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ANATHEMA Unveil Music Video For ‘Can’t Let Go’ Track
September 19th, 2017

Liverpool, England-based progressive rock band Anathema have released a music video for the track ‘Can’t Let Go’, which can be viewed below.

Anathema issued 11th full-length studio album The Optimist on June 9th, 2017 through Kscope Records.

The idea for The Optimist was born from the front cover artwork of the band’s 2001 album A Fine Day To Exit. “I suppose you might say the album is semi-autobiographical because this time we used a surrogate,” says guitarist Daniel Cavanagh of the character that is The Optimist. “We put sound, feelings and crucially, our own hopes and fears into another person and made him the subject of the songs then weaving my own internal monologue into the narrative of The Optimist. It was John’s (Douglas) idea to write a narrative, so I took A Fine Day To Exit as the starting point.”

Frontman Vincent Cavanagh elaborates further on the earlier album’s artwork influence: “The guy who disappeared – you never knew what happened to him, did he start a new life? Did he succumb to his fate? It was never explained. The opening track title is the exact coordinates for Silver Strand beach in San Diego – the last known location of The Optimist – shown on the cover of A Fine Day To Exit.”

Recording sessions for The Optimist began in the winter of 2016 at Attica Audio in Donegal, Ireland and were finished at Castle Of Doom studios in Glasgow, Scotland with producer Tony Doogan.

The cover artwork was created by American designer and illustrator Travis Smith from a series of photographs he took on a West Coast road trip.

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘32.63N 117.14W’
02. ‘Leaving It Behind’
03. ‘Endless Ways’
04. ‘The Optimist’
05. ‘San Francisco’
06. ‘Springfield’
07. ‘Ghosts’
08. ‘Can’t Let Go’
09. ‘Close Your Eyes’
10. ‘Wildfires’
11. ‘Back To The Start’

Anathema’s line-up is as follows:

Vincent Cavanagh (vocals, guitar and keyboards)
Daniel Cavanagh (guitar, keyboards and vocals)
Lee Douglas (vocals)
Jamie Cavanagh (bass)
John Douglas (acoustic / electronic percussion)
Daniel Cardoso (drums and keyboards)

Tenth studio record Distant Satellites was released in June 2014.