Scorching Water Music and Quicksand have dropped a brand new break up EP, which may be streamed beneath.
The four-song launch sees every band masking the opposite and providing up a beforehand unreleased observe.
Scorching Water Music’s half of the break up encompasses a cowl of Quicksand’s Slip opener “Fazer,” as Chuck Ragan and firm imbue the heavy observe with their very own sonic traits whereas adhering faithfully to the supply materials. The band additionally dug again into the periods for its newest album Vows, unearthing the beforehand unreleased “Undertow.”
“Like many who grew up listening to hardcore and punk rock from early ages on, we had been impressed and pushed by loads of work from all of the members that make up Quicksand, and naturally by Quicksand themselves,” Ragan mentioned of his post-hardcore colleagues within the press launch for the EP. “Quick ahead to 1999 after we had the honour of working with Walter Schreifels as he produced our report No Division. That have went from surreal and intimidating to fully comforting and empowering. Our respect and admiration grew tenfold till we received the possibility to tour with them. We already admired and revered them, now we love them like household.”
In the meantime, Quicksand took on “Free Radio Gainesville” from the Schreifels-produced No Division, including additional emphasis to the riffs and low-end groove. And for his or her beforehand unreleased observe, Quicksand included the riff-tastic “Supercollider” — the primary new unique observe from the band since 2022.
“It’s an superior, full-circle second for me to be part of this break up with Scorching Water Music,” commented Schreifels. “It wasn’t too lengthy after Quicksand broke up that I received to satisfy and work with Scorching Water Music as producer for his or her album No Division. It was a completely magical expertise.”
He continued, “We had a lot enjoyable, the album got here out superb, and on the very finish of the final day of recording, I added a vocal to my fave tune ‘Free Radio Gainesville’, which we coated for the break up. I’m past grateful that every one these years later Quicksand is again doing what we love together with our brothers in HWM, nonetheless enjoying with that very same ardour that drew us collectively within the first place. Appears like dwelling.”
The EP arrives simply earlier than Scorching Water Music and Quicksand embark on their joint November European tour — and proper after HWM acquired the Key to the Metropolis of Gainesville, Florida final Thursday (October twenty fourth). Mayor Harvey Ward introduced the band with the honour, which it shares with the likes of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Laura Jane Grace.
You’ll be able to stream the Scorching Water Music/Quicksand break up beneath.
Scorching Water Music / Quicksand Cut up EP Paintings:
Scorching Water Music / Quicksand Cut up EP Tracklist:
01. Fazer (Scorching Water Music)
02. Free Radio Gainesville (Quicksand)
03. Supercollider (Quicksand)
04. Undertow (Scorching Water Music)