Pre-Order: Helicon - Arise Remixes

Helicon's new album 'Arise Remixes' released 5 February 2027. Available to pre-order now on 180g Hot Pink Vinyl (limited to 500 copies).

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When ‘Arise’ was recorded, Helicon, AL LOVER and producer Tony Doogan made a deliberate creative decision to bring electronic elements, beats and samples into the sound while keeping the feel of a band playing together. ‘Arise Remixes’ takes that collaborative instinct a step further, with the contributors given free rein to choose a song, pull it apart and take it somewhere new.

For ‘Arise Remixes’, Helicon & AL LOVER opened the songs up to a circle of friends, artists they have played or toured with, and musicians whose records helped inspire them. Rather than asking for variations on the originals, the brief was deliberately loose: pick a song, pull it apart and do your thing. Seeing that cast gathered together on a HELICON sleeve is, as they say, “pretty humbling.”

Hearing familiar songs returned in unfamiliar forms has become part of the point of the record. “You know your songs inside out, then someone makes you hear it differently,” Helicon say. “It’s amazing and has already begun to shape how we are thinking about our next record.”

The project feels like a natural continuation of a collaboration that began with a remix and helped push ‘Arise’ towards electronic elements, beats and samples. “Since the HELICON X AL LOVER connection started with a remix it’s only natural to have this collaborative project head in that direction,” AL LOVER says. “I see remix culture as folk tradition through the lens of technology. It’s all meat on the same bone and I’m glad to have had this project be part of that lineage.”

The album features remixes from Barry Burns of Mogwai, Chris Geddes of Belle & Sebastian, Alex Maas of The Black Angels, Mark Gardener of Ride, Man of Moon, The Janitors and D. Ross. The expanded digital edition also includes contributions from Acid Rooster, Tremours and Declan Welsh, new remixes from AL LOVER, and a brand-new HELICON X AL LOVER track, ‘Bring You Round’.

Vinyl Tracklist: 

It Won't Stop - Mogwai Remix (Barry Burns)
Adjust the Dosage - The Janitors Remix
Goodbye Cool World - Mark Gardener / OX4Sound Remix (Ride)
Backbreaker - Man of Moon Remix
Midnight Mass - Belle & Sebastian Remix (Chris Geddes)
Arise - Alex Maas Remix (The Black Angels)
We Don't Belong - D-Ross Remix

Digital Tracklist:

It Won't Stop - Mogwai Remix (Barry Burns)
Adjust the Dosage - The Janitors Remix
Goodbye Cool World - Mark Gardener / OX4Sound Remix (Ride)
Backbreaker - Man of Moon Remix
Midnight Mass - Belle & Sebastian Remix (Chris Geddes)
Arise - Alex Maas Remix (The Black Angels)
We Don't Belong - D-Ross Remix
Not a Thought - Acid Rooster Remix
Tabula Rasa - Declan Welsh Remix
Goodbye Cool World - Tremours Remix
Backbreaker - Al Lover Remix
Arise - Al Lover Remix
We Don't Belong - Al Lover Remix
Bring You Round - Helicon x Al Lover Remix