) Still mint, shrinkwrap is just opened.


    LIMITED TO 50 COPIES WORLDWIDE! (Only 20 available here) 2x12" split bottle green/bluebell swirl vinyl in single jacket w. 6mm spine. Includes lyric printed inner sleeves and colour A3 poster. Hand-drawn cover artwork by Maria Torres. Mastered beautifully and cut for vinyl by Rashad Becker at D&M in Berlin. Includes download code.

    This edition and the other coloured edition (the rest of the second pressing) are a split release between It Records and Feeding Tube Records in the US. Pressed at Burlington Record plant.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Old Chestnut via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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lyrics

The Optimist
Well can you feel the change? It’s coming like a storm
The knife that turned our friends to ghosts is still bloody and warm But oh, I’ve got special people around
calling out to take me on their way

Anything for freedom’s what they’ve said for years
But maybe now the years are free the saying will disappear
‘cause look can you see the torches being lit,
or is the scene unclear from the boards on which you sit?
And oh, now I’ve gotta take a pill
—I’d regale you with my symptoms but it just might make you ill And oh, there’s a hammer coming down
But worse has fallen than you can deliver

And who will you be in the autumn new?
Of all the branches shed their leaves just in time to renew
Well you my love can hold a flame through winter to the spring and maybe, just maybe we’ll steal the future

Come on it’s not dark enough to call it all a day
(see the boat that’s still sailing in old Magellan’s way
—the sun is glinting softly on the curves of his beloved
that door it beckons just a touch unjustly)

But oh, now I’ve gotta find a pill
—I’d regale you with my symptoms but it just might break your will
And look can you see a hammer coming down?
But worse has fallen than you can deliver

...and the sound it makes is clearer than a river

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from Old Chestnut, released August 24, 2018

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