A place where The Clancy Brothers and Andy Stott meet
It only took a few sessions to get a sonic vocabulary going for Grant and my version of “Schooldays Over”. One thing that came out immediately from our writing together was lots of sub-bass. We wanted sounds that would act as foundational roots and would roll out other frequencies from the bottom up.
Grant turned me on to the amazing Andy Stott’s music,
and some of those vibes can be picked up in our recording. Obviously what Stott does is totally different from us, but that “cave system” of sound is something we tried to achieve.
That attention to the low end of the spectrum was also inspired by this live recording of The Clancy Brothers doing “Schooldays”.
It sounds like it was recorded in a mine. The insistent drumbeat like a call to war, or a pick on a rock.