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Apollo Songs

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Goodbye, My Friends 04:16
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M.A.D. 04:02

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Apologies for the radio silence. We’ve been on the dark side of the moon.

Actually we’ve been busy doing big life stuff. Getting married, having kids, buying houses, buying boats, renovating said houses and boats. It hasn’t left much room for releasing music, but that’s not to say we haven’t been noodling away.

Some of these noodles don’t seem to fit anywhere else - they’re too unique for an album or EP (and there will be one of those soon), but aren’t really standalone singles either.

We’re releasing two today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. Have a listen and I think you’ll realise why. It would be a grievous post-rationalisation to say they’re specifically about one thing or the other, but here are some thoughts:

It was barely over 50 years from the first powered flight to people landing on the moon. Older people watching that day would have spent a good portion of their lives being transported by horse. It was an ambitious-to-the-point-of-madness achievement, a testament to human ingenuity.

It was also about death. It was about showing the Russians that if NASA could land a man on the moon, they could sure as hell land a bomb on the Kremlin. And 26,000 more generously sprinkled over the rest of the Soviet Union. Wernher von Braun helped the Nazis indiscriminately bomb London with his slave-built V2 rockets before masterminding the Apollo project.

After just six visits we stopped, cut the funding, and set our sights 384,000 miles lower. We haven’t been back since.

As an unapologetic sci-fi super-fan, Apollo kindles the same mixture of hope and hopelessness and nostalgia that threads its way through many of these outlier tracks. So we’re releasing a couple today, and hopefully more on the anniversaries of all the manned moon landings as they arrive.

Hope you enjoy,
SOSB

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released July 20, 2019

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Sounds of System Breakdown London, UK

Sounds of System Breakdown is a live electronic music project led by London-based Dubliner Rob Costello. It began as a response to passive, head-in-laptop elec- tronica - an attempt to bring live instruments to bear on the flow and structure of dance music.

Now it exists as a kinetic, instrument-swapping three-piece - with longtime collaborators Ed Costello and Richy Kelly. ... more

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