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No sooner had Ned Collette established his robust partnership with the backing duo Wirewalker on his third album Over the Stones, Under the Stars than the Melbourne songwriter relocated to Berlin in 2010.
Two years later, bassist Ben Bourke is absent due to fatherhood duties, leaving Collette and drummer/engineer Joe Talia to work primarily on their own. Recorded in Melbourne and Berlin, 2 doesn’t aim to recapture the apocalypse-minded heaviness of the last album’s full trio, but detours into low-key experimentation and tongue-in-cheek troubadour-isms.