Shards

Born from voice notes sent between London and Lisbon, the release took shape remotely before being recorded inside Manchester’s The White Hotel, then refined in the sonic labs of Numbers and La Chunky in Glasgow. Set across one night, Shards is a fragment of the never ending process of breakdown and placing pieces back together. Along four tracks, the voices of Shell Company (Rosabella Allen) and Older Brother begin far apart, then argue, reflect and collide, trying to find the ground they stand on, with the music laid by brothers Rob and Chris Banks. The two voices work both together and against each other, rendering images that could only exist only in limbo: running taps, cans on the floor, and crumbling walls. Shell Company & Older Brother say of the release – “Shards is a scream that sings softly. A record that shifts between confusion and sense, hopelessness and hope. Despite moments of intense and perfect connection, the shards rarely fit. By the end of the record you accept that, however everything else seems, all things are also made of shards trying to fit together. Shards is a record not about giving up, but giving in. A recording of the victory that comes from surrendering to float, all because ‘it will all make sense one day’. Shards is about love that begins and ends with broken pieces.”