Sunglasz Vendor

Some of these songs go back over 10 years. I am pretty sure I can remember playing the chords for the first track ‘Unwinding’ on guitar in my parent’s basement when I was still at school.

‘Unwinding’ perfectly encapsulates the first year of the band. The tracklist is our first ever live set (plus one: the final track ‘Conductor’) and captures the insane virtuosity of our first drummer, Harry, who has since left the band (I genuinely think they are one of the best musicians of all time, ever.) We began recording it basically one year after our first rehearsal, with four days in November 2023 and another four in January 2024.

I am very lucky to have people like Eve, Harry and Will who were all willing to make the album as good as it could be. I have been writing music in some form for 20 years but this is the first proper body of work I’ve written songs for, so releasing this feels very momentous.

It is quite hard to sum up what the album is about, but my favourite attempt is one from my friend Arthur, who felt it was all about “how people get slowly crushed by the mundanity of modern life.”

We don’t have many pictures from recording other than these that Holly took on our final day. Alot of the album was done to click, and all the songs have multiple overdubs except for the final track ‘Conductor’. For this, Will was adamant he wanted to get the whole thing in one take, with loads of room mics capturing the vibe. I have a video of THE take which I’ll upload at some point.