cover of the Sam Smith/Kim Petras song

Oh YES we did!!

We fell in love with this song, (and with Sam Smith & Kim Petras who created it), and we felt moved to do our own version.

We hope you love it!!

To all of the people who don’t fit in...for ANY reason

Thank you for making the world a better place!!

Thanks so much to Sam Smith & Kim Petras!

Their art, their truth & their bravery to be themselves struck us.

Love, compassion, and understanding for each other is always the way forward, and it is getting increasingly scary and dangerous in a world that tries to pressure people who do not fit into particular molds.

We will be donating a portion of the proceeds of this song to The Trevor Project.

The Trevor Project provides support services to LGBTQ young people.

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It seems like it’s taken a while for press and magazines and most people to really take notice of Notes From the Universe, but we’re starting to get some good press on it, which makes us happy. We put A LOT of energy into making an album, so it does mean a lot when people notice, and take the time to write a review.

RagMag

An ambient and boundless alt pop and rock opus of an album was recently released from the band Collide and it breeds an absolutely refreshing set of textures that blend and chop into each other giving everything a darkened disquietude but also this vitality that helps the songs build a fierce but flowing character.

The Notes from The Universe album is completely immense, and these songs have the feel of connecting together almost like a concept album would.

You get such a great combination of natural and digital instrumentation that create an atmosphere that has a way of wrapping itself around you and keeping you right where it wants you.

You have some real gems throughout the records playthrough that possess this pop sensibility which is also there a lot on this release.

But even still if you look at this like it is a concept album, you're better off.

The vocals across the record have this graceful tonality to them and it really helps the whole approach for the soundscape and style that they've built.

There are plenty of surprises lurking around the corners and levels of intensity that rise and fall so the songs have a way of feeling alive and breathing.

What's most impressive about this really is the arrangement and songwriting and how the performance of the songs is the glue that keeps everything together and forward moving.

These are incredibly pictorial as well a lot of the time, which is quite beautiful in its own right, but they never lose that touch of grit and sharpness.

Notable songs include "Freak Like Me", Haunting Me Still, and "Are You Better Now" among others of course.

Buzz Slayers Blog just reviewed Notes From the Universe and did a review for us…find it here:

https://www.buzzslayers.com/post/an-interview-with-collide

ReGen Magazine

Although the band has hardly kept quiet in the interim with reissues and the “Are You Listening?” collaborative single, it had been four years since Statik and kaRIN had graced their audience with a full-length album of new Collide material. Perhaps it was this long wait that accounts for the 11 tracks on Notes From the Universe, which present some of the band’s densest and most notably robust production values yet. Elements of ‘60s blues-laden psychedelia can be felt in the sharpened rays of light guitar and organ that resound in “Turn Off Your TV,” or in the grinding grooves or “Are You Better Now?,” while later cuts like the jaunty “Icy Cold,” the swinging lounge jazz vibes of “When All You Crave,” or the sultry cabaret rhythms of the smoky “What Were You Thinking” demonstrate the fuller extent of Collide’s variety of influences, all filtered through Statik’s fierce layers of sophisticated electronics and splashes of organic sounds like guitar and piano. We even get a mangled bebop energy in “Gets to the Heart,” the distortion doing little to dissuade from an inherent pop catchiness, and probably the closest Collide has ever come to truly sounding like Curve. A song like “I Go Crashing” is especially entrancing, if somber, as jangly strums of acoustic guitar mingle with swirling waves of ambient pads, while the martial percussion and icy trickles of guitar eventually give rise to overdriven drums and malfunctioning sequences in the opening “Stardust.” All the while, kaRIN’s breathy and melodious voice remains as seductive and serpentine as ever, always balancing between a vulnerable chanteuse and a mischievous temptress, aided by no small amount of reverb and other minor effects for occasional emphasis.

However, much of Notes From the Universe tends to linger precariously close to the point of excess; songs lasting nearly six or seven minutes are not a new thing for the duo, but there is such a superfluity of lengthy repetitions that one might wonder if Statik and kaRIN are trying to make up for the long absence. “Freak Like Me” is a prime example of this, with the song virtually a complete work by the time three-and-a-half minutes have elapsed… but that’s only the first half of the song, and while the corroded bass tone and washes of feedback in the bridge and the arpeggios and vocal effects of the coda are enticing on their own, there is an almost anticlimactic disconnect that occurs. This applies to every song on the album, but this isn’t to say that Notes From the Universe is in any way tiresome; on the contrary, in fact, much of the band’s appeal over the years has been in how they allow songs to breathe and progress as they will. Ultimately, Notes From the Universe delivers all you could expect from a Collide record, and just a little more – such generosity from a band is deserving of gratitude.

Notes From the Universe comes in at #19 for Best Albums of the Year!!

To end the year, we'd like to give thanks to all of our supporters and listeners.

Since we began making music, a lot of magazines and websites have gone under, but one of the most well known and revered websites around, A Model of Control, made their list of their top 50 albums for 2022, and our album, Notes From the Universe, which came out 2/22/22, came in at 19 on their list!!!

There were a lot of albums released in 2022, so we were pretty happy to come in at 19, and appreciate Adam at A Model of Control for his continued support.

(NEW VIDEO+NEW AUDIO)

https://youtu.be/9zH8CR77tEw

The original version of "In the Frequency" never had a full video. Edward Mavskegg (who also did the video for “Bending and Floating” started a video for the song, (but for some reason that we never fully understood), never wanted to finish it. Since this is the summer of new videos, we decided to finish it ourselves! For the audio we did a new mix which combines the original version of the song with the Great Apes remix.

For anyone wanting to download the new mix, we made it available on our website (as well as our Bandcamp page) as both a wav and mp3 download

https://www.collide.net/.../in-the-frequency-video-mix...

https://www.collide.net/.../in-the-frequency-video-mix-mp3

We hope you enjoy this all new version and complete video! It only took 10 years. The Great Apes Remix was done by Tom Gipson. The original version featured Dean Garcia on bass and Scott Landes on guitar.

If anyone hasn’t been keeping up to date with us on Facebook this summer, we’ve been uploading some new and some new and improved videos to our YouTube page.

So far we have

1. The Live at the El Rey concert video., now in HD, with a new mix of the concert audio.

2. Euphoria (now in 4k)

3. Head Spin (Behind the Scenes studio video and photoshoot) (NEW)

4. A Little Too Much (Behind the Scenes studio video) (NEW)

5. Shiver X (Secret Meeting) (Behind the Scenes photoshoot video) (NEW)

6. Dreamsleep (Acoustic Video) (in 4k) (NEW)

7. Deep (Acoustic Video) (now in 4k)

8. Modify (Acoustic Video) (now in 4k)

9. Breathe (Acoustic Video) (now in 4k)

10. Time (Acoustic Video) (in 4k) (NEW)

11. Euphoria (live in San Diego) (now in HD)

12. Like You Want to Believe (West Coast Tour) (now in 4k)

13. Wings of Steel (West Coast Tour) (now in 4k)

Stay tuned…we still have a few surprises up our sleeves!

Happy watching! -kaRIN & Statik

When I write words, I like to capture my own feelings, but also to leave the song open enough for others to gather their own meanings and experiences from it.

At the core of the song, "When All You Crave" was written to say we are all interconnected, and although we are individuals, we all have similar dreams, hopes, and fears as we go through life.

Here is a a little lyric video we made with some fire, fire