Produced by Front & Follow with profits going to Coffee4Craig, You Can Never Leave is “alternative soundtracks to a luxury apartments advert, featuring 31 artists including Field Lines Cartographer, Elizabeth Joan Kelly, Her Majesty’s Coroner for Wirral, The Leaf Library, Polypores, Hattie Cooke and many more.
Why? We aren’t sure, but it all started with this video and went from there – bit.ly/deansgatelife
This project is not affiliated with Deansgate Square in any way – the video was our inspiration for this project, and for each artist’s soundtrack.”
Includes my song, “The Insufferable Shame Of The Pine Nut Bulk Bin.” See the video here.
Review Excerpts
Elizabeth Joan Kelly makes a flock of strings and percussion flicker like a failing simulation, while Apta, Moray Newlands and The Snaps Jar use the collapsing elation of synths and motivational messages to cut through the fabricated optimism and false sense of safety with unsettling satire. Despite its crowdsourced nature, You Can Never Leave is cohesive and succeeds where many highly conceptual works fail. It really makes you feel the misanthropic essence of capitalism. – The Wire
Elizabeth Joan Kelly 