All I Ever Am (65daysofstatic Remix) - OUT NOW
It's out now! The Cure have released their sprawling new remix album, and nestled within is our precious little remix of All I Ever Am.
It is surely a testament to The Cure that there are all kinds of directions in which to nudge one of their songs into a remix. As you'll be entirely unsurprised to hear, we opted for goth melancholy and earnest heartstring plucking by using the always reliable tools of sad piano chords, noise, reverb-y guitar, and lots of rolling toms.
As a band we have been on record many a time (here for example) about the dangers of remixes as an art form. They do have the potential to be cool things in their own right. As we wrote elsewhere recently:
As an art form I thought that they held a glimmer of utopia, emerging from an intentional clash between different perspectives on the same idea. Done well they could be a conversation between the listener and the remixer where they could share their appreciation for the original song. 'Hey - what about this bit!' the remixer would say, 'Yes, I love that bit — you can hear it too?' the listener would respond. 'Yes, I do hear it too, and by highlighting that bit in particular what I am really trying to say is that we exist together on this planet, we are not alone, and shared experiences and solidarity are made possible by bringing our knowledge of the original song to this new interpretation of it and letting it all get tangled up in our heads and hearts!' - [from the 65-affiliated K.N.R.U]
But! The vast majority of the time remixes seem to be more like churned-out content for cash or kudos, commissioned because some record label or press team needs a bit of music to exist to fill a hole and nobody involved anywhere along the line really cares what it sounds like. The countdown to officially-endorsed AI-slop remixes from major label artists starts now! (Unless they're already happening?)
We cannot speak to The Cure's whole remix project, but can say that our one was made with sincerity and all the goth love we carry around in our tired and aching dark hearts. And if the attentive back and forth we had with Robert Smith about the minutiae of the remix while making it is anything to go by, then much care and attention and curation was spent at their end too. Which is nice to know, right?
Oh and a special shoutout to Dave Sanderson (who has worked on almost all the 65daysofstatic albums in one way or another) for his mixing skills with this, and especially for that hair-raising rollercoaster of last-minute revisions. Are you in a band? If so work with Dave.
Look, The Cure don't need us to do marketing for them, so we're not going to bang on about this, but we are very happy to have been asked to take part and are very pleased with how our contribution turned out.
Give it a listen HERE or on the usual streaming services. Links to everything here (but check the tracklisting if you're going to be a physical version - the 65days cut is only on the fully-fledged version, not the more condensed (i.e. cheaper) versions available).
