Fred Macpherson

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess I’ve got something in my eye… #wearelove

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess think it’s fair to say more is more on this one. We threw everything at it. Improvised piano turned into midi ran back through analogue synths and some amazing modular stuff at Baltic. Dev’s string arrangement written at the breakfast table

@alucoland @Tim_Burgess @LlSTENlNG_PARTY I need this orange vinyl

@Tim_Burgess Now everything has an end - even this great album. Thankfully almost 7 more minutes @Tim_Burgess @LlSTENlNG_PARTY @fredmacpherson

NOW EVERYTHING   Inspired by L’il Yachty Recorded at Rockfield but rerecorded at Big Mushroom with overdubs at Rockfield. String arrangement at Baltic Song about a week in LA in 2022

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess Wow, Now Everything already. The first demo we heard and the song that made us sign up for the album. Sums up the emotion and spirit of the album. Pete’s drums almost completely unedited across the 7mins. We asked him to Ringo it up and he obliged

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess Glad You Grabbed Me - Dev laid down the Bowie-esque guitar in a single take as an idea to show Mark the type of thing he could do and Mark just said “leave it like that”. Some of the synths are a little BBC science programme. Another trippy outro

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess Out on our Own, the second real prog moment after Appetite, with nods to Neu, Portishead and the Horrors before Dev’s strings get a bit Ennio Morricone in the middle. Love the snare roll with the snare taken off

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess Salt Water where every band member was only allowed one take each, to Out on our Own where every band member had about a hundred takes haha

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess portmanteau children’s choir soft synth from omnisphete on the choruses

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess one of the hardest to get right (another 7/8 time signature thanks guys haha) but one of the best. So many amazing moments but I love the real kit switching back to the Logic drums from the demo for a moment in the middle

@RainbowChazer @LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess Amen

@fredmacpherson @LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess Always up for a bit of naughtiness on an ARP Odyssey...

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess Many A Day, loved this from when we first heard you rehearse it at Big Mushroom. Love Mark’s shoegaze chords we later re-sampled/pitched for Deeper and Deeper. Middle eight arp odyssey workout followed by Tony getting naughty on the solo

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess Deeper and Deeper, the sound of one of the most storied studios in the UK being mangled through Ableton 12 and a pair of AirPods - sped up, cut down and blown up. Great Juno harmony from Dev and balloon pop sample from me

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess You Can’t Hold the River, some of my favourite lyrics on the record (“still get confused between Henry and Arthur Miller”) - beautiful production Stephen Street and amazing descending piano part at the end

@Tim_Burgess @LlSTENlNG_PARTY moon landing modular synth moment. Pete’s shaker loyal to the last

We Are Love The new album by @thecharlatans Out now! Get yours here linktr.ee/thecharlatans

@Tim_Burgess @LlSTENlNG_PARTY For the Girls went on such a journey. From group vocals at Rockfield, to extended dub outro at Baltic plus a sprinkling of animal collective fireworks and classical piano in the middle. One of my favourites

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess straight into We Are Love, reconstructed from your original Rockfield demo via Dev’s laptop and additional prodcuction at Baltic. Love the drum machine hi-hat loop over Pete’s unedited kit. And dev’s finger picked acoustic guitar

@LlSTENlNG_PARTY @Tim_Burgess 7/8 time signature in the first half made this one of the trickiest to get the groove right, but amazing ominous atmosphere to open the record. Great Korg MS-20 arpeggiator filtering in for last chorus quite kraut

London, join us for a We Are Love listening party with @RoughTrade this November, tickets are on sale now: link.dice.fm/V605829abc08 6th November: The Charlatans, Dev Hynes & @fredmacpherson In Conversation with Craig McLean + Signing at Rough Trade East, London

‘We Are Love’, the title track from @thecharlatans up and coming fourteenth album, produced by Dev Hynes and myself, out now.