40 years after their last album ‘Secret’ was released in 1983, Classix Nouveaux are back with a brand new album entitled Battle Cry. It contains nine tracks, including seven brand new compositions plus ‘Never Never Comes’ and ‘Interlude/Inside Outside’ which have been re-imagined for the 21st century.

Featuring a very guitar-rock sound, it also contains a couple of instrumentals which is something that the band used to do on their early albums. In the words of lead singer Sal Solo, this is how the album came about:

“The reason this project came about after 40 years is really because of the fans. About 10 years ago, some of the Classix fans were making Facebook pages but it didn’t really come to our attention until a couple of years back. We realised these people are really dedicated and decided to give them a kind of birthday present.”

“I said to the guys ‘Why don’t we do a recording together and surprise the fans?’ Everybody said yes and so we did a quick remake of one of our old songs “Inside Outside” and to our surprise everyone’s immediately talking about new material!”

“We’d never thought about doing new Classix material – we thought it was over years ago. After a few weeks of agonising, we suddenly realised we could be as we are now. In the light of our increased experience and the fact that our fans are mature as well, we decided we would just make the music that we like today.”

“It didn’t take a lot of persuasion to get everyone on board. It’s the original line-up from the first two albums – what people consider the ‘classic’ line-up. We’ve all been in other bands, but somehow, we’ve all just seemed to gravitate back to Classix Nouveaux. It feels like a natural home. We hadn’t been in touch for many, many years and so this album is really what’s brought us back together.”

1. PRELUDE/ FIX YOUR EYES UP
2. BATTLE CRY
3. WRETCHED
4. FINAL SYMPHONY
5. NO DO OVERS
6. REVELATION SONG
7. NEVER NEVER COMES
8. INTERLUDE/ INSIDE OUTSIDE
9. COLOUR ME THE SKY

This brilliantly expressive, and wholly embracing of their original sound with an impassioned new edge opens on the free flowing PRELUDE/ FIX YOUR EYES UP and the Gospel-tinged BATTLE CRY and then we get the rhythmically ethereal WRETCHED and the soaring, goth-metal synth opus FINAL SYMPHONY

Along next is the heartfelt NO DO OVERS and the strident REVELATION SONG and they are in turn backed by the playful pop-new wave of NEVER NEVER COMES, the album rounding out on the dutiful pop flow of INTERLUDE/ INSIDE OUTSIDE, closing on the all-encompassing COLOUR ME THE SKY.

In closing, the 12 page booklet includes brand new sleeve notes where Sal Solo talks about the making of and the individual songs on the album.

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Classix Nouveaux - Battle Cry [Official Album Trailer]