Here We Go Magic’s first album, Pigeons, had only been out for a few weeks when the band began working on the follow-up almost without realizing it. At the end of June 2010, they met Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich at the Glastonbury festival. Godrich offered to work with them in order to best capture their hypnotic and hypnagogic vibration; the essence of their live performance, on record. Nigel Godrich succeeded, and the album is rich in emotion. It moves subtly from calm to more intense moods. The band’s cohesion is palpable, Luke Temple and his bandmates manage to turn their sonic explorations into a single movement, an exemplary synchronization. After weeks of work in LA and NY with Godrich to make demos and shape the songs, the band flew to London to Godrich’s studio. They had access to a “big sound” but tried to keep their approach as simple as possible, to preserve spontaneity. So after almost a year and a wide gap between two continents, A Different Ship arrives. Temple sees it as a moment of tension between reflecting on being alone or being attached to people, connected in some way. Like an attempt to find the right balance between the two, if possible.