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Stray

by Dear Thief

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1.
Help Me Out 02:49
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2.
As You Turn To Face Me 03:52
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3.
Marie 03:06
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4.
Bull Fight 04:46
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5.
Ghosts 07:19
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about

How did this EP come to be?

I think that we had been looking for a new place to
rehearse. We had grown a little tired and complacent
with the regular routine so we wanted to feel
something different and changing the environment
where we played music together felt like the right
thing to do.

It felt like a new beginning - a sort of reinvention.
We started the rehearsal sessions for Stray in a
shabby old rehearsal space in Denmark Street - where
the likes of the Sex Pistols and the Subway Sect had
once rehearsed. That’s all been torn down, now. We
didn’t know it then, but we were right at the end of
an era – that small corner of London was being
demolished and changed into a monument to its past.
We approached the sessions by mainly improvising on a
few ideas I had, and more than ever before, we were
up for just letting things happen and evolve
organically without too much preparation. I was also
enjoying playing a Fender guitar lent to me by a
friend. I was able to really throw myself around a
bit more and felt liberated after years of playing my
heavy old Les Paul.
For the recordings, we went to our second home at 'No
Recording' studio. John Hannon has always been the
intuitive other member of the group and this time
round, he helped us achieve a more open sound. From a
few seeds of ideas, we improvised and shaped the
songs on the spot - after years of being in a band
together you get to really know how the other plays
and, to a certain degree, what they will play. This
approach led to some great things but also created a
bit of tension, which is always a good thing in my
book! Pretty much all of what you hear on this EP was
performed that way and recorded in no more than 2 or
3 takes.

Here it is then, after 5 years or more. After some
climatic life changing events, our third release
which, really, is a snapshot of a period of great
change for the band - the eve of otherness - the
journeys alone - apart - wandering through a city
lost like a dog trying to find its way back home -
Stray.

Thanks to John Hannon - our engineer and producer and
to Terry Edwards without whom we wouldn't have had
Indo to play in and Sartorial records to be released
on.

Yusuf B'layachi
25th May 2020

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released July 3, 2020

All tunes written and played by:
Yusuf B'layachi
Emma Bennett
Tim Greany

Recorded by:
John Hannon

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