Hav­ing been fans of Mag­net­ic Skies since their ear­li­est releas­es, we’re always keen to hear what the band does next. Their lat­est offer­ing is a new remix of Clos­ing In, a stand­out track from their sopho­more album Frag­ments, released last year.

Already a dark and atmos­pher­ic piece, Clos­ing In has been reimag­ined with even greater inten­si­ty, ampli­fy­ing its mood and cin­e­mat­ic dra­ma. The remix adds fresh ener­gy to the orig­i­nal while retain­ing the haunt­ing qual­i­ties that made the track so com­pelling in the first place.

Front man Simon Kent elab­o­rates on the remix: “We’ve pushed the instru­men­ta­tion and arrange­ment into new dimen­sions, let­ting the ten­sion and emo­tion take on even greater force. There’s vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty in it, but also defi­ance. It’s about find­ing some­thing inside your­self strong enough to push back against fear, manip­u­la­tion and exter­nal control.”

Mag­net­ic Skies start­ed out as a stu­dio-based project cre­at­ed by lead vocal­ist and keys play­er Simon Kent and Jo Womar also on keys, dri­ven by a shared love of 80s synth-dri­ven post-punk. Their first album in 2023 was Empire Falling with pro­duc­tion and mix­ing on the album pre­dom­i­nant­ly car­ried out in-house by Kent, along­side addi­tion­al mix­ing duties per­formed by Rob Aubrey (engi­neer for Sex Pistols/Big Big Train/Asia).

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