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I Won't Miss You

from The Calm Before by Lach

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    "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

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    "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 Won't Miss You by Lach

well you call and you tell me that the weather's great
You tell me what you saw and you tell me what you ate
You mention that a guy has asked you for a date
Your pause for my reply became an awfully long wait
Cause I don't care where your going
I don't care now where you've been
I don't care if you're sober
I don't care if you're been drinking again
I don't care what you say or what you do
You won't hear me say, "I miss you"

You're letters contain drawings, and lines of poetry
So, I'm reading into them to see if they're about me
You talk about going to Japan or maybe to France
I say au revoir, sayanara, write if you get the chance
But I don't care if I never see you
I don't care if you meet someone
I don't worry about how you're doing or if you're having any fun
So, don't play coy and don't play distant
Cause that's a hand I can see right through
You're only trying to get me to say "I miss you"
But I don't miss going crazy
Wondering if you're gonna call
I don't miss wondering where you are
or if you're coming home at all
I don't miss your eyes of sorrow
I don't miss your face of pain
I don't miss wondering if tomorrow
You'll be leaving me again

If you live your life like a target
Eventually you're gonna fall
So, go ahead and paint a bull's eye on your forehead
And maybe I won't miss you after all
No, I won't miss you

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from The Calm Before, released December 17, 2013

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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

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