Late-night city music written to one key credo – that all the best ones sound like longing. Real Lies are lyricist Kevin Lee Kharas and Patrick King, from London. Theirs is a world of nocturnal bus rides, Irish pubs, cheap stimulants, radio phone-in lunacy, Donnie Darko, football ultra culture, phones heavy with secrets, ambient high street drizzle, late-night pirate transmissions, and choruses that kiss the stars.