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CAVE IN’s ‘Planets of Old’ Releasing On CD/DVD January 26th
From Hydrahead’s press release “I know we told you that “Planets of Old” was a vinyl only release, but then something happened. Well, several things happened: Cave In wound up with some real buttery footage of the band’s reemergence in Allston, Mass, HHR was alerted to the fact that alternative versions to some of the tracks on the 12″ existed, and then of course the rationalization that maybe people will still buy a CD if said CD is packaged with a DVD. Downloading videos through rapidshare still takes just a little too long, you know what I mean, and, yeah, we’re gonna try and capitalize on that a bit.
If this is the first time you’ve heard anything about this project, “Planets of Old” is Cave In’s already acclaimed comeback EP, the first new material in nearly four years! The thing is genuinely jam-packed with bona fide jammers and the like, discernible proof that these gentlemen haven’t missed a step during their absence and that music, in the general metaphorical sense, still hasn’t caught up with them. Bold, but true.
The CD/DVD release will be available on January 26th.”
Read on for the track listing. CD:
01. Cayman Tongue
02. Retina Sees Rewind
03. The Redtrail
04. Air Escapes
DVD:
01. Luminance
02. Retina Sees Rewind
03. Moral Eclipse
04. Juggernaut
05. Dark Driving
06. The Red Trail
07. Cayman Tongue
08. Trepanning
09. Air Escapes
10. Summit Fever
11. Vicious Circles
12. Big Riff
13. Inflatable Dream
Synthwave outfit GUNSHIP has released a new official music video this morning for their cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” featured on the soundtrack to Corin Hardy’s (The Nun, The Hallow) supernatural horror film Whistle.
To bring it full circle, Corin Hardy directs the music video himself, incorporating previously unseen footage from Whistle. More specifically, the new music video features an extended sequence from the film.
This collaboration builds on GUNSHIP’s longstanding relationship with Hardy, who previously contributed vocals to the band’s track “Cthulhu.”
“Working with Corin is a total dream,” said GUNSHIP. “He’s an old friend who we bonded with over our love for cinema and music, and we were honored to have our song featured in the film. After the Whistle premiere, we were chatting over a pint, and he told us about a beautiful pseudo ‘one shot’ sequence he was heartbroken to lose in the final film. We suggested resurrecting it and using it as a music video. Corin got it immediately, and the result is perfect. It’s heartbreaking, haunting and pure 80s noir soaked.”
Corin Hardy added: “I wanted Whistle to feel like a horror movie I might have watched around the late 1980s, alongside films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys, and The Breakfast Club. Films steeped in teen-angst and heightened feelings. Music was such a huge part of creating the romance of those cinematic worlds. Gunship’s synth-drenched cover of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ was always top of my list. Their unique heart-on-your-sleeve sound was the perfect choice for a key moment in the movie. To come together post-release and create this extended music video is simply the cherry on top. Dan, Al & Al (Gunship) have provided the film a real companion piece in the world of Whistle… it makes me want my MTV again!”
It’s a fitting collaboration, as music serves a narrative purpose in Whistle. Music, the director told Bloody Disgusting, was a means of immersing viewers in this world and its characters’ perspectives. Hardy even touched on this particular track: “So in a way, the music you’ll listen to is effectively what Chrys is listening to, which is her dad’s record collection. Then there are other songs like the Gunship track, which is a Cyndi Lauper cover, which is more like Rel’s [Sky Yang] music. It comes in when we have a sequence in Rel’s romantic heartbreak moment. So yeah, I made a character list of who might be listening to what.”
Whistle sees a misfit group of unwitting high school students confronted with mortality when they blow a cursed Aztec Death Whistle, setting a terrifying chain of events in motion.
Dafne Keen (Logan, “The Acolyte“), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Jhaleil Swaby (“Supergirl”), Ali Skovbye (Grizzly Night, “Firefly Lane”), Percy Hynes White (“Wednesday”), Michelle Fairley (“Game of Thrones”), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead).
The supernatural teen horror movie is available to stream on Shudder now.