Finding themselves sharing a city for the first time since their days in school-hood band Pond, Mark and Andrew reconvened to rehearse weekly in North London.
The level of expertise on display was limited, since Mark had not played the drums in over ten years, and Andrew had never played the guitar before. The six-string in question belonged to Andy Warmington (Pond, My Attorney, Steve: From Fragment and Blue Screem of Death), and was upgraded to feature three - sometimes two - strings, which was put through the Resident Studios' Marshall 4x10 stack at maximum volume. This caused some consternation amongst the lads in the office, who were trying to run a respectable business.
Sessions were noisy affairs, often fuelled by green cans of Lech lager. Everything was improvised and spontaneously performed, eliciting some pieces that were possible to repeat... with the edited highlights of the live recordings forming the results of this collection.
Listeners should note that the opening and closing songs of Up The Riz feature in the band's sophomore effort as different, more evolved versions.
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Andrew Gardiner - lead vocals, electric guitar, lyrics
Mark Warmington - drums, backing vocals
Recorded at Resident Studios, Willesden, London
Tracked between Spring 2014 - Winter 2015
Recorded, edited and mixed by Andrew Gardner ≈ unimbued.com
Cover image by Shyrooken ≈ instagram.com/shyrooken
The level of expertise on display was limited, since Mark had not played the drums in over ten years, and Andrew had never played the guitar before. The six-string in question belonged to Andy Warmington (Pond, My Attorney, Steve: From Fragment and Blue Screem of Death), and was upgraded to feature three - sometimes two - strings, which was put through the Resident Studios' Marshall 4x10 stack at maximum volume. This caused some consternation amongst the lads in the office, who were trying to run a respectable business.
Sessions were noisy affairs, often fuelled by green cans of Lech lager. Everything was improvised and spontaneously performed, eliciting some pieces that were possible to repeat... with the edited highlights of the live recordings forming the results of this collection.
Listeners should note that the opening and closing songs of Up The Riz feature in the band's sophomore effort as different, more evolved versions.
• • •
Andrew Gardiner - lead vocals, electric guitar, lyrics
Mark Warmington - drums, backing vocals
Recorded at Resident Studios, Willesden, London
Tracked between Spring 2014 - Winter 2015
Recorded, edited and mixed by Andrew Gardner ≈ unimbued.com
Cover image by Shyrooken ≈ instagram.com/shyrooken
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released September 1, 2015