In 2011, Niall’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer; resulting in her passing in 2016. Niall turned to music to process this loss, and what started as a distraction grew into a tapestry of songs documenting that process… along the way celebrating life, and the growth and expansion that can emerge from life’s events.

A short series of writing sessions at Harvey Summer’s Broadoak Studios in 2017 to revitalise Bob and Niall’s working practices (after a playing hiatus of 7 years) were followed by extensive writing and sonic experimentation in Moretonhampstead on Dartmoor to create a roster of songs that captured a wide range of sounds, genres and moods that began to fully reflect the creative goals they’d set.

Recognising that capturing this wide palette of sounds would require production skills above the band’s own, the band reached out to NME-nominated “super-producer” Pete Miles at his Dartmoor facility, Middle Farm Studios. After hearing the demos, Pete agreed to produce the album. A cluster of recording sessions followed through 2018 and 2019 allowed all the material to be fully realised, in a rich and satisfying record.

Primarily a guitarist/vocalist, Niall also plays bass, keyboards, mandocello, dulcimer and synthesizers. A lifetime interest in open tunings, combined with a vast range of influences from West Coast rock music through to English and Celtic folk music, via electronica and ambient music, the band create a sound all their own.

The collective has expanded over the years and is currently writing new material for the second album.