Dead Letter Circus Re-Imagine 'One Step', Announce New Album
Dead Letter Circus have re-envisioned their classic 'One Step' while announcing 'The Endless Mile' album, featuring alternative versions of various songs.
Dead Letter Circus have re-envisioned their classic track, 'One Step', and have announced 'The Endless Mile' album, featuring alternative versions of their debut EP and other songs. Nice!
Dead Letter Circus are a household name in the Australian rock scene, and this beloved act is in the middle of some musical introspection.
A decade on since their solid debut EP, Dead Letter Circus have today announced 'The Endless Mile' album - an 11 track LP that features alternative versions of that initial six-track EP, as well as a selection of various re-imagined tracks from their following three albums; 'This Is The Warning', 'The Catalyst Fire' and of course, 'Aesthesis'.
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The first single to be lifted from this "new" release is the re-imagining of their 'One Step' (the third and final single originally from 'This Is The Warning'), which you can stream below. This new take on the song strips the track right fucking back to its very basics - just the melody and the lyrics, with some acoustic and orchestral elements thrown in for good measure. This sonic approach shows off vocalist Kim Benzie's impressive vocal range alongside a new arrangement made up of pianos and strings. It's an interesting take on the 2010 rock anthem, and a version that I enjoyed just as much as the original surprisingly enough.
Basically, the band have taken an already epic track and turned it on its head in the best way possible.
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'The Endless Mile' drops on Friday, May 12th.[/caption]
This re-imagined record was tracked in the summer of 2016/2017, between December and January, with Forrester Savell and Matt Bartlem at Gold Coast's Loose Stones Studios at the engineering and production wheel. Also, Wolfmother's bassist, Ian Peres, came on board to play organ and piano across eight of the album's 11 tracks, whilst US studio composer Chris Carmichael arranged, played and recorded strings on six songs. Funnily enough, the biggest song I can find Carmichael's name attached to is Tim McGraw's 'If You're Reading This'...as well as doing the soundtrack for Shrek 2.
Not sure if that makes this a step-up or a step-down, but whatever!
In a press release, Benzie shared why the band selected this version of 'One Step' to be the first song to represent this new release, saying:
"A lot of the songs on this record had been singles in their previous incarnation so it was tough to pick one to lead with. Ten years ago the concept of a DLC song that is pretty much just piano and vocal wouldn't have entered my mind as possible. If you viewed the scope of what we can do musically as a pendulum swings, 'One Step' is at the furthest end, the inverse of our usual approach and the most bare a track of ours could ever be. In a similar way to the first time this song came to us, from the first note, it just felt so right, and so epic. As the most stripped-back track on the record, 'One Step' seemed like the perfect choice."
Check out newer acoustic/ballad-like version of 'One Step' below and for contrast sakes or because you cannot handle change, find the original song here.
All merch/album bundles can be found here, and through good ol' iTunes, and the "record stores" of the modern era - JB Hi-Fi and Sanity are running their own special offers for pre-orders here.
Check out the band's fast approaching tour dates with Strangers (who will also be in acoustic mode) - with all of the ticket links - just below.
Thursday 2nd March - New Globe Theatre, Brisbane, QLD
Friday 3rd March - The Factory Theatre, Sydney, NSW
Saturday 4th March - Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle NSW
Friday 10th March - Max Watts, Melbourne, VIC
Saturday 11th March - Uni Bar, Adelaide, SA
Friday 17th March - Prince of Wales, Bunbury, WA
Saturday 18th March - Badlands Bar, WA
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