Debut Single - OUT NOW !!
If We Fall
Live
Highlights
Formed in ‘23, Affection to Rent’s unique brand of grunge fuses dark winding vocal melodies with a warm wash of nostalgia.
Their debut single ‘If We Fall’ was released this September 27th and became Dan Hegarty's track of the week on RTE2fm. Recently the band were long-listed for the Glastonbury emerging talent competition, described as 'a breath of fresh air' by Under the Radar Magazine, and went on to showcase at Ireland Music Week.
Fontaines D.C. members hand chose frontwoman Abbey Addenbroke-Sheriff for their scholarship. “She’s brilliant – it’s exciting to hear such raw talent,” Carlos O’Connell, Guitarist of Fontaines D.C. for NME.
From raw and contagious to ethereal and personal, the five-piece's live sets possess a cathartic desperation "reminiscent of the very best Seattle grunge bands of yesteryear." - The Goo Magazine.
Abbey Addenbroke-Sheriff - Vocals
Evan Carty - Guitar
Adam Patterson - Guitar
Isaak Foley - Bass
Harry Luck - Drums
M o r e . . .
M o r e . . .
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A wet wind cries as January dies
You know your love is my demise
She tore the substance from your seams and left a painted stranger as she fades into a dream
If we fall, will you follow me?
Blindly, Blissfully, I know how it feels to be free
Come and cure my apathy
Be my architecture, fade into a dream
If we fall, will you follow me?
Blindly, Blissfully, I know how it feels
If we fall, then will I belong
where I’ve been all along?
I know how it feels to be free
(how it feels to be free)
When you’re rid of my company
I’ll be waiting like a dog at a grave
If we fall, will you follow me?
Blindly, Blissfully
If we fall, then we’ll be apart
Then maybe we’ll start
to know these gestures off by heart,
these gestures of our hearts.
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January London Road was flooded in the rain
Buses running late from school I nearly missed my train
Feburary, Winter blues was filling up my hair
Solitude had conquered me and laid the season bare
If you close your gentle eyes
Would I ever know you died?
When the curtain falls you’ll say
Why did nobody wake me?
Barely even loving though he’ll break an arm for you
in his entertainment, method actor, frown on cue
Of all the hope and love that you share with me in dreams
We wake to barren hillsides sodden at their seams
If you close your gentle eyes
Would I ever know you died?
When the curtain falls you’ll say
Why did nobody wake me?
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Looming day that I dread
Turning grey the words I say
It’s all in my head
Then the image falls away
When the night is over
and the inky sky turns red
still I’m barely sober
hallucinated all I said
I ache when you’re not here
and more when you are near
Cathedral of a heart,
and the choir when we’re apart
sings only hymns
Stronger is the joy we share
but fragile is the one I crave
When I blink and break my stare
I’m turning round to see my grave
I ache when you’re not here
and more when you are near
Cathedral of a heart,
and the choir when we’re apart
sings only him
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Nail through my hand
Was your leaving planned?
I’d understand
Please, prove me wrong
that I belong
where I long to be
In this moment
Slowly sinking from above
Like you mean it
leave nothing but the bones of my love
Breathe just to say
The honour’s mine in every way
Now forever lives
cast away what longing gives
In this moment
Slowly sinking from above
Like you mean it
leave nothing but the bones of my love
Nothing but the bones
Take it to the bone
nothing, no
In this moment
Slowly sinking from above
Like you mean it
leave nothing but the bones of my love
And in his image
Slowly falling from above
Like you mean it
leave nothing but the bones of my love
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Those honest thoughts of martyrdom
and unchanging angle of the sun
That plagal smile to bind me there
I wouldn’t rather anywhere
I bare the ambient decay
of the illusion you would stay
The moment whispers every day
I’ve never been further away
In the will of the sun, how…
From the ashes, begun, how, you know how
I bare the ambient decay
of the illusion you would stay
The moment whispers every day
I’ve never been further away
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Spring day melts into dreams
warping in memory
forever fields of summer
Though past, the winter echoes
through the grace that shaped your face
hands hold he ghostly porcelain
won’t you let her in?
Falling into sleep
and knowing what you mean to say when she wakes you the next day
talk about your dreams
distracted by the way you feel when you find out they were real
I’m moulded in the image of your decay and here I’ll stay
forever fields of summer
Though past the winter echoes through the warm and velvet sky
no word can shake the grey within
won’t you let her in?
Falling into sleep
and knowing what you mean to say when she wakes you the next day
talk about your dreams
distracted by the way you feel when you find out they were real
hey,
This is the cycle of our lives
and there’ll always be another
This is the cycle of our time
and there’ll always be another
and there’ll always be another
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What once was cavernous of mind has now been left behind
Now I’m stuck between a statue, a figure, an aching dream
A statue, a figure, a dream
Did you want to forget?
What hasn’t happened yet
And now you’re stuck between a statue, a figure, an aching dream
A statue, a figure, a dream
Visions falling back to me
Now I see the way that the light falls on London
Now that the future’s undone
Did you come to regret?
What hasn’t happened yet
And now you’re stuck between a statue, a figure, an aching dream
A statue, a figure, a dream
Visions falling back to me
Now I see the way that the light falls on London
Now that the future’s undone
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Body remembers emotion that mind forgot
Silently knowing its beyond an afterthought
Not young and not old, this shimmering in between
Its only forever that bled out since you were seventeen
Feel the blood run in places it shouldn’t be
I’m half here, and nowhere, only vague in memory
Hold me gently,
It was just a dream but it still affects me
Always here
You’ll have me here
Always and always
Photo - Ray Keogh 2024