“It’s a more challenging record in every sense”: Inside the studio with Conjurer as they work on album number two
It’s 9am in Northampton and the sky is determinedly grey. Shops are opening their shutters in a nondescript business park about 10 minutes’ drive from the rail station. A large hangar-like space is visible from the street, painted in that dank green-grey paint you never actually see on sale. Tucked just inside the cold exterior sits a puppy daycare centre, with pastel pink decor, doggedly at odds with its surroundings. We peer down the adjacent, featureless corridor that leads to the building’s communal bathroom, and pull open the heavy metal door, a term more than appropriate for what’s inside. This is Conjurer HQ aka Excalibur Cottage. At one end sits the freezing-cold recording space with makeshift soundproofing on the walls and guitars strewn across the fl...
