Album: Giants
Artist: Days Between Stations
2020 Bandcamp
Digital
Oscar Fuentes-Bills: keys
Sepand Samzadeh: guitars
with
Billy Sherwood: lead & backing
vocals, bass, drums
Durga McBroom: lead vocals (2)
Colin Moulding: lead vocals (4)
Inid Abiza: backing vocals (1)
Produced by Days Between Stations/Sherwood
Cover painting by Paul Whitehead
Interior artwork by Ruth Nielsen
Album package by Erik Nielsen
Band photos by Alex Dorriz, Erik Nielsen
Tracks:
1. "Spark of Life" [Fuentes-Bills/Samzadeh/Sherwood] (16:52)
2. "Witness the End of the World" [Fuentes-Bills/Samzadeh/Sherwood]
(3:56)
3. "Another Day" [Fuentes-Bills/Samzadeh/Sherwood] (9:38)
4. "Goes by Gravity" [mus: Fuentes-Bills/Samzadeh/Sherwood; lyr:
Fuentes-Bills/Samzadeh/Sherwood/Moulding] (4:51)
5. "Giants" [Fuentes-Bills/Samzadeh/Sherwood] (12:58)
6. "The Gathering" [Fuentes-Bills/Samzadeh/Sherwood] (4:06)
7. "The Common Thread" [Fuentes-Bills/Samzadeh/Sherwood] (7:46)
Notes: Giants, the third Days Between Stations album, forms
a loose concept album. The band shot a video for "Witness the End of
the World" with McBroom. However, the pandemic delayed the video
production, so the video was not released until Sep 2023.
Sherwood had worked on the band's second album, In Extremis. Sherwood wrote a 16
Dec 2014 Facebook update: "tonight we are recording the 2nd song for
the record (as yet untitled)." He talked of mastering the album in a
Mar 2016 Facebook post, and in Apr 2016 listed Days Between Stations
as one of the bands he is currently in. Erik Nielsen said on
Facebook in Dec 2017 that he, with Paul Whitehead (worked with
Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator, Le Orme), were finalising artwork
for the third album (both worked on In Extremis).
Promo for the album describes Sherwood's role thus: "This time
around Billy Sherwood sat in the produce[r] chair, and helped the
band write and arrange the songs and lyrics. He even wrote a song
for the album titled "The Common Thread." Sepand recalls, "I love
how Billy captured us. Some of our final takes Billy captured, were
us rehearsing parts while the tracks were armed or at most when
playing a first or second take. It is pure, instinctual and
unabashed playing with minimal post production effects. It's raw. I
think we have our bearing and confidence now to stand on our legs."
Oscar adds, "I would say Billy was a lot more involved with the
writing of this album, in general. He really brought a different
type of energy to DBS, a more rock and roll energy." While this text
singles out (7) as written by Sherwood, the whole album is credited
to Fuentes-Bills, Samzadeh and Sherwood together (plus Moulding on
(4)). (HP, 2 Nov 23)
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