Bring Me The Horizon reinterpret 23 songs on surprise new lo-fi album
Bring Me The Horizon have surprise-released an entire 23-track album of lo-fi reinterpretations from across their celebrated catalogue of music, titled Lo-files.
The project includes tracks from almost all of Bring Me The Horizon’s eras, apart from their early work, including the recent 2024 album Post Human: Nex Gen and 2013’s Sempiternal. It stretches to 80 minutes, with most tracks averaging a three-minute run time.
Oli Sykes said of the album, “The original idea for our ‘go to’ record was actually something more chill, a record you could put on while studying or zoning out. It ended up way more chaotic than I originally intended.”
He continued, “So I guess this is another attempt at creating something low-key. I listen to a lot of lo-fi when I’m working or feeling anxious, so I hope this record can do the same for others.”
The first song on the collection is a remix of their beloved song ‘Can You Feel My Heart’. Recently, Fontaines DC covered that single while mixing in elements of Nirvana’s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’.
It’s not the first time the band have released something like this. In December 2019, the band released one long continuous 75-minute track that was split across their album, Music to listen to~dance to~blaze to~pray to~feed to~sleep to~talk to~grind to~trip to~breathe to~help to~hurt to~scroll to~roll to~love to~hate to~learn Too~plot to~play to~be to~feel to~breed to~sweat to~dream to~hide to~live to~die to~GO TO. Lo-fi influences can be heard especially on tracks such as ‘Tracks’ featuring Yonaka.
The band will soon headline Reading and Leeds Festival on August 23rd and 24th, before embarking on a US Arena tour in September and October. For this, they have already sold out a date at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles on October 3rd. Last year, the band played the biggest headline show of their career so far at the Allianz Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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