Sit With Your Back To The Engine

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Every good party deserves an epic hangover, so welcome to a different flavour of awesome. A song for the end of the world.

A second outing for ‘All New Adventures’ era Awesomeosaurus, the first of 2023, and we’re doubling down on the synths and feels this time around with a lead vocal curveball from Stu and some subtle mysterious guitar guesting from our awesome pal Spyridon of Decades In The Shadows excellence.

Ethereal music-box arrangements twinkling against dark enveloping beats is the play as we trade up sweaty rock fun for something a smidge more arty and gothic, taking the ‘saurus to dream-pop territory along the lines of David Sylvian (Japan), Nick Cave and Angelo Badalamenti/David Lynch (Twin Peaks, etc).

A sublime new spin on the ‘awesome’ moniker for the 80s kids and heartbroken alike. But it’s all relative.

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This isn’t happening
The road is widening, it’s not forking
This isn’t happening

This isn’t happening
A thousand days and more in one blink
This isn’t happening
It’s happening
And if it is

Sit with your back to the engine
To the engine, it’s all relative
With your back to the engine

And slow it down
We’ll drown by hours

We’ll sit with our backs to the engine
To the engine, it’s all relative
With our backs to the engine

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released January 6, 2023
Written and performed by Awesomeosaurus feat. Decades In The Shadows

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Awesomeosaurus London, UK

Goth adjacent new wave at the centre of a B-52s / Ween / Oingo Boingo Venn diagram. Maybe.

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