Australian band THE AMITY AFFLICTION will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of their beloved and iconic album Let the Ocean Take Me by releasing Let The Ocean Take Me (Redux) on September 27 via Pure Noise. Pre-order the album here.
The new version is a total re-recording of the original, which arrived in June 2014.
“We wouldn’t be anywhere near where we are today without this album and the way it resonated with people around the world,” says Joel Birch about the record’s long-standing legacy. “This is the foundation of our band, and we owe everything we have to all of the people who listened to it and came out to our shows and continues to this day to show their love to us. This is the greatest blessing — thank you.”
Let the Ocean Take Me was such a watershed moment for The Amity Affliction, since it connected them on a marrow-deep level with fans, thanks to the themes it addressed and topics it tackled, which are still potent to this day. Birch’s personal demons were the source material that he mined for the album and that is precisely why it strikes such a chord.
“The album is almost entirely dedicated to addiction and the effects it had on my life and mental health,” Birch maintains. “The strangest thing while rerecording this was reading the words and then reflecting on life since then, this album was the catalyst for us touring the world and turning what was just a really fun time into a career, from kids to adults, from haphazardly throwing together songs to the place where we’re at now where we feel like we put more purpose into everything we create.”
