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I Want To Be With You

from The Calm Before by Lach

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    Includes Grammy-Nominated artist Peter Nevin's artwork and features Vocals from Richard Barone (The Bongos), Chris Barron (The Spin Doctors) and Lydia Ooghe. With Mike Visceglia on Bass (Suzanne Vega Band) and Billy Ficca on drums (Television).

    "This record somehow feels like it was years in the making, full of experience, pain and joy. It sounds cliché to tell people to listen to their elders and learn from what they've done, but in a time where kids start bands and just ape someone's style, there is lots to be learned from Lach."- Herohill.com

    "His new LP is his finest release to date: it’s heartfelt, intelligent, good-humored, and expertly constructed folk played with the irreverent attitude that has become the hallmark of the Antifolk aesthetic."- Movement Magazine

    "I’m rather fascinated with this album: it’s so familiar and yet so hard to pin down. The Calm Before is a collection of Lach's latest post-punk stripped-down-raw-to-the-bone antifolk genius. He’s catchy, funny, and doesn’t only appeal to a niche audience like so many of the followers of antifolk seem to do."- smother.net

    "I kinda like the whole punk folk thing and much as say, Weller is considered the Modfather, this guy is the leading influence in this genre and pretty damn good to boot."- rocksellout.com

    "Anyone who wants to find out what antifolk was up to before a bunch of young wannabes (Beck, Regina Spektor, Jeffrey Lewis, Moldy Peaches, to name a few) melted it down and made it into something new, should study this record carefully. Everyone else: batten down the hatches, sit back, relax and enjoy the storm."- Exclaim Magazine

    "Every now and then something arrives in the Incendiary shed that just blows me sideways. Lach’s The Calm Before has just done that. If there’s a place in the world where somebody with this kind of talent plays for next to nothing on a weekly basis, I want to be a regular. As it is, I’ll just have to settle for having this little gem of an album in my house. Jesus this is good. There’s your nutshell review right there. Stick it on a poster, you can quote me if you like. I want move to New York."- Incendiary Magazine

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I Want To Be With You by Lach

In a car, yeah, with clotheslines, farms and road signs just whipping by
across Alabama creeks, across Montanic skies
Jimmy Rogers honeycombing across the dash yodel-lapping our ears along with Johnny Cash
You'll fall adreamin', your window wide open letting in the moonlight and pieces of Heaven
and the smiling, handshaking night
I want to be with you

Scared and shaking like little league choirs in front of families at holiday dinners
Lifting small children up on our shoulders being told secrets by sisters and brothers Escaping to the patio for Camels and Kents while gazing up at celestial merriments Blankets of stars singing, "How do you do?"
Well, I just want to be with you
I want to be with you

In a supermarket weighing out bananas and avocados
Checking out all the fabulous prizes on the box of Frostie-O's
Brown-bagging back to our apartment, cooking up chicken and tomatoes
Mozart and Ella as we bathe together holding each other under soapy water
Toweled and clean, yeah, fed and renewed
I just want to be with you
I want to be with you

Skin pressed to skin, you let me in, until we are one again
Over and over we are true lovers, over and over we are true friends In the soft hours, quiet and holy, when the one again become two as we drift into our sweet sleep, I just want to be with you I want to be with you

credits

from The Calm Before, released December 17, 2013
Lach - Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Hammond B3, Glockenspiel

Billy Ficca - Drums (Except Tony Maimone on Positions of Power)

Mike Visceglia - Bass

MIke McGinnis - Reeds

Dan Donnelly - Mandolin

Munir Kahn - Tabla on Gone Gone Gone

Richard Barone, Chris Baron and Lydia Ooghe - Backing Vocals

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

‘Splendid! Best of it's kind!’- Mojo

‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

‘Best punk guitarist since Johnny Ramone.’-Billy Ficca of Televis
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