Slow Club: Paradise. TLOBF Interview :: Slow Club. Slow Club (Interview) - Music Feature - No Ripcord. By Joe Rivers Slow Club are very much in the ascendency. Their second album, Paradise, is getting rave reviews across the board and they’ve just embarked upon a headline tour of the UK. But before hitting the road singer and drummer Rebecca Taylor found time for a quick phone call with Joe Rivers. In interviews, you’ve given the impressions that you’re relieved the album is finished and ready to go, did you find it a particularly difficult album to make? It didn’t start out that way but then it took a while. Would you say that’s different from how the recording of the first album went? With the first album [Yeah So], we’d played all those songs hundreds of times on tour and they just needed recording, whereas this one was ten or twelve abstract bits and bobs that were sort of songs but we didn’t know how we wanted them to sound.
Didn’t you scrap quite a lot of the recording you did before Christmas? Now you’re established as a band, do you feel under any more pressure with this album? News | Fránçois & the Atlas Mountain cover Slow Club + This is the Kit cover them | For Folk's Sake. Fránçois & The Atlas Mountain by Lola Perstowsky The lovely Fránçois & the Atlas Mountain have put together a gorgeous cover of the Slow Club track Gold Mountain, and Slow Club are due to repay the favour. Listen here: Slow Club’s Rebecca said of the cover: “I really love it, Fránçois (obviously) found funk where we didn’t even realise there was funk!”
Team Fránçois is playing London shows tonight and tomorrow, and if you didn’t get your act together for those, the band recently announced a headline show at Cargo on 18th April. And while we’re at it, here’s FFS favourite This is the Kit with a gorgeous cover of Fránçois’ song Les Plus Beaux. Like this: Like Loading... Comments. Album | Slow Club – Paradise | For Folk's Sake. In the two years since their debut Yeah So, it’s clear Slow Club have done a whole lot of growing up. Where the debut delighted us with its quirky, often shambolic joy, it still strayed too close to being, well, twee. And if there were two people in the world upset that Slow Club might be branded twee they were Rebecca Taylor and Charlie Watson themselves. So they have gone away and returned with a sophomore album that is at once their own, but a more complete, fully-realised version of themselves.
They’ve added a layer, moved up a gear, and come back with an understated force, a power they probably didn’t even know they possessed. The trademark sound remains – the melodic duets, meandering drum beats and delightful guitar licks – but the outlook is more mature. There are moments of understated beauty, as ‘Never Look Back’ wraps you in its arms and hugs you to its breast, or the immaculate ‘Hackney Marshes’. And yet they still retain all that made them so exciting in the first place.