Album: Album
Tro was written during an intense session in Edinburgh as part of a Colab sojourn in the Scottish winter. Technology enfolds us yet is cold; it is both fascinating yet oddly repellant; it allows us to do so much but fails us at crucial moments. The world has become a vast series of interlocking technical systems both controlling and controlled by the people who designed them.
Ruined in a Day is a cover of a classic New Order song from their 1993 album 'Republic'. Our version actually sounds nothing like the original. It's more or less just the lyrics and the concept that were the inspirations to what has become an almost completely new song. I love the atmospherics of the original, with the opaque lyrics that hint and several meanings. We recorded this originally before I left Australia and at that time the song was a lot more raw and kind of electro rock. I dusted it off again a year later and suddenly started hearing all electronics within the mix. That got me started and pretty soon the track turned into something much more lush, with a lot more instruments and much more variation. We're going to be shooting video for Ruined in a Day shortly at a couple of sites along the Thames in London.