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Lanterns on the Lake leave us in a moment of quiet, intimate reflection to ponder the truth of our reality. Singer and songwriter Hazel Wilde has no doubt that motherhood fundamentally shifted her perspective. “Writing songs requires a certain level of self-indulgence, and songwriters can be prone to dwelling on themselves,” she says. “Motherhood made me aware at having a different stake in the world. I’ve got to believe that there’s a better way and an alternative future to the one we’ve been hurtling towards. I’ve also got to believe that I could be better as a person, too.”
Mixed by the band’s guitarist Paul Gregory, in the bedroom of his home in North Shields, there is a sense of time and place that runs deep throughout this record. Metacritic https://www.metacritic.com/music/versions-of-us/lanterns-on-the-lake. {{ cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= ( help) Given some of its themes, a biting irony is found in an entire previous version of the record being discarded. Mental health struggles and personal problems in the band had a big impact on how the initial version took shape. “Despite trying everything we could to make it work we reached the point where we just had to stop” Wilde explains. Drummer Ol Ketteringham parted ways with the band, something Wilde says was “heartbreakingly difficult as we were and still are extremely close”. The band scrapped nearly a year’s worth of work, regressing to song demos with just Wilde performing with a single instrument as they began again with Radiohead’s Philip Selway joining the album sessions on drums and percussion. Like its predecessor, the Mercury nominated Spook The Herd, Versions Of Us is a record that almost didn’t get made. An album full of demos was scrapped, the band’s long-term drummer Oli Ketteringham departed mid-process (to be replaced by Radiohead’s Philip Selway) and the album’s lyrical content point to much personal upheaval in the lives of the album’s key protagonists. Where Spook The Herd became a triumphant against the odds, Versions Of Us might just be Lanterns On The Lake’s masterpiece.

We’d begun working on the new album and we knew things didn’t feel right,” explains singer and songwriter Hazel Wilde. “There was a negative energy in the music, and the more we tried, the worse it became. I still can’t really put my finger on it; it wasn’t the relationships in the band, but there were other financial and logistical pressures. We’ve always been a band that’s tried to make music that has real heart and soul, and we could see that that wasn’t there.” Following touring throughout 2016 the band took a break. In an interview Wilde commented "I don’t think we ever said it would be the absolute end.. (But) I don’t think people would have blamed us for throwing in the towel at that point – we’d had a good run at it.. that would have been a good place to call it a day but we felt there was probably more we had to offer and further to go creatively, we just weren’t sure what or where that would be. And, if I’m honest, I was personally just a bit tired at that point." [23] The band played a host of music festivals including End of the Road Festival, Glastonbury Festival, [3] SXSW, and Bestival.

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I hope listeners connect to the record and feel something that five humans made, that is coming from a very real place,” Hazel Wilde shares. “I’d like to think folks can find a sense of hope in there too. The biggest takeaway for me is ironic because it links to one of the thematic threads in the album – that we can change our destiny by making that decision to change the path that we’re on. In a way we ended up in the multiverse with a different album and one which is far removed from that original version.” Thumb Of War hints at conspiracy theories and falling out with friends –“I see you scrolling through the century, banging on about some warning”– and trying to convince them of their madness. The music lays out the drama, strings and guitars creating a lush tension than runs through before building to a swirling crescendo. The fragmented life of the record is only really visible if you look under the bonnet and know where you’re looking. On the surface, musically, at least, Versions Of Us distils everything that felt scattergun across their first three albums (Glorious Tide Take Me Home, Until The Colours Run and Beings). It takes lessons from their glorious 2016 collaboration with Royal Northern Sinfonia and takes Spook The Herd’s less is more philosophy and applies a widescreen vision to it.

Real Life This song is about living your imaginary fully-realised life. It’s about the promise you make to yourself and others of something better rather than living in the moment and accepting who and where you are. It’s essentially one for the daydreamers. Lanterns On The Lake announce second album: Until The Colours Run". Bella Union. 13 June 2013 . Retrieved 1 February 2016.

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As Wilde sings in the last line that very first song: “ I won’t let this spark die in me.” Versions of Us – Lanterns on the Lake In all of those infinite versions of us Hazel Wilde also became a mother during this time, a life change she says has fundamentally shifted her perspective and without a doubt impacted the album’s lyrical content.

Following the release of Beings, Lanterns on the Lake toured Europe and the UK extensively and at this time performed their largest hometown concert to date where they were accompanied by Royal Northern Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead in Hall One, [20] the orchestral arrangements composed by Fiona Brice [21] Despite going into this record thinking it would be the last one, Lanterns O n The Lake aren’t ready to give up just yet. “We love the music we make and we have such belief and faith in the songs, which is what pushes us every time to make another album,” says Gregory. “Of course, you question why you do it, but when you’re actually doing it, that’s all that matters in life.” But things took a dramatic turn and there was a huge shift in our mindset and approach to the whole thing once Philip joined to play drums on the album. We were able to approach the songs with a fresh perspective. We recorded the album again within the space of just a few weeks. It was a case of, ‘ Ok, we’ve nothing left to lose now, this is it.’ To me, it almost felt like this could be our final mark to make on the world. Things were recorded in a few takes, and we would move on. The music and the performances have a charged energy to them that we wouldn’t otherwise have had because of that.” Coming up with album titles is bloody hard,” she says. “You’re trying to find something that captures all these ideas and stories within the album in a succinct snappy title. It’s always the very last thing we decide upon. So one of the themes running through the album is this idea of imagining other possibilities – other ways of being, of a different life. Within the more personal stories is the idea that what is going on, on personal level, is mirrored in society and in the world on a larger scale.” You know I think I found the beauty and the good Oh honey we’re trying down here on Earth Go on, give us somethingAn intense listen dealing with weighty topics, with new drummer Philip Selway on board and songs replete with hooks, it’s also their most accessible album yet Contributed to Mojo magazine's Harrison Covered: A Tribute To George Harrison with a cover of The Beatles' " Long, Long, Long". [30] (2011) I wanted the lyrics to feel as though you were listening in on a transmission from Earth that has been sent out into space, giving a glimpse of this strange civilization that we’re all used to,” Wilde smiles. “It’s saying, ‘Things are feeling pretty bleak and strange right now; we celebrate and glorify all the wrong things and miss the point about a lot of it. There’s so much that’s wrong with how we’re doing this but I think there’s still beauty and good to be found here.’” Even in the Great North Museum here Tyneside’s Lanterns on the Lake release their much-anticipated album, Versions of Us. This self-produced fifth studio album follows 2020’s Mercury nominated Spook the Herd. Its nine songs are existential meditations examining life’s possibilities, facing the hand we’ve been dealt and the question of whether we can change our individual and collective destinies.

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