Future's Fused Like Shattered Glass (Patreon)

Back in the winter of 2014 we came to Montreal to record what would end up being Operators debut EP at legendary local studio Hotel2Tango.  We spent a few weeks tracking almost every single song we’d written up to that point (thirteen in total)...and one cover.  Hiroshima Mon Amour is arguably one of the best Ultravox songs from their pre Midge Ure/Vienna period when Jon Foxx was still singing for them and they sounded light years ahead of almost every other British band in 1977. They’d go on to record two more versions of it (a squalling, frantic rock take and a smooth, even more proto-synth pop single) almost as if they knew they had a great piece of art but didn’t know how to render it properly.  For us, the track had the same haunted quality we were trying to reach with songs like Ancient and Ecstasy In My House...phased/blurred out and unstuck in time.  We even misheard the lyric “features fused like shattered glass” as “future’s fused like shattered glass”.  We rarely ever do covers but this one just fit.