Description

After six albums with electronic genre-benders Lamb and three solo albums to date, including the Mercury nominated Beloved One, Rhodes capacity as a songwriter and interpreter of songs is fully road-tested but never formulaic.
Lou Rhodes fourth solo album defies categorisation. Yes, there are elements of the singer-songwriter roots she bathed in growing up but these are embroidered with a rich palette of stark piano, vocal layering, transcendent harp and strings all wrapped up within a heady smattering of vintage reverbs.

I had a bunch of songs, says Rhodes, but I wasnt sure which way to go with them. I had a gut feeling I wanted to experiment with a slightly psychedelic feel and, by chance, met up with Simon Byrt (co-producer) in a friends studio. It turned out that he has a strange passion for vintage spring and tape echoes and, before long, wed decided to make a record together.

Recorded in that same friends studio in rolling Wiltshire countryside crammed full of an analogue nerds paradise of vintage desks (one of which was used in the Beach Boys Smile Sessions), microphones and tape machines supplemented by Byrts own collection of reverb boxes. Acoustic guitar was played by Rhodes, additional guitar, bass, piano and synths by Byrt, abstract pedal steel by Ian Kellet, drums by Nikolaj Bjerre, string arrangements by Danny Keane and harp by Tom Moth.