BEHIND THESE EYES: THE CATACOMBS REMIXES
Release Date: 13 April 20121 James Plotkin — Out of The Furrow | 05:53
2 Koichi Shimizu — Accidentagram | 06:08
3 Kiat — Catacombs | 07:36
4 elintseeker— Insomnia | 04:20
5 The Analog Girl — Headworm | 03:24
6 Evan Tan — The Argument | 05:49
7 X’Ho — Anger & Futility | 05:57
8 Lasse Marhaug — Ends to No Means | 16:37
9 Xhin — Out of the Furrow | 04:27
10 George Chua — Accidentagram | 09:35
11 VAVABOND — One-dimensional One | 05:36
Two years after the release of The Observatory’s Catacombs comes the Singapore band’s first remix album. Widely regarded as The Observatory’s darkest and angriest release, Catacombs is a texturally complex and viscerally emotional album, a study in delusion, insanity and obsession. Now, 11 respected artists from Singapore, China, Norway, Thailand/Japan, and the US, have been invited to enter the vortex of The Observatory and rebuild their own sonic worlds from the detritus of that landmark album.
Titled after a key lyric from Catacombs, Behind These Eyes sees these 11 visionaries steering the trajectories of the original album in different directions, resulting in a sprawling double LP that is by visionaries steering the trajectories of the original album in various directions, resulting in a sprawling double LP that is by turns more violent, calming, morose, euphoric, abstract, and elegiac.
While listeners new to The Observatory will find in these disparate tracks a strange but certain unity of spirit borne from passionate experimentalism, fans of the band will find, over the four vinyl sides, a lingering sensation of familiar displacement and the uncanny. An album forged out of friendships and collaborations, Behind These Eyes is jointly released by The Observatory and Ujikaji.
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