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<h1>The October Solution</h1>
<img class="alignleft wp-image-11656 " src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-October-Solution-Band-Pic-300x224.jpg" alt="The October Solution" width="260" height="194" />Dream-rock architects The October Solution are Drew Sullivan (<a title="Slow Dancing Society" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/">Slow Dancing Society</a>, <a title="City of Satellites" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/city-of-satellites/">City of Satellites</a>) and Jarrod Manuel (<a title="City of Satellites" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/city-of-satellites/">City of Satellites</a>). While steeped in ’80s nostalgia, their music moves beyond familiar tropes to stand as defiantly futuristic and progressive. Their songs resonate with soaring guitars, ethereal vocals, and deftly woven pop melodies, melding the incandescent ambient sounds of Slow Dancing Society within the propulsive songcraft of City of Satellites.
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<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>Axis Swim Scar</h4>
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April 2015

While steeped in ’80s nostalgia, their music moves beyond familiar tropes to stand as defiantly futuristic and progressive, no better exemplified than on single ‘1984’, which draws upon the sweeping grandeur of Disintegration-era Cure. <em>Axis Swim Scar</em> resonates with soaring guitars,ethereal vocals, and deftly woven pop melodies, melding the incandescent ambient sounds of Slow Dancing Society within the propulsive song-craft of City of Satellites.

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<h3>Biography</h3>
The October Solution – Drew Sullivan (<a title="Slow Dancing Society" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/">Slow Dancing Society</a>, City of Satellites) and Jarrod Manuel (<a title="City of Satellites" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/city-of-satellites/">City of Satellites</a>) – originally formed as EO in 2011, releasing two EPs, <i>Breathe Your Air</i> and <i>Somewhere Human</i>, before changing their name to The October Solution in 2013. While the duo operate at opposite ends of the globe – with Manuel based in Adelaide, Australia and Sullivan in Spokane, USA – this independent collaboration was born from a City of Satellites production meet-up in the US, where the pair bonded over their shared love of ’80s and ’90s pop music and shoegaze.

The October Solution's debut album <i>Axis Swim Scar</i> (mastered by <a title="Jonas Munk" href="https://soundcloud.com/jonas-munk" target="_blank">Jonas Munk</a>) will see release through Hidden Shoal on 15th April 2015, followed by a deluxe compilation re-issue of their first two EPs later in the year.

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<h3>News</h3>
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<h3>Lyrics</h3>
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<h3>Axis Swim Scar</h3>
<h4>All Lyrics by Jarrod Manuel</h4>
<h4>1984</h4>
You know I torture myself
Because I can never go back
To 1984
As I remember it then
Let me go

You know I torture myself
‘Cause I can never go back
And the words that we said
And the things that I did
They were wrong
<h4>Lost</h4>
I don’t want to feel like this
I want to be like this
I don’t want to feel so lost tonight

I could never let you know that
I could never let you go (and)
I don’t want to feel so dark inside

I’ve been waiting for a train
In a funny world I can’t explain
You never look inside my mind
When they try and cut you down
You never turned around
I never looked inside your eyes
<h4>Stolen</h4>
Found myself on your front porch again
Stolen lie
I know everything
Walked away you knew my grace
Fill in time
Your empty face

You won’t take me
You won’t take me away

Broken town live on this edge
Know this town
Know everything

You won’t take me
You won’t take me away

Found myself on your front porch again……..

You won’t take me
<h4>Softly</h4>
I’m back on the edge
I told you twice
I’m building the buildings
Inside my mind

The future memory
I cannot define
It’s hidden in
The road outside

And I was walking
Home tonight
I can’t fight the feeling
You burned the sky?

Holding on the edge
A pretender friend
I try and understand
What is happening?

Where were you when I was hurting?

Everytime I say I try to get away
I’m built inside a maze
Why don’t you understand

Where were you when I was hurting?

Fighting on the edge I can’t see a thing
You never said to me
I could be anything but

Where were you when I was hurting?

Look in to my eyes don’t you realise
You never understand
What is happening?

Where were you when I was hurting?
<h4>You I Miss</h4>
The streets were wrong
They never made much sense at all

Those ruined nights
I shouldn’t feel so bad tonight

I miss you
I miss you hard….

I was on my way back out of town
Can I see you?
Can I see you?

Those ruined nights
I shouldn’t feel so bad tonight

I miss you
I miss you hard

I was on my way back out of town
Can I see you?
Can I see you?
Walking to a beat that never agrees
Can I see you?
Can I see you?
No I don’t want to change
Or want to fear anything

I was on my way back out of town
Can I see you?
Can I see you?
Walking to a beat that never agrees
Can I see you?
Can I see you?
<h4>Alone In The Grey</h4>
Alone in the grey again
Me and my shadow

I’ll never give it up
Sometimes they go too slow
Me and my shadow

Walking all night again
‘Cause I got no place to go

I never give it up
Sometimes I feel so low
Just me and my shadow
<h4>Paper Rider</h4>
I’ve been running for ages
Slowly split my time

I anchor the world but
It only slides, slide

I’m leaving the memories
To a plastic man
He tried to bury his soul but
It only slides, slide

I’ve been crying but laughing
At a mental world
Time ticks on and
I only slide, slide

The stars have been falling
The light is still on
I wonder if the spacemen
Can only slide, slide
<h4>Traffic Tonight</h4>
C’mon let’s go
Just drive……

I want to chase the traffic tonight
C’mon let’s go
I want to count the stars

C’mon let’s go
Just drive……

I want to chase the traffic tonight
C’mon let’s go
I want to watch the stars

I was feeling just a little alone
Still I knew you were there
I was waiting for the phone to call
I was waiting for the phone

I was feeling just a little alone
I was waiting for the phone to call

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<h3>Licensing</h3>
The October Solution's music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.

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