Fab, Trip 17

By the mid 00s numerous UK bands had rekindled an interest in Trip-hop. One of the purest was Second Person.  Like the band Mudville who recorded in the same time period, many of these second wave of Trip-hop bands were clumped under the label post-Trip hop.

 

Julia Johnson (keyboards & vocals) met Mark Maclaine (bass & programming) in 2002. They worked together on music & soon hooked up with Alvaro Lopez (drums & programming) to fill out the group. Their debut album Chromatography was released in 2004. It sold out of its initial white-label run in United Kingdom, USA, & Australia primarily through word of mouth. 

 

Second Person - Chromatography, Second Person 001, 2004.
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Too Cold to Snow   
Demons in the Scenery   
No Window   
I Spy   
Wreckage   
Demons Die   
Word for Word   
Nerve   
My Baby Only Cares for Me   
Senseless Sentences   
Divine   
Lucky Breaks   
Grace   
Harry: Walkies

 

 

 

 

The band released their second, The Elements EP in 2007 with the help of veteran producer/engineer Tony Platt (Bob Marley, Iron Maiden, & the second largest selling album of all time: AC/DC's Back in Black). Second Person were the first British band to have raised the $50,000 target on Sellaband which allowed fans to invest directly in bands online.

 

Second Person - The Elements EP, Sellaband, 2007.

Wood   
Fire   
Earth   
Metal   
Water

 

 

 

 

The band announced their split in April 2011 as they released of their third & final offering, Come to Dust. By this point they had perfected the true Trip-hop sound. Their best album by far & away. Songs like "The Alphabet Song" are sublime. Gone fishing, I guess, come to dust.

 

Second Person - Come to Dust, Second Person, 2011.

Gone Fishing
The Alphabet Song
Another Girlfriend
Paper Umbrella
Unretractable Facts
Play Fair
The Wishbone
Story with Only Two Characters
Spilt Milk
Moth to a Candle Flame
Four Leaf Clover
Shadow of a Doubt
Giant Steps (bonus track)

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ