Skye & Ross [Vinyl], Skye & Ross, Vinyl

Vinyl LP pressing. For over a dozen years, Ross and Skye have been playing across the globe as Morcheeba, but Ross' brother, Paul - their co-producer, with whom they'd founded the band - had stayed at home. During this time, the inevitable separation between what happened in the studio and what happened live had become increasingly pronounced, and, as they observed the band beside them with delight, the singer and guitarist shared an epiphany. "Why don't we make our records feel more live?" The result of this revelation is Skye Ross, an album that pursues it's own musical path while returning to the roots of the sound that made Morcheeba a household name back in the late 1990s. It is, Ross explains, "what Skye and I do naturally when you ask us to make music together, and yet not necessarily a continuation of what we'd been doing with Morcheeba. It therefore felt only right to give it a new identity." What emerged recalls the spirit ofMorcheeba's international, platinum selling Big Calm, while boasting a revived spirit and the mature experience that comes with two decades of making music. Ultimately, Skye Ross doesn't signify the end of Morcheeba, but rather a purge of sorts, an opportunity for the two musicians who have represented the public face of their band to exploit the musical relationship that has developed between them outside of the studio on stages around the world. "Our intentions are really aligned," Ross concludes, "and once you have that synchronicity with someone everything falls into place."