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If you haven't heard his former stuff, think incredibly beautiful whispering melodies, gentle folk guitar and the most super sad lyrics of all time. Seriously, all time. He has now remixed some of the album in a ‘positivistically' way and released the album last week as Derivatives on indie label, Naim Edge. He has apparently gone to a happier place and Derivatives is its soundtrack. And what better way to inject some positiva into the songs than adding some electronics eh?  He blogged this "I started to see so many others experiencing the songs differently, even positivistically. And I wanted to understand and assimilate that experience for myself as well. These newly understood songs give the other side of that tale. I sincerely hope they'll mean as much to you as they do to me."

The most random track in the bunch is Fitzsimmons' cover of Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl". You get the gist that this is no cheap PR stunt, an excuse to shoot a pop video with some girl on girl action. Nah, this is perhaps the only rendition of this song that has any sense of sobriety, like it's his confession to his ex.

It's hard not to feel Fitzsimmons' pain when you listen to Derivatives. Packaged in a more electro-friendly way, Derivatives may not be quite as dark as The Sparrow And The Crow but it still has the evocative power to floor anyone. Even his ex?