As Water Fills my Lungs

by A Miner

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1.	Bad Moon 03:46	buy track
2.	Did you see the Lights? 03:50	buy track
3.	Doctor Doctor 04:27	buy track
4.	I am Only on this Earth 05:05	buy track
5.	I can't Find the One that I'm After 04:46	buy track
6.	I know that you are Lonely 04:30	buy track
7.	I want to Live 04:34	buy track
8.	My Soul's too Heavy to get to Heaven 04:58	buy track
9.	Skulls Floating On 04:13
10.	Wake me up (When December is Over) 03:48	buy track
11.	When I am Drowning 04:15	buy track
12.	You're in my Blood 04:02	buy track

about

In addition to leading Ballarat indie rock band Mark With the Sea, Oswin is one half of Heart of the Rat Records. Performing solo as A Miner, he has played intimate support gigs for Montaigne, Juan Alban, Ben Salter and Great Earthquake.

More electronic than anything in Oswin’s multi-decade CV, A Miner began as a new outlet for him to write and perform songs on his own — without a full band behind him. After 15 years of writing music primarily on guitar, he sat down in front of a MicroKorg XL and got to work on the 37 keys, seeing what he could get out of them.

He elaborates: I deliberately wanted the vocals to be heavily processed, almost robotic, to sing with a new voice and sound completely different to anything I’ve done previously. With this sound and the melancholy lyrical content, I started to develop a narrative. In this age of rapid technological advances — the push forward with robotics and Artificial Intelligence — I began thinking, what if the machines were capable of feeling the absolute depths of human despair? Without having the emotional maturity and life experience to call upon, how would they cope?

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released July 13, 2018

All songs Written & Composed by Marc Oswin.
Recorded & Produced by Marc Oswin.
Mixed & Mastered by Heath McCurdy

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A Miner Ballarat, Australia

Depressive ambient ballads carved from minimalistic beats, brooding vocoder and dark-star synths, with sparks of cosmic R&B along the way; think James Blake
, Bon Iver
and the Stranger Things theme

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