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The Portraits first album, 2006's "Kin", had as its central muse the sudden death of Jeremy's father Graham in his early 60s. The downbeat nature of the album was largely due to its subject matter, despite the duo's penchant for setting sad lyrics to cheery-sounding music. "Timescape", in a lyrical sense at least, is very much post-bereavement, dealing as it does with age, with legacy, with how we will be remembered. Precious Red links Jeremy's dad with the granddaughter he never knew: the song was an attempt by Jeremy to offer some upbeat thoughts to his newly born daughter for a future time when he himself was no longer here. Featuring the beautiful bowings of Cape Town's finest session cellist Lara Block. |