Consequences

As with many of the songs on Dusk, Consequences started life some time around the middle of 2004. In fact, this was a very late addition: if the album had been released a year earlier, this would have been one of the tracks that wouldn't have been on there. It was the last track to be completed for the album, last summer.

From memory, this was one of those very suspicious cases when some lyrics just fall into your head: most probably the Head in my hands / I regret those demands couplet. I liked the rhythm of the words, and just kept writing. That said, when I first handed the lyrics over to Simon, they were very incomplete - essentially I'd written the verses, but there was no chorus, so quite a bit of it is his work. Anyway, a few rewrites down the line, I think it sounds pretty good.

According to Simon, the riff was supposed to sound a bit like Delerium, but I doubt anyone else had ever spotted that - I certainly hadn't.

I had a number of ideas for a remix, so I volunteered to do one. Most of those ideas were things like a slightly breaky beat, with electro backing, and things like that. Of those ideas, a grand total of zero came to appear on the final remix. Somehow, it ended up a very laid back affair, in which the hi-hats were accidentally turned into bongos, and stayed that way. In retrospect, there are a few things I'd like to go back and change, but generally I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Simon did a quick spit-and-polish, and then it ended up on the single.

The cruel consequences

Quiet at the back, please.


That's our new single, which we've decided to call Consequences, after one of the tracks on it.
It only took four months to put it together, which given that it has five songs on it, is quite an achievement.

The single will have the following tracks:

1. Consequences
2. My Light
3. Echoes of Perfection
4. Moving On
5. Consequences (electrobongo remix)

Specific comments will follow. Generally, they were all written along with the Dusk tracks, but only Echoes of Perfection was ever considered for the album itself. The last three tracks are all special new remixes, and the Consequences remix isn’t even remotely electro, so the name is highly inaccurate. I just thought I’d get that in before some bright spark decides to point it out.

For the first time ever, there will also be two exclusive download tracks:

1. Moving On (demo)
2. Echoes of Perfection (demo)

These will be available from the usual locations over the next couple of weeks, so you can hear what you could have won.

If we get around to it, we might do another single before the summer ends. The fact that we’ve already done four tracks for the next one will have very little to do with when it finally arrives.

More to follow, at some point.