The Aristocrats

5/07FREEZE! Live In Europe – Release Day!

Hello!

We just wanted to send you all a quick reminder (just in case you missed our last message) that our brand new live album FREEZE! LIVE IN EUROPE 2020 is finally available… NOW!!

FREEZE! LIVE IN EUROPE 2020 is available on CD and digital download formats from today, as well as limited-run double-vinyl exclusively sold from Diggers Factory.

Hi-res digital downloads of FREEZE! are available exclusively at our brand new Bandcamp store, along with CD-or-better quality digital downloads of our entire back catalogue for the very first time.

All studio and live releases by The Aristocrats can be purchased at:

https://linktr.ee/AristocratsBand

and wherever music is sold.

For a little taste of what to expect, check out the ‘teaser’ video here:

The album showcases performances recorded across Spain in February 2020, during our last European tour and just weeks before live music went on extended hiatus. FREEZE! leans heavily on debut live-recorded renditions of material from our most recent album You Know What…? It also contains an extra special version of “Get It Like That”, with a drum solo by Marco specially dedicated to Rush’s Neil Peart, who very sadly passed away while we were on tour.

FREEZE! documents a particularly memorable period for us and it’s really fortunate that we were able to capture this musical ‘snapshot’. After months of relentless gigging, the material from our latest studio recording had started to feel really natural for us and yet… somehow, there was still an unmistakable element of excitement and musical risk-taking on stage every night when we played those songs.

Growing together as a band also means knowing, focusing and perfecting the details of our musical presentations. This sort of ‘quality control’ is always necessary and trying to give 110% every night is the least we can do for us and especially our fans! We believe that this ‘hand-picked’ selection of Aristocratic tunes showcases the band as a very well-toured, oiled and locked machine, with not only love and attention to detail, but also playfulness and fun.

But we had no way of knowing as we ploughed through Spain that these would also be some of the last shows we’d play for a while. So it’s special on several levels for us to be able to share this frozen moment in time, which is what a live album truly is. It’s a statement of what we were bringing to stages every night in the heat of a world tour; it’s something for our fans who may not have caught this tour to experience and hopefully enjoy at home; and, ideally, it’s also something to keep the flame burning for when we can get back out there and let loose onstage once again. Because that’s what we do best!

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