{"title":"My Bus","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"our-life-in-the-desert","title":"Our Life in the Desert","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy Bus are Joe Cassidy and Gary McKendry. As Butterfly Child and Papa Sprain respectively they were restless parallel adventurers in the early days of UK dream-pop. The released EPs for AR Kane’s label H.ark! and them for Rough Trade. They blazed radical trails for music, burned bright and then faded away. Now they have combined to form My Bus. \u003ci\u003eOur Life In The Desert\u003c\/i\u003e became is of the richest and most emotional dream-pop entities of any era. They combine Gary's love of dissonance and Joe's love of melody\/composition. It is a deeply nostalgic record born out of love and a friendship across decades. The lyrics range from direct to oblique as the music spans oceanic drift (\u003ci\u003eMoon Tempo\u003c\/i\u003e), full-on drama (\u003ci\u003eElvis and Me\u003c\/i\u003e), simmering poptones (\u003ci\u003eTomorrow Will Be Ours\u003c\/i\u003e) and the stirring, multi-faceted \u003ci\u003eGoose Pimples Forever\u003c\/i\u003e, rescued by the wonders of technology from an ancient disintegrating My Bus cassette. On the exquisite, haunting \u003ci\u003eAngeles\u003c\/i\u003e, spoken words matched to one of his more restful ambient pieces. \"It's an idea of confusion and uncertainty,\" says Gary (\"Our minds contemplating the paltry limits of the conditional to my mind thoughts are only for preparing an entrance and an exit\"). \u003ci\u003eOur Life In The Desert is \u003c\/i\u003ereleased on Onomatopoeia Records, run by Nick Bourne, a Butterfly Child fan who had previously connected with Joe on Facebook, which \"completes another circle,\" says Joe. Likewise, Gary and Joe's decision to donate proceeds from the album to a mental health charity. Proof, then, that even in a desert, life can flourish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Onomatopoeia Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50498633105739,"sku":"1083589","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/my-bus.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}