Exactly fifteen years ago today, we released the second single from our comeback fifth album Ephemeris. After the success of the first single Electric Avenue, we opted for a remixed version of Stream of Consciousness as the follow-up.
The remix was fairly minor as it turned out - we just rejigged the album version a little, adding a few more beats here and there and edited it slightly. It had been four months since the album came out, and for some reason it took us a bit of time to get our act together with the second single, so the rework was a little cosmetic.
Backing up the a-side were two previously unreleased tracks. First was Elements of the Eucharist, lyrically a slightly haunting religious-inspired piece, which, as with many of the songs we were working on around this time, became a bit of a daft pop song. As you can probably tell, we're rather proud of it.
Finally came The Thief of Baghdad, which we had thought initially told the story of the thief in a very silly and irreverent way, but after it came out we had a sudden moment of realisation that it actually tells the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, which was a bit of an oversight. But never mind, it's another totally daft pop song, and really that's all that matters sometimes.
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