Much of the new album was written immediately after the release of the band’s aforementioned debut, in a rustic cabin situated on the windswept coastline of Skenes Creek along the Great Ocean Road. It was later recorded back in St Kilda with the duo’s good friend, Simon Lam. Another nine-track offering, Second Body is a carefully and consciously curated collection of sparse yet intricate tracks – a dark and expansive album that dips and sways in all the right places, punctuated by a distinctive Two People-esque groove.
“We kept coming back to this imagery of a car speeding through the desert, cliffs and dirt and nothing else. We didn’t muck around with perfecting things, the vocal take we used was one of the first, where one night in the studio Phoebe was finishing off the lyrics and just hurtled in… that was the vibe. Simmo really pushed the sound where it needed to go and we just kept agreeing that it felt good and right.”
Two People’s debut album First Body included ‘I’m Tied, To You’, ‘Phone Call’ and ‘Fading’ and saw the band forge their own, unique path in an often crowded electronic space. Guided by bold visual cues, DIY principles, and an emphasis on the empty space between notes as much as the notes themselves, the album saw the band perform at BigSound, where they caught the eye of the good folk at Terrible Records (and with whom they later signed to for North America), and at SXSW.
This next instalment is due out in just one month on August 28 via Liberation Records globally, with the exception of North America, where Terrible Records have the honours.
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