And now for something completely different.. BSP like you've never heard them before!
From Ska-Punk to acoustic dreaminess, via some seriously hard rockin’ bangers on their latest studio album ‘Above The Static‘, Brighton’s Bar Stool Preachers take a radical departure from their usual sound with a new EP set to drop in September – ‘Below The Static‘.
“For this release, we really wanted to highlight how good the songwriting was” the band tell us. “We were stoked with how well the album went down but we really wanted to expose some of the more vulnerable elements and fuck with the format a bit. To hear such strong fxmale vocals, and having heavy guitar riffs on cellos/violins etc. really got us excited about these songs again. Some of the versions are stripped right back to just a voice and one instrument. It’s the band like you’ve never heard it before, and really breathes a different life into the songs.”
First glimpse into the new sound comes in ‘Call Me On The Way Home (Reimagined)‘. The Preachers say “Call Me On The Way Home is a really vulnerable, brutal song, so it kind of lends itself to opening right up. This version is just piano and voices, and it really drives home the message of loneliness and the need for people to stick up for one another. Sometimes a song’s message doesn’t need all the trimmings and five guitar lines.”
Follow-up single release ‘Doorstep (Reimagined)‘ takes a favourite from the last studio album and gives it a very different soundscape! “When we set out to make the Below The Static mini album, we didn’t just want to re-record the songs with acoustic guitars. So we broke them down and created entirely new arrangements. Featuring a BBC Symphony Orchestra cellist and Massive Attack collaborator Debbie Clare on vocals, Doorstep is the most creatively different. Where the original punches you hard in the face, this new track whispers disturbing insinuations from an unseen corner as you fail to drift off to sleep.”
- Doorstep (Reimagined)
- Call Me On The Way Home (Reimagined)
- Flatlined (Reimagined)
- All Turned Blue (Reimagined)
- Laptop (Reimagined)
- Don’t Die Today (Reimagined)
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