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"Audiologue 20th Anniversary Remaster" is released 30th August 2019.

Trademark released their first album as a 3-piece in the summer of 1999. Each copy was hand-burned onto CD by the band and covers printed on a bubble-jet printer! About 25 copies made it out in to the world.

It was our last album to be recorded to analogue multi-track. The backings were recorded in a week and the vocals and mixing done over a couple of days, some weeks later. Compare this to our 2012 recording sessions, where we could easily spend this much time on just one song! The vocals on "Audiologue" were recorded in single takes and many parts were bounced together, meaning we had very little control over the final mix. A world away from today's technology!

With the master tapes long gone, this new release was remastered from the original mix CD. The original photos were also scanned and restored. These were taken by Stu's good friend Stephen Baker on a day out to the Docklands area of London. The front cover was taken at Bank Tube station and was inspired by the song "Minority".

We hope you enjoy listening to this piece of our history.

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"Trademark." is released 25th June 2014.

It must seem like we've been away forever - "At Loch Shiel" is 5 years old! But we never stopped at all, we just got a lot slower. Or more relaxed. Perhaps that's a better way of putting it.

Some of these songs were written as far back as 2008, others were written from scratch on our 'album finishing' holiday to Wales in 2012. Then it still took us over a year to actually finish it.

Really you should have been listening to this album last year. We had signed off all the mixes unanimously by September, and everything was ready for final mastering. Then the most awful thing we have ever experienced happened. Stu died in October 2013 in an accident, the sort of thing that you couldn't even imagine happening. We've never experienced such sadness.

It has taken us a while, and it has been difficult, but we were determined to get this record out. For Stu, his family and friends, for us, and for everyone who supported us over the last 15 years.

Trademark are Stuart Meads, Oliver Horton and Paul Soulsby.

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