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I started recording The Banishing at much the same time as my previous album, Hip To The Jag was released, which was essentially at the beginning of lockdown in Spring 2020. The original intent had been to make a record that was not as obviously personal and autobiographical as the first. I wanted to make a positive, uplifting album.

I wanted to call the album 'Now I'm The Antichrist', much to the consternation of almost everyone I told about it. As I got towards the end of the recording, however, I settled on The Banishing which, while referring to my banishing from London really describes how I thought of the process of making it which, in magical terms, was a banishing ritual.

1. side
   1. The Horizontal Man
   2. Snake Humanis 3m29s
   3. Heart The Same
   4. A Thousand Blazing Chariots 3m58s
2. side
   1. The Sweetest Demon
   2. Push The Faders
   3. Mountains Of Glass
   4. Untethered