{"product_id":"curtains-2-lp","title":"Curtains - 2 LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis album was recorded during a period when I was home alone for a few months whilst my partner Sara was away walking the length of New Zealand - The 'Te Araroa Trail'. This also coincided with very reduced work hours in my day job and so I seized the opportunity to dive into recording the second Curtains album. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'1' had been released several months earlier and had been explicitly referencing some of the music of the early 90s that blew my mind and that has stayed with me over the years. Roy Montgomery, Peter Jefferies, Flying Nun stuff, Flying Saucer Attack etc. It is wilfully nostalgic in that regard, and wilfully underground-pop adjacent. The songwriting on '1' is also in that mode and is perhaps a step removed from my contemporary lived experience. The recording process is a lot more traditional and 'structured' than my usual fly-on-the-wall methodology. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'2' starts out on that same footing, still being aware of honouring my external influences but on this record I found I was taking the actual songwriting a lot more seriously and ultimately it became a far more personal record. It's pretty close to being an 'Antony Milton' record really, albeit less sketch based and more finished and arranged than most of the material I release under my own name. I made a\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" style=\"display: inline;\"\u003e genuine effort to record it as 'well' as I could. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'2' was recorded around the period of Trumps re-election with the world seemingly in flames and flits between an impulse for escapism and a sense of responsibility to speak up honestly in a time of peril\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" style=\"display: inline;\"\u003eCarbon Records, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carbon Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59673117393241,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0297\/7523\/3163\/files\/carbon_curtains.jpg?v=1790937495","url":"https:\/\/discreetmusic.myshopify.com\/products\/curtains-2-lp","provider":"Discreet Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}