Australian vets The Amity Affliction have announced plans to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their seminal full length release, Let the Ocean Take Me, with a re-recording of the original album. Paired with the news of the rework, the band have shared a new visualizer for the track, "My Father's Son (Redux)". 

Let the Ocean Take Me (Redux), refreshes the album's original ten tracks with new vigor and polished production - underscoring the shelf life of the songs on the album. Vocalist Joel Birch expressed gratitude to the fans in being able to revisit the album officially. 

"We wouldn't be anywhere near where we are today without this album and the way it resonated with people around the world," says Birch. "This is the foundation of our band, and we owe everything we have to all of the people who listened to it and came out to our shows and continues to this day to show their love to us. This is the greatest blessing — thank you."

Birch would go onto share how the reflection in revisiting these songs underscored just how far the band had come. "The album is almost entirely dedicated to addiction and the effects it had on my life and mental health," Birch maintains. "The strangest thing while rerecording this was reading the words and then reflecting on life since then, this album was the catalyst for us touring the world and turning what was just a really fun time into a career, from kids to adults, from haphazardly throwing together songs to the place where we're at now where we feel like we put more purpose into everything we create."

Birch would go onto explain how the album served a harbinger or sorts, preceding a turbulent time in his personal life that almost derailed all the success he was tallying with Amity. "I started drinking again almost immediately after this album was finished and almost blew up everything I held dear, so the album is a warning of sorts, for myself and for anyone else out there struggling with addiction. I should have been able to read what I wrote and perform these songs and have it reinforce the very thing I had written about, but addiction is a soul crusher and just swallowed me up and spat me out."

The frontman would also go onto detail how the reworking of the original album serves as a way to take back their art and claim what was always theirs. "This is a chance to have some ownership over our own songs, something that we didn't have while with our old label," Birch explains. "Let this be the canary in the coal mine for younger bands; in this day and age, you can find ethical and equitable deals, you don't need to believe the bullshit larger labels will feed you, and you can maintain control over your masters and own your own songs. Thankfully, we've always told people to get fucked when they've tried to meddle in our music or this could have been even worse. In any case, I hope that you guys enjoy this and give it a thrashing. We are personally much happier with this new recreation."

Let The Ocean Take Me (Redux) arrives September 27 via Pure Noise Records. The 10th anniversary edition of the album is available for order - HERE