Thursday 29 October 2020

29/10/20 - Immortal LP release date

The multi-path single of 'We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal' has a release date! Or, at least, the LP edition does. The six track record will be out on 20th November. As with previous psych-era singles, the tracks all have their own titles, rather than Parts / Paths. The release is credited to The Amorphous Androgynous & Peter Hammill. A release date for the 2CD is likely to follow soon - given the short lead time on CD manufacturing, it might still drop on the same day. Here's a look at the cover:


And the tracklist:
We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal
Synthony On A Theme Of Mortality
Hymortality
Psych Recap
The Immortality Break
Physically I'm Here, Mentally Far, Far Away

We've obviously heard excerpts of 'Synthony...' and 'Physically...' as previews on the MPB edition of the record, while the first track will likely be the same as the album version, which we've heard in progress over the past five years. In the press release, 'The Immortality Break' is described as containing "John-Bonham-like drums", suggesting a pounding breaksy version - which would tie in nicely with some of the Cascade 2020 versions - while 'Psych Recap' isn't mentioned at all, hinting that it might be a short interlude piece, maybe at the start of side 2.