Rezo - Live in the Beautiful

The warm acoustic strum and the fairground waltzer buzz bely the dystopian world described, the city at night, the addicts, the streetworkers and the fights. It’s these everyday tragedies that feed a nostalgic desire to be somewhere more beautiful and innocent, like maybe the past. This album opener sets the scene both musically and lyrically for Rezo’s forthcoming album The Age of Self Help out in Summer 2024 and produced by Canadian heavyweight Marcus Paquin (Arcade Fire, The National, The Weather Station).

Special thanks to Jonathan Burke for the Super 8 footage. 🙏

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Starts as a cough
And then bang you’re dead
A new born child
With a morphine smile
A television with the
Sound down full
Those actors miming
To the gallery girls

I wanna live in the beautiful

A drunken soldier
Hits the taximan
Cant pay the fair
Cos he’s lost in nowhere
A traffic cop
Stops the cars at night
Two people dead
And they’re still clearing the wreckage

I wanna live in the beautiful

I remember when
we were kids
Sunlight chambers
In every view
Why can’t it always be
So sunny and carefree and
stay that way now
And for all time

The city sweeper
And the fast food girl
Clearing streets and plates
And hustlers too
I know anaemic
When it’s white hot and close
I often see it
When the city thumbs its nose

I wanna live in the beautiful