Pre-order the new album “The Mad Decades”, out 29th May on The Colour Inverted Records.
Available on Digital / Cassette formats.
The Mad Decades Listening Party
Join me for a free listening party over at nickcarlisle.bandcamp.com to celebrate the release of my new album The Mad Decades. Come along to listen to the music and chat about the making of the album and the stories behind the songs, I hope to see you there.
Wednesday 27th May at 7pm BST. Click here to RSVP.
New single “Hilversum” out now
Out today is the brand new Nick Carlisle single “Hilversum”, taken from the forthcoming new album “The Mad Decades”.
Watch the official lyric video, filmed by Anna River.
I set the song on a return train journey out of Hilversum – completely randomly I might add, and I’ve never been to the place! But it’s the story of someone leaving a situation where their sense of self and their confidence has been confronted in some way perhaps after a meeting with someone they were crushing on, and they are left wondering if that suit of armour was ever real at all, or imagined. I was aiming for something that had the euphoria & melancholia of ABBA with the multitracked pianos, mixed with the drive & movement of NEU! & Harmonia.
The drum machine that underpins the song comes from YouTube vintage synth documentary maker Alex Ball, and Marcus Hamblett (Bears Den / Rozi Plain) provides the bass guitar.