FROM JOSH: When The Armed released these stem files for download, I jumped at the opportunity to collaborate and create something with them. All the live drums, bass and most of the guitars are the original recordings by The Armed. I changed up the arrangement a bit, added vocals, synths, piano, and a few other bits and pieces. I recorded my parts and mixed the song in my flat in Bristol. Robin mastered it in Germany and the rest of ILENKUS gave their blessing for us to release it here.

Go check out more stuff from the truly fantastic ISOLATE/CREATE project:
www.isolatecreate.com

Please support The Armed (www.paypal.me/thearmed) and everyone involved with the ISOLATE/CREATE resource. If you want to support ILENKUS you can share this track and any of our other music, buy some merch or whatever.

FROM THE ARMED: The world is a dystopian tire fire right now. And while there’s not a whole lot we can do about that beyond staying home and being cautious, we can certainly collaborate on something cool while all of civilization loses their collective shit.

So one, here’s a song that we never finished for whatever reason. There’s no vocals. There’s some temporary chords we meant to replace with big synth parts but never got around to. We’ve provided it here as isolated stems so you can STAY HOME AND MAKE MUSIC WITH US!

While you’re isolated, self-quarantined, social-distanced and basically trapped doing nothing but washing your hands in the sick of your own anxiety and terror, we invite you to take these stems and make your own The Armed song