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n ‘Echoes’, the title track of Young studio,” says Simon. thinking, ‘Wow, we’re actually a band.’”
IGuns’ fourth full-length, Gustav sings “You don’t realize how much hard work Back in the beginning, there was no
‘Memories they flicker in my head’. Gui- it takes,” says John. “We’d only done a 4- pressure or expectation from others in-
tarist John Taylor and bassist Simon track EP at that point, a 4-track EP. Having volved. It was new, exciting… an adventure
Mitchell begin by telling Black Velvet what to do a 12-track record… I think we only for everyone.
memories flicker through their heads about went in the studio with seven songs, and The actual process and the songs on
their very first album. then just wrote the rest while we were in the album were “just what we were excited
“It was our first time in a proper studio there. It was really exhausting; really hard about at the time,” says Si. “What we
set-up with our friend Dan Weller, who was work.” wanted to write about and how we wanted
producing the record. The early memories “It was tiring, yeah,” agrees Si. to sound as a band. It was all these fresh
are about being so excited about finally re- “But still amazing,” adds John. “I re- ideas. We listened to a lot of music, and we
leasing a record, a full-length record, which member leaving the studio with the first wanted that to come across in our first
was a big dream for any band, really, start- board mixes from the studio and listening record.”
ing up. For us, it was exciting times in the to them in the car on the way back and

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