Angels we have Grown Apart
10" Vinyl/Digital EP
NA176 | UPC 879198002529
Release April 27 2009 (UK) | Release May 26 2009 (US)
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It was a cruel joke alright: trapping a lonesome drifter in an endless chasm of bricks and people. No horizon. No sunsets. No escape.

“I couldn’t handle it at first...” says Apollo when asked about his move to New York City, “...and i can’t handle it now.” But for as much as he tried to escape its claustrophobic crush, New York did much to inspire the woeful melodies and desperate mantras of Apollo’s latest EP, Angels we have Grown Apart.

The city left Apollo with a new set of scars: a fast motorcycle on a rain-soaked street broke his legs; a raven-haired temptress broke his heart. The pain and anger seep through every anguished stanza of the Western-laced “It’s Cruel,” where James’s crushed-velvet croon cries from some darkened land where no one goes by choice. The rumbles of a bari sax trace the melody of “Morphine & Wine,” a melancholic ode to broken nights on a hospital bed. But amid the anguish and the whiskey beats, a glimmer of tenderness: the touching duet “Sleepyeye.”

The canyon streets of New York City may have hatched these songs, but this is Western music. These are songs for sunsets. Those streetlamps are stars. They lead right out of town.

tracklist
1. Morphine & WIne [free download]
2. It’s Cruel
3. Any other Woman (vinyl edition only)
4. Call off the Violins
5. Dead Men Weigh More (than Broken Hearts)
6. Sleepyeye

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