#Tidal rave full#
#Tidal rave plus#

We will hopefully have a music video for our instrumental track ‘Surf’s Down’ out soon. Also, it was really fun collecting all of the 60s props (a community effort!). We have our video for our single ‘Banana’. You can buy the digital album on Bandcamp, and it is available to stream on Bandcamp and Spotify.Īre you working on a video/videos for any of the songs? Are you doing any gigs or promotion for its release? We’d heard that the global covid situation was causing supply issues for CD and Vinyl, and that radio stations and reviewers were preferring digital to reduce their risk from handling. Is there a physical copy available? If not which digital platforms is it available on?

Emmie’s lyrics I think echo the idea of ‘tension and release’ you’ll find in the album, across and within the songs. To me, it captures a grunty rhythm section, hypnotic layered guitars, with a sprinkle of keys and backing vox. Is there a particular single/track that you feel captures the essence of the album?įor me (Ann-Marie) it’d be Knots. Lee has an amazing set-up at the surgery so we had the opportunity to experiment with different mics and running instruments and vocals through different analogue gear. Was there any specific gear you used to capture that? These are processes we seem to learn a lot from each time. Sound-wise I’d say we spent more time on ensuring we were happy with what we wanted from the mixing and mastering.

It was also exciting and refreshing to record in a new recording location. The idea was to help them settle and solidify into the forms we were happier with, iron out the kinks etc. Were you going for a different sound/approach on this album?Īpproach-wise we were really keen to have played our recording songs as much as we could live before recording them. And of course there are the inescapable themes – love and heartbreak. Another song explores our writers’ thoughts on exploitative capitalism’s presence in Aotearoa and beyond ( Banana). So disconnection and adjustment, also possibilities and transcendence (eg Limmy). One theme is ‘disconnection and in-betweenness’ – feeling between different worlds (eg. Some of the songs were written during the first lockdown in Aotearoa. We’d bring in a rough structure of melody and chords, then the band would work together to fill the song out gradually and the arrangement would fall into place through workshopping. There were four songwriters on Albumette. How did the songwriting happen? Are there any overall themes within the songs/album? We spent most of 2020 practising and jamming new tunes. Most tracks took two or three takes and we had them. Lee Prebble and Tidal Rave mixed the album over the next few months. Andrew Downes stepped in and finished our tracks off, which Emmie could do as her test came back negative. Lee Prebble recorded the other five of us on the first day, but he woke up the next day with a cough and had to get tested for Covid, he couldn’t record the next two days. Our recording at the Surgery studio ended up a very Covid-centric experience! Emmie Ellis (guitarist/vocalist/songwriter) couldn’t make day one, because she was waiting for a covid test to come back. Who produced/engineered the album? How did the tracks come together in the studio, or at home

#Tidal rave plus#

Ann-Marie (Keating) our keyboardist and one of the songwriters was pregnant and close to heading on a baby hiatus, plus we had a bunch of songs, so we just went for it.

#Tidal rave full#

Up next are Anne-Marie, Emmie, Frank & Kristen from Tidal Rave, who recently released their 2nd full length album “Albumette”.Īlbumette was recorded at the Surgery, in Newtown, Wellington, November 2020. ‘New Album’ is where a band or artist answers some questions about their latest release.