Description
'The Way You Talk Reminds Me Of Home' is the second album by Belgian indie band BLUAI. Two years after their warmly received debut 'Save It For Later' and an extensive run of shows across some of Europe's biggest festivals and venues, the three-piece return with their most ambitious and immediate record yet.
Across eleven songs, BLUAI explore what it means to live somewhere between past and present. Conversations with family, friends, partners and people who resurface after years away become starting points for songs about childhood, love, grief, responsibility and the uncertainty of approaching thirty. Rather than a traditional coming-of-age record, 'The Way You Talk Reminds Me Of Home' is about figuring things out while you are already in the middle of them.
Produced by Isabel Gracefield (Adele, Dua Lipa, PJ Harvey, Radiohead...) and recorded at London's legendary RAK Studios, the album was made with a deliberately instinctive approach. The full band tracked the eleven songs live in just five days, with frontwoman Cath singing alongside the band and often capturing the final vocal in a single take. Some songs were recorded using only one or two microphones, leaving little room for correction afterwards. The result captures BLUAI much as they sound on stage: raw, direct and closely connected.
The sessions also reunited the band with Willem Ardui (blackwave.), who produced their debut album, while multi-instrumentalist Juyane Kaya (Sarah Julia) brought a new energy to the recordings. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Feist, Adrianne Lenker and MJ Lenderman, BLUAI move between delicate, intimate songwriting and a fuller, more instinctive band sound.
The album's title captures the thread running through it all: how a voice, a phrase or simply the way someone speaks can suddenly bring back a place, a person or a version of yourself you thought you had left behind. 'The Way You Talk Reminds Me Of Home' is a record about loving imperfectly, carrying the past with you, and trying to figure out what comes next.
