ShadowParty – Reverse The Curse

ShadowParty have today released a new remix EP titled AfterParty. Included on the EP are remixes by fellow New Order bandmates Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert as The Other Two, as well as those by Outernationale, Stereotype, Beg Steal or Borrow and a reworking by A Certain Ratio. Listen to the full EP here.

ShadowParty – a band united by a fairly unusual circumstance as each member is a latter-day addition to a huge band – released their debut album on Mute earlier this year. Listen here.

The nucleus of the group formed when Josh Hager and Tom Chapman met in Boston, Massachusetts. Josh is a former member of The Rentals and currently plays guitar and keyboards in Devo. Tom Chapman is the former bass player of Bad Lieutenant who followed frontman Bernard Sumner to New Order in 2011 when the band reunited for a series of charity gigs. Completing the group are Phil Cunningham – Marion founding member and New Order’s guitarist since 2001 – and drummer Jeff Friedl, who plays for Devo.

Newly signed to Mute, ShadowParty’s debut – recorded in Boston, LA, Manchester and, of course, Macclesfield – is an album that nods to those groups but exists in its own right entirely, an indie electro album with guitars and strings, and guests including the incomparable vocalist Denise Johnson (Primal Scream, A Certain Ratio) and The Verve’s revered guitarist Nick McCabe.

Also crashing the party is LA-based DJ Whitney Fierce, who appears on backing vocals, and Joe Duddell, the Manchester-based arranger who has lent his orchestral finesse to the likes of Elbow, Blossoms, and New Order – for whom he created and scored a 12-piece synth orchestra for a run of Manchester International Festival shows.

It’s the sound of a blast. ShadowParty burst through your speakers; pulsing electronics get swept away with lush orchestrations, bold beats carved up by haunting guitars and vocals tower through each moment, whispering sweet harmonies and unspoken despair.

AfterParty Remix EP Tracklisting
1. Reverse The Curse (The Other Two Remix)
2. Reverse The Curse (ACR Rework Extended)
3. Reverse The Curse (Outernationale Remix)
4. Present Tense (Stereotype Remix)
5. Present Tense (Beg Steal Or Borrow Remix)

SHADOWPARTY LIVE DATES
September 8 – Portmerion, Wales – Festival Number 6
September 10 – Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
September 12 – Manchester, England – Night & Day
September 13 – London, England – Birthdays
September 14 – Birmingham, England – The Asylum
September 15 – Exeter, England – Phoenix