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8106

by Sleap-e

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1.
Solo Punk 01:35
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I want to play solo solo punk So I can drown you out anytime I want And I want to stop you anytime, so shut up I want to listen solo solo punk So I can turn you off anytime I want And I want to stop you anytime, so shut up I’m gonna spend my time playin’ punk so I can drown you out I just want to have fun And you’re draggin’ me so down
2.
Leave My Bum Alone 02:09 video
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Oh i want to believe there’s something But it will backfire It’ll bite me in the bum And it won’t be you, sadly Please god, let this be real and leave my bum alone Oh i’m so tired of self-control Well i don’t need it anymore So when will I fucking stop? Please god, dear god, let me be happy once more Yeah I really want it all But defeat It will kindly bite me in the bum And i know you’d do it at its place, gladly So please tell my dear dear god to let me be happy once more
3.
Wolf 02:28
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Oh I don’t know you, you just smile And when I see you with the others I don’t mind When we’re alone I try my best But do I care? I don’t care, I don’t mind You’re a wolf cause you’re a loner But now I see you You comin’ closer I don’t mind, I don’t care I don’t mind I don’t mind I don’t mind I don’t care I don’t care I don’t care Do I care? Do I? I don’t mind I don’t mind I don’t mind I don’t care I don’t care I don’t care
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Poetry 02:26
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The sky today is anything but shy It lets me see the reality more bright I’ll answer to you with pride Cause when I talk to you I’m alive I don’t need pink bubbles Need a Calexico, some fried halloumi with my friend He reads me poetry… Nah boring days won’t fill my eyes And I can say that it’s not thank to you, nah! nah! nah! It’s thank to me I’m myself, dark and bright, Don’t need pink bubbles I need a Calexico, some fried halloumi with my friend I’ll be alright Don’t need pink bubbles
5.
Sad Is Ugly 02:37
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I’m a better person when I don’t stop I don’t like to smoke, I don’t like to fuck [sarcastic whining] The more I’m ugly, the more I’m fit So harsh, so charming [sarcastic whining] I’m full of pain And I can make you sorry I am so sad, and you know sad is ugly I am so sad, and you know sad is ugly What can I give you? Why should you want me? When can I see you? So you will show me Yeah you will show me The things I’m missing out Poor thing, I’m joking, for you I’ll be so ugly [sarcastic whining] I’m full of pain And I can make you sorry I am so sad, and you know sad is ugly I am so sad, and you know I am so mean And I can make you horny I am so sad, but you don’t have to worry I am so sad, I don’t wanna make you worry
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J.i.t.f.o.d. 02:46
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Joyful in the face of death Never thought you were a friend The great silence in my bed How is this torture gonna end? Is it gonna end? Please please help me, now I beg Now I beg, please please help me Joyful in the face of death Well I never wished someone something so bad The big fuss inside my head How is this torture gonna end? Please please help me, now I beg I’m not toxic, yes I am Need a picture of the end Scared of your thoughts when you’re mad But joyful in the face of death Joyful in the face of death
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No Joke 03:27
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Spent all my time sleepless for life Gazes, they punch my guts Hunting for some things I don’t own Or I don’t want to show But no joke – I gotta leave Wastin’ my time, oh my oh my! Bad manners I can’t stand You’re mean to my guts with your teeth You keep no secret….. No joke – I gotta leave Oh my, oh my!
8.
Dyin Of Cold 02:16
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Reversed page of cups: solitude, loss I only needed a kiss or two I know I haven’t been a perfect lover But now I’m dyin’, I’m sure Without you, I’m dyin’ of cold No eyes to look into, No hands to hold, No scents to keep: Nothing to treasure no more I’m dyin’, I’m sure, I’m dyin’ of cold
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Go Alone 02:32
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Have to get there, and have to go alone Although I’m fuckin’ scared Shittin’ in my pants, can’t sleep ‘till I know it’s dawn Don’t know if I don’t want the day to end or to start My mouth is a dangerous place for my own tongue Sometimes I forget to breathe I feel the weight of my ancestors They old as elephants, but heavier They heavier Argue with myself, then let go
10.
English Countryside 02:40
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I won’t go back to your English countryside It seemed a fairytale, it never left me dry Without a rose, it was so nice Damn I care Too many songs for you, to the core It feels so bitter, but now I really know There are no secrets with myself Cause I care, yeah I care So I try to grab you, but my throat hurts Plus you kill me everytime, so…
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8106 03:53
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I have got the nighttime blues Tell me through the cigarettes Whatever happened You cry you lost, it’s a lie But I’m gonna help you You crave to be selfish, 8106 You lose as you walk, you lose at your work The goods are bad and the bads are good As you cry, you want to be selfish So you lose, you lose, you lose You crave to be selfish, 8106 You lose as you walk, you lose at your work You crave to be selfish, 8106 You lose as you joke, you lose as you talk You crave to be selfish, 8106 You lose as you joke, you lose as you talk You crave to be selfish, 8106 You lose as you show that you lose in your world.

about

Sleap-e is reclaiming herself. The Italian singer-songwriter’s second album, 8106, captures the spirit of play; the child-like instinct to pursue what you love without compromise - and here it is, that
particular magic that rarely survives adulthood, remarkably intact.
Each of its eleven songs are sharp, vibrant shards which, when you step back, build a mosaic of Asia Martina Morabito’s world: the growing pains of your early twenties, remaining faithful to your dreams
despite the hostility of adulthood, places of escape both real and imagined - and the pulse of Bologna, her home and north star.
Asia has always had an unwavering focus on what she wanted. “I was a child who would never shut up,” she recalls, “I was always singing.” She took to instruments effortlessly. Piano as a child led to
love affairs with the guitar and bass as a teenager which both calmed and communicated the storms that would brew in her head. And so Sleap-e was born: a project as necessary as it was effortless.
What emerged on the stages of Bologna in 2018, even in those formative years, was a singular storyteller who lingered on the edge of the dancefloor; wallflower confessions teased out with self-
described “bossa cat-punk” and scruffy, spirited anti-folk.
As a student of old-school iconoclasts like The Fall and inspired by the outsider streak of Jimmy Whispers and Daniel Johnston, it was not any particular musical quality of theirs which Asia wanted to
channel in Sleap-e, but their confidence to “explode in a raw, free and authentic way.” Though her sound has shifted from the tender bedroom pop of her 2020 EP Mellow and her 2022 debut album
Pouty Lips which was bedecked with jubilant brass and Mediterranean rhythms, it’s her self-belief which endures. 8106 is Sleap-e’s most raucous, unpolished and playful offering to date, steeped in
the influence of “egg-punk”, an internet-grown genre which seeks to satirise the tropes of punk with its danceable irreverence. There is joy to be found, Asia feels, in refusing to conform, and it has brought
her closer to herself than ever before.
But to gain her sense of self, first, she had to lose sight of it. Summer of 2023, when the outlines of the record were made, was a difficult time for her. 8106 was the number of the hotel room she felt
confined to, alone and adrift from comfort when she was working away from home.
Watch Sleap-e’s music videos, and many of them are love letters to the minutiae of her life in Bologna, visual scrapbooks of its streets and food; the trains passing by in the night and the gentle flutter of her
bedroom curtains in the morning, down to her cat hiding in her bed sheets and a slug on the pavement outside. Trapped within the four, bland walls of Room 8106, there was nothing to hold onto.
Asia felt a loss of purpose: “I felt so lonely, so lost - I wasn’t taking care of myself. Sometimes, in order to feel close to yourself and who you are, you need to be far away from home and miss what you
already have.”
Writing this album was her getaway car. “It represents an important choice I made,” she explains. “I chose happiness. I chose myself.” The title represents a kind of mental post-it note reminding herself
to stay focused on what she loves; it’s a talisman to protect her from hard times. She returned home, and there she began recording the album in residency at the Bronson Club, a hive of like-minded
creatives and mentors who helped it take its final form. At home, her own music was played freely and instinctively. The artwork for 8106 is by Noemi Vola, a prolific Bolognian illustrator and author who
specialises in designs for children, which reflects the “funky, fairytale mood” of the record itself.
Her lyrics are more carefree than ever, leaning into the hyper-specific to gesture towards something that can be universally felt. “Poetry” is an ode to sharing halloumi fries with a close friend over literature, speaking to those particular moments and relationships in our lives which nourish us.
It’s carried by a swaggering, old-school rhythm that gives it a cartoonish spirit not unlike the sounds of Warmduscher and Fat White Family which influenced the album’s DNA.

The eyebrow-raising “Leave My Bum Alone” captures Sleap’e’s frivolity like lightning in a bottle. With runaway guitars and her vocals cresting and dipping as if on a rollercoaster, it arrives as an explosion.
Explaining the title, she says, “It means, ‘Please, God, let me be happy. It was a prayer to myself to keep going, continue to be happy and have fun.” Wearing a knitted hat with devil horns, the accompanying music video is a rough-around-the-edges translation of Asia’s gift for mischief and, above all else, fun.
But while 8106 represents an act of escapism, there are moments where she confronts the darker moments head-on. The buoyancy of “No Joke” counteracts situations where Asia felt out of step with
the world, an outsider and self-proclaimed “weirdo” disinterested in falling in line with what’s expected of her. “It’s about deciding to not sacrifice yourself and your value for something meaningless,” she
explains. “It’s perfectly in line with the soul of this album and project: the desire to explode in a raw, free, authentic way.”
The album’s closing title track sees Asia, at last, address herself. It ebbs with a soft-dying tenderness, an admission of vulnerability on a record built to transform dire circumstances. It talks of night-time
blues and cigarettes, those quiet hours when we face ourselves. “In the song I talk to myself, this person who is losing their own world, because I felt just like that. I wasn’t choosing myself so I got angry with myself. It’s about sadness and rage, but more than that, this need to live: to go away and change things – to love myself.”

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released March 22, 2024

Recorded at Bronson Club and StoneBridge Studio with Andrea Cola & Bruno Dorella
Mixed by Marco Giudici
Mastered by Matteo Bordin
Bronson Recordings / La Zona d’Ombra
Distributed by Virgin Music Italy and Universal Music Group
Artwork by Noemi Vola
Layout by Supernulla

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