Lost City Soundtrack- A Track A Day- Assume The Position

Lost City comes out on January 14th. It’s the final book in the Eoin Miller Trilogy and, may I say, it’s really good. For the first two books I posted a spotify playlist. For Lost City I’ve decided to release it one track at a time. Check back each day between now and publication day to see another track. Hopefully you’ll find a few artists that you like, and check out their work.

 

 

Lost City, January 14th.

Never to cool to admit when I’ve taken the easy route, I discovered this track because of the much shorter version that featured in The Wire. There’s no moment in the trilogy where Eoin Miller could be said to have reached the Peter Gunn level of cool, that perfect spot where you deserve a kick ass theme-tune that can pump away in the background while you drive around the city at night. Miller is just not that cool. Just not that collected or tough. But there is a part of him that wants to be. There is a part of him that would love to be that cool. In in those moments, those moments we all have if we’re honest, when he closes his life and imagines his life is trailed by a rhythm section, he would also throw in an amazing piano track and get somewhere near Assume The Position by Lafayette Gilchrist.

Add into that the idea that the very phrase ‘assume the position,’ one which has many meanings, fits just about everybody in the book. Each waiting for something to happen. And it feels most appropriate for the people of Hobs Ford, the fictional Romani settlement that features in the book. Whole families there are used to being messed about and done over by the authorities, and they are primed and ready for another attack, they are expecting it, and they know nobody will stand with them.