Dead Letter Circus - "The Catalyst Fire"

hawk · Jun 28, 2013

Australia's music scene is fucking killing it right now. Karnivool are dropping "Asymmetry" on July 19, and Dead Letter Circus following closely with the release of their second studio album on August 9, titled "The Catalyst Fire". Their latest single "Lodestar", along with its music video, will be released on July 5. The album will be available to pre-order in bundles as of July 3, alongside the release of "Project Dead Letter II: The Inner Circle".

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Safe to say ... I am fucking keen!

Ninja Edit: More on "Project Dead Letter II: The Inner Circle" ...

Wednesday 3 July will see the launch of a brand new Facebook App titled “Project Dead Letter: The Inner Circle”. The App, which was developed by UNFD, will deliver fans a piece of quality content related to the album every day, for the 45 days leading up to the release. The app will be free of charge, and each video, music download and image related to the project will be made available on desktop, tablet and mobile versions of the project.
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Jeff · Jun 28, 2013

Damn, Australia is definitely killing it in the best way possible. Dead Letter Circus, Karnivool, Calling All Cars (these guys need to release their music in the US goddammit), and Hilltop Hoods have easily released some of the best material in the last decade in my honest opinion. I'll definitely be looking forward to the new DLC record along with Karnivool's new album coming out later this year.

Mark · Jun 28, 2013

Love these guys. Can't wait to hear the full album!

Also, Karnivool?

Jeff · Jun 28, 2013

Mark said: ↑

Love these guys. Can't wait to hear the full album!

Also, Karnivool?
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[video=youtube;V_E5ae9ZTwk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_E5ae9ZTwk[/video]

They released this gem a couple weeks ago from their new album. You should check them out. Awesome band.

hawk · Jun 28, 2013

Mark said: ↑

Also, Karnivool?
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I'm not much of a describer. I'd say they're in the same extremely large area as Dead Letter, but they're pretty different. You'll have to listen to their latest single for yourself before I break everything.

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minuteforce · Jun 28, 2013

Karnivool have been around far longer than Dead Letter and their lead vocalists sound somewhat different.

hawk · Jul 4, 2013

For some odd reason, Lost Without Leaders is currently available on iTunes. It's great. Also, the band premiered Lodestar on national radio station Triple J, hopefully someones got their hands on it somewhere. Excited for the new album.

Edit: Lodestar located.

Dekar · Jul 20, 2013

I don't think anybody posted the music video yet, so...

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hawk · Jul 29, 2013

"Say Your Prayers" is streaming now. It's an interesting track, I think it'll need more growing on me, but it's still pretty good.

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Cure4thItch · Aug 11, 2013

Album is out, boys and girls. What's the consensus?

Dekar · Nov 7, 2013

"I Am" Lyric Video
[video=youtube;HjfD1wH2sHY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjfD1wH2sHY[/video]

Update: Music Video
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Dekar · Sep 1, 2014

Acoustic EP: "Stand Apart"

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"Stand Apart"

"Alone Awake"

"Say Your Prayers"

"Lodestar"

"Burning Man"

"I Am"

RyansRockShow.com said:

Surprise! DEAD LETTER CIRCUS Released An Acoustic EP – “Stand Apart”
Australia’s Dead Letter Circus is on a roll. Next week the band will play four sold out acoustic shows Down Under, and to coincide with the performances the group put out a new acoustic EP out of nowhere.
Titled Stand Apart EP, the iTunes only release features reimagined songs from The Catalyst Fire. It includes new instrumentations, structures, and string sections. Pretty rad, right?
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Source / Stream the acoustic version of "Stand Apart".

Shame it's an iTunes exclusive.

Disturbedthoughts · Sep 2, 2014

Frankly the new ep is worth picking up. Just fantastic. I wasn't sure how Stand Apart or Burning Man would translate, but they did a good job.

Dekar · May 8, 2015

New Single "While You Wait" from LP#3

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Speaking to triple j, vocalist Kim Benzie said Dead Letter Circus’ 2014 Stand Apart EP “unveiled a really different side of the band” which has inspired the direction taken on the new album, evident in this single.

“Rather than make the heavy songs soft, let’s try and start the new album soft and make it heavy,” he explained.

Benzie said most of the album was written “vocally first, with one instrument – like a guitar or piano – and then we built the music around [that],” adding that “it forced the band to be completely different.”
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Full Article on MusicFeeds.com.au

Disturbedthoughts · May 9, 2015

I really like Dead Letter, but this new single just sucks. I can appreciate changing things up, but I hope that this isn't indicative of the next album. I honestly hope it isn't on the next album.

Gibs · May 9, 2015

Super meh.

RyRy · May 9, 2015

I reeeeeaaaallyyyy like the track. It's catchy, and pretty interesting musically

Dekar · Aug 13, 2015

Aesthesis (LP#3)

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Release: August 14, 2015 (Australia and New Zealand)

01. In Plain Sight
02. While You Wait
03. The Burning Number
04. Show Me
05. Y A N A
06. Silence
07. The Lie We Live
08. X
09. Change The Concept
10. Born (Part 2)

triple j* said:

Aesthesis will follow soon after (released Friday 14 August via UNFD/Warner). Recorded in on the Gold Coast with the dream team of Forrester Savell and Matt Bartlem, the album also saw Dead Letter Circus enlisting the services of producer Chris Lord-Alge, which they described as a "pinch yourself" moment.

"We had a goal for him to mix a song that we'd set probably about eight years ago when we started the band," says Kim of the producer, whose credits are dotted with big names like Muse, Deftones, Green Day, Slipknot, and many more.
After managing to get in contact with him, the band sent him a track to see if he would be interested in mixing it - "and he loved it!."
"He mixed the first two songs, 'While You Wait' and 'In Plain Sight', and then he actually contacted us and said 'I really love this music', this band is just so fresh, can I mix the whole album?'."
The band were all too happy to oblige and the rest is history, right down to the part where DLC got the first mixes back.
Vinnie recalls: "I was driving with one of the producers - Matt [Bartlem]... so we downloaded it quickly on our phone, listened to it, and we didn't even speak. Matt just pulled over on the side of the highway... and he just put it on again and we just listened to about three or four times."
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"While You Wait" Music Video
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triple j* said:

'While You Wait' met opposition from an American producer friend of Kim's, who advised him:
"'Dude, people aren't going to play this because [the lyrics are] too heavy and melodies like that don't come along too often. You should strip it back' and basically asked me to dumb it down a little bit. And I went, 'we don't really care'. That's not what we do."
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"In Plain Sight"
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triple j* said:

'In Plain Sight' is the newest cut from the Brisbane band's upcoming third studio album, called Aesthesis, and frontman Kim Benzie reveals that, at first, he "actually wasn't sure whether this was a song for Dead Letter."

He brought the seed of the song to guitarist Clint 'Vinnie' Vincent to get his opinion.
"I loved it straight away. I [could] fully see where this song can go but he was a little bit embarrassed," the bandmate said. "Funnily enough after all that, it ended up being one of the easier ones... "
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Source (quotes*): triple j

"The Burning Number" Lyric Video
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"Change The Concept"
[video=youtube;ebHPgOkVKSU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebHPgOkVKSU[/video]

"Silence"
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Dead Letter Circus' Facebook via Kim Benzie** said:

You can now hear another new song from "Aesthesis" called "Silence". I wanted to tell you all a bit about where this song came from.

When I was growing up someone close to me was unfortunately a victim of child molestation and they chose to confide in me about it. My friend chose to not go to the police and instead buried the secret so as not to bring shame to the family, only to find out years later that it wasn’t an isolated incident and involved other victims.
Personally, I found it impossible to process that the monster of a human being who did this to my friend would travel through life without answering to his depraved and shameful acts. My friend simply believed that some kind of karmic justice would happen, and said that the important thing was that the cycle of abuse ended with this generation rather than a new monster being born from the abuse.

I drifted apart from my friend over the years but kept in occasional contact. My friend lived a good life but never quite stepped out from the shadow of that experience; even years later as an adult there was always a sadness behind the smile. Perhaps it was in my mind simply because I knew.

What I found hard to swallow was learning that the sick human being that committed these acts lived out a normal life, and aside from dying alone, to my knowledge never received that dose of karmic justice.

Late one night whilst writing for the new album I was strumming the guitar and the opening line for Silence came out. ‘This is how it ends’... I started thinking about my friend and fell into a really dark mood. I began to imagine an alternative version of that story where my friend made a different decision and delivered a dark karma to the monster.

One of my favourite TV shows had been the series Dexter in which the main character would deliver a dark form of justice to people. I visualised a scene where my friend had somehow abducted the person that liked to scar children, and had them gagged and tied to a chair in a dark room. The person in the chair thought they would never answer to this crime, but was now staring into the face of my friend, who was now older, stronger and able to defend themselves. This moment is where the song starts. The entire song is sung from the first person perspective of my friend to the monster, as his final rites before justice.

The children's choir at the end of the song felt quite fitting.
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Source**: Dead Letter Circus' Facebook via Kim Benzie

Disturbedthoughts · Aug 15, 2015

I'm not sure what to make of the new album. I think I read somewhere that thy were trying to go for more of an organic sound, and I suppose they did. But, it seems like they lost a degree of tightness due to it. None of it struck me as immediately great or horrible, just kinda sloppy sounding. Just sort-of phoned in. As if they didn't really have an idea of what they wanted the album to be.

The Catalyst Fire had to grow on me, so maybe this one will too, but as of right now, i'm just not impressed.

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