Thursday, July 12, 2012

How to listen to our new single

There are many ways. Please accept our apologies if one or more of them isn't available in your country, but as a bare minimum one or two of them should work...

  1. Bandcamp: http://purehype.bandcamp.com/album/here-comes-the-summertime (exclusive four track version!)
  2. Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/04VKvQMXD2rGuCbM9b8q35
  3. Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/hypernova/here-comes-the-summertime
Places for which we don't have links yet, but where it should also be available:
  1. Rdio
  2. Muve Music by Cricket
  3. Zvooq
  4. iHeartRadio
  5. Nokia Music
  6. Simfy
  7. 121 Music
  8. Deezer
  9. Rhapsody
  10. Basepoint Media
  11. We7
  12. 24/7 Entertainment
We'll follow this up with a guide on how to buy it shortly, if you're ready for that!

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Here Comes the Summertime - sleeve notes

Sometimes, the signs point in all directions. This time, we were on an entirely different mission, but then we reached a crossroads, and decided to turn away from the march of technology. Lured by the sound of a hip hop drum loop, we lost our way again, wandering around in circles like a caterpillar trail whose leader has accidentally latched onto the back of his own trail.

We combined the drum loop with Here Comes the Summertime, edited it, and then decided to make another version with everything put back in again. Just like they used to do in the 80s. Probably. It’s a nod to a long lost summer, when the warm days never seemed to end. The lonely traveller, Homeward Bound, questions the nature of place, and slowly comes to realise that it’s people that make places what they are. Words Come Easy is a bitter memory of how things used to be. Finally, as it always does, the summer returns, with an expression of hope that maybe this season really will never end.

So that’s your lot for now. Until the summer ends...