2022 Coloured Splatter Vinyl Bundle

The Grounding ProcessnbspStripped down versions of tracks from Flicker. ldquoOn my debut solo album The View From Halfway Down I did all of my promotion via Zoom and prerecorded interviews and acoustic sessions,rdquo explains Andy of the EP. ldquoI enjoyed making the acoustic versions and decided to do some more for this album.rdquo ldquolsquoSomething Like Loversquo is the most popular song from Flicker and one of the oldest, starting life in the rsquo90s. Itrsquos probably the only one that dates back to the Ride era. The riffs for lsquoWorld Of Echorsquo were written while I was on tour with Oasis, at the height of my Larsquos obsession. It went through a few iterations from then onwards, but never had a final melody until last year. lsquoShe Calls The Tunersquo was the first song I wrote after I joined Oasis, ending a period of writersrsquo block which I had started going through some time in 1999. The very first performance of it was to an audience of Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer and Richard Ashcroft in a Milan hotel room. No pressure I donrsquot think I ever saw this as an Oasis song, but I have them to thank for the fact that I was able to write songs again at all.rdquo lsquoLifelinersquo was another riff I came up with while on tour with Oasis. I remember being on a UK tour with Shack, and sitting around backstage on acoustics with Mick and John Head jamming around the Simon amp Garfunkel version of lsquoScarborough Fairrsquo. The riff for lsquoLifelinersquo followed soon after. It was always called lsquoLifelinersquo but I never found the right lyric for it until recently.Untitled Film StillsSongs that inspired Flicker by Yoko Ono, Pentangle, The Kinks and Arthur Russell. ldquoThe idea was that I would be covering songs which helped in some way to colour in the edges of the picture of the influences that make up Flicker,rdquo explains Andy. The song lsquoJenny Holzer B. Goodersquo on the album refers to a few of the female artists from the music and art worlds who I find inspiring, including Yoko Ono, so it felt right to include a cover of lsquoListen, The Snow Is Fallingrsquo, my favourite Yoko Ono song. ldquoPentanglersquos lsquoLight Flightrsquo came out in 1970, the year I was born, and Irsquove loved it ever since I heard it on the 1997 folk compilation Transatlantic Ticket. ldquoNat Cramp, the head honcho of Sonic Cathedral, requested that I cover lsquoThe Way Love Used To Bersquo. Irsquod never heard this song despite being a big fan of The Kinks, but itrsquos lovely and it felt very natural to do a version of. All hail Ray Davies ldquoArthur Russell has been a big reference point for all my music away from lsquoband worldrsquo. There is something impressionistic and openended about his records. I guess you could describe the production style Irsquom trying for on lsquoOur Last Night Togetherrsquo as lsquoWorld Of Echo meets This Mortal Coil doing Skip Spencersquo.rdquoI Am A Strange LoopnbspldquoIt was so great to see what came back when I gave these tracks from Flicker to various comrades, friends and heroes to play with,rdquo says Andy. ldquoTheyrsquove given them a new technicolour life.rdquo ldquoDavid Holmes requested the opening track as he had formed a bit of a connection with it, and what he came up with turns the song into an hallucinogenic beast, taking pride of place here as the opening track but in a whole different way to how Flicker opens. ldquoJames Chapman AKA Maps has taken lsquoIt Gets Easierrsquo to a bigger, brighter and shinier place, hersquos given quite a downbeat track a euphoric and epic sheen. James is an absolute master of electronic production and hersquos taken the same care and attention over this remix as he does with his own wonderful music. ldquoI couldnrsquot put Richard Norrisrsquo lovely widescreen take on lsquoSomething Like Loversquo better than the man himself ndash in his own words he found the lsquohitherto undiscovered sweet spot between lsquoRoscoersquo and lsquoOutdoor Minerrsquorsquo and he tapped into the melancholy euphoria at the core of the song. ldquobdrmmrsquos remix of lsquoWay Of The Worldrsquo is one for headphones. There are so many great moments to love, all held together by a bassline worthy of Jah Wobble by way of Andrew Weatherall. Astonishingrdquo