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checking your phone was developed from a song first shared during a livestream performance in 2020. Dramatic minor chords and harmonies lament the endemic device addiction of the day. Streamable via link in bio.

This version was recorded live with a portrait-oriented video edited to capture the endless scroll experience and the isolation and mundanity that constitutes it.

lyrics

are you checking your phone?
are you changing tabs?
are you swiping seeking, scrolling, scanning, waiting for
somewhere else to be

ah ah ah
ah ah ah
ah ah ah ah

somewhere else to be
anywhere but here

are you checking?
there's always somewhere better to be
somewhere else to be
summat else to see
summat else
beyond here
are you checking

look down
scroll down
round round
lost found
check see
update me
ring ring
ding ding

are you checking you phone
are you checking?
there's always somewhere better to be
somewhere else to be
summat else to see
summat else
beyond here
are you checking your

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from Light & Love LIVE, released December 23, 2022

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Geraldine Snell (formerly Terrapin, Well) Hebden Bridge, UK

Musician, performer, producer, filmmaker, author. Experimental downtempo ethereal dreampop

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