Brand new video from The Futureheads’ side project Hyde & Beast! Single and Album details announced!
aaamusic | On 16, Jul 2011
Slow Down’ came about almost by accident with Hyde emerging from behind his usual place behind the drum-kit with The Futureheads to take on vocals and both Hyde & Beast writing, recording, producing and mixing the album themselves, resulting in a very special project born out of a labour of love and a wonderful detour from the pair’s usual musical output.
Recorded at Beast’s Sunderland studio at the rate of one song a day, familiar faces stepped in to assist – Field Music’s David Brewis and solo artist Lucas Renney provided some beautiful bass and guitar on two tracks ‘Lord, Send For Me’ and ‘You Will Be Lonely’.
A sprawling, gentle psychedelic meander, ‘Slow Down’ harks back to a more experimental approach to song-writing, with some of the songs seemingly writing themselves as they recorded live in the studio. Inspired by the music Hyde & Beast love listening to, ‘Slow Down’ recalls a golden age of mainstream pop meeting the sonic adventurism and kaleidoscopic music from the late ’60s and early ’70s, with more than a nod to the greats of that era Captain Beefheart, Velvet Underground and T Rex.
You can catch Hyde & Beast playing the following shows this Summer:
JULY
30th: Sunderland, Independent
AUGUST
7th: Newcastle, Ignition Festival
SEPTEMBER
18th: Sunderland, Split Festival
