Anathema

[onthewall2983]

Fine Days: 1999-2004

[seasonsinthesky]

anyone else find this and the AFDTE re-release (though i quite like the latter) are very clearly Music for Nations dredging the waters trying to conjure up interest in their label comeback?

it's a beautiful package, Fine Days i mean, but utterly useless otherwise. none of the albums needed remastering or re-releasing without their actual art, and Judgement doesn't even include the bonus track. make a download store and that's all they've really been missing.

[onthewall2983]

It looks like Kscope is releasing it, so maybe it's just them trying to solidify the back catalogue of some of their artists?

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[Sutekh]

My mate did the lighting for that tour - probably his favourite band so he was super chuffed. I went to the Exeter one and it was absolutely amazing, can't wait for the DVD

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[armogi]

new album coming, cool!

[onthewall2983]

1. 32.63N 117.14W
2. Leaving It Behind
3. Endless Ways
4. The Optimist
5. San Francisco
6. Springfield
7. Ghosts
8. Can’t Let Go
9. Close Your Eyes
10. Wildfires
11. Back To The Start

Anathema have released further details about their upcoming album The Optimist.
It’ll be released on June 9 via Kscope and will be the follow-up to 2014’s Distant Satellites.
Daniel and Vincent Cavanagh, along with drummer John Douglas, singer Lee Douglas, bassist Jamie Cavanagh and keyboardist Daniel Cardos recorded The Optimist over the winter with producer Tony Doogan. And Vincent says that Doogan’s influence on the album was invaluable.
He says: “He suggested that we record as a live band, which we hadn’t done for years. Having played a few tunes on the last tour, we were ready for that.
“Tony wanted to capture that energy you can only get with everyone facing each other – it makes a big difference. He was a superb guy to work with and I learned a lot making this record.”
Daniel Cavanagh says the idea behind The Optimist came from the cover art for their 2001 album A Fine Day To Exit.
He says: “I suppose you might say the album is semi-autobiographical because this time we used a surrogate.
“We put sound, feelings and crucially, our own hopes and fears into another person and made him the subject of the songs then weaving my own internal monologue into the narrative of The Optimist.
“It was John Douglas’ idea to write a narrative, so I took A Fine Day To Exit as the starting point.”
Vincent adds: “The guy who disappeared – you never knew what happened to him. Did he start a new life? Did he succumb to his fate? It was never explained.
“The opening track title is the exact coordinates for Silver Strand beach in San Diego – the last known location of The Optimist – shown on the cover of A Fine Day to Exit.”

[onthewall2983]

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H y p e


At the top of my most anticipated albums this year. This band is on fire.

[onthewall2983]

I like that this was recorded live. Hopefully it means less of the electronic drumkit stuff from the last album.

[seasonsinthesky]

I like that this was recorded live. Hopefully it means less of the electronic drumkit stuff from the last album.

Those are the best tracks on it, imo. So I'll be disappointed if they haven't followed it up. Variety is, of course, part of their spice, so perhaps an entire album wouldn't work well. I felt that way about A Natural Disaster for a long time.

[armogi]

looks like something went terribly wrong on this one, that cat is out already...

[onthewall2983]

Yeah, one of the brothers went on their Facebook yesterday and basically pointed to a journalist who had a copy of it that possibly leaked it out.

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I'm addicted to their new single, Can't Let Go...

https://open.spotify.com/track/2vPqPNX7u6tBlW0Msxbqpq

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http://www.popmatters.com/review/anathema-the-optimist/

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http://www.ghostcultmag.com/intervie...timist-kscope/

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The band launched a GoFundMe page, after the cancellation of their tour this year has left them broke.

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The band launched a GoFundMe page, after the cancellation of their tour this year has left them broke.

Sadly, a lot of artists / musicians, engineers, producers, masterers, etc., are going to be hit hard by this global crisis.

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Damn...

[armogi]

Damn...

DAMN indeed, i was just going back to the earlier stuff last week

[onthewall2983]

We’re Here Because We’re Here, maybe one of my favorite albums of that decade, is missing from streaming services

[armogi]

Damn, i thought they were reuniting already, bummer.