The first mention of the album was made in December 2004, when it was planned for release "in the first half of 2005" (though this was later revealed to be a lie). In October 2006, Simon was to be found mixing vocals for The End and Consequences, with Heaven Only Knows following a few weeks later.
Dusk was finally formally announced in mid-December, and a commentary for each track followed over the next year or so.
- Not Even Close - comments published in February 2007
- I Have Never - comments published in December 2007
- Beneath the Silent Skies - comments published in July 2007
- Calmwaters - comments published in January 2007
- In the Moonlight - comments published in December 2007
- Consequences - comments published in April 2007
- Signs of Life - comments published in December 2007
- Hidden Context - comments published in December 2007
- Perfect Geometry - comments published in December 2006
- Bulletproof - comments published in December 2007
- The End - comments published in December 2007
- Red Shadows - comments published in January 2007
We spent most of 2007 releasing singles from the album (most on that in the equivalent Dusk Archive post to follow), and then in May 2008 put together a little cut-down version of the album especially for iTunes, the iDusk EP. We've never mentioned this before, but the EP was so successful that in early 2009 we even talked about reissuing Dusk on CD with a couple of bonus tracks.
Unfortunately duration constraints meant that we were never entirely happy with the bonuses, which sowed the first seeds of doubt in our minds. But ultimately, we decided that we didn't really want our last album to be the first to represent us in such a widespread form, and with Transmission seemingly so close to release, we decided to concentrate on that instead. We still haven't quite got round to doing a full CD release even now.
Anyway, in October 2010, I compiled a list of my top ten highlights of the Dusk era, with a little bit of extra retrospective commentary. You can read all about that here.
Unfortunately duration constraints meant that we were never entirely happy with the bonuses, which sowed the first seeds of doubt in our minds. But ultimately, we decided that we didn't really want our last album to be the first to represent us in such a widespread form, and with Transmission seemingly so close to release, we decided to concentrate on that instead. We still haven't quite got round to doing a full CD release even now.
Anyway, in October 2010, I compiled a list of my top ten highlights of the Dusk era, with a little bit of extra retrospective commentary. You can read all about that here.
In case you had forgotten already, we also wrote some sleeve notes for the new reissue of Dusk here.
