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The
release date for the much anticipated acoustic album "Falling Home"
by Swedish progressive rock innovators Pain of Salvation via the band's
longtime label partner InsideOutMusic is drawing closer.
Here are the exact street days by territory:
GERMANY
/ AUSTRIA / SWITZERLAND / FINLAND: Friday, November 07, 2014.
UK / BENELUX / FRANCE / GREECE / DENMARK / PORTUGAL / NORWAY / REST OF
EUROPE: Monday, November 10, 2014.
ITALY / SPAIN / POLAND: Tuesday, November 11, 2014.
SWEDEN: Wednesday, November 12, 2014.
AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND: Friday, November 14, 2014.
NORTH AMERICA: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Now,
the atmospheric video clip directed by Stefan Daniels for the song
"1979" has been launched online at the following location: http://youtu.be/QiZh2fh_1Rk
Pain of
Salvation's Daniel Gildenlöw has checked in as follows about the clip:
"We
had the greatest time shooting this video. We went up north to an old fisher
village where Johanna's family has rented old fisher cabins in the summers
since her father was a little child. I have spent time there with her since
we met twenty years ago and I love the place. No phones, no television, just
the ocean and nature and these old cabins. It seemed the perfect place to
shoot the video for '1979.' So, we spent a few days there, the entire band
with families and Johanna's sisters and their families, and we just had a
wonderful time together. I remember standing in the store Googling beer
brands to find out which bottles had remained most the same since the 70s,
hahaha.
We had
many scripted scenes that we shot but that never ended up in the final video
- some nude bathing and Ragnar jumping into the water with his clothes on
from a row boat. In the end Stefan Daniels (the director) decided to go with
the small gestures and made Sandrian and his kite be the heart of the video,
which was a perfect decision.
My
favorite clips are probably the ones at the breakfast table in the cabin and
the one in front of the cinema, simply because, to me, they capture the air
of the late 70s so perfectly, as I knew them. It almost hurts to watch those
clips, and I'm close to tearing up every time. My intellect knows perfectly
well that these are new recordings, but my heart connects at a split second
and breaks from the loss of an era."
Pain of
Salvation's Daniel Gildenlöw has checked in about the "Falling
Home" release as follows:
"Damn, it will be so nice finally to have this album
see the light of day in a context larger than my head, our rehearsing room
and a multitude of work computers and hard drives in selected homes. It has
been a long time, and the road to release has been very complicated and
unexpected, including finding myself in hospital for four entire months after
a close call with flesh eating bacteria. Who would have guessed as we set out
to record a quick little acoustic something all those many months ago in what
seems like another lifetime by now? On the other hand, it has turned this
album into so much more than we ever expected it to be. I find the term
"acoustic album" very misleading. This album is as bold a statement
as any of our albums, and will in the same way offer laughter, tears,
surprises and challenges. If it's not original, if it's not uncompromisingly
passionate, then it's not Pain of Salvation."
"Falling
Home" is a very special album, which contains reimagined versions of
favorite catalog songs, two cover versions ("Holy Diver" by Dio and
"Perfect Day" by Lou Reed) and a brand new song (The title track,
"Falling Home"). Here is the track-listing for the US version of
the release:
Pain of
Salvation - "Falling Home":
1. Stress
2.
Linoleum
3. To
the Shoreline
4.
Holy Diver (Dio Cover)
5.
1979
6.
She Likes to Hide (Bonus Physical-only Track)
7.
Chain Sling
8.
Perfect Day (Lou Reed Cover)
9.
Spitfall
10.
Mrs. Modern Mother Mary
11.
Flame to the Moth
12.
King of Loss (Bonus Physical-only Track)
13. Falling Home
Next to
the Jewel Case CD and the Digital Download formats, "Falling Home"
will be also available in Europe as limited edition Digipak CD with expanded
artwork and two bonustracks ("She Likes To Hide" and "King Of
Loss") and also as limited Gatefold LP version on 180gr. vinyl (On black
vinyl, but also 200x copies on white vinyl exclusively from the IOM Webshop).
More details on "Falling Home" will be available soon...
Pain
of Salvation Line-Up 2014:
Daniel
Gildenlöw - lead vocals, acoustic guitars
Ragnar
Zolberg - acoustic guitars, vocals
Léo
Margarit - drums, vocals
Daniel
D2 Karlsson - rhodes, organs, vocals
Gustaf
Hielm - acoustic basses, upright bass, vocals
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