Sometimes when I make a post on a band, it's not because I've successfully collected whatever amount of music from them I was after, but rather because I've exhausted every avenue of research. At a certain point, I've sent the unanswered emails, scoured the incomplete archives, and examined every lead I could find. Such is the case with this next band.
The Next Autumn Soundtrack were from Grimsby, UK, active for a couple years in the early 2000s; they were formed in February of 2002 and called it quits by 2004. Musically, they were a post-rock\midwest emo hybrid similar to The Bitter Life Typecast, The Cotton Weary, and especially their UK fellows Slingshot Around The Moon (Caesura deserves an honorable mention, though TNAS were not as influenced by post-punk. They also share a lot of DNA with little-known German band Kiss And Kill). Their best work comes from their one official release, and finds them working in a similar vein to Mare Vitalis and Low Level Owl-era The Appleseed Cast. I've always loved this offshoot of midwest emo and the first track from the split, "Nightnightbyebye," is a personal favorite.
They were not prolific, and pieces of their discography remain missing in defiance of my best efforts. Their only album release is a 2003 split with Swedish post-rockers Jeniferever on Big Scary Monsters. The only other release that could be considered official is their contribution to BSM's 50 Not Out compilation, which was posthumous, released in 2008. Prior to the split, there was a two-song demo in the same year. The band also put out a few demo tracks on their own site, which appear to have been from a self-titled five-track EP that was initially slated for its own release, but was instead used for the split, three of its tracks being rerecorded and another track eventually being repurposed for the compilation.
What this boils down to is I'm missing at least two of their songs, demo versions of tracks from the split. Even worse, two of the demo tracks I have are incomplete, cutting off before the song ends ("I said anything goes. Everything went." from the two-song demo and "splinters/GLASS/dust." from the unreleased S/T EP).
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ReplyDeleteThanks for checking the blog out!
Deleteyou inspired me and I went out to search for lyrics and I transcribed the split EP. thxthxthx
ReplyDeletethank you very much for this!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this! Always good to listen back to these songs (L.O.V.E. is still my favourite).
ReplyDeleteSo I knew the band back in around 2001/2002 (they were previously known as One Piece Jigsaw, if I remember correctly) and I began recording their EP in my makeshift bedroom studio - possibly the one that never released, so it's my fault probably. We got as far as some drum recordings before we called it off - it wasn't a very productive environment for a full band (there was a microphone hanging off the ceiling fan).
Not really sure what happened next, but I kept in touch with Samuel who went on to release an album under the name Your Move, Raincloud in 2013. What happened to the drum recordings, no-one is asking? I did manage to repurpose (or "steal") them into one of my own songs, which otherwise sounds nothing like anything TNAS ever put out.