A couple of years ago, after we had completed the album 'My Confession' with Niamh Cavlan we got together for a few days at Mike's house to sing some songs and talk about what we wanted to do next. We knew we wanted to get back to a purely acoustic sound, ideally built around the two guitar, two voice set-up that we love in artists like Gillian Welch and Christy Moore. We had a stack of songs that we'd written but never recorded, so we just spent a few days hanging out, playing them, writing and tweaking a little, but most of all just feeling our way back in, recording as we went.
One song that we dug out was 'Wrecked and Reeling', a song that Mike had brought into the world around the turn of the millenium. It had started out life as a full-on driving, guitar rocker but seemed to find its way now as a slower, more twisted creature. Mike was suffering a with a cold and this leant his vocals a fractured, wasted air, perfectly complementing the lyrical darkness. Listening back to this now, I can hear that in this moment we had started to lock in to our new sound:
In those few days, in the little bubble of music and friendship we made, lies the genesis of the album we are getting close to completing.
One song that we dug out was 'Wrecked and Reeling', a song that Mike had brought into the world around the turn of the millenium. It had started out life as a full-on driving, guitar rocker but seemed to find its way now as a slower, more twisted creature. Mike was suffering a with a cold and this leant his vocals a fractured, wasted air, perfectly complementing the lyrical darkness. Listening back to this now, I can hear that in this moment we had started to lock in to our new sound:
In those few days, in the little bubble of music and friendship we made, lies the genesis of the album we are getting close to completing.