two blinks, i love you – the project of Liverpool songwriter Liam Brown – has announced ep 2, sharing the song ‘better the knife you know’ along with the news. The EP, which includes the recent single ‘my girl’, arrives November 22 via Heist or Hit. Check out the new track below.
Speaking about ‘better the knife you know’, Brown said:
‘better the knife’ was the first track we recorded together and it kind of set the standard of how fast we ended up working. When I wrote the demo (which essentially is how you hear it on the ep) it was probably the quickest I’d ever written a song before, I felt like I knew exactly how it was going to sound. It was a really exciting moment, and a very focused level of creating something – which I hadn’t felt that intensely before. The demo was written, recorded, and sent over to the label within an hour!
Thematically, there’s quite a lot of post relationship feelings in there, going back to your old life after leaving somebody and becoming a kind of island again, there’s also lots about coming back from New York and feeling a bit flat and desensitised from such a strange trip. It’s a kind of diary entry for a lot of feelings at that particular time I think.
Brown recorded the EP at Nan’s House in Liverpool with Sophie Ellis. “She facilitated and transferred all my creative decisions and ideas practically without any friction, which was super important to me,” he explained. “We worked rapidly, how I like to work, and it felt like there existed so much alchemy in our spontaneity.”
“ep 2 as a whole is combing through a lot of different feelings over the past year,” Brown added. “Some of the songs on here are quite retrospective about loss. It presents itself in different ways that I didn’t even recognise until listening to them back; at the time I thought it was hidden in lots of subtext but in actuality it wasn’t. Some of the other songs however, are more love songs. I always love how direct and charming a plain and simple love song can be, not particularly the most poetic or the most dramatic by any means, but speaking of the smaller insignificant things and the idiosyncrasies of moments unique to your experience with love and everything surrounding that, whether that be friendship, the city you live in, or the city you visit for a week.”
ep 2 Cover Artwork:
ep 2 Tracklist:
1. better the knife you know
2. alright
3. amends
4. my girl
5. for good
6. baby drums
