Fieldworks II

Laurie Nankivell:

We were quite keen early on to try out with [producer] Marta Salogni, seeing what it feels like to do a track or two with a producer we’ve never worked with before. We went up to The Church [Studios] in Crouch End and met Marta and came into this new space and said, ‘We’ve got this track that we know isn’t finished yet and we can’t make a decision on how the second half of it is going to end up but let’s record it anyway.’ The harpsichord that we made for the first half that you hear, that ostinato going through it like a thread, that was originally parts that me and Anton played on guitar that we really liked the harmonic feel of. But something didn’t quite sit with the idea of using guitars to do that. It marks quite a big turning point again to have this moment where we replace something that’s always been so central as a guitar, making it be played by another instrument, letting go of what you assume to be your go-to instrument.

Ollie Judge:

Yeah, it sounded a bit too like U2 with the guitars. It sounded too much like The Edge (Guitarist), so we had to take The Edge off.

— via Apple Music