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For those who are fans of Wintersleep, you have to check out Paul Murphy's new project Postdata. The new project sprang from Paul and his brother Michael spending some time together working on ideas in Nova Scotia.

"We had a little too much time on our hands. Some scotch too. We wanted to make a present for mom.

She’d had a tough year. With little preparation (a laptop, no microphones, click tracks, or even tuners

come to think of it), we recorded about 12 ideas and we went our separate ways.

Eight months later we found a free weekend in Halifax and tried the same thing, reworking a cluster of

songs from the first session and adding four extra songs to the workload. We used the same laptop, but

this time we rented actual, real microphones and we used click tracks for a few songs and tuners for the

most part. We think. Maybe a little less scotch this time around.

Some of the songs turned out to be fuller and more mature after a second take, better than expected.

Other songs maybe didn’t quite hit the mark. But the recording as a whole seems to do something quite

nice.

Hope you like it. "

The result is haunting melodies that have the ability to completely silence a crowd.

I was lucky enough to catch them playing this weekend, unfortunately I didn't take any photos of the performance, all I could do was close my eyes and listen...