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On The Mountainside

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FIREFLIES
On The Mountainside
(Facility 4/K7)
Hot on the smoldering heels of The Machine Stops EP corralling Nina Walsh and Franck Alba’s evocative contributions to Killing Eve, the Fireflies duo highlight a track that recently appeared in comedy thriller Pixie.
Electrocuting English folk-rock into modern times with an arcane pagan twist, ‘On The Mountainside’ matches Nina’s magisterial vocal chorale with Franck’s squalling guitar, warthog gonad bass grind and nagging banjo reinvention.
Courtesy of comrade David Holmes, the track perfectly suits the wild Irish countryside in Pixie’s story about a woman and two men on the run from drug gangsters after a failed heist. Directed by Barnaby Thompson, it stars Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy, Colin Meaney and Alec Baldwin as a sinister mobster priest. Yet, beyond the movie, the song exudes the evocative edge that distinguishes Fireflies’ idiosyncratic psychedelic folk swirl.

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ON THE MOUNTAIN SIDE:

I LEFT YOU DYING ON THE MOUNTAIN SIDE
YOU WERE MY DARLING, COULD HAVE BEEN MY BRIDE
BUT ON THAT MORNING WHEN THE SKIES WERE GREY
I LEFT YOU LYING AND YOU SLIPPED AWAY.

I SAW THE BEAUTY IN YOUR WOUNDED HEART
YOUR ENDLESS SORROW FROM THE VERY START
JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE OUR WORLDS COLLIDE
SO I LEFT YOU LYING ON THE MOUNTAIN SIDE

MY MUMMA TOLD ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG
LIFE WAS FOR LIVING AND HAVING FUN
BUT NOW I'M OLDER AND NOT SO FREE
A LIFETIME OF DEVILS, CHASING AFTER ME

A LIFETIME OF DEVILS, CHASING AFTER ME

I LEFT YOU DYING ON THE MOUNTAIN SIDE
YOU WERE MY DARLING, COULD HAVE BEEN MY BRIDE
BUT ON THAT MORNING WHEN THE SKIES WERE GREY
I LEFT YOU LYING AND YOU SLIPPED AWAY

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released January 27, 2021
Written & produced by Nina Walsh & Franck Alba
Facility 4 / K7
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Fireflies London, UK

Fireflies are Nina Walsh & Franck Alba.
Nina & long term creative partner, Andrew Weatherall ran the Sabres Of Paradise and Sabrettes record labels. Co-writing and singing on The Orb's Cydonia album. before releasing her solo album on Malicious Damage, C-pij01 & later as the W.R.F with Weatherall.
Hailing from Marseille, Franck was guitarist for cult Anglo-French darkwave outfit Piano Magic.
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