( Journal · liner notes )
Things we write between pressings.
On colour, on listening, on why a record has two sides. Short reads, best with something playing.
Pressing · 6 min
Why we press in red
Black vinyl is black because of carbon. Ours is red because of a pigment we mixed for eleven weeks — and because a red record is one you never file away.
Listening · 4 min
Twenty minutes a side
A side of an LP holds about twenty minutes. We think that is the perfect length of attention — and we sequence every record around getting up to turn it.
At home · 7 min
The room that listens
Speakers, chairs, a rug, a lamp. How to set up a corner of a flat so that a record sounds like the band is in it.