TripManhattan, 2026
TripManhattan’s iconic album, 5th Street Station, infused with weighty tales of the modern world, deserved more than to gather dust in CD racks.
The world moved on, technology evolved, CDs all but disappeared in favour of compressed, lossy MP3 audio files and equally LoFi streaming.
With the advent of high resolution streaming, pioneered by Tidal, and new audio production tools, it was time to blow the dust off.
Working from the original digital masters, professionally recorded at Fairview Studio in East Yorkshire, the entire album was recrafted, remastered and re-presented. The Station received a full refurbishment, if you will.
‘5th Street Station Refurbished’ retains the themes of urban society, its rock heritage, musical diversity. The songs have withstood the test of time, two decades since most were written.
This new presentation has tweaked a few lyrics, corrected mistakes and weaknesses, altered some arrangements and introduced instruments not available to TripManhattan in the olden times, while staying true to the original.
You will soon be able to listen to it on Soundcloud or on Tidal in full, uncompressed studio quality.
The band…
Andy Smith, drums
David Marritt, lead and rhythm guitar
Caroline Seymour, vocals
Jane Wesley (nee Watkins), vocals
Nigel Downes, bass
Simon Hudson, lead and rhythm guitar
Produced, arranged and engineered by Simon Hudson using Suno AI session musicians
AI was used in the recording and remastering process, and for all the artwork. All the music is from original material by TripManhattan and the members thereof.
All material remains the copyright of the respective rights holders.
