Saturday, August 03, 2013

The Ultimate Guide to Dusk Archive

Dusk Archive started life as a series of five singles, released to promote the album Dusk between 2007 and 2008. Here are some archive posts which will give you greater insight.

Consequences single (April 2007)

We first hinted at the new single and its contents in February 2007, although for some reason we didn't know what it would actually be at that stage. The official announcement followed in April.

  1. My Light - comments published in December 2007
  2. Echoes of Perfection - comments published in May 2007
  3. Moving On - comments published in May 2008
  4. Consequences (Electrobongo Remix)

Beneath the Silent Skies - single (July 2007)

By June we seemed to have a reasonable idea of what might come next - here's a hint at the second single. The official announcement was then made in early July (note that Woolworth's still existed back then).
  1. Point of No Return - comments published in May 2008
  2. Running with the Wind - comments published in May 2008
  3. Beneath the Silent Skies (Part 2)
  4. The Healing - comments published in April 2008

Bulletproof - single (October 2007)

In September, we were still trying hard to remix Bulletproof, but didn't quite seem to have managed it very much in advance. We formally announced this single a matter of days before it was released.
  1. Bulletproof (Western Mix)
  2. Fallen - comments published in April 2008
  3. Lose Control - comments published in May 2008
  4. House of Cards - comments published in May 2008
  5. Bulletproof (Kevlar Mix)

The End - single (December 2007)

As usual we hinted at the single before it came out, and then had to retrospectively promote it in January 2008, having embarrassingly forgotten to promote it at the time.
  1. Heaven Only Knows - comments published in April 2008
  2. Never Wanted This - comments published in May 2008
  3. What I Would Do - comments published in May 2008
  4. Someone Else's Dream - comments published in May 2008
  5. Broken - comments published in May 2008
  6. The End (Ostkreuz Mix)
  7. Faint Footsteps - comments published in May 2008

iDusk - EP (May 2008)

The iDusk EP was our iTunes debut, hinted at in April, and formally announced in May 2008. Although five years old already, we didn't really know what iTunes was at this stage, and seemingly neither did anyone else, because the EP did pretty well.
  1. King for a Day - comments published in May 2008

Bonus Demo Versions (2005-2007)

The first two of these were originally released as download / stream exclusives with the Consequences single in April 2007 (they are mentioned here). The third is completely exclusive to Dusk Archive.
  1. Moving On (Demo)
  2. Echoes of Perfection (Demo)
  3. Never Wanted This (Demo)

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.

I also compiled one of these posts for the original Dusk album, which you may view here.

More recently, we also wrote some sleeve notes for the new release here.