Echo & The Bunnymen release another track from new album

The Killing Moon is taken from Echo & the Bunnymen’s forthcoming album - The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon (released October 5th). As previously revealed, this album sees the band return to their peerless back catalogue to reinterpret thirteen of their most beloved songs with ‘strings and things’, alongside new tracks How Far? and current single The Somnambulist. Recorded at The Dog House Studios with co-producer Andy Wright, the Bunnymen hand-picked the selection of tracks for the album from their majestic, four-decade spanning archive. Mac said of the new versions: “I’m not doing this for anyone else. I’m doing it as it’s important to me to make the songs better. I have to do it.”

In 2015, Ian McCulloch told the Guardian “I’ve always said that The Killing Moon is the greatest song ever written.” A track that partly appeared in a dream, a lyric half-credited by the author to God, it is one of the most perfect pieces of pop music ever written. This new version is an unprecedented showcase for Mac’s voice, a raw and exposed instrument set against a sparse backdrop of piano and strings to create a truly incredible companion piece to the peerless 1984 original.

Echo & the Bunnymen have released a reimagined version of their timeless classic The Killing Moon - streaming everywhere online from today (12th September 2018) and available immediately as an instant grat via iTunes and the band’s official artist store.

The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon features:

1. Bring on the Dancing Horses

2. The Somnambulist

3. Nothing Lasts Forever

4. Lips Like Sugar

5. Rescue

6. Rust

7. Angels & Devils

8. Bedbugs & Ballyhoo

9. Zimbo

10. Stars Are Stars

11. Seven Seas

12. Ocean Rain

13. The Cutter

14. How Far?

15. The Killing Moon