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MPTL Microplastic's debut single is a tribute to Derek Jarman, a eulogy to the artist's ongoing garden, a recommitment to the 'patron saint of lost causes', & a paean to the 'wilderness of failure' that is Dungeness. Derek Jarman died on on the 19th of February 1994, two weeks before the 'lent lillies' were likely to have bloomed again. Jarman wrote in his diary 'I'm holding my breath, like the weather, for the first daffodil...[to] flare into life and illuminate the spring.' Since Derek died, they got rid of time & 'curdled all the seasons into one.' Now only in Dungeness does the winter not retreat before it's time and leaves the lent lillies to shake in cold anticipation of their flowering. We hold our breath - in silence - for his return, & then like the incandescent chorus of the decommissioned power plant, we start to make a sound.
Joey Hollis - vocals
Amelia Blackwell - vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
Bella Shannon - synthesiser, vocals
Dan Powley - electric guitar
Alfie Cherry - bass guitar
Alex Duncalf - cello, piano
James Hawdale - drums
Produced and engineered by Armando Gonzalez Sosto
Mastering by Dan Powley
Artwork by Holly Hollis
