It’s been a long time coming—the band in its current incarnation got together four years ago—but today, Factory Floor are finally putting out their debut record. It’s been solely recorded by themselves, in their own studio warehouse, which must have been nice. While most people would have lost precious sleep over releasing their debut record, the band said that they felt “no pressure”. We had a little chat with them about what makes up the DNA of their first proper proper release.
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The influences
But apart from EastEnders, there are two specific songs the guys swore by as they headed into the studio. "Arthur Russell’s “Go Bang” and Throbbing Gristle’s “Distant Dreams PT.2”, these two tracks are just fun, they show that music doesn’t always have to be conceptual. That feeling of playfulness bleeds a lot into our sound”.The gear
The studioFactory Floor recorded their whole album in the studio warehouse space that they occupy. “It’s pretty gritty, everything’s being demolished”. Though this wasn’t just to save on their Oyster card top ups, because, “we needed to use that space, what with the way we work we’d have ended up spending millions with the amount of time that we used. We need to be surrounded in our own mess in a lot of ways. We just left the tape on and went for it”.They also recorded in their own studio not just because they’re not yet millionaires. Instead, “a normal studio wouldn’t fit our sort of setup, with an engineer staring at us. We could make use of the corridors and the height of the ceiling when we were there”.The unlikely influences
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The studioFactory Floor recorded their whole album in the studio warehouse space that they occupy. “It’s pretty gritty, everything’s being demolished”. Though this wasn’t just to save on their Oyster card top ups, because, “we needed to use that space, what with the way we work we’d have ended up spending millions with the amount of time that we used. We need to be surrounded in our own mess in a lot of ways. We just left the tape on and went for it”.They also recorded in their own studio not just because they’re not yet millionaires. Instead, “a normal studio wouldn’t fit our sort of setup, with an engineer staring at us. We could make use of the corridors and the height of the ceiling when we were there”.The unlikely influences
The visuals
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