It was pointed out to me that a few of the production choices employed on ‘Breaking’ were synthetic versions of organic things. The omnichord is a take on the autoharp, and it sounds like it’s breaking apart as it shimmers. In the background of the song there’s a choral sound, I think it was made within a Mellotron plugin I use in Logic Pro. The choir sounds like an approximation of a choir. I think it sounds really lovely against Justin Grounds beautiful strings. The drum machine that underpins the song is like the memory of a drumbeat.. I almost took it out.

The dual vocals are actually a little ragged. I don’t know that this was deliberate but it fit a song called ‘Breaking’.

So there’s a kind of tension between the organic and the synthetic. These are choices you consider in production, you search and then you hope they fit. Sometimes in hindsight you can rationalise why you did something but it didn’t feel like a rational decision when you made it. Sometimes you just want something that sounds like another land.