Second Hand Smoke

Second Hand Smoke is an experience to be inhaled in one breath. Calming and expansive, full of sweeping cinematic vistas and melancholy melody, awash with sometimes ragged and noisy guitar. It was largely built from 8-track home recordings and layered with found sounds, field recordings, spoken word as well as multiple instruments and vocals. Chris says he had no real concept for the album from the outset; it emerged at Phaedra with John. But like all Chris’s work, it blends experimental and ambient noise-making with more traditional songwriting.

Tracklisting

1. The Journalist
2. Second Hand Smoke
3. Damage
4. New Blossom
5. Animal
6. 5am Again
7. Beeswax
8. Dumpster In The Sky
9. Sunny
10. Two Abstractions
11. La Gare Montparnasse
12. Oh, Sweet Nothin’