War, what is it good for? Well, absolutely everything for fans!
This month sees the release of a brand-new album by The Alarm, despite the fact it is still being written and recorded in a creative process that began only recently.
The Alarm’s new LP War has to be completed by February 24 to be serviced around the world at midnight on February 25 to 26 via the world’s digital music suppliers.
To combat production times and to ensure they have the physical product available, the band is advance-releasing the album without music in a special CD-Rom format. Fans can then burn their own copy of the finished record.
The album’s writing and recording creative process only began on January 7 but the band promises that finished tracks will be sent electronically to fans, once the final mix and mastering process is finished.
War is also available to preorder as a hand-cut vinyl LP which will be released to fans on February 25, coincidentally the date of lead vocalist and guitarist Mike Peters’ birthday.
Mike, The Alarm and producer George Williams are now writing and recording the record from scratch using their own isolation studios.
Mike’s wife Jules Jones Peters has been documenting the recording process, creating a very incisive fly-on-thewall vision of The Alarm at work, sharing regular videos online on www.thealarm.com website.
“The record is really starting to take shape”, said Mike.
“The responsive nature of the writing and recording situation has given rise to some radical thinking on how to instantly release the album into the modern world and also across all the major formats – stream, download, CD and LP.”
To release the album on vinyl, a specialist cutting-house has been engaged to hand-cut as many pre-ordered vinyl copies as possible, once the final master has been cut in Los Angeles by the legendary Howie Weinberg. It was Howie who mastered The Alarm’s 2019 album ∑ Sigma, which entered the UK Rock Chart at top spot.
The digital edition of War is being distributed internationally by InGrooves who have already paved the way for this groundbreaking release to appear on all digital service provider platforms on February 26.
As the artwork has been created in advance, each CD/ LP will also have the album title and the band logo painted on to the cover by Mike Peters personally, with the tracklisting left intentionally blank so that fans can write in the song titles themselves, once they have receivedAla the completed work.
“I really want the fans to have access to this album as soon as it’s finished”, added Mike.
“We have set ourselves a very tight deadline, and the music is already being created out in the open for all to see and hear.
“The technology is there so fans who still have access to a CD burner and wish to get involved in the spirit of the project can do so by interacting with the creative process and play their own part in bringing this new Alarm album into the world.”
The Alarm’s War album is available to order/pre-save now exclusively via www. thealarm.com site.