INXS have released an immersive new mix of their album ‘Kick’, which turns 35 this year – watch band members Tim Farriss and Kirk Pengilly plus engineer Giles Martin talk about the new version in the NME-exclusive video below, and read on for NME‘s interview with Farriss about the new mix and uses of INXS’s music by Euphoria and Dua Lipa.Released April 4 on Apple Music, the latest version of ‘Kick’ was mixed by Giles Martin in Dolby ATMOS.
Martin, the son of influential Beatles producer George Martin, has also mixed the Fab Four and Rolling Stones in the spatial audio format.
It’s also not this first time working on a fresh mix of ‘Kick’, remixing the album in 2017 for a cinematic experience to mark the album’s 30th anniversary.“They all sound different to me, really – but then, I’m very close to it, obviously,” Farriss tells NME of the songs that feature on the new audio edition of ‘Kick’.
The guitarist singles out the title track: “It’s got this acoustic guitar that, well, [is] there in the stereo mix, but it doesn’t stand out.
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