As a “thank you” to its fans for such an uplifting 2014, the members of rock band No Devotion – Geoff Rickly, Lee Gaze, Luke Johnson, Mike Lewis, Jamie Oliver and Stuart Richardson – are offering two remixes of their debut single, “Stay.”
FREE DOWNLOAD: “STAY” (Ricky Eat Acid & Ansible Remixes)
Capping off a wonderful year that included a successful UK run, vibrant U.S. live debut, two strong singles and more, No Devotion is currently recording their debut full-length album that will be released in 2015. Remixes of “Stay” from Ricky Eat Acid (prolific producer whose 2014 album, Three Love Songs, has received a generous amount of critical acclaim from the likes of The Fader, Pitchfork, Interview Magazine, etc.) and Ansible (Gregg Dunn, the principal singer-songwriter of Moving Mountains and notable pop-ambient producer) are now available through Collect Records’ SoundCloud page HERE.
“Ricky Eat Acid is the rare artist that moves fluidly through the worlds of indie-pop, electronic, ambient, DIY and punk,” No Devotion frontman Geoff Rickly said. “His calm, confident touch changes the way people approach the separations between genres. I wanted to see how he would approach “Stay,” a strangely hooky quasi-pop song by a goth-shaded post-punk band comprised entirely of ex-members of more aggressive outfits. If anyone could provide a new context for a band with this amount of baggage, I thought Ricky Eat Acid was it.”
“Ansible, on the other hand, doubles down on the storied roots of the track by toning down the drama,” Rickly went on to mention. “This makes a ton of sense, considering the fact that before crafting beautiful vibrant, electronic soundscapes as Ansible, Greg spent time on tour with Thursday in Moving Mountains. Greg reveals the connection between indie-pop and massively restrained down-tempo punk and, in the process, ends up lightening No Devotion’s sound.”
