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Feed the Flowers Nightmares

by Wyldest

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1.
Anna said The feeling won’t be permanent I’m still hoping for the best I’ll shake it off And catch my breath Wound myself Around you like a hollow shell Im hoping that you feel the same I’ll wait for you And play the game I will stay in silence for tonight I will stay in silence for tonight Daydream away Daydream away All my time for you I don’t need truth I don’t need truth I have you Here inside my head Knowing every time You’ll be mine Sarah said I need to drain you from my head Get a hobby Go to where The water flows And flowers grow Crumbling I’m like the coast that falls away From everything I used to be I like it here The edge is near I will stay in silence for tonight I will stay in silence for tonight Daydream away Daydream away All my time for you I don’t need truth I don’t need truth I have you Here inside my head Knowing every time You’ll be mine
2.
I don’t mind the weather It’s just fine You got plans And I got mine I’m certain Cus you moved out of the city To avoid the over density of Poison in the air The best is yet to come And I don’t mind I’ll wait for you If I only had someone To compromise my lonely nights Beads of water on my plate I don’t care for double glazing If I wait long enough I’ll dissolve Wonder if it’s me you’re thinking of If you could come and carry me off On your bicycle The best is yet to come And I don’t mind I’ll wait for you If I only had someone To compromise my lonely nights I’m wondering around Waiting for you I’m wondering around Waiting for good news
3.
Abilene 04:04
Winter garden You grew in spring I’ll make it healthy When you leave it all I’ll stay Don’t wait So I’m Never gonna be the same Without you And so I I’ll never see you again I’ll think of you Abilene Abilene Lessons you taught me Ideas grown Words that you gave to me Use them every time I breathe Now I see So I’m Never gonna be the same Without you And so I I’ll never see you again I’ll think of you Abilene Abilene Bonds breaking to this world But you can be Apart of me I tried my best to Make you Everything you wanted to be So I’m Never gonna be the same Without you And so I I’ll never see you again I’ll think of you Abilene Abilene Abilene Abilene
4.
Giving every drop of my energy To make you happy lately Soaking up what’s left of the longest day There’s nothing left I wash and dry your mind for you I’ll take any anecdote that you breathe To make a mark On your beautiful disguise I hurt you And the that’s the last thing I wanna do Eat away ungrateful Taste the weight on my tongue again Flavour so sour I spit it out Take away all your salty hope Acid so sweet Still hungry for you to know Nobody else seems to see you this way You stay divine Outside the winding lines Every little memory is fading away I’m so tired Of every stupid mistake I made I hurt you And the that’s the last thing I wanna do Eat away ungrateful Taste the weight on my tongue again Flavour so sour I spit it out Take away all your salty hope Acid so sweet Still hungry for you to know
5.
Dressing up tonight To show the real you Do the buttons up You can’t breath through You let your body shake So they will look at you again Your friends all left They’re far too slow To catch your skin I wanna have a party with my body I wanna make shapes just like you I wanna have a party with my body I wanna make shapes but I can’t move Put the tv on to feel something You’re alone again Barely watching You’re shiny and your sober Perfect live But are you happy A mirror maze You’re on the way to nowhere Take me out I’ll show you what I mean We’re far too young to give up everything There’s something in the way you move And I don’t wanna be a fool I wanna have a party with my body I wanna make shapes just like you I wanna have a party with my body I wanna make shapes but I can’t move
6.
Save me From the mind who won’t Let me breath Show the colours that lie Beneath They won’t let me burn Favours From those who don’t Let you be Throw another polite belief Watching silver run Lay down Show me what you are Free to embrace Our flaws Touch me Show me what I have missed Free to escape Our nightmare Waiting For roses won’t Help you see Hold the bubble behind Your eyes Let the colour run Lay down Show me what you are Free to embrace Our flaws Touch me Show me what I have missed Free to escape Our nightmare Our nightmare Bury flesh in the garden Ooooo Feed the flowers our nightmares Ooooo Feed the flowers our nightmares
7.
Winter Limbs 03:56
I didn’t say you were the one You’re the one who left these arms In favour of a lonely path can’t save you now The sun will always rise and fall When darkness hits these lowly hills Kinda like what we have here Now the light has gone With no moon to hope for I gave it all to you Everything I could I made Come true I gave it all to you Everything I could I made Come true The winter bites more than you could These heavy limbs are growing strong The chapters closed its far too long to read Now the words have gone With no moon to hope for I gave it all to you Everything I could I made Come true I gave it all to you Everything I could I made Come true
8.
Lucid Lately 03:46
Giving is hard Loving is harder Fluid made waves in my skull (The) touch of your skin As we reached over armour Obsession isn’t beautiful I just wanna ripple like the water But I don’t want to Swim alone Maybe the waves Clouded my brain Baby I’m not lucid lately Made a run for the hills followed the signs to Tender ground to keep you on safety I don’t wanna sink to the bottom alone So I made a deal with myself to forget you I put up a fortress to keep you afloat And not I wanna shatter the stone So I’ll forget you I opened the book Didn’t mark the chapter Let sunlight bleach the letters away Soak up the dust Follow the laughter Laughing as the words erase Wonder down the passageway Look inside for beautiful mistakes I wonder if you ever felt the same I won’t let you in again I won’t let you in again I don’t wanna sink to the bottom alone So I made a deal with myself to forget you I put up a fortress to keep you afloat And not I wanna shatter the stone So I’ll forget you
9.
What are you trying to say Happening everyday Patterns on your body Made by tiny hands What is it I can’t see Ravelling under me Woven obsession Made by burning hands Put your makeup on Paint on a smile That your mama taught One step forwards On this island Where the water will Surround us Two steps back And I know It’s easier to believe And I know It’s easier to believe What do you want to see The mirror disagrees breaking patterns starts with Taking tiny steps Put your makeup on Paint on a smile That your mama taught One step forwards On this island Where the water will Surround us Two steps back And I know It’s easier to believe Put your makeup on Paint on a smile That your mama taught One step forward On this island Where the water will Surround us Two steps back And I know It’s easier to believe Put your makeup on Paint on a smile That your mama taught One step forward On this island Where the water will Surround us Two steps back And I know It’s easier to believe And I know It’s easier to believe But I know I don’t want to be deceived I wanna grow I don’t want to be deceived And I know It’s easier to believe
10.
Uncle A 03:48
Sleep drunk Head back I can’t imagine how it happened But it happened You’re still the same old Big bellied kindred soul to me Born to a family You grew up just like the king of concrete Cus we’re concrete Hard-hatted character You’re the one who made them laugh It’s needed And I miss you like I’m starved of Any oxygen in my red blood Wish I could go back So I could show you how Expectation is ours Don’t fall for it Short breathe Sleepless In your imaginary fortress Made to love less Doing it for your friends They could never understand Your sweetness Uncle A You were meant for another world This one drained you And made you deny Uncle A It was never enough Now you can paint it away And I miss you like I’m starved of Any oxygen in my red blood Wish I could go back So I could show you how Expectation is ours Don’t fall for it
11.
Inky Road 03:32
Drive me home On inky roads Your eyes look tired As they’re fixed on the passing lines You won’t give up You have my trust As you drive me Home I’m home Inky roads I’m home Home I’m home Inky road I’m home Stars are scarce The night is old The headlights glare when Shadows from trees Fade as we breathe Your eyes are wide Your hands are firm As you drive me Home I’m home Inky road I’m home Home I’m home Inky road I’m home Rolling I can’t believe We’re free I’m home Rolling I can’t believe We’re free I’m home

about

After the release of Wyldest’s second album, Monthly Friend, Zoe Mead found herself at something of a crossroads. Having made their debut album Dream Chaos as a trio, circumstances had shifted Wyldest into a solo project and Zoe decided to take on all responsibilities, writing, mixing, and producing the entire thing herself as a show of empowerment both for herself and in the face of wider societal constraints. While the music spoke for itself, the ramifications of that journey resulted in both a burn-out and a conundrum. She had proven that empowering yourself as a musician – especially as a woman navigating the music industry – was both important and achievable, but she also knew that she needed a reset, to take a step backwards to be able to move forward again with purpose.

That journey comes of age in the form of Feed The Flowers Nightmares, Wyldest’s third album, released this summer via Hand In Hive. Made alongside Luciano Rossi (Idlewild, Dama Scout), Feed The Flowers Nightmares is a celebration of collaboration, a collection of eleven songs that redefines the Wyldest sound into something altogether darker and more sophisticated.

Initially worked on in her home space, amid isolated lockdowns and a heavy load of self-doubt, the songs that make up Feed The Flowers Nightmares began as a series of iPhone sketches that Zoe then worked into a series of songs during a short burst of sunrise sessions. Around this time Zoe happened to meet Luciano for a coffee and he convinced her to send him what she had been working on, despite her uncertainty. Needless to say, he loved what he heard and the seed of collaboration was quickly sown. Soon, the pair got together at Luciano’s studio to work on a song and see where it took them. “It immediately felt like an epiphany moment,” Zoe says. “We wrote the song that's now the title track. It existed as a very bare, minimal version and then it became the version it is now in just half a day. It all happened so quickly.”

Though Zoe initially felt like she was turning her back on the proclamations she’d made when making her second record, that cross-examination of herself and her practice became the album’s beating heart. “It's about the process of feeding that little creature inside yourself and also being able to push a reset button,” Zoe explains. “I think I would have imploded had I tried to do another album completely on my own. So it became about enjoying the process and not putting all this unnecessary pressure on myself to do everything all the time.”

Another benefit of this blossoming was the tools Zoe suddenly had at her disposal. Though she had learned to work within the constraints of her home setup, her demos were imbued with a scrappiness to be fixed later on in the process and it became a barrier to her creativity. Luciano’s studio offered something completely different, however; a meticulous space that Zoe ideas could immediately come alive within.

Self-described as her “doom pop” record, on Feed The Flowers Nightmares Zoe takes her love for Death Cab and combines it with an appreciation for contemporary composers, from Jon Brion and Library Tapes, through Mica Levi and Johnny Greenwood. And so, opening track ‘Everytime You’ll Be Mine’ is weighty and atmospheric, the cinematic nature of the song immediately setting the tone for this new chapter of Wyldest. Elsewhere, ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’, a striking three-minutes that begins as a stripped-back guitar-and-voice ballad before electronic drums suddenly enter, shifting the track into a beautiful instrumental soundscape, while ’Abilene’ leans more heavily into the pop territory, the scattered percussive beats and Zoe’s bold vocal conjuring something equally memorable and endearing.

Thematically, Feed The Flowers Nightmares is informed by Zoe’s navigation of the past couple of years, but is more directly inspired by the way we treat and look after ourselves. “What I mean by ‘Feed the flowers nightmares’ is to literally ensure that you regularly ‘feed’ yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually,” she says. “Feeling like you’re being held together by string is not a way to explore creativity or life in general. Momentum needs to be fed and nurtured, or it will just stop.”

Taking inspiration from Sylvia Plath’s ‘Lazarus’ poem, which outlines how we’re all constantly dying and being reborn throughout our lives, the album is a layered and impassioned reaction to losing yourself but finding a way to pick up the pieces, to having the courage to start again. You have to take that darkness – all of your nightmares – and find a way to let them go. Feed them to the flowers to allow yourself the chance to grow again.

“This album was my attempt to feed myself. To fully enjoy the process, explore, learn, collaborate and alleviate self-pressure. I felt like I would never write a good song again, so collaboration with Luciano – along with a bunch of very talented pals – was just necessary,” Zoe explains. “Sometimes things happen in life that force us to change, but this is good. Our eyes become wider and we are being reborn into something better.”

Words by Tom Johnson

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released September 9, 2022

Produced by Zoe Mead & Luciano Rossi

Zoe Mead - Vocals, Guitars
Eva Liu - Additional Vocals
Hannah Fisher - Violin
John Victor - Additional Guitars
Ellis Dupuy - Drum Set
Luciano Rossi - Bass, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Sophie Jamieson - Additional Vocals

Other credits
Drum Set engineered by Jake Miller at The Crows Nest
Violin engineered by Sorren Maclean
All other tracks recorded and mixed at by Luciano Rossi at Deathford
Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road
Artwork and photography by Eva Bowan

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