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In Gray & Blue (Single Version)

from Lane Lines by Massage

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  • Super Limited 12" Vinyl EP — NATURAL CLEAR
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The new six-song EP featuring two vinyl-only bonus tracks: "Without Your Love (Demo)" and "Half a Feeling (Demo)." Special pressing of 200 on lovely translucent vinyl.

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    Includes unlimited streaming of Lane Lines via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The new six-song EP featuring two vinyl-only bonus tracks: "Without Your Love (Demo)" and "Half a Feeling (Demo)"

    DO NOT ORDER FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S. International shipping is prohibitively expensive and prone to disruptions right now, but Bandcamp does not allow us to remove the option.

    Instead, go to Midheaven: midheaven.com/item/lane-lines-by-massage

    Or a U.K. retailer like Juno: www.juno.co.uk/products/massage-lane-lines/853145-01/

    Includes unlimited streaming of Lane Lines via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about

The EP begins with the new single version of Still Life standout “In Gray & Blue,” which along with previous singles “Half a Feeling” and “Made of Moods” is part of a trio of songs written during the first days of lockdown and later added to the album. But while brief lulls in the pandemic allowed Massage to record the other lockdown tracks in the studio, the LP version of “In Gray & Blue” was entirely DIY — a GarageBand demo emailed around for overdubs and ultimately “mixed” by Romano himself.

The single version of “In Gray & Blue” — enlivened with new guitars, new drums and a proper mix — is what the song was always meant to sound like: a lost New Order outtake from 1989’s Technique.

“The original inspiration was actually the Go-Betweens — specifically their propulsive live version of ‘Bye Bye Pride’ — and I can still hear some Grant McLennan in the melody,” Romano says. “But then one night during the pandemic we were all doing a distanced hang in Gabi’s yard and New Order’s “Run” came on some playlist and I suddenly realized that that was the sound I wanted: the crack of Stephen Morris’s drums, the fizz of Bernard Sumner’s guitar, the bounce of Peter Hook’s bass — just the whole vibe of forgetting the plague and falling in love on some Spanish island.”

That lush Balearic ideal was beyond the band’s home-recording capabilities — but not Brassell’s. A song about how relationships begin — and how those beginnings keep reverberating across time — “In Gray & Blue” is the sound of Massage getting outside its ramshackle comfort zone and reaching for the sort of pop romanticism that would’ve felt right at home on TOTP in the summer of 1989.

credits

from Lane Lines, track released November 16, 2021
Recorded by Massage, Andrew Brassell
 and Lewis Pesacov

Produced by Andrew Brassell and Massage
Mixed by Andrew Brassell
Additional keyboards by Andrew Brassell

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Andrew Romano
Gabi Ferrer
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