Hey Owen, any updates on the album progress?

[Carlo]

What's the final album cover?

Also I have never been more excited for something in my life!!!

[sarpedon]

That teaser was orgasmic, this will be the hardest 3 months ever!

[Jo]

hoorraaaaaay!

[mattgcn]

Oh boy, three extra tracks with the preorder?? Is that just with the Secret City 2LP or will that be available elsewhere?

[Scarychips]

The three tracks are available both through Secret City and Domino Records. I assume they are the same three tracks.

[Scarychips]

And like mentioned earlier: Secret city for Canadian preorders; Domino for international (including US, excluding Canada).

[cobblestone]

Aww, Bridle and Bit was my favorite new song. Hopefully you're right and it is a pre-order bonus track.

[jules]

Feb 6, 2014 15:41:42 GMT -5 cobblestone said:

Aww, Bridle and Bit was my favorite new song. Hopefully you're right and it is a pre-order bonus track.

It is listed on the limited edition 2Lp.


I just watched the trailer again and then got this spooky notion about how much like a distance shot it could be of something I knocked out a few years ago.  Obviously not, but I can pretend

[Carlo]

Where's that track list for the limited edition LP?

[vestenet]

Domino has the limited 2LP version as this:

Disc 01
Side A
01. I Am Not Afraid
02. In Conflict
03. On A Path
Side B
04. Song for Five & Six
05. The Secret Seven
06. Chorale
Disc 02
Side C
07. The Passions
08. The Sky Behind The Flag
09. ---> (1)
10. The Riverbed
Side D
11. Infernal Fantasy
12. Soldiers Rock
13. ---> (2)
14. Bridle & Bit

Looks like the standard LP doesn't have "Soldiers Rock," "---> (2)," or "Bridle & Bit," whereas the CD version has the first two of those, but not "Bridle & Bit."

[Owen from Final Fantasy]

I wanted this record to be a compact, 1xLP, less-than-45 minute record. Five songs a side. The best sequence for that is the one we've got on the 1xLP.

However, many people said I was stupid and/or crazy to cut "Soldiers Rock" so I put it on the CD/digital version (also included with the 1xLP version). I also included a second "--->" to round it out.

"Bridle & Bit" is definitively and exclusively a double-vinyl bonus track. There are also two other non-"Bridle" bonus tracks on the Japanese CD version (a standard feature for Japanese CD issues).

Which is the definitive version? None of them. I'd argue that the 13-track version is the most complete (the CD, digital version) but that vinyl is the best way to listen. So none of them. This album is thematically about "being loved in spite of because of great faults", about feeling natural in a liminal state, so "fuck definitive versions", am I right?

[Carlo]

A little question:

Does the Secret Cities 2xLP come with a digital version? And would that include the 'extra' songs from the 2xLP or would it just be the same as the CD version.

[Scarychips]

The Secret City's version is the same as the Domino Records version, which is the one that vestenet has written about three posts ago. As far as I know, Secret City does include digital downloads of that album. They do with the standard 1xLP edition, why wouldn't they with the 2xLP version, know what I mean?

On another note, I just preordered my copy of the album from Secret City. The 2xLP Special edition, too. I am very excited.

[Cat]

Just pre-ordered the double LP and CD - too excited!!!!!!

Carlo Apparently the double LP comes with a download code... at least I hope so (currently living 500 miles away from my record player and I need Bridle & Bit in my life!)

[An Amateur]

I didn't think much of it at first but I think Sky Behind the Flag is my favourite from what we've heard live. I really like how it starts off very bitter, but instead of ending violently there's a great anaesthetic woe. I don't usually read that much into songs so it's a pretty good sign.