Artist: Echotide
Title: As Our Floodlights Gave Way To Dawn
Format: CD, Digital
Label: Bird’s Robe Records
Distribution: MGM
Genre: Cinematic/ Post-Rock
Release Date: 07/06/2023
Australian post-rock trio Echotide have announced they will re-release their 2012 debut album As Our Floodlights Gave Way To Dawn as a belated celebration for its 10th anniversary in 2024, as part of the Bird’s Robe Records 10th anniversary series.
With a slow-burn introspective sound, Echotide are an Australian cinematic/prock-rock three piece with a dynamic songcraft approach, ranging from delicate and minimalist ambient to an all-encompassing wall-of-sound.
The band was originally formed as a side project for members of progressive metal outfit Arcane, guitarist Michael Gagen & keyboardist Matthew Martin. The original lineup included original Caligula’s Horse drummer Geoff Irish, who featured on the band’s 2012 debut record As Our Floodlights Gave Way To Dawn.
Following the dissolution of Arcane in 2015 and the departure of drummer Geoff Irish to focus on joining Arcane vocalist Jim Grey in Caligula’s Horse, the profile of Echotide lifted further with the 2012 release of their debut album.
Guitarist Michael Gagen reflects on the period that led to the record: “Matt and I started planning out a post rock release in 2007, with a goal to write something more ethereal and cinematic than anything we’d written with Arcane. The blurry nature of a first album is always difficult to write through, but I feel that we wound up with something unique, dark and introspective.
We started writing this album through the rather limited and more corporeal lens of youth, writing like a trio of young players trying to capture something more cinematic and ethereal than anything we’d written before. Like all debut-records, it’s a strange and imperfect image of a young band, but almost a decade later, we couldn’t be prouder of this strange, blurry little yellow-green record.
So…happy (belated) decade anniversary to our beloved first child. We’re beyond proud to present this remix & reimagining of our first album. As we watched the 10 year anniversary of our debut album roll past, we decided to dust off the hard-drives, re-open these massive sessions, and reimagine the album as it could be in 2024.
This undertaking proved equal parts nostalgic and challenging; but with the original engineer of the floodlights drum sessions Chris Lait from Head Atlas at the console, the remix was in safe hands.
Working in consultation with both the original Echotide lineup and with our current lineup, Chris has, from the ground up, reimagined, reworked and remixed the entire album. This was then breathtakingly re-mastered by Tahlia-Rose Coleman at Studios 301 Australia.
For all of us in Echotide, this record is still a strange, special, and imperfect one. But to hear it in all this new and vibrant detail feels rewarding. It sounds closer to what we wanted the album to be all those years ago.
After so many years; ‘floodlights’ finally comes full circle, and we hope you are still here to enjoy it with us.”
Tracklist
1. Of Addictions
2. Floodlights
3. 3mwy (Of Hope)
4. Embers Glow
5. Mare Cognitum (Of Memory)
6. Stillwaters
7. Of Overcoming Addictions
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