After a teenhood spent playing in hardcore punk bands, Real Lies took
pills at a party for the first time, and moved to LONDON. Since 2011,
they have been trying to synthesise that feeling over and over again,
hidden away in the arch of a Zone 3 railway bridge. Staring down at
them from the walls of the studio have been three pictures: an image
of a young Sasha Shulgin in the relief print style of Camden Market
Che Guevara T-shirts, the magical one-eyed rabbit prophet ‘Frank’
from Donnie Darko, and a photo of an orbiter fairground ride in
flight, taken sometime in the early 2000s. “We’ve seen your
gigantic flying light show whales, and heard your gong bath ‘rave’
albums,“ says lyricist Kevin Lee Kharas, who writes all of his songs
while walking around LONDON in the rain at night. “We’ve seen your
Keinemusik videos, and streamed your Giza Pyramid DJ sets. Electronic
music is in its prog rock era... It doesn’t feel like anything
anyone ever wanted.” Real Lies (who are Kharas and producer Patrick
King) describe their new music as a “beautiful trance revenge
fantasy”, a night bus fever dream of assembling a street gang of
late-night dreamers (some living, some dead) known as “The Birds”
to take on the amassed forces of “The Grids” – terminally online
alpha male misanthropes, narcissist influencers, morality police,
bougie fusspots, Gulf hyper-capitalists, the so-called ‘Nerd
Reich’, time, the markets, the algorithms, the dull, the twee, and
the boring. If you have any queries or would like more information
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