Versions Of Us

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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] While one can draw sonic through-lines between Spook the Herd, late 2020’s The Realist EP, and Versions of Us, Lanterns on the Lake’s new album feels in many ways like a rebirth for the band: A self-contained collection of songs that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, full of both light and darkness, color and candor. For Wilde and her band mates, it was all a matter of bringing these songs to life the best they could. The group extensively toured Europe, and in early 2014 they embarked on their first tour of the US. [15] Beings (2015) [ edit ] Last Transmission This song is about the absurdity of the world as it is and how we’re living. It’s also about the good that can be found in amongst all of that. 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 civilisation that we’re all used to. 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’. The very end of this reprises the melodies and then guitar noise of the very beginning of the album. We wanted people to be able to loop the album or at least remind them of where they stepped in. Review | Lanterns On The Lake ~ Until The Colours Run". GoldFlakePaint.co.uk. 23 September 2013 . Retrieved 1 February 2016.

The making of Versions Of Us was not an easy process. In fact, the band scrapped an entire version of the album, unsatisfied with how it turned out. Mental health issues infiltrated the band’s headspace and drummer Oli Ketteringham left the band, so they turned to Radiohead’s Philip Selway to come play on the album. What an inspired choice, as the drums and percussion on the album are as creative and brilliant as you would expect from such a seasoned performer. Philip’s playing fired up the rest of the band as Paul and Hazel’s guitar work is incredible throughout. But the star of the show is undoubtedly vocalist/pianist/guitarist Hazel Wilde, who turns in a truly stunning vocal performance.

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To bring the album to life, the band enlisted the help of a certain Philip Selway on session drums. So how did the Newcastle band end up with Radiohead’s drummer on their record? It’s hard to explain fully what went on there. There were points where some of us considered whether we could and should continue at all with making the record and pursuing a life in music. We made this huge decision to scrap the whole thing and start again. We’d already blown our small budget and the deadline to submit the album was just a couple of months away.” 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. The band have also announced an extensive UK tour in late 2023 which includes a performance at London’s Islington Assembly Hall. Lanterns on the Lake – Live with Royal Northern Sinfonia". Discogs.com. 24 November 2017 . Retrieved 12 April 2020.

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.Ever since they released their debut album, Gracious Tide Take Me Home, in 2011, Lanterns On The Lake seem to have been destined for greatness. It’s been a long journey for the Newcastle quartet, with more than a few bumps along the road, but their last album Spook The Herd was the best album of their career, and even garnered a Mercury Music Prize nomination.

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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 Selwayjoining the album sessions on drums and percussion.