Tycho has today announced and released “Forge”, the follow-up to (and early incarnation of)  “Boundary Rider”, his recent collaboration with Paul Banks (Interpol). track which saw support from the likes of NME, CLASH, Stereogum, The Line Of Best Fit, FLOOD and many more.

Speaking about the track, Tycho says:

“‘Boundary Rider’ started life as a demo called ‘Forge’, a driving open-ended extension of the Epoch-era sound. I originally sent a pretty stripped back version to Paul Banks to see if he was interested in contributing vocals, which later informed the direction of that arrangement. After completing that version, I revisited the original to see if I could draw a compelling instrumental out of it. This is sometimes difficult with a song written with vocals in mind — it’s hard to find the elements to tie it all together once the vocals are gone. But with this one it ended up feeling nicely balanced just by pushing Zac’s guitars to the front a bit, retaining the isolated sound of the vocal version while opening up more space for the instrumentation to breathe.”