This is a guest post by Ashley Owens of post rock act The Glass Pavilion. Recording the first Glass Pavilion album, When the Blazing Sun is Gone, was a completely new experience for me. I’d sold all my instruments and recording gear after a brain haemorrhage in 2017 affected my ability to play guitar, and was working with just software and a MIDI keyboard for the first time. I think I expected to end up making overtly electronic music by default, but instead I learned to use virtual instruments alongside synths to make a form of ‘guitar music without guitars’ that’s probably best classified as post-rock. Making my second album, Consolation, was a chance to apply everything I’d learned from that experience, while pushing myself to improve as a composer and keep trying new things as a produc...