Interview Sky Larkin
Camille Ainsworth meets the Leeds three-piece as they prepare to release their second album Kaleide this summer
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It’s said to be one of the hardest things for a band to do well – recording the second album. With all their careers to collate the hooks and riffs of their debut, there’s suddenly only 12 months to carve out something equally, if not more blinding, that the last. This is the challenge Leeds based Sky Larkin have been under taking this last year.
With the success of their debut Golden Spike checked off and toured out, having successfully strung them out truly into the national music arena, they return in August with follow up album Kaleide on Wichita Recordings, recorded once again in Seattle with John Goodmanson.
“John ‘the Golden’ Goodmanson,” says Nestor Matthews, drummer for Sky Larkin. “He’s so full of energy and enthusiasm. We moved to a new studio famed for its live room, and we wanted to focus on the band dynamic we’ve been working on since we’ve been touring live, he found this place with brick walls and it sounded awesome… he was good capturing that live dynamic that we’ve homed and then putting it into the record.”
“There is a shift in instrumentation,” continues singer and guitarist Katie Harkin. “I play baritone guitar on a lot on it and Doug and I share the keyboard duties more evenly that on the first record – he’s much better than me.”
It’s true that there is of a more raw sound to their latest material with the current offering ‘Still Windmills’ diving in and out of rough guitars contrasted with sweetly strained meandering vocals. “The single is about the space between action and inaction,” says Harkin “and the video follows a girl called Nina through her day with that tension in mind.”
With a tour lined up for September and an album release next month, the band are also busy focusing on a new online collaborative project and seeking photographers to submit additional artwork to compliment the Kaleide album.
Posted on Wednesday 21st July 2010
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