We wrote this album fast, back in the non-stop club show days of 2015!  In my opinion that is what gave the songs that energy, plus we were becoming quite impatient and frustrated with all the crap that was being thrown at us at the time, that also lent some additional fire to proceedings..  Welcome To The World found our ‘sound’.  If we have one, it started there and then.

 

As with the writing, recording was done quickly due to the financial situation at the time, money was tight and therefore so was studio time.  10 days was all we had to record and mix.  Though unlike the writing where the lack of time was beneficial, we always felt like this restriction let us down while mixing, and just a couple more days focussing on the mix would have truly given the album justice.

 

In 2023, we decided to give ourselves those days.  Baz, Matt Elliss (producer) and myself reconvened at Axis Studio armed with the benefit of hindsight, we set about improving everything we could in just a couple of days.  We focussed on the guitar tones, which we thought were a little harsh and brought out some elements of the mix we felt were lost in the rush of the original.  

 

Limiting ourselves to only two days was deliberate, it was important to us to maintain the energy of the original so limiting our time forced us to be decisive and impulsive, just as we would have been back in the winter of 2015.

 

We’re even more proud of what we came out with, and think fans of the original plus new recruits to the Wagons army will the album that set the blueprint for our future.