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National Anthem

by Ritual Cloak & Autumn Juvenile

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I’ve always wanted to write a song to wind up Welsh nationalists. My friend described me as a ‘part-time Welshman’. I’m not a patriot. I can’t be bothered to learn our national anthem. Can you forgive me, cariad?

This is about Cardiff and the UK becoming a building site. It is about a vision of the high street becoming a shanty town for spice addicts. It is about the bureaucrats who wave the dragon flag with shit-eating grins as they turn our homes into dormitories for students and hoteliers.

I vividly remember writing this in my manager’s office at work, looking out over the well-kept back gardens of Pontcanna. Two unused lines: ‘For the uncle who called me a faggot/I’m happy being a maggot in the apple’.

I would say I have a massive chip on my shoulder, but I don’t want to lean into the stereotype that all Welsh people eat is chips.

- Autumn Juvenile

National Anthem is taken from the forthcoming album ‘A Human Being Is The Best Disguise’, a reworking of Ritual Cloak’s debut release, with new lyrics and vocals by writer, comedian and spoken word performer Autumn Juvenile.

All lyrics are a mix of real-life lies, workplace gossip, online flirtations and (most unforgivably) pure imagination. They were written on stifling summer nights working in secure mental health units across Cardiff, in between rolling cigarettes for rapists.

This is music you can smugly share on your social media; working class fictions for middle class listeners.

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released September 10, 2021
Mastering: Charlie Francis at Synergy Mastering

Recorded at King’s Road Studios, 2020

Cover photo: Daniel Barnett

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Ritual Cloak Cardiff, UK

Ritual Cloak is Daniel Barnett, formerly of the band Samoans, and drummer/producer Andrew Sanders.

Glacial sonic post-rock inspired by Mogwai, Kiasmos and Sigur Ros.


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