The Basics - With This Ship

By Sean Lynch

With This Ship heralds a significant new direction for The Basics. While retaining the band's trademark three-part harmonies, they are forging a bold path towards an altogether unexplored musical landscape.

Armed with an epic video clip (think Tim Burton does Yellow Submarine via a Monty Python haze), With This Ship continues the current Aussie trend of outstanding and unique animated videos.

Mixed by Peter Cobbin (Franz Ferdinand, The Beatles’ Anthology) at the famed Abbey Road studios in London and features production contributions from prominent New York-based engineer Michael Brauer (Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, Bob Dylan, John Mayer), and local wizard Francois Tetaz (Architecture In Helsinki, Lior, Gotye) The Basics are certainly keeping good company.

This is the sound of a band really coming into their own, casting off the shackles of restrictive genres and their youth, and in doing so, finding their own voice.

With it's epic Coldplay-meets-Snow Patrol chorus, The Basics have truly hit the nail on the head with a track that every "first single of the new album" should aspire to.

A truly triumphant return.

With This Ship is released independently and is distributed through MGM - get it off the iTunes, well worth it if you ask this sea faring fellow!

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