{"id":13376,"date":"2018-02-14T13:26:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=13376"},"modified":"2018-02-14T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:26:12","slug":"second-album-on-the-way-from-cate-le-bon-and-tim-presleys-collaborative-project-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=13376","title":{"rendered":"Second album on the way from Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley’s collaborative project Drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Welsh singer\/songwriter Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley of White Fence formed their collaborative duo Drinks<\/a> in 2015, releasing then their debut album Hermits On Holiday<\/em>. Three years on, the pair’s creative collaboration is still going strong and they have announced a follow-up album, Hippo Lite<\/em>. The album came to life in the south of France, and both Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley wrote a few words describing it:<\/p>\n

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“A month spent in an old mill in the under belly of France.
\nRiver swimming thrice a day.
\nHot nights soundtracked by the rattle of randy frogs. Scorpion fear. In the sheets, on the face.
\nHours of bird watching – no phone service. No wifi. 3 DVDs; Jurassic Park 1, 2 & 3.
\nViolin practice. Bread scoffing.
\nEarly morning coffee drinking before the sun was too hot to do anything but snooze in the thick walled house. Music in the afternoon after a dip in the river and a cold beer on the square.
\nAn album made for each other by one another with no hands, eyes or ears piercing the bubble other than that of dear friend Stephen Black who kept note of it all.”
\n– Cate Le Bon<\/p>\n

“In a town, so very still and quiet.
\nA month in St. Hippolyte Du Fort, South France.
\nWhere completely all of their brave young men vanished forever from the death machine of the first world war.
\nAt one time left with only women and young girls.
\nOnly relics of time standing still.
\nAll the deceased names of men chiseled under a stone angel, that watches over the town square.
\nWe set up a recording unit in an old stone mill turned house and began to write and record with the attention of tree trimmers or gardeners.
\nIt got so hot we had to swim in a local river near by just to be able to think, then back to our home to make sounds and songs. Any sounds we could think of or wanted.
\nWe used night sounds, night insects and used frogs as instruments. Did you know frogs have saxophones in their throats?
\nThis is a broken music. a crumble. It’s the music of the building we called home for a month. We\u2019ve never made & recorded music in such a simple living environment.
\nWith all the ease, and air we needed. We were in a town 8 miles over from Robert Crumb’s hidden residence.
\nWe lived in a mysterious place.
\nWe had a flock of bats over for dinner many nights. No internet, or a phone to look to.
\nWe had a beautiful big stone house, a river, and from time to time a lovely elderly yet young-hearted couple who would visit.
\nIt was the opposite of what a typical recording experience usually is for any of us.
\nWe tried to capture all of this and put it on record.”
\n– Tim Presley<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hippo Lite<\/em> will see the light of day on April 20th through Drag City<\/a> and we can already hear the first single ‘Real Outside’.<\/p>\n