Hybrid - Formula Of Fear

Since first bursting onto the scene with the now classic album 'Wide Angle' in 1999, the Swansea, Wales-based Hybrid have been known as one of the most forward thinking and technically skilled acts in electronic dance music. Blurring the line between in-studio production and live presentation, Hybrid are one of the few remaining dance acts to perform live with a classic band setup. Though, much has changed on the road to Hybrid's fourth artist album Disappear Here. Most notable is the addition of Hybrid's newest member -- singer/ songwriter Charlotte James -- to go along with founders Chris Healings and Mike Truman. Charlotte's impact is marked as Disappear Here is truly an album of real songs and not merely dance beats with vocals on top. It offers a lot more than anything Hybrid has ever previously written and pushes boundaries in every way.

With Disappear Here, Hybrid have managed to create an epic and unique sound which has progressed dramatically from its original dance inception but still retains much of what makes electronic music so exciting. "This album offers a lot more than anything we've managed to write in the past", Healings says. "Charlotte comes from that singer/songwriter/performer world and she really inspired us to write something much more song based. Working so much with her we feel like there's a feeling of going somewhere else or doing something that will last longer in a live capacity. The music definitely reflects our desire to be a band but firmly rooted in dance music".

As the opening track for the album, 'Empire' meets Healings' statement of intent for the album. Its pounding live drums and moody, tense atmospherics set the stage and gradually build layers of electric guitars and sweeping strings performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. 'Can You Hear Me' is a shining moment combining the vocals of Charlotte and Tim Hutton (who also plays bass for Ian Brown, The Prodigy), while 'Green Shell Suit' is a swirling chill out reprise. 'Every Word' brings a warm, organic feel with the combination of haunting slide guitar, a warm arpeggiated acoustic and a brace of wonky but playful sound design. Album title track 'Disappear Here' mixes a powerful piano driven song over the crunching Hybrid production and the stadium electronica of 'Formula of Fear' presents one of the album's most intense peaks. Venturing further on, 'Salt' is encrusted with warped bass lines and brush drums; 'Original Sin' is a soundscape house music monster and 'Take A Fall' features a rock-breaks edge with Tim Hutton grabbing hold of the mic. Before closing out with the divine 'Numb'. Hybrid presents the album's touchstone and first single 'Break My Soul'. It's all cinematic from the triumphant chorus and 'Day in The Life' strings to the haunting breakdown and filmic overtones.

P & C 2010 Distinctive Records

[c_shark]

It's 2021 and I'm still fall in Hybrid like first time

[mimeticdelirium]

It’s mid 2024 and this still hits my core like a cannonball

[T-HoID]

We are the collective of souls who love this group. Shivers every time I hear their songs. Cheers

[ActionMacaque]

I keep coming back to this song. It's one of my all-time favourites.

[silenttempest]

There are, thanks to Hybrid I began my journey for a novel. It was the year 2008 and I was listening to I Choose Noise. There were stars which stood still, there were stars which fell. I was - as you - lying outdoors, trying to sleep on the balcony this one hot summer's night. Watching skies, dreaming about the White City on New Eearth. The utopia where everything is possible and there's close to no assholes living there.

[Breacher]

I always knew the Matrix Dub of this song. But after hearing the original... wow, there's that added element of drama from the vocals that I never experienced with the Matrix Dub. I think it sounds awesome.

[dirkpeterson]

lots of layers in this song. Listen to it with a good pair of headphones.

[arzangofthebrothersoflightario]

The Formula of Fear dictates my life and what's happening to me.

Can't control it from the inside, because I keep on losing streak.

But I keep holding on for that Daylight in the Tunnel.

[blackthorne-rose]

Yep ... great lyrics, haunting melodies and spine-shivering harmonic voice-overs.. rock steady rhythm and all kinda mysterious sound bytes and experimental - no fear music... love Hybrid!

[teroinefoma]

Hybrid songs match perfectly with any video game

[T.K.]

I only heard the "remix" version of this track originally. And that was a banger for me.

And now I hear this original one and mind blown.

[CreativeName]

"You only hear me when your miles away" reminds me of a friendship I used to have.

[skyebarcus]

This album is just incredible. I'm rediscovering it tonight and so amazed again at what this band can do.

[محمدعبدالمنعمالطرابلسي]

Always & forever I will listen to that song.

[rafakordaczek]

I could listen the piano cover endlessly.

[andrzejsyrkowski]

This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. thanks for making music that makes me want to live.

[telemething]

The whole song is epic, the transition from ambient to local at 1:23 is an act of God, then the galloping bass. I mean, this is really good, this is one of those 'looked at the speedo and I was doing 150mph' songs.

[kpbotbot]

Heard this song on Top Gear's Race to the Mexican Border episode and I literally had to dig through stuff to find the title <3

[CZkrtek]

Can't stop listening to this. It is just A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!!

[katyisgone]

**{{lyrics}}**
Tell yourself
Control it from the inside
Losing streak
You realize you're letting go
Holding on
Exploding from the inside
Far beyond a reason

Forge your coin
To get across the river
Sink down deep
Deep underground
Searching on
The daylight in the tunnel
Far beyond a reason

It's drifting in and out in waves
Living in the strangest days
A picture in a different frame
You only hear me when you're miles and miles away

Silently you fall away,
Silently you fall away from me

Tell yourself
Not to show a downside
Over the edge
Your fingers down your collar
Suffocate
See you're barely breathing
Wide eyed
And screaming

It's drifting in and out in waves
Living in the strangest days
A picture in a different frame
You only hear me when you're miles and miles away

You only hear me when you're miles away
You only hear me when you're miles away
You only hear me when you're miles away
You only hear me when you're miles and miles away