If You Wait Tracklist
If You Wait is the debut studio album by English indie pop band London Grammar. It was released on 6 September 2013.
After the band signed with Ministry of Sound and Big Life Management they began the first sessions of the album in early 2012 with Cam Blackwood. Later that year he was replaced by Tim Bran and Roy Kerr. Hannah Reid described the collaboration as “Tim is amazing at recording, of finding the best way of recording a guitar or my vocal. Roy had the strongest relationship with Dot and they worked on production together.”
The album’s lyrics are mainly based upon vocalist Hannah Reid’s personal life, in particular her troubled teenage years, prompting The Guardian to suggest that this was “the first quarter-life-crisis album”.
“If You Wait” Q&A
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What have the artists said about the album?
According to Songfacts, musician Dan Rothman told Mojo website:
The biggest challenge of the record was deciding not to put in. We want space in the music, but producers and managers opinions can encourage you to put more and more on a track and make it bigger. Towards the end of the process we took back all the songs and started muting things we didn’t want and made it more and more minimal.
Dot also declared in an interview with French website Charts in France:
There are clearly themes that come up often in Hannah’s pen: time, amorous spleen … Writing is like a form of psychoanalysis. After that, there was no particular common thread, in fact we recorded a whole collection of songs before making our final selection.
