The BasicsVeteran indie trio The Basics have taken inspiration from the distant past for their newest release, which sees the results of the band's 2013 collaboration with the National Film & Sound Archive — during which they recorded on an antique 1903 Edison phonograph — made available for free consumption ahead of their forthcoming eighth studio album, due out later this year.
The band recorded a vintage version of their classic track I Don't Need Another, taken from their 2003 debut album Get Back, using the Edison Standard D model phonograph to lay the track to wax cylinder for an added touch of turn-of-the-20th-century warmth. Despite being recorded in October two years ago, the results have only just been uploaded to YouTube in a video of the band laying down the track acoustically, and the audio recording of the wax-cylinder result is now available on SoundCloud.
You can see a mixture of both the acoustic sounds and the wax-cylinder end product below.
Find out more about the NFSA's Wax Cylinder Project here.
The Basics' eighth studio full-length, The Age Of Entitlement, will be released this year. Lead single Roundabout was recently previewed by the band in a joint video with MusicVictoria, for which they performed the track at Melbourne Airport. See it below.
