A group of people enter a strange space - walls covered in carpet, metal boxes everywhere, swathes of buttons and cords and leads and blinking lights and bewildering space-age machinery - and weeks later emerge, blinking, from the darkness, album in hand.

What exactly happens within the hallowed walls of the recording studio? Who knows; we can be but content to listen to the fruits of the secret labours of those who understand things like which end of a guitar to plug into an amplifier. Fortunately, Papa Vs Pretty's new album, White Deer Park unfolds some of the mysteries of this musical alchemy.

We wrote over 80 songs and the culling process was intense!" Thom recalls, only slightly wearily. "I started writing My Life Is Yours before I first went to L.A. to write and finished when I got back. Going to L.A. was a total life changing experience and it set the tone for what followed."

The City of Angels brought the band together with producer Dave Trumfio, too. "He came all the way from America to help us do this album. He said he'd done it before for Wilco, My Morning Jacket, and Grandaddy and that it worked for them so we figured he knew what he was doing," he recalls.

Following the completion of White Deer Park in May 2013, Papa vs Pretty have released two singles, the soaring My Life is Yours and the claustrophobic rock track Smother. Fast-forward to 2014 and Papa vs Pretty finally get to share their sophomore album with the release of White Deer Park on Friday 21st February.

Join Papa vs Pretty as they celebrate the launch of White Deer Park on Thursday 27 February at Oxford Arts Factory. To add some aplomb to the occasion, the band will cast aside technical hurdles such as multiple guitar tunings, and call in favours from a few special guests so that they can play the songs from White Deer Park in the track order they appear on the album.

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