Website update

I knew I'd forgotten to mention something yesterday - we've totally revamped our official website! We hope you'll like it. Check it out here.

Don't forget to listen to our new EP Intermission while you're there!

Intermission

Transmission is back, two and a bit years after the album came out, with one final punch!

We've released a lot of singles this time around, starting with Better Days and I'll Give You Electro back in 2011, then Here Comes the Summertime last year, and Blood, Sweat and Tears earlier this year.

While on that journey, we picked up a whole pile of remixes - some of our own, and a few by our friend Sappy, and so at the end of 2011 we put together an EP entitled Remission.

Now it's time for the follow-up: Intermission. It's got new versions of four songs from the album: Almost, I'll Give You Electro, Golden Wheel, and Here Comes the Summertime, plus the brand new never-heard-before track Splinters.


And now, if you don't mind, we're going to take a little lie down.

Got to be finishing something

There's something that we had been keeping under our collective hats. Transmission isn't quite dead yet - we've got one single left.

We've got a b-side left over, and quite a few spare remixes that we'd built up too. For some reason we haven't entirely got around to releasing them yet.

All of which is really another way of telling you that we're about to answer the last single from Transmission, the follow-up to Blood, Sweat and Tears, and the sequel to our Remission EP from Christmas 2011.

Assuming everything goes to plan, we'll be releasing one last remix EP (from this album) very soon!

Distant Moon

Picking up our commentary of the album Transmission, the ninth track is entitled Distant Moon.



I had a great loft room for a couple of years from 2006, and the moon would pass directly overhead (it tends to do that). As would police helicopters actually, often while I was in the bath, but that's another story for another album.

At that time I was spending a few late nights writing songs, and I would watch the moon bobbing along, trying to get inspiration. Perhaps not surprisingly, this song grew very organically out of that.

In a way, it sounds as though it might be lyrically quite dark, but it's actually supposed to be quite hopeful - the narrator is sorry to have seen you go, but (s)he knows you'll be fine, wherever you've ended up. It was supposed to be a bit of a counterpoint to Wherever You Are Now, our single from a couple of years earlier, which had a slightly bitter edge to the lyrics.

Random fact fans might like to know that the rhythm is based on All Good Things by Nelly Furtado.

The lyrics:

Where is my silver moon?
In shadow since I last saw you
I cast off every hour
And push to find some other power

As crystal raindrops fall
I can’t help but recall

I know you’re out there somewhere
And I know you’re happy there
As I look out from my window
Up upon that distant moon

Where is my silver moon?
If only I’d not left so soon
Just think what could have been
Another day, another me

If only I’d done more
Than sit back and ignore

I know you’re out there somewhere
And I know you’re happy there
As I look out from my window
Up upon that distant moon

Will wonders never cease?
Beyond the daybreak’s reach

I know you’re out there somewhere
And I know you’re happy there
As I look out from my window
Up upon that distant moon

I know you’re out there somewhere
And I know you’re happy there
As I look out from my window
I become that distant moon

(R. Martin / S. Martin)

There was also a rap, which never entirely worked, but would have had the following lyrics:

Well I know you’re out there somewhere in the shadows of the past
And I hope that you’re happy knowing it would never last
We talk about the distance when we’re travelling so fast
And somewhere in the future we go far beyond the stars

I look out from my window on a world that seems so blue
And look back on the moments when we sat there me and you
Emotions run like rivers taking me to somewhere new
And I become a watcher up upon that distant moon

(R. Martin / S. Martin)