Turin Brakes are a modern folk pop duo comprising two friends Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, hailing from Balham, London, signed to the Source label. Turin Brakes have often been compared to many of the New Acoustic Movement's bands spawned in the late 90's such as Elbow, Starsailor, I Am Kloot (who actually were a support band for Turin Brakes on their Ether Song tour) and the Norwegian band the Kings of Convenience. Their debut album "The Optimist LP" (2001) was nominated for the Mercury Prize that same year. In 2003 "Ether Song" got to #3 in the UK album charts and spawned a Top 5 single "Pain Killer". Further commercial success was not achieved.
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Ether Song Lyrics
Turin Brakes
In the ether, in the ether's air
Would you be there? Would you be my friend?
In the morning, in the morning rain
In the binary, of a data stream
On an airplane
On a radio
All around me
In the Ether's flow
Under an orange sun, under the sweet spell
Running from what I've become oh...
What am I running from
Oh what am I running from...?
You can't take a photograph of it at night
It lives in the code of a firefly buzzing
It vibrates through brickwalls, keeping their time
It cuddles the creeping chaos coming
I see it more clearly than ever before
I'm in it's invisible river aflowing
Thought everything I've ever been through before
Heads up, somethings really happening