MIDAS FALL
ANNOUNCE ‘COVERS EP’
RELEASED 7TH
APRIL (MONOTREME RECORDS) / LISTEN TO ‘CREEP’ NOW
As anyone
who ever listened to the legendary BBC radio DJ John Peel will know, hearing a
favourite artist re-interpret a familiar song by another artist can bring new
insights into both, as well as being a lot of fun.
During a
break from writing Midas Fall’s fifth album, Elizabeth Heaton took some ideas
that had been incubating for a while and, along with bandmate Michael Hamilton,
applied their own unique perspective to three well-loved songs by Bruce
Springsteen (Dancing in the Dark), Radiohead (Creep) and Placebo (Every You
Every Me).
Covers EP
sees Springsteen’s driving rock anthem reimagined as a quieter, more
introspective narrative, imbued with ‘80s synths and Heaton’s softly hopeful
but uncertain vocals. Radiohead’s Creep is a dreamy, kaleidoscopic waltz that
slowly builds to a raging climax. On Every You Every Me, the icy undertones of
Placebo’s original version are magnified even further, evoking a bleak
landscape cloaked in dark, haunting sounds.
For first single ‘Creep’ Liz from the
band states, “Creep, along with the other tracks on the upcoming
EP were created during lockdown. We took some of our favourite tracks from
growing up and gave them a different feel. As a teenager Radiohead were the
first band to make me feel that music could be something more, so have been a
massive influence to me musically, especially when I first started writing. I
was listening to Creep and imagined it played in a waltz style time signature.
With the aid of my keyboard and a glass of wine the vocals seemed to flow very
easily and were captured in a single take. From there it grew arms and
legs."
Listen now
- https://linktr.ee/midasfall
Covers EP
will be released digitally worldwide by Monotreme Records on 7th April.
Scottish
band Midas Fall are currently putting the final tweaks on their eagerly awaited
fifth album, the follow-up album to Evaporate (2018), for which they won Prog
Magazine’s ‘Limelight Award’.
Credits:
Elizabeth
Heaton - vocals, guitars, synths, piano, drums
Michael
Hamilton - bass, guitars, synths, piano, drums
Recorded,
mixed and mastered by Elizabeth Heaton
Artwork by
Steven Pellatt
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