Manic Street Preachers have remixed Steven Wilson’s “Economies of Scale”, a track taken from his hugely acclaimed seventh album, The Harmony Codex.
The Manics completely reimagined “Economies of Scale” in their South Wales studio earlier this year, twisting the sparse electronics of the original into a claustrophobic and intense gothic rock’n’roll track that punches its way out of the speakers.
Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield on remixing the track: “When I first heard “Economies of Scale” I found myself transported back to 1984, when Sean (Moore, Manic Street Preachers drummer) came back from Germany where he’d been on tour with the Celynen Colliery Brass Band. He had a bootleg copy of Synchronicity by The Police. We couldn’t stop playing it, especially tracks like Walking in Your Footsteps and Murder by Numbers. There was something about the bareness of the vocals, the steely percussion and slight detachment that reminded us of that era of The Police, along with Stewart Copeland’s solo work on the Rumblefish soundtrack. With those things in mind, we had quickly found a direction and collectively connected with track. Once we got in the studio, Wire immediately sought to push the second half of the track in more of a Holy Bible direction.”
“Economies of Scale” was the first single released from The Harmony Codex. Almost a solo recording by Steven Wilson, the original track is a beautifully fragile piece of melancholic, electronic soul.
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