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Real Life

by Jess Locke

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  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Real Life. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases May 3, 2024

      $15 AUD  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    REAL LIFE - Pressed on translucent orange vinyl, and packaged in an inner sleeve, in a standard jacket. Get in quick!

    Includes digital pre-order of Real Life. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $50 AUD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes REAL LIFE LP- Pressed on translucent orange vinyl, and packaged in an inner sleeve, in a standard jacket.

    Limited edition album Tee designed by Jess Locke

    Includes digital pre-order of Real Life. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases May 3, 2024
    item ships out within 7 days

      $75 AUD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes limited edition cream album Tee designed by Jess Locke and a digital download of the new album

    Includes digital pre-order of Real Life. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases May 3, 2024
    item ships out within 7 days

      $40 AUD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    You get the three latest Jess Locke albums on 12" vinyl

    'Real Life', 'Don't Ask Yourself Why' and 'Universe'

    Includes digital pre-order of Real Life. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases May 3, 2024
    item ships out within 7 days
    2 remaining

      $100 AUD or more 

     

1.
Everybody's Going To The Same Place
2.
Red Moon Rising
3.
Piece Of It
4.
Real Life
5.
Not Important
6.
I was uncomfortably happy I was uncomfortably miserable Just when you think you can hack it Another rock comes rolling down the hill (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo) I wasn’t much of a soldier Wasn’t any better as a diplomat And now I think that I’m older But I can hear a child trying to sing me back Nothing’s gonna go your way Nothings gonna stay the same Nothing’s gonna go your way Nothings gonna leave a trace I was uncomfortably happy I was uncomfortably miserable Just when you think that you’re back in Another rat comes running for the kill I wanted one in a million I just got a sentence and a bitter pill And if you think you won’t take it There’s a million people saying that you will Nothing’s gonna go your way Nothings gonna stay the same Nothing’s gonna go your way Nothings gonna leave a trace But you gonna do it anyway? Doesn’t really matter anyway Nothing’s gonna go your way Nothings gonna stay the same Nothing’s gonna go your way Nothings gonna leave a trace (Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
7.
Rocket To Ride
8.
Killed A Fly
9.
Take It Back
10.
Interlude
11.
The Place 03:51
This is the place where you were made Three-foot babe, fell into the lake This is the place, afraid of the waves Sea-sick days, nothing to complain of Holy water, never had a preacher Can’t be saved, ‘til your body breaks Holy ocean, nothing could be deeper Love that’s made when you go away Hell’s a one way track Heaven’s coming back This is the way you had to be brave Two front teeth bloody up the concrete This is the way you learned to behave Two-step dance, feel your body change Hell’s a heart- attack Heaven’s coming back Hell’s a one way track Heaven’s coming back

about

Real Life’ is the result of Melbourne singer songwriter Jess Locke trying to make sense of a world that feels more and more unreal. Some parts of the album simply expressions of despair at a world that feels more and more dystopian. Writing this record, Locke found herself thinking a lot about what it means to live when you know that one day you will die, not just individually, but as a species, as a planet. But as much as our impermanence is very much a fact, it is also a fantasy, some theoretical, future event. So while it’s quite a heavy topic, a lot of the album is a process of returning to the present moment, realising that it’s the only thing that’s real and that the only purpose in a life that will one day end is to experience it, and that’s quite liberating on a personal level. Music is possibly one of the most effective tools for grounding yourself in the present and, in making this record, Locke found that, along with the darkness, she found moments of revelation - an escape from the fantasy of what life could be into the reality of what it is.

credits

releases May 3, 2024

Written, composed and performed by Jess Locke
Additional composition by Chris Rawsthorne and James Morris
Additional performances by Chris Rawsthorne, James Morris and Robert Muinos
Produced by Robert Muinos
Mastered by John Davies

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Jess Locke Melbourne, Australia

Jess Locke is a Melbourne based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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