17 February 2024

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.
 

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,

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    The Elements
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    Come to Dust
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