Blackout Orchestra - IT'S NOT A PARTY EP

Who fancies a party after The End Of the World? Blackout

Orchestra do and they’ve invited some guests and provided

some tasty treats in the form of the new It’s Not A Party EP!

Collecting the B-sides, Remixes and an unreleased

instrumental from the sessions, this EP is a perfect follow up

to an apocalyptically themed LP seeming to echo Mr Stipe’s

famous feelings about the end of the world as we know it.

Maybe it should come as no surprise since Ben's first single

on Quickfix back in 2021 was actually called 'It’s Fine’ -

making things kind of circular.

Speaking of the label, two of it's roster pop by for the

festivities - QF head honcho Lee Christian hands in his fifth

and best remix yet for the band and The Filthy Honey with a

single worthy version (not for the first time - check out his

remix of ‘Flowers’ on previous remix release Unmade Beds).

Also remixing Come Undone is DJ Louis Samurai - his

minimalist D’n’B take providing a calm in the eye of the storm

of emotions that this record conjures, be it the fragile opening

of (new bare bones mix of) It’s Not A Party, unwanted pangs of

yearning in Your Luck Of Lack Thereof or the detached-yet-

wanton robo-metal lust of Anyone… Thankfully, the closer is a

walk in park - not just by comparison - it’s literally made using

recordings from Ben’s visit to a local Toronto park.

Tracklisting:

1. It’s Not A Party

(Birthday Suit Mix)

2. Come Undone (The

Filthy Honey Mix)

3. Your Luck Or Lack

Thereof

Ben Blackout Orchestra and Lee Quickfix happen to celebrate

the same birthday and a love of Nine Inch Nails, which should

go some way to explain not only this release but also a lasting

fascination with collections of remixes & reimagined works…

4. Come Undone (Louis

Samurai Remix)

5. Anyone

6. Come Undone (Lee

Christian Remix)

7. In The Park

“I love a good remix because it can completely re-contextualize a song, as it's a living, breathing thing. So I may write a song and see it in a limited way but in Lee's

hands it becomes a psychedelic odyssey, or in The Filthy

Honey's hands, a perfect pop song, or in Louis Samurai's

hands, a dance club banger. It lets me, as a listener and as a

songwriter, break out of my limited view and see all the

possiblltiversal things the song could be - which is both

exciting and invigorating!” - Ben VanBuskirk