Deluxe 2CD mediabook version of the 2020 Partial re-recording and remix of the band's celebrated 2009 debut studio album.
With CD of unreleased tracks, including the new single 'Technicolour Afterlife' (written in 2004), and the unreleased 'lost' epic 'The Life not Taken' recorded in 2020 and 2021 by the band's current line-up; and live tracks recorded across the world throughout the band's career.
With full sleeve notes by the band and photography and design by the band's long term collaborator, Tim Neill.
Includes unlimited streaming of 230503 (Deluxe Anniversary Edition)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
In the 1990's and early 2000's, the Annandale is Sydney was a legendary venue that almost every band aspired to play as it was the launchpad for many of Australia's most celebrated artists.
Anubis, of course, was no exception and when we finally got our chance to play the venue on May 16th 2010, performing '230503' in full to an enthusiastic audience, it was always going to be a memorable show.
We had debuted the piece in full a month earlier in a well received but technically disastrous performance that had the distinction of being Dean's first performance with the group. This is his second show as a member of Anubis. The show was made even more memorable for being invited to join the fledgling Bird's Robe Records roster by Mike Solo backstage; with him committing to take on and work the follow up album that we were by then fairly deeply immersed in.
This show was not only the last time we performed the whole 70 minute album as a full piece but also the final show before we started introducing material later to be released on 'A Tower of Silence'.
The performance itself has long been, in my view, one of early Anubis' best shows and has some really strong moments. Like many of the earliest Anubis shows, we had been influenced by the power and chaos of bands like The Mars Volta and that energy and influence filters through the performance here, resulting in a much more raw, loud and aggressive performance with some unpredictable twists and turns.
Listening now, there are moments in 'The Bond of Mutual Distrust' which sound like a vastly different band to the one that exists now; and in fairness, it was powered by a totally different mindset. Looking back, it does have a charm that's unique and unlike anything on our later official live records.
The audio was multi-tracked on the night to a primitive 16 track digital recorder with sync problems, straight out from the desk. The sound guy that night did not mic Steve's kit properly and as such the only cymbals that made it into the mix comes from a room mic - which means the audio had to go out warts and all. Anubis goes punk. Between Dougie and I, we've done enough surgery to mix and master the show in order to make it sound reasonably listenable and a decent representation of what the show might have sounded like, but it's by no means a definitive live document of Anubis.
Even so, all of us agree that this recording evokes heavy nostalgia and is a tangible reminder of a time not so long ago where playing to big crowds in Europe or Japan or to any of you would have seemed little more than a far-fetched teenage fantasy.
Dave
lyrics
As it grows, I'm burning.
Throw me some water let me soak it up
I'm shaking in fear. Looking through blinded eyes
A strung out mind
Scared to think a single thought
Closed the doors.
Everything has blown apart.
Break my skin, with your needle
Tattoo my soul, tell my story
Now in a whole new world of pain
Both your hands upon my reins
Just leave me to die again
Beads of sweat
I'll hold them in with a stronger vice
My tangled veins
Keep me away from the knives and the forks
A misplaced sound
Fills my head as it hits the ground
My sonic dreams
I wish I'd never heard that sound
Feeling dizzy?
Time to make or break my day.
Hello to you. When did I come across your hate?
Your burning fire perished in the light of day
I'm slowly fading
And served up to you on a silver plate.
In my dreams it was a different story
Love and life and happiness
Another sits all alone
Waiting for the thing that's best
A mother is born before her child
We all walk in single file
Bygone times and spoken minds
Nobody knows what he's left behind.
And worlds away, he fades away
Tomorrow's gone and turned it's back
No help for him, he lives in sin
Left to dream in white and black
He's frozen into one pose
As every heartache never mends
The final page of this forgotten tale
Is this the way his story ends?
Damp rises in the night
Misty streets became his home
Wind and rain stood in his way
Living life all on his own
More and more, time ticks away
Moments come, they never stay.
Another song, another day
Written down as he slips away
credits
from 230503 (Deluxe Anniversary Edition),
released May 23, 2022
Written by Robert James Moulding, David Eaton, Douglas Skene and Steven Eaton
Performed by Robert James Moulding, David Eaton, Douglas Skene, Dean Bennison, Steven Eaton and Nick Antoinette
Anubis is a cinematic Progressive Rock band from Sydney, Australia. Formed in 2004.
The band has
released to date 6 studio records to date, 2 live albums and toured Europe twice. The latest album, ‘Homeless’ reached number 4 in the Australian Indie chart in March 2020. ...more
supported by 31 fans who also own “The Collapse (Official Bootleg - Live at the Annandale, May 2010)”
BBT are standard bearers for modern prog, with a sound that evokes the spirit of those legendary 70s bands whilst managing to also be thoroughly contemporary. It's astonishing that over 30 minutes of music of this quality, with such high production values, is being made available for free - and their full albums are also very reasonably priced... Eleventh Earl of Blah
supported by 30 fans who also own “The Collapse (Official Bootleg - Live at the Annandale, May 2010)”
Soothfully a phenomenal prog rock album—an instant classic. What motivates me to say so, is the music’s incredible expressiveness & its wonderfully cinematic song structures. Jargon is a very good fit with this band. It is quite evident that the band’s current lineup have great chemistry together & that they share a common affinity to this vein of music. I look forward to their next creation. Drifting Sun are definitely one of prog rock’s brightest lights. Thank you, DS!
9+/10. Alrihkh
The Long Island metal band's third album etches arena-sized hooks into their jagged compositions, deftly balancing experimental and poppy inclinations. Bandcamp Album of the Day May 12, 2022
Sustained by seismic psych riffs, proggy shifts, and vivid sci-fi storytelling, these Milwaukee cosmonauts command respect. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 29, 2023