Leslie's Dream (Leslie Medford)

by The Ophelias

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"Leslie’s Dream" is a rare new recording from Leslie Medford, the maverick leader of '80s San Francisco psychedelic journeymen The Ophelias. According to David Fricke (Rolling Stone, MOJO), The Ophelias were "modernists steeped in the vintage, local ethos of a late set at the Fillmore Auditorium - a potent tab of futurist acid-pop…laced with post-punk menace."

If the USA was eligible for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest 'Leslie’s Dream' would likely win the thing. Then again, in a perfect world Leslie Medford’s latest song wouldn’t be necessary like it is. We at Independent Project Records believe Medford hit the vein of the zeitgeist whilst asleep, and the track might just snowball onto summer dancefloors around the Continent and beyond given the weather these days and this current atmosphere of impending chaos. Medford led The Ophelias (research them!) in the 1980s, and like that band Leslie still dreams big. Infectious and memorable, “Leslie’s Dream” aims to mobilize thought, booty-shaking, and an ecstatic, whooping, mosh pit of change.

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We took our David Bowie knives and slit the Putin throat.
The Donald we left gurgling in his Mar-a-Lago moat.
Coming. Can’t you feel it in the wind?
Rumsfeld and his Cheney-man the buzzards left their bones.
Assad is drawn and quartered the world watches on their phones.
Coming for you . . .Can't you feel it in the . . .Coming for you.
The Clintons couldn’t shake us. They will never carp again.
His member’s in a private box. We know he feels our pain.
Everyone named Reagan undergoes a gender change.
May it work.
Coming for you . . . can’t you feel it in the
Everyone named Reagan undergoes a gender SHOCK.
Can’t you feel it in the air?

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released April 27, 2023
Performers: Performed by Leslie Medford (Guitars, Bell Tree, Vocals, Headphone Theremin); J Neo Marvin (Drums, Effects, Mix)
Written by: Leslie Medford

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“Collectors and critics will probably rediscover The Ophelias in fifteen years and write blathering essays about Medford’s psychosis-tinged genius.” Well,that time is now! Independent Project Records will release a 15-song career-spanning compendium (including 5 never-released studio tracks). Bare Bodkin is a perfect distillation of the multifaceted and strange magic of this remarkable band. ... more

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