‘Out Of Mind’, Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate’s fourth album, is inspired by memory, from a variety of perspectives. It starts with ‘Coming Back’, inspired by Philp K Dick (PKD)’s novel Time Out Of Joint. Track 11 (The Electric Ant) is also based on a PKD story.
The last conscious entity drifting towards the heat death of the universe reflects on the inevitable loss of memory as it disintegrates in ‘I Miss The Stars’.
’Losing myself’ is from the perspective of someone trapped in a mind degenerating due to dementia.
‘When I Was A Ship’ is inspired by Ann Leckie’s ‘Imperial Radch’ science-fiction novel series. The main character once was a warship, whose artificial intelligence was distributed between the ship and the elements of her programme distributed into mind-wiped slaves (ancillaries). She was programmed to unquestioningly follow her orders, but different factions of clones of her master are secretly at war with each other, leading to the destruction of all aspects of her self other than one fragment in a single ancillary.
‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ (on the fabric of the human body) was the title of Andreas Vesalius’s ground-breaking anatomy book. Published in 1543, it challenged established doctrines that had been accepted since Galen. Vesalius taught that we should challenge accepted knowledge where it doesn’t fit with reality.
‘Stand Up’ is about those who rewrite history to promote hatred.
The last track of the album is ‘Lidice’. Named after the Czech mining village destroyed by the Nazis, murdering 88 children and 252 adults. They wanted the village to be wiped from history. In response to the worst acts of inhumanity, we sometimes find the best of humanity. A group of coal miners in a mining village in Staffordshire, led by their local doctor, Barnett Stross, set up the organisation Lidice Shall Live. The community donated a day’s wage each week to fund the rebuilding of the village after the war. Hitler wanted the name Lidice to be forgotten – he failed. This song is dedicated to the memory of all those who have been killed because of their origins, and all those who stood in solidarity.
For more detailed information about the songs and lyrics, please visit https://www.hatsoffgentlemen.com/outofmind
Track Listing –
1) Coming Back (Time out of Joint)
2) When I Was a Ship
3) Defiance (instrumental)
4) De Humani Corporis Fabrica
5) The Rose That Was Red in the Dark (instrumental)
6) Maze (instrumental)
7) Stand Up
8) I Miss The Stars
9) If You Think This World Is Bad…
10) Losing Myself
11) The Electric Ant
12) Lidice
The album will be released in digital formats on 30 November 2018, and released as a physical CD on 25 January 2019. Pre-release exclusive orders are available on Bandcamp at https://www.hatsoffgentlemen.bandcamp.com
Links:
https://www.hatsoffgentlemen.com/
https://www.facebook.com/itsadequate/
Stand Up b/w When I Was A Ship single on Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/album/1IKY2F21BmlLPUXEdKHUZ6?si=POQPudr5RUeKyXFpn7prDQ
Stand Up single video on Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naEbnnxWe3o
Album preview on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOtfg-kggZ8
Stand Up video on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/293785329
Album streaming, digital downloads and physical CD pre-orders – https://hatsoffgentlemen.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-mind
