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Minor Victories unveil stunning orchestral version of "Scattered Ashes"

10 January 2017, 11:00 | Written by Laurence Day

Minor Victories today reveal their emotive, orchestral version of last year's sublime "Scattered Ashes" track.

The track appears on Orchestral Variations, an instrumental edition of their self-titled debut LP released last summer, and follows the band's "Cogs" reinterpretation in previewing the release.

Hand Held Cine Club - Editors' Justin Lockey and filmmaker brother James Lockey - created the jaw-dropping visuals for the new single. Filled with the alien-like movements of jellyfish, the monochrome clip mirrors the fluidity of Minor Victories' skeletal new offering.

Speaking about the new album, Justin says: "When we were putting together the Minor Victories album, a lot of the music came about through string arrangements, motifs, melodies, countermelodies and other such noodlings I was messing about with. This record kind of takes it back to that initial point, and re-imagines the whole record from that standpoint - the bare bones, the hint at a vocal melody, not relying on any backbeat - but stripping the songs back to the base elements and then piece-by-piece making an entirely new record. It takes the songs and elements around them and the phrases into a new place, mostly born out of hindsight and I guess a curiosity to fuck around with it all long enough until it sounded right to my ear. From all that an entirely new record was formed. It's not a remix album, or B-sides... it's just another way at looking/hearing things."

Minor Victories comprises Slowdive's Rachel Goswell, Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite, and the brothers Lockey.

Orchestral Variations is released 27 January via Play It Again Sam. Pre-order now.
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