Advance Base Unveils New Song ‘Brian’s Golden Hour’

Advance Base has released a new single, ‘Brian’s Golden Hour’, taken from the upcoming album Horrible Occurrences. It follows lead single ‘The Year I Lived in Richmond’. Check it out below.

Discussing the new track, Owen Ashworth said:

‘Brian’s Golden Hour’ is a song about Brian, a fictional teenage skateboarder in the fictional American town of Richmond, the same place where most of Horrible Occurrences takes place. Brian has glorious plans to film himself skating off his parents’ roof and down a ramp that he’s set up in the alley alongside the house. Brian is going to perform the trick just after sunrise during ‘the golden hour’ when the light is most beautiful. Standing on the roof at sunrise, Brian has a premonition that the trick won’t go as planned. He sees a terrible future stretch out before him in a flash. But Brian’s fine. It was all in his head. It isn’t too late to change his mind. That’s what I keep telling myself, at least.

I recorded the instrumental passage that introduces ‘Brian’s Golden Hour’ on an Opus 3, a paraphonic synthesizer introduced by Moog in 1980. I have a sentimental attachment to the Opus 3. I first played my friend Jason Quever’s Opus 3 at his recording studio while we were trying out some different arrangement ideas for the song ‘Your Dog’ from the 2018 Advance Base album Animal Companionship. The Opus 3 was just what the song needed, and I really fell in love with the sound of that synthesizer that day. So, after Joe Pera licensed ‘Your Dog’ for his comedy special, Relaxing Old Footage With Joe Pera, I used the licensing fee to buy my very own Opus 3. It appears on four of Horrible Occurrences’ eleven tracks, including the album’s first single, ‘The Year I Lived in Richmond.’ The way I use the Opus 3 on Horrible Occurrences was inspired by John Carpenter’s scores for his early horror films like Halloween and The Fog. It’s the sound of apprehension, a warning that something horrible is about to occur.

Konstantinos Pappis
Konstantinos Pappis
Konstantinos Pappis is a writer, journalist, and music editor at Our Culture. His work has also appeared in Pitchfork, GIGsoup, and other publications. He currently lives in Athens, Greece.
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