Merry Christmas!
Well, this has been a funny year, hasn't it? Having managed to get very much back onto the wagon last year with our ninth album Transmission, we kicked off 2012 with a proper reissue of our single I'll Give You Electro, backed up by two of our favourite b-sides. After a rather long gestation, the third proper single from the album Here Comes the Summertime followed in May, with a choice of mini and maxi formats.
We had hoped to finish this album off for good this year with a final single, but due to other commitments we haven't quite managed it yet, but we've been working hard whenever we had the time on extra bonus tracks and remixes for the next single, and so it will have to follow early in 2013.
This album continues to do well, although we long ago gave up the idea of making any money from it. Opening single Better Days has now been listened to nearly as many times as our Dusk singles from the heady days of MySpace. The videos are doing pretty well, too. I still want to see if we can get the album onto some kind of physical format, and maybe reissue the last one too, but that can all wait till next year. What's the rush?
As Simon noted at the time, we celebrated our twentieth anniversary of music making this autumn. It's been a long, and largely undocumented journey, and we managed a few pretty good songs along the road. One day we might even work out a way for you to hear some of them. But in the meantime, we hope you've enjoyed Transmission as much as we enjoyed making it.
If you want to read a little about the genesis of some of the songs, I've been busy writing a series of posts commenting about each of the tracks on the album, which we'll publish every Saturday starting in the New Year. Stay tuned!
Hypernova are a synthpop duo from the UK, and here are some things which they have said:
