The thing is, with reanimation, the band, and mainly Mike put in more effort than they wanted to. Some of them said that they didn't want to do that again. Recharged wasn't meant to be like Reanimation because the band didn't want to make an remix album like that again. Recharged was kinda "Just for fun". It's not a serious effort. Atleast that's what I think.
No idea, maybe. I just know it existed for a good while before any official talk of Recharged happened.
It was on the "Lost In The Echo" and "Castle Of Glass" singles in 2012, and, then, it also appeared on the Australian tour edition of "Living Things" in 2013.
Primo is to Mark the Graves, as I'll be gone is to (something I'd really like to hear). Mark the Graves just feels too long and drawn out.
The cool things about songs like GATS(A single too) or MTG is that its different from what LP does which is short catchy songs. Sure, ALITS is the longest LP song but its made to be liked if that makes sense, its a safe bet. While, MTG, Drawbar and the decision to make GATS a single were riskier choices but the band took it. Kinda like In Between. Or ATS.
"The Catalyst" was lengthy too, definitely a risky choice for a single but it clearly got across that "A Thousand Suns" was not the same old from LP
Mark the Grave is currently the only song I can't really get into on The Hunting Party now. The intro seems way too long, and it's just power chords and tremolo picking over and over, to the point where I zone out. The first power chord progression like 5 times followed by a little variation, then a tremolo picking part. Then another power chord progression that repeats with one variation. I don't think there was really a need to draw out each riff, as I don't even find them that catchy at all. There's no real progression over the course of the intro like in Guilty All the Same. Imagine if each new element in the GATS intro was repeated twice. That's how I feel Mark the Graves is.
My thoughts exactly. Although someone who knows nothing about guitar won't think about it being just powerchords i guess, ask someone who doesn't know guitar to play air guitar to the song and they'll probably make it look a lot more complicated than what it is lol. I think something that hurt it is the whole garage-band tone they went for. It worked great on GATS and other tracks, but I'd like to hear MTG with the digital clarity of say, Victimized, maybe with some light electronics or something to make it more interesting. Either that, or the track should be a lot softer, maybe with acoustic guitars and a more folky feel.
MTG sounds primed for a little more electronic influence. They should have added some atmospheric synths. I swear it sounds like some light scratching in the interlude between MTG and Drawbar. There's one sound that sounds particularly turntablish. Does anyone else know what I mean? Just coming from the electronic thing. If so, it's like the only scratch on the album lmao.
That's just a single song called "Horizons" and it's likely that that track has been finished for some time already.
I don't really think "Mark the Graves" was meant to impress on an instrumental level. What I love about it is the flow, in which it's, in a sense, A Thousand Sunsy. You just don't know what's going to happen next. The song focuses more on the lyrics and the impact than being impressive instrumentally... but we're coming from totally different angles in the first place, I don't even think the intro is too long.