The resulting LP is available to order! It’s a lovely indiepop/folk conversation between distances: home & away, escape & attachment, the life you briefly step outside & the life you return to. There are 12 copies left if you’d like one! 4/4

On return, an email to Alistair set the groop’s direction. Alistair added four songs of his own, and the two sets of songs began to cross-pollinate as J & A added harmonies, guitar, bass & flute to each other’s tracks. Their separate preoccupations began to coalesce. 3/4

So this summer Jonathan took his daughter’s Loog three-string guitar camping in the Dordogne and hid from his kids to write four songs, recording them in the tent or the front seat of the family hatchback after dark. All along, making a kind of mirror of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙚𝙖 was in his mind. 2/4

LOST GUESTS ORIGIN STORY During his Easter break this year, Alistair James made the brilliant 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙚𝙖 while on holiday in North-West Scotland. Back in Brighton, Jonathan became bewitched by its instinctive, field-recorded, open quality. It lodged in his head. 1/4

Beyond delighted to get our first radio play via the terrific It’s A Jangle Out There, hosted by @joshmeadows.bsky.social! Thanks Josh! Lovely to be played by a big Jonathan Richman fan!