Pitchshifter vocalist Jon Clayden appeared on the latest episode of Jon’s Untitled Podcast and during the conversation, spoke of finding the demos to an unreleased eighth studio album. A demo of one of those tracks—”Apply Yourself“—was released late last month and can be heard below. Speaking on the unreleased material and the band’s plans in that regard, Clayden commented:
“…I found the unreleased seventh album demos, right? So there are there good number, like seven instrumental demos, of songs that we never finished.
There’s one of those [that] had vocals on that i threw out that ‘Apply Yourself‘. So that that unreleased album is called ‘Sprint Finish‘. And then one of the demos that does have vocals on, I recently put out on Bandcamp and iTunes and all that stuff is called ‘Apply Yourself‘.
So there is the vague possibility that something could happen to those additional songs, right, if we ever decided to finish them, if we we ever decided to do anything with it.
I cannot envision that will be like good news to everyone ‘We’re gonna go back on the road and back in the studio, you know this things starting up again’ We’re all a little bit older now. We’ve got families. We’ve got pretend assumed identities in the witness protection program…”
The band are gearing up for a string of 20th anniversary shows around their 1998 album “www.pitchshifter.com“—a URL which in case you’re wondering, they did not keep ownership of. Those dates can be found here and will find them joined by Earthtone9 with at least one of the shows to be filmed/recorded for a potential future release. Guest vocal spots from members of SikTh, Hundred Reasons and more are planned for the tour as well.
Clayden himself mentioned during the interview that one of the London dates will be captured for posterity, though release plans for it are unclear.
