alt-J share a brand new remix of ‘Hard Drive Gold’, from Mercury Prize-winning, chart-topping band’s new album, The Dream, out now via Infectious Music/BMG.
The track has been reworked by multi-award winning electronic polymath Maya Jane Coles, who has propelled the already dynamic track into new, unexpected directions and imbuing ‘Hard Drive Gold’ with a trippy late-night sensibility.
Joe Newman’s vocals are panned and slowed, gliding across a pulsating four to the floor house groove. The chanted “Don’t be afraid to make money, boy” hook of the original track remains but this time possesses an added sense of jeopardy. It’s a truly heady reinterpretation of one of the highlights from the band’s fourth album, The Dream.
Listen to ‘Hard Drive Gold – Maya Jane Coles Remix’ by alt-J on the Shoot Music New Releases playlist on Spotify.
The Dream is an album where true-crime inspired stories and tales of Hollywood and the Chateau Marmont rub shoulders with some of the band’s more personal moments to-date.
Both beauty and darkness lay side-by-side – often seamlessly merging on the same track, a purposeful choice that pays dividends across the record. The band’s dazzling instrumentation has matured; there are still far out moments, but now they are deployed with an artful precision.
The band previously announced a run of intimate shows in association with Independent Record Stores throughout May. The band are currently on a major tour across the US, featuring a state of the art production utilising hologram technology that they will be bringing over to the UK later this year.
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