After a long day at the office, all you want to do is relax, switch off and put your feet up in front of some mind-numbing television. Then, without warning, along comes an Invitation To Her’s and the evening changes for the better.
While it might not mean putting on your finest threads, you could at least neaten your hair and do up a couple of shirt buttons - Her’s have worked hard on providing a delightful aural treat for you in the form of their debut album.
Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading met in a canteen while the pair studied at Liverpool’s illustrious LIPA - bringing together backgrounds of the music scenes in Barrow-in-Furness and Norway respectively. Fitzpatrick’s forté is apparently as a drummer (“He’s fucking sick by the way,” his bandmate chips in) but in Her’s he takes on the frontman’s role as singer and guitarist.
Though this may be the pair’s debut album, they’ve come close to this stage before with their self-dubbed ‘collection’ 'Songs Of Her’s' - a selection of their singles to date.
“I feel like people thought we were wussing out a bit with the collection thing. When we announced this one they were like, ‘Isn’t this the second album really?’ We got cold feet for the debut though so I guess we couldn’t put it off much longer, but I feel like we approached this one more confidently,” Stephen explains.
Some of the ideas behind the album had been fermenting a while, with fragments of songs laying around the cutting room floor for up to two years before being called up to the front line.
Stephen continues: “It seemed very clear what needed to be on 'Songs of Her’s'. It was basically what we were playing actively live at the time, which is why it felt not scattered, but we were dipping our feet in a lot of different sounds at that point.”
