And so that was all kind of mind blowing, being able to use the quality gear that all these old people that you look up to have used as well.' 'And then I had friends who listened to the record and they were like: ‘Wow, that reverb sounds just like Pink Floyd.’ Cos it’s the same reverb tank system that they used. Like: ‘Why am I allowed to touch this?’ That’s the feeling I had a lot of the time. Like: ‘Oh, this is Mick Jagger sweating and screaming his balls off’, or something.

“You just see pictures all over of people standing exactly where you’re standing. But it wasn’t like that this time, it felt very comfortable in Abbey Road. “Getting music done in that way is not something that comes easy to me. “It’s too clinical, y’know,” Parks says of formal recording studios. Working at the famed London studio was a contrast to their previously favoured cabin-in-the-woods recording set-up. Recorded at Abbey Road just before COVID-19 hit, it’s their most expansive, kaleidoscopic work yet, with atmospheric, almost mystical layers spicing up their mix of roots, heavy rock guitars and twisted blues. Music aside, much of his time has been filled with wandering in the woods, absorbing film soundtracks ( The Hired Hand and La Planete Sauvage are two of his favourites), short stories and absurdist literature (he sings the praises of Ray Bradbury and Richard Brautigan), and reading translations of key Taoist text the Tao Te Ching.Īll of which fed into All Them Witches’ compelling new album Nothing As The Ideal.

In recent years Parks has retreated further from city life, and all the bars, noise and people it entails. It was a conscious lifestyle decision, even before the current social-distancing era.

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