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The album is album is also available as a double LP pressed on heavyweight audiophile 180g black vinyl presented in a gatefold packaging.
Anathema have spent the vast majority of their career making music that defies description. Formed in the mid 90s, they have risen to become one of the UKs most cherished and critically acclaimed rock bands.
After premiering new music on a dedicated UK & NL tour in November 2016, culminating in a stage performance at Londons Wembley Arena with Opeth, the band have been teasing the release of their first full-length since 2014s spellbinding Distant Satellites. Winning multiple awards for their recent output, including Album of the Year, Live Event of the Year & Multimedia Package of the Year for 2010s Were Here Because Were Here, 2012s Weather Systems and 2013s Universal respectively at the Prog awards, Anathema are bringing their darkest, most challenging and unexpected material to new album The Optimist.
Led by brothers Daniel and Vincent Cavanagh, Anathema recorded The Optimist in winter 2016 at Attica Studio in Donegal and Castle of Doom Studios in Glasgow with producer Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Super Furry Animals) at the helm. Doogans influence is instantly tangible; for the first time in years Anathema recorded as a live band for an album, capturing an energy normally only present on stage. A technique that will whet the appetites of Anathemas global army of ardent disciples, who are well aware of the bands supreme live power previously captured on the celebrated and in demand concert film, Universal.
The first single to precede the album will be Cant Let Go, complete with a music video in May.
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