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Studio notes, tour diaries and the occasional argument about tempo.

The EP was supposed to take a season. A cancelled tour leg and a borrowed studio in Poble Sec turned it into a week and a half.

Extended sets look generous from the floor. From the booth they are a completely different job, and most of the work happens weeks before the night.

Owning four drum machines made the tracks worse. Here is what happened when the studio went down to one.

Every venue has a tone when nobody is in it. Six of them are now on the record.

A first Movement booking, a broken flight case and an afternoon in a record shop that changed the second half of the tour.

A long conversation with the Nitsa co-resident about tempo, patience and why 122 BPM is harder than 138.

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