Probably Will

from Overcome by The Miserable Rich

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    Our first studio album in 12 years - and perhaps our most meaningful and immediate.

    The title comes from an area of language I had been exploring with my students; the contranym – words which are the opposite of themselves. Dust, buckle and sanction are all good examples of these. I liked how The Miserable Rich Overcome could have interpretations of strength and of weakness.

    In truth, the album came about due to both these things. It is the product of us getting together because some of us were going through some particularly difficult times. The music was a good excuse to hang out. Pizza, beer. Talk. Occasional tune. After a while, we kind of had an album.

    On many hills in Sussex, you can see these beautifully bent hawthorn trees. They incredibly compelling, shaped by the harsh coastal winds, and it is hard not to anthropomorphise them. They are beautiful to us because they look like they have been through great difficulty. Without this – the less misshapen trees are far less eye-catching. The beauty is the product of this perceived pain.

    I thought this would be a fitting emblem for the album. I googled images and found an amazing one. I found the photographer on Facebook and asked him where it was. He was very kind and sent me a pin, it was just next to Cuckmere Haven – a very special place for me wife and I. it is where we took our son’s ashes – a place we go back to each year on the anniversary of his death to launch a boat I carve for him and mu wife fills with orange flowers she has collected for him. It is very close to the place we organise a sponsored walk each year for the charity we started in his name.

    I photographed the tree in winter and in late spring bloom to represent both the desperation and the hope that are part of making and meaning of the record. You can flip the vinyl over to reflect which side is closest to your mood.

    Includes the final song to be added - 'Poem For Suzanne'.

    Release date: 2nd Feb 2024

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This was the last song written for the main album and nearly didn’t make it. I’d had this piano figure knocking about for ages and finally got around to putting something together for it. Under duress, the band agreed to ‘squeeze it in’ at the end of the day’s studio recording if we had time.
I’ll admit that making a song about Murphy’s Law and giving it this title was a bit playful and I did quite like taking it to the band for that reason, even if, like all my songs, it’s musically much more basic than the other guys’ ones. That sense of fun lead me to putting the joke in the middle section, something I first thought about listening to a Japanese Breakfast song. I realised on second listen, she hadn’t said what I thought she had - so I did. Sort of.

Overall – though it was almost an afterthought – I think the song fits very closely to the paradoxical and contranymic essence of the album.

Thanks to Kelly Barnes, Martin’s wife, for the awesome vocals. At last, someone who can really sing on one of our records!

lyrics

‘If something can go wrong
Before too long - it probably will

If fate can unmake it
Don’t mistake it - it probably will

If something can mess up
Yeah let’s fess up - it probably Will

And though we all hate it
Anticipate it - tt probably will

But we’re gonna get through this and much more
Yeah you know - we probably will

If something can go bad
Well it’s ironclad - it probably will

Sooner or later
Speculator - it probably will

They say we should fake it
Til we make it - We probably will

Just take it as fated
Celebrate it - we probably will

But we’re gonna get through this and much more
Yeah you know - we probably will

Stages of grief
PTSD
Anxiety
ADHD
At least you see
Now you and me
Can say that we
Have letters after our names’

credits

from Overcome, released February 2, 2024
Music: J. Briffett, W. Calderbank, M. Deering, J. de Malplaquet, R. Lovell
Lyrics: J. de Malplaquet

Violin: Mike Siddell
Backing (proper) vocals: Kelly Barnes

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The Miserable Rich Brighton, UK

creators of the fiery chamber music for song lovers: tellers of tales, writers of tunes, forgetters of punchlines. equal parts surly, silly and sumptuous.

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