Flicker Records hard music band Kids in the Way updates its popular 2005 release, Apparitions of Melody, with an enhanced version, available at Canadian Christian retailers nationwide next Tuesday, August 8th. Apparitions of Melody: The Dead Letters Edition will feature two additional music tracks plus an exclusive DVD, containing videos and behind-the-scenes footage.

The projects’ CD portion opens with new song and first radio single Fiction, an anthem about straying from truth in our lives. It also includes the heartbreaking farewell, Getting Over You, Getting Over Me. Both songs were penned by frontman David Paul Pelsue and produced by David Bendeth and Kato (Hawthorne Heights, As I Lay Dying, Breaking Benjamin).

Pelsue comments, “We felt [Apparitions] was a really good record, and we’re really proud of the songs. So we’re re-releasing it with new tools at our disposal. We tried to keep [the new] songs in the vein of Apparitions, but really just focused on writing two killer songs people won’t forget, that’ll get stuck in their heads.”

Also original to Dead Letters Edition is a DVD comprising music videos for Apparitions of Melody, We Are, and Phoenix With a Heartache as well as documentary footage filmed at several live shows nationwide and in the studio.

Less than three years since joining the Flicker Records roster, Indianapolis-based rock band Kids in the Way has made noteworthy headway in its promising career. Kids in the Way claimed a successful debut run with its first national record, Safe From the Losing Fight, in December 2003. The project earned Kids in the Way three Top 10 Rock hits, We Are, Hallelujah, and Phoenix With a Heartache, in addition to billing alongside popular artists Pillar, Audio Adrenaline with Relient K, and Skillet featuring Seventh Day Slumber.

Since releasing its sophomore effort, Apparitions of Melody, in May 2005, the band has headlined four tours, including one across Eastern Canada, and claimed three Top 5 Rock radio successes with Apparitions of Melody, Breaking the Legs of Sheep and The Seed We’ve Sown. The Apparitions of Melody video garnered Kids in the Way a 2006 GMA Music Award nomination for Short Form Music Video, as well as Video of the Year at Nashville’s film festival. This summer, Kids in the Way appeared on the Flicker Warped Tour compilation, handed out in each of 39 cities.

Find out more about Apparitions of Melody: The Dead Letters Edition on the band’s YMZ artist page.