{"id":3488,"date":"2020-05-26T21:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2020-05-26T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:14:27","slug":"idles-remix-lifes-latest-single-switching-on-to-add-some-flirtatious-sleaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=3488","title":{"rendered":"IDLES remix LIFE’S latest single Switching On to add some ‘flirtatious sleaze’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following the recent release of their BBC 6 Music-playlisted single Switching On, rising Hull indie stars LIFE today shared a remix of the song by Mercury-nominated punks IDLES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hull band LIFE, whose latest single has been remixed by IDLES. Pic: Janine Van Oostrom.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Switching On was remixed by IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen, a long-time friend of LIFE, who released their second album, A Picture Of Good Health, to much critical acclaim last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowen said: \u201cI have watched LIFE play live well over 100 times and one thing that I really wanted to maintain through the remix is how incredibly tight they are as a band, so I left everything from the original in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was something new they were bringing with the song; there\u2019s that assured LIFE sound central, but there are experiments in electronics and noise coming closer to the surface. I wanted to push those ideas further, exaggerate them to the point of becoming violent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI often think a\u00a0remix\u00a0should eschew the original vocal. All my favourite\u00a0remixes are unrecognisable as songs – that felt inappropriate here. Mez stays front and centre, where he belongs.”

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LIFE frontman Mez Green said: \u201cSwitching On is an experimental love-song. When writing the track we homed in on new textures, noises and beats as we continue to fall in love with all aspects of music making, as a result we thought the original single would also work as a remix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBowen has added some flirtatious sleaze. He has made the track sound like the love you would find coming out the backside of a city at night. It\u2019s seedy, it\u2019s vast and it rains down on you just like IDLES do from their necessary pulpit.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, LIFE also\u00a0released a video for the new single, which was directed and produced by the band with the help of local filmmaker Josh Moore (who has collaborated with the band on all their recent videos). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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