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JAMES: ‘Hanging Out’, to me, is where we finally cracked harmonising as a duo. We’d worked at it on various tunes in a live capacity and some four-track home recordings, but never done it so consistently throughout one song. We were working it out as we went, I think it’s fair to say. When we became a four-piece harmonies were an instrinsic part of the overall sound.

The fact that this song features not only on Sun Dream but on two separate live releases shows how much we enjoyed playing it.

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lyrics

Everybody’s hanging out in the sunshine
(In the sunshine)
Everybody’s hanging out and feeling fine
(They’re feeling fine)
Everybody’s hanging out in the sunshine
In the sunshine

See your friends
Drinking and thinking for each other
Hold them close,
Make way for love and cover
Make them your own
Just like a little brother
Well you hold them close and
Make them your own

Everybody’s hanging out in the sunshine
(In the sunshine)
Everybody’s hanging out and feeling fine
(They’re feeling fine)
Everybody’s hanging out in the sunshine
In the sunshine

Shining bright
Wishing the night to stay
(Wishing the night to stay)
Everybody together
Hoping no one will stray
(Hoping no one strays)
Living life a strain and
Breaking out of the clay
(Break out of the clay)
Tonight’s the night, today’s the day

credits

from Songs About Tomorrow, Songs of Yesterday: The Best of Echotone, released September 1, 2020
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Music by James Goodwin & Lee Moffatt
Lyrics by Lee Moffatt (©2004 Copyright Control)

Taken from Sun Dream
Released 16 July 2004
echotone.bandcamp.com/album/sun-dream

Live versions also available on the releases Acoustic At The Castle (released 2008, recorded live 2007) and Hanging Out — Live in Camden (released 2015, recorded live 2006)
echotone.bandcamp.com/album/acoustic-at-the-castle
echotone.bandcamp.com/album/hanging-out-live-in-camden

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Echotone London, UK

"Empathetic alt folk" - TIME OUT

"Layers of harmony and incisive arrangement squeezed into perfectly crafted songs" - PANIC MAGAZINE

"They have plenty of influences - country, folk, indie - but the overall effect is of a wonderfully fresh sound" - ROMFORD RECORDER
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