WEATHER SYSTEMS release debut studio album "Ocean Without A Shore" and video for “Untouchable Part 3"
01-10-2024
With Anathema being on an indefinite hiatus, Daniel Cavanagh put his creative energy into a new vessel, dubbed WEATHER SYSTEMS. Today, Music Theories Recordings and WEATHER SYSTEMS release the band’s debut studio album titled OCEAN WITHOUT A SHORE. The new band from former Anathema mastermind, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Cavanagh and former Anathema drummer and producer Daniel Cardoso, has been anticipated by fans across the globe. For the day of release, WEATHER SYSTEMS has presented a third video from the album, for the track “Untouchable Part 3”.
Watch “Untouchable Part 3” below.
Daniel shares: “’Untouchable Part 3’ is arguably the most personal and emotive song that I have ever written. In fact, I am sure that it is. It is also a profoundly beautiful melody. I can say that because I don’t claim to write melodies like this. I agree with Paul McCartney, Thom Yorke, Chris Martin, Mozart and Einstein. These things seem to be channelled somehow. I am not comparing myself to these greats, but I am simply a channeler all the same. We discover these melodies; we don’t write them. They are given to us. And now, I give it to you. Love and light.”
The prior reveal was “Synaesthesia”. At the time of release, the band shared, “’Synaesthesia.’ We bet you weren’t expecting this! A super heavy 9-minute song in five movements. A song that explores amongst the heaviest moments of the last two decades of our music, either with Anathema or Weather Systems. A song that introduces you to the album by taking you on an unexpected journey. A song that musically could crush your skull and lyrically lift your spirit. A song of hope, of connection to the ‘one love’ that the Beatles and Bob Marley sang of but executed in a way that’s never been done before. A song that reflects the light of all life, the ocean without a shore that is eternal, unbounded consciousness and the connection that we all share to everyone. There isn’t another song out there like this one. Ladies and gentlemen. ‘Synaesthesia.’” The lead reveal was “Do Angels Sing Like Rain?”.
Watch the previously released “Synaesthesia” and “Do Angels Sing Like Rain?” below.
“This record is more direct, honest, and from the heart,” Daniel affirms. “It takes you on a journey with some very personal, intense, and emotional songs. It’s spiritual for me. The music is coming from a higher place, so I hope it touches you.”
In 2019, Daniel immersed himself in writing what he believed would be the next Anathema offering. Two years prior, the long-running UK-bred group reached numerous critical and commercial milestones with its final LP, The Optimist. It took home “Album of the Year” at the Progressive Music Awards, marked their second Top 40 entry on the UK Albums Chart, and capped off 2017 on year-end lists from AXS, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, and The Independent, to name a few. In the studio, he hit his creative stride with a myriad of elegantly heavy and enigmatically entrancing material. However, 2020 saw the band agree upon an indefinite hiatus. As such, the majority of Ocean Without A Shore originated during those Anathema sessions.
“It was 80% an Anathema record we would’ve made,” he goes on. “It’s definitely a continuation of what I was doing. I’ll make an analogy. If Anathema was Game of Thrones, then Weather Systems is House of the Dragon. It’s part of the same universe, but it’s a new story. It’s different, because it’s a little heavier. I’ll always play the Anathema songs I wrote, because I love them so much. Weather Systems is the name of our best album, in my opinion. Ocean Without A Shore is like a sequel.”
He finished the music joined by some familiar faces. Once again, he reteamed with The Optimist producer Tony Doogan [Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian]. Alongside Anathema drummer Daniel Cardoso behind the kit and as Live Musical Director, and Cavanagh’s performances on vocals, piano, electric piano, keyboards, vocoder, electric and acoustic guitars, bass and programming, the album features vocals from Soraia, Petter Carlsen, Oliwia Krettek and Paul Kearns.
Like everything Daniel has done up to this point, the sound of Weather Systems has the power to connect. “Anathema never really had ‘casual fans’,” he leaves off. “The music was so intense and emotional, and people were affected by it on a deep level. I really respect that, and I just try to write music that will resonate in the hearts and souls of listeners. I hope it heals.”
Tracklist
1 Synaesthesia
2 Do Angels Sing Like Rain?
3 Untouchable Part 3
4 Ghost In The Machine
5 Are You There? Part 2
6 Still Lake
7 Take Me With You
8 Ocean Without A Shore
9 The Space Between Us
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