ANIMAL

Lump began in 2018 with a collaboration between Mike Lindsay a Mercury Prize-winning producer and co-founder of band Tunng and the GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Laura Marling. The last record was an experiment says Lindsay. And I thought we weren t ever going to do another Lump record. As with the first album Marling would arrive in the studio without having heard any of Lindsay s music with the hope that it would bring the lyrics an immediacy and a spontaneity. Having begun studying for a Masters in psychoanalysis she found she drew heavily on her course texts for this album s lyrics. There were other sources too: half-memories family stories strange dreams; things she had read or been told or imagined. Animal was a word Marling threw into a lyric simply to meet a rhythm. But it seemed to capture the mood of the record and of the band as a whole. There s a little bit of a theme of hedonism on the album of desires running wild she says. Through Lump we find our inner animal and through that animal we travel into a parallel universe adds Lindsay.