SOMETHING FOR KATE RELEASE ‘COME BACK BEFORE I COME BACK TO MY SENSES’
THE FOURTH SINGLE FROM THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM ‘THE MODERN MEDIEVAL’ TO BE RELEASED NOVEMBER 20. AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER HERE NOW.
Something For Kate today release ‘Come Back Before I Come Back To My Senses’- the fourth single from their highly anticipated upcoming album ‘The Modern Medieval’. A menacing rocker that ratchets up the tension as only Something for Kate can, on ‘Come Back Before I Come Back to My Senses’, Paul Dempsey presents a love song where the two main ingredients are excitement and dread. His characters are two self-aware people who act completely against their own better judgement with frightening inevitability. The train has left the station and they are trapped on board.
Delivered with the deliberate bombast of a Cheap Trick / Pat Benetar number, "It's a song about someone who insists that they are not thinking clearly whilst at the same time working really hard to take momentary advantage of the fact that they are 'not thinking clearly'."
The video for ‘Come Back Before I Come Back To My Senses’ was created by Sydney artist Jonathan Key using footage captured by Madeleine Jones in Byron Bay’s La Cueva Recording Studio while the band were recording ‘The Modern Medieval.’
Something For Kate’s first album in over 8 years since 2012’s Leave Your Soul to Science, The Modern Medieval will be released on November 20 and is available for pre-order HERE. The Modern Medieval was recorded in Byron Bay by Nick DiDia (Powderfinger, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen) and mixed in Toronto by Canadian pop-electro auteur Howie Beck (Feist, Hayden, Chilly Gonzalez). An exciting, eclectic collection of songs, a rich hi-fi rush of warm, dynamic vocals, gorgeous guitar work, lush keyboards, and Dempsey’s always compelling story telling – The Modern Medieval finds the band of Paul Dempsey, Stephanie Ashworth and drummer Clint Hyndman united behind a renewed focus.
Compelling, transformative and beautiful – for both the listener and the band – The Modern Medieval is their first studio album in eight years - an electrifying salve for these strange days and a new benchmark in a legendary career. Offering an unprecedented depth of songwriting, it’s a prescient vision of our present times you’ll need to hear and hear again.
Something For Kate’s is a career that continues to excite. Since arriving in 1994 with their singular deconstruction of indie-guitar rock, the trio have bent the Australian musical landscape to their will, becoming a critically-acclaimed institution predicated on sticking to their guns. After their nervy 1997 LP debut Elsewhere for 8 Minutes confirmed a cult following with well beyond gold sales, the band’s records have made a consistent dent. Echolalia (2001) and The Official Fiction (2003) went beyond platinum status in Australia, while albums – Beautiful Sharks (1999), Desert Lights (2006) – achieved beyond gold sales heading towards platinum. 2012's Leave Your Soul to Science debuted at No. 5 on the ARIA charts.
With over 750,000 copies sold of their critically acclaimed back catalogue, the band have amassed 11 ARIA nominations and 14 entries in triple J’s Hottest 100 amongst other accolades – as well as a legion of loyal fans dedicated to whatever the band does next, however long the wait.
The Modern Medieval brings together three closely knit musicians, moving in parallel lines leads to sustained and stunning invention. Few bands have spanned multiple eras of Australian music as Something for Kate have, and even less have refused so stridently to be cosseted by their past. It’s a rare achievement to be this engaging and formidable.