The Basics Record Song On 1903 Phonograph, Would Have Killed It On Ye Olde Charts

Veteran indie trio The Basics have taken inspiration from the distant past for their newest release, which sees the results of the band's 2013 collaboration with the National Film & Sound Archive — during which they recorded on an antique 1903 Edison phonograph — made available for free consumption ahead of their forthcoming eighth studio album, due out later this year.

The band recorded a vintage version of their classic track I Don't Need Another, taken from their 2003 debut album Get Back, using the Edison Standard D model phonograph to lay the track to wax cylinder for an added touch of turn-of-the-20th-century warmth. Despite being recorded in October two years ago, the results have only just been uploaded to YouTube in a video of the band laying down the track acoustically, and the audio recording of the wax-cylinder result is now available on SoundCloud.

You can see a mixture of both the acoustic sounds and the wax-cylinder end product below.

Find out more about the NFSA's Wax Cylinder Project here.

The Basics' eighth studio full-length, The Age Of Entitlement, will be released this year. Lead single Roundabout was recently previewed by the band in a joint video with MusicVictoria, for which they performed the track at Melbourne Airport. See it below.