Special Interest have announced Endure Remixed, six remixes from their critically acclaimed 2022 album Endure, out Friday, November 10th, 2023 on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control. Today they are sharing electronic cyber-punk duo Machine Girl’s remix of ‘Concerning Peace’ – Special Interest’s incendiary screed against authority. The song title is inspired by the “On Violence” section from philosopher Frantz Fanon’s 1961 book “The Wretched of The Earth”. Straddling the line between club banger and punk anthem, the remix feels especially timely. Endure Remixed contains remixes of Endure favourites by artists such as Marie Davidson – and in a nod to their New Orleans roots, a bounce remix of their single ‘Midnight Legend’. The EP will be available as an extremely limited edition 12” and digitally.
Brought together by New Orleans’ inventive DIY scene, Special Interest finds a new way of defining the “rock band,” a true collective unit rather than the dictated vision of a single member. Their sound is ever-fluid and continues to evolve — Special Interest actually began as the duo of Alliv Logout and Maria Elena with guitar, drum machine, and a power drill, before Nathan Cassiani and Ruth Mascelli filled out its current line-up.
Even as their music transcends borders and adapts into new styles and forms, Special Interest is rooted in a sense of time and place, truly capturing what it feels like to exist in this moment. Just as much as any single musician, the group exists because of the dancing bodies in the crowd, striving to become a truly living collective that dissolves the barrier between performer and listener. Special Interest and their spectrum of sounds is the result of organic connection not just between four artists, but between those four artists and the world around them.
Special Interest – ‘Concerning Peace (Machine Girl Remix)’ (Official Visualiser)
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Special Interest – ‘Cherry Blue Intention’ (Official Video)
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Special Interest – ‘Midnight Legend’ (Official Video)
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Special Interest – (Herman’s) House (Official Video)
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Praise For Endure
“A dance-punk masterclass” – Rolling Stone
“A crescendo of gnashing guitar noise and thumping, clattering drum-machine beats…Righteous”
– New York Times
“Danceable punk music that borrow from the angular, jittery rhythms of 80s bands, with frenzied songs that carry a highly political bent” – NPR Music
“If you’ve been paying attention in the past few months, then you’ve seen Special Interest really hitting their stride” – Stereogum
“If anyone can make an anti-capitalism call and response sound legitimately dangerous in 2022, it’s Special Interest” – FADER
Special Interest – Endure Remixed
1. Concerning Peace (Machine Girl Remix)
2. Foul (Container Remix)
3. LA Blues (Marie Davidson Remix)
4. Midnight Legend (Dreamer Bounce Remix)
5. Midnight Legend (Olive T Remix)
6. Midnight Legend (Carry Nation Remix)
Special Interest – Endure
1. Cherry Blue Intention
2. (Herman’s) House
3. Foul
4. Midnight Legend
5. Love Scene
6. Kurdish Radio
7. My Displeasure
8. Impulse Control
9. Concerning Peace
10. Interlude
11. LA Blues
Special Interest – Endure Remixed is out November 10 via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records
