Name: We Travel Time
Brand: James Johnston / Steve Gullick

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

GOD073CD

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-03-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5902693143970

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

GOD073

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Black

2021-03-05

5024545918410

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

James Johnston / Steve Gullick

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

God Unknown Records

Established in 2013, God Unknown Records is a subscription label run by a2481133, the bass player of UK psychedelic rock band Mugstar. With extensive connections to the music scene, a2481133 has successfully curated an impressive lineup of bands for his singles series. The label prioritizes its subscribers, ensuring that most copies are reserved for them while also providing opportunities for the featured bands.

After working together on an art show in late 2019, the idea of making music again immediately resurfaced. Without any firm strategy, Johnston (Gallon Drunk / Nick Cave / PJ Harvey) and Gullick began recording, unprompted, drawing upon a shared love of noise, folk, and classical. After the first tracks began to evolve, however, they knew they’d unearthed something compelling and fresh, not to mention unexpectedly mysterious. This became We Travel Time.

The result is a deceptively crafted album that slowly reveals – and, more importantly, embraces – beauty in its cracks. Piano, voice, violin and guitar create a drifting haze, with the focus on these acoustic elements forging an imagined soundtrack which offers echoes of Big Star, Nico, Lee Hazlewood and Palace Brothers, as well as the gentle, haunting influence of contemporary minimal classical. Ambient sounds – birds, rain, cars, clocks, distant voices – also drift in and out, melting into the music’s fabric via windows left open during the early 2020 heatwave. We Travel Time, nonetheless, resists definition, remaining enigmatically timeless.

We Travel Time

Music GB