'Only Children' is a collaborative work between Anthony Christopher (Fictions), James Lees (Ghostwoods, Silver Sircus), and Joshua MacGregor (Spirit Lights). Developed out of demos and sketches initially recorded to a mobile phone, compositions were approached in a similar way to painting - thinking about sound as brushstrokes on a canvas, as colour or texture, then stepping back to examine how different elements interact together. Altering or reducing until an image formed. Recorded in a home studio environment by Jim Jones (Scum Vegas) across 2023-2024, the collective contributions birthed something that feels simultaneously intimate and distant, existing at the border between the alluring and the ominous sides of suspense. Making use of piano, nylon string guitar, drums, synthesisers and drone elements, the album’s nine tracks traverse themes of identity, creation, human limitations and obsessions, illusion versus reality, and time’s passage. 'Only Children' is an album of ever-shifting landscapes, distortions of natural phenomena, and recurrent dualities. Unfolding with a dreamlike quality, it creates a circular narrative ending where it began.
