4/9/2023 0 Comments Dry the river bible beltMatt has a new project which we’re very excited about. Look after yourselves, and hopefully we’ll bump into some of you in our new lives. Love to everyone who’s been part of our extended family for this unpredictable and unimaginable journey. You can listen / buy / stream that below. We’re releasing a parting gift in the form of an EP ‘Hooves of Doubt’, a collection of songs recorded at the same time as Alarms in the Heart. Although the music industry is changing the underlying transaction is always the same – when you buy records, tickets and t-shirts you keep the bands you love afloat, and we’re grateful beyond words that you’ve carried us through more than 500 shows in 50 countries. This message is a thank you, really – your figurative and literal support has single-handedly kept us going, through rough economic times, label and lineup changes. It’s just down to personal preference.We’ve had an incredible seven years, but we’ve decided it’s time to move on to new endeavours. Some will prefer this stripped-back side to the band, others will rejoice in the liveliness of the original. We know they’re a troupe of talented blokes with a penchant for the folkier things in life we know they are skilled in sculpting songs to tug on your heartstrings. Although the original remains a stellar record, this version rather lacks the oomph of a first listen, neither hugely adding anything to what we already know about Dry The River, nor taking anything away. One may argue the basis for its existence, but that’s neither here nor there. This acoustic version is still similar to that first offering, the most notable change being found in the percussion (or lack thereof). Often they replace the huge sounds with lonely strings, as on ‘Bible Belt’, where the radio-friendly final refrain is mutated into a semi-orchestral passage led by strings and featuring a small amount of brass.įrom humble acoustic beginnings, the act eventually expanded to fill a different void, still regularly performing back-to-basics gigs and tinkering with the acoustic guitars, but opting to record a full-band album. Dry The River have a knack on this LP for altering the sound, but retaining the original feeling and theme of a track. It’s a sensitive cut, much less epic than the first take, but still with the power to hit hard. ‘Demons’ harks back to the lullabies of infancy with night time chimes and lethargic strumming. There’s a sense that the band have been listening to a lot of Bon Iver, as Liddle’s falsetto crops up regularly and there’s a newfound delicacy in the wintry track. ‘History Book’ has had the fat trimmed, excess choirs and church organs removed in favour of a solitary violin. The point isn’t to blow you off your feet, or be sold as a “big” single – the skeleton of the effort is laid bare, and rather than being a passionate cry, the track becomes a tender whisper. With the whitewashing of acoustic-coloured paint all over Shallow Bed, ‘New Ceremony’ has lost the Gaelic grittiness in the intro lick, turning it into a soft saga replete with tearjerk strings and a focus on the trembling voice of vocalist Peter Liddle. After an intense year of hard graft and innumerable comparisons to Mumford and Sons, Dry The River have produced an album of acoustic renditions of their well-received debut, Shallow Bed, in preparation for the festive season.
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