I recorded the first Barton album on my own in 2012 and although I'm very proud of it, I realised something was missing. Other people. These other people to be precise...

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Jérémy Morice, Karim Benaziza & Vincent Guibert

So after arranging the songs with producer Vincent Guibert, into the studio we went with a bunch of songs I'd written whilst living in Australia for a year. If the songs sound bigger, that's because Australia is bigger than almost anything else and also because I felt like writing songs inspired by the music I'd grown up listening to. That big warm sound that came from west coast America in the 70s. Steely Dan, The Eagles, Rickie Lee Jones and co that I occasionally hear echoes of in modern day artists like Josh Rouse & John Mayer to name but two.

So that's how 4 guys ended up in a disused water mill in the Angers (France) countryside last July recording songs inspired from the other side of the world and another era. It was stupidly hot. There are no photos of me because I wore practically nothing the whole week. Karim (drummer) wore so little I could sell the few photos I have of him on ebay for a substantial amount. Now there's a possible funding angle...

Somehow, despite the heat we managed to record 11 songs. All of us playing live in one room with the amplifiers expertly tucked away in distant corners by our diligent sound engineer Olivier Fournier.

We loved how it sounded straight away and at the end of the week came away safe in the knowledge that a great album was taking shape. Over the next year we added more guitars, brass, extra guitars, piano, Hammond organ, a few more guitars, female backing vocals and arrived where we are now. One last push...

Over the next 6 weeks I'll be releasing short videos of us playing the songs live in the studio. Follow us on

Facebook or Twitter to see them as soon as they're released. Here's the first one...

Teaser video filmed Live in the studio. Episode 1 "Everything is better than before". Full length version without talk over to follow...

Barton - The album!