We’re not going to lie, it’s been tougher than every getting press to cover our latest release, so we’re happy to have a new review to post. Peter Marks reviews The Darkness Forever on the website Santa Sangre.

“Channeled layers which appear on these tracks wickedly end slipping back into an invisible reality; those enchanted themes just do not end from Statik and kaRIN, they’re connection only grows stronger never given up something I wish others would hold onto as well: imagination. Staying on such a path is not an easy option, thank you so much for refusing to give up!”

Read the full review here

Today is the day!!  Happy Release Day!!!! Wooooooooooo

Just wanted to thank each one of you that are part of this release in some way.  Even just being here counts.

All orders have been shipped as of yesterday! All downloads have been sent and it is now up on all streaming platforms!

We hope you love it!!

After you have had a chance to listen, we would love to hear from you!!

Much love,

Collide people

We are very excited to announce that we have a brand new release called The Darkness Forever!! This new release marks album #14 for us!!!

It is a cover album! We know we have already done a cover album with These Eyes Before, but that was 15 years ago!!

For each song, we tried to channel the original artist, while giving it our own slant and energy. We love these songs, and we hope you will love them too!!!

The official release date is July 16th!!! All orders will ship on, or before that date. (Note: as of 7/09/24, it looks like physical orders will ship around 7/19/24, as our CDs are taking a bit longer than expected to get from our manfacturer.)

BUNDLES and PRE-SALE ITEMS

The first 250 physical orders will be signed, and come with a free signed poster (folded) and a signed card because we love you!

We are offering special T-shirt and CD Bundles. During the pre-sale, with each album sale (physical, or download), we will be sending you a code with your physical order, where you can download the files from Bandcamp, in whatever format(s) you desire. (MP3 V0, MP3 320, FLAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, ALAC, WAV, AIFF). Sample rates up to 96k.

We are also offering an Instrumental Download version as an option in some of the bundles.

For the T-shirts, we are only doing a very limited amount—so if you want one —now would be the time.

For any orders over $75, get free USPS First Class shipping, by using the Discount Code “FreeShip75”, during checkout. (You have to enter it after you enter your shipping information)

Here is the track listing:

1. Wandering Stars (originally by Portishead)

2. Heart-Shaped Box (originally by Nirvana)

3. Half Light (originally by TomandAndy with Low)

4. Supermassive Black Hole (originally by Muse)

5. Unholy (originally by Sam Smith)

6. Criminal (originally by Fiona Apple)

7. Broken Machine (originally by Nothing But Thieves)

8. Human Behavior (originally by Björk)

9. Games Without Frontiers (originally by Peter Gabriel)

10. Sweet Jane (originally by The Velvet Underground)
11. Rocket Man (originally by Elton John)

The best way to help support us is by buying directly from our website. That’s the only place we will be offering the bundles before the release date.

We will need your help to get the word out there!!! Tell a friend, tell ten friends!!! Write a review, like, or share a post, write a blog, post on your Tik Tok and so on—use your imagination. There are many ways to help.

So, if our music is, or has ever been important to you, this is the way to let us know, and every bit helps. We even have a donation button if you want to go that way.

Much love,
Collide
kaRIN & Statik

cover of the Sam Smith/Kim Petras song

Oh YES we did!!

We fell in love with this song, (and with Sam Smith & Kim Petras who created it), and we felt moved to do our own version.

We hope you love it!!

To all of the people who don’t fit in...for ANY reason

Thank you for making the world a better place!!

Thanks so much to Sam Smith & Kim Petras!

Their art, their truth & their bravery to be themselves struck us.

Love, compassion, and understanding for each other is always the way forward, and it is getting increasingly scary and dangerous in a world that tries to pressure people who do not fit into particular molds.

We will be donating a portion of the proceeds of this song to The Trevor Project.

The Trevor Project provides support services to LGBTQ young people.

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It seems like it’s taken a while for press and magazines and most people to really take notice of Notes From the Universe, but we’re starting to get some good press on it, which makes us happy. We put A LOT of energy into making an album, so it does mean a lot when people notice, and take the time to write a review.

RagMag

An ambient and boundless alt pop and rock opus of an album was recently released from the band Collide and it breeds an absolutely refreshing set of textures that blend and chop into each other giving everything a darkened disquietude but also this vitality that helps the songs build a fierce but flowing character.

The Notes from The Universe album is completely immense, and these songs have the feel of connecting together almost like a concept album would.

You get such a great combination of natural and digital instrumentation that create an atmosphere that has a way of wrapping itself around you and keeping you right where it wants you.

You have some real gems throughout the records playthrough that possess this pop sensibility which is also there a lot on this release.

But even still if you look at this like it is a concept album, you're better off.

The vocals across the record have this graceful tonality to them and it really helps the whole approach for the soundscape and style that they've built.

There are plenty of surprises lurking around the corners and levels of intensity that rise and fall so the songs have a way of feeling alive and breathing.

What's most impressive about this really is the arrangement and songwriting and how the performance of the songs is the glue that keeps everything together and forward moving.

These are incredibly pictorial as well a lot of the time, which is quite beautiful in its own right, but they never lose that touch of grit and sharpness.

Notable songs include "Freak Like Me", Haunting Me Still, and "Are You Better Now" among others of course.

Buzz Slayers Blog just reviewed Notes From the Universe and did a review for us…find it here:

https://www.buzzslayers.com/post/an-interview-with-collide

ReGen Magazine

Although the band has hardly kept quiet in the interim with reissues and the “Are You Listening?” collaborative single, it had been four years since Statik and kaRIN had graced their audience with a full-length album of new Collide material. Perhaps it was this long wait that accounts for the 11 tracks on Notes From the Universe, which present some of the band’s densest and most notably robust production values yet. Elements of ‘60s blues-laden psychedelia can be felt in the sharpened rays of light guitar and organ that resound in “Turn Off Your TV,” or in the grinding grooves or “Are You Better Now?,” while later cuts like the jaunty “Icy Cold,” the swinging lounge jazz vibes of “When All You Crave,” or the sultry cabaret rhythms of the smoky “What Were You Thinking” demonstrate the fuller extent of Collide’s variety of influences, all filtered through Statik’s fierce layers of sophisticated electronics and splashes of organic sounds like guitar and piano. We even get a mangled bebop energy in “Gets to the Heart,” the distortion doing little to dissuade from an inherent pop catchiness, and probably the closest Collide has ever come to truly sounding like Curve. A song like “I Go Crashing” is especially entrancing, if somber, as jangly strums of acoustic guitar mingle with swirling waves of ambient pads, while the martial percussion and icy trickles of guitar eventually give rise to overdriven drums and malfunctioning sequences in the opening “Stardust.” All the while, kaRIN’s breathy and melodious voice remains as seductive and serpentine as ever, always balancing between a vulnerable chanteuse and a mischievous temptress, aided by no small amount of reverb and other minor effects for occasional emphasis.

However, much of Notes From the Universe tends to linger precariously close to the point of excess; songs lasting nearly six or seven minutes are not a new thing for the duo, but there is such a superfluity of lengthy repetitions that one might wonder if Statik and kaRIN are trying to make up for the long absence. “Freak Like Me” is a prime example of this, with the song virtually a complete work by the time three-and-a-half minutes have elapsed… but that’s only the first half of the song, and while the corroded bass tone and washes of feedback in the bridge and the arpeggios and vocal effects of the coda are enticing on their own, there is an almost anticlimactic disconnect that occurs. This applies to every song on the album, but this isn’t to say that Notes From the Universe is in any way tiresome; on the contrary, in fact, much of the band’s appeal over the years has been in how they allow songs to breathe and progress as they will. Ultimately, Notes From the Universe delivers all you could expect from a Collide record, and just a little more – such generosity from a band is deserving of gratitude.