Electric President is the second of Ben Cooper's projects, this time with Alex Kane. The sound is a mix with folk, pop, electronic, with a sound that would be very much like if you threw The Postal Service, The Decemberists, The Flaming Lips, and George Orwell in a large blender.
They've recorded two albums and one EP under the Electric President moniker, all available under the German imprint Morr Music, with a third to be released in early 2010 on Fake Four Inc.
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Snow on Dead Neighbourhoods Electric President S/T [2006] Transcribed by Matthew Brown ([email protected])
BbFmBbFm Pluck all the wires from your skin, and toss them to the wind. BbFmBbFm Open your chest and let me in. I’ll help you mend. BbG#EbG# While you carve our names in the ice on the sidewalk, BbG#EbG# And I do the same on the face of a cinderblock. BbFmBbFm Thousands of houses hug this road, but no one’s home. BbFmBbFm All the picket fences look like bones, ’cause nothing grows. BbFmBbFm Snow covers everything in sight a ghostly white. BbFmBbFm Under that blanket there’s no life, just blinking lights. BbG#EbG# And we peer through the glass of those empty households. BbG#EbG#Bb The T Vs are all still on. They’re flashing images against the walls