ShadowParty have today released a new remix EP titled
AfterParty. Included on the EP are remixes by fellow New Order bandmates Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert as
The Other Two, as well as those by
Outernationale,
Stereotype,
Beg Steal or Borrow and a reworking by
A Certain Ratio. Listen to the full EP
here.
ShadowParty – a band united by a fairly unusual circumstance as each member is a latter-day addition to a huge band – released their debut album on Mute earlier this year. Listen
here.
The nucleus of the group formed when
Josh Hager and
Tom Chapman met in Boston, Massachusetts. Josh is a former member of The Rentals and currently plays guitar and keyboards in Devo. Tom Chapman is the former bass player of Bad Lieutenant who followed frontman Bernard Sumner to New Order in 2011 when the band reunited for a series of charity gigs. Completing the group are
Phil Cunningham – Marion founding member and New Order’s guitarist since 2001 – and drummer
Jeff Friedl, who plays for Devo.
Newly signed to Mute, ShadowParty’s debut – recorded in Boston, LA, Manchester and, of course, Macclesfield – is an album that nods to those groups but exists in its own right entirely, an indie electro album with guitars and strings, and guests including the incomparable vocalist
Denise Johnson (Primal Scream, A Certain Ratio) and The Verve’s revered guitarist
Nick McCabe.
Also crashing the party is LA-based DJ
Whitney Fierce, who appears on backing vocals, and
Joe Duddell, the Manchester-based arranger who has lent his orchestral finesse to the likes of Elbow, Blossoms, and New Order – for whom he created and scored a 12-piece synth orchestra for a run of Manchester International Festival shows.
It's the sound of a blast. ShadowParty burst through your speakers; pulsing electronics get swept away with lush orchestrations, bold beats carved up by haunting guitars and vocals tower through each moment, whispering sweet harmonies and unspoken despair.
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