New Single. Firstly we’re ‘releasing’ Salt In Your Eye as a single, a video is being prepared as I type and we’ll be doing our best to have the whole world hear it over the coming weeks. Visit the wee mini-site we made for it using ‘viinyl.com’ and please tell yer friends they can download the song and more at music.escapeact.com.

The film of the album. This is something we’ve been working on over the last month or so. Our good friend Tim Newell has prepared a short film about the making-of ‘Balance’ during 2009 and its shaping up nicely. Its a nice culmination of this period of Escape Act’s existence, charting what was an interesting, challenging and emotional experience. The film will get it’s first showing at the Open Music Media Meetup in Belfast [facebook link] on January 30th, before being available on more traditional channels such as Youtube and Vimeo. Esteemed purchasers of our superb ‘Balance’ digipak will receive a limited edition DVD containing the film and various interesting extras.

A wee gig. We’re getting involved at the Oh Yeah Music Centre’s ‘Scratch My Demo’ series of gigs. We’ll be performing several songs including some newbies on Tuesday 15th February. Doors at 7pm and its free!

Happy New Year!

Rich, Chris and Ross

‘Balance’ is an incredible piece of work, and our proudest moment so far. Recorded during 2009 over 15 sessions at Chem19 and Gargleblast Studios in Hamiton, Scotland, it features 11 tracks recorded and produced by Andy Miller.

Limited Edition – Art Print Package
We’ve created an interesting and extremely limited edition package to celebrate the launch. We’re almost as proud of this album packaging, as we are of the record itself. Lovingly designed by ex-drummer Alan, its a double gate-fold CD digipack, with 28 page booklet. It feels amazing! Click here for more info and to pre-order your copy.

The package also includes a beautiful hand screen-printed 9″ art print matching the ‘Balance’ theme.

Full Package Contents:
- Beautiful ‘Balance’ double gate-fold cardboard digipak
- 28 page booklet
- Numbered, limited edition hand screen-printed 9″ art print.
- Stickers
- Instant album download

Watch Rich reveal all about the CDs and art print…

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The album is also available as:
- high quality digital download
- CD+Tshirt+Download package
- CD+Download

Please visit http://music.escapeact.com/album/balance for full details, pictures and prices.

We hope you’ll enjoy listening to the new album, and hope to see you at some of the gigs. Please tell your friends about our new songs, and help us spread the Escape Act word!

Don’t forget our album launch gigs!

take care

Rich

also, our good friend and supporter, Kevin at mp3hugger.com has blogged about ‘Single Thought’ – the opening track from Balance, declaring it to be ‘big audio dynamite’ – listen in here: http://mp3hugger.com/2010/06/escape-act-single-thought.html

don’t forget – we play Whelan’s in Dublin on July 10th, and on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th July, we’ll be doing loads of cool stuff in Belfast.

rich

And, if you go down to the iTunes store today, you’ll find Cabin Fever and Sullied Behave for the Moon have been re-released by 17 Seconds Records!

To celebrate the release, we’ve created a very limited edition screen-printed version of the artwork….

Sold out!

This will be the last in the series of the Loosely Based on Fiction physical products.

^{* Escape Act takes no responsibility for any surprises you might find in the woods today.}

For a mere £2.37 you can get God Says, plus two exclusive and rather excellent remixes by Exmagician and Uber Glitterati (check the 17 Seconds blog for a preview of the Uber Glitterati mix).

Let us know what you think on twitter, we’re @escapeact

We’re rather excited and more than a little chuffed that our friends at 17 Seconds in Edinburgh have offered to re-release God Says on their new label! We’ve been friends with Ed and 17 Seconds since he first reviewed God Says last summer and subsequently released Broken Chin during the Loosely Based On Fiction release period, so we’re really pleased that we can work together again.

Stay tuned for more details!

Rich

Free Download

click here to download for free (or pay what you like), or buy on iTunes!

Limited Edition CD Packages

We have some special Limited Edition Album options below at £14, £12, £10, £7.50 including our lovely limited edition booklets!

Option One: £14 including P&P

- Digipak CD Album
- Escape Act T-Shirt:
- (blue or black in M, L, XL, Girls Fit)
- Limited Edition Inlay Card Pack
- God Says Split 7″ vinyl
- Instant Download (320k MP3s)
- Postage and Packaging
- Stickers and Badges

Please choose your T-Shirt colour and size!

Blue – Girls Blue – Medium Blue – Large Blue – XL Black – Girls Black – Medium Black – Large Black – XL

Option Two: £12 including P&P

- Digipak CD Album
- Escape Act T-Shirt:
- (blue or black in M, L, XL, Girls Fit)
- Limited Edition Inlay Card Pack
- Instant Download (320k MP3s)
- Postage and Packaging
- Stickers and Badges

Please choose your T-Shirt colour and size!

Blue – Girls Blue – Medium Blue – Large Blue – XL Black – Girls Black – Medium Black – Large Black – XL

Option Three: £10 including P&P

- Digipak CD Album
- Instant Download (320k MP3s)
- Limited Edition Inlay Card Pack
- God Says Split 7″ Single
- Postage and Packaging
- Stickers and Badges

Option Four: £7.50 including P&P

- Digipak CD Album
- Instant Download (320k MP3s)
- Limited Edition Inlay Card Pack
- Postage and Packaging
- Stickers

The sleeves will contain the four leaves of the ‘booklet’ that we’ll hand number before they go in the post. These leaves feature notes from the album recording sessions and more of Alan’s artwork on the reverse.

Alan has also created a PDF version which contains lyrics for each of the songs on the album. This PDF will be available to anyone who buys the album from the site.

Earlier this week Ed over at 17 Seconds kindly released the last of our tracks – Broken Chin, head on over to read his thoughts on the album…

“Rather like the Strokes, here is a band who have realised that less is definitely more. Pure punky joy.”