Apartments In And Out Of The Light

The Apartments highly anticipated seventh studio album, “In and Out of the Light”, follows a cast of characters who, in the aftermath of loss or simply the changes that turn up in everyone’s lives, have been looking for some other way to live—and found it.

A hypnotic, unforgettable set of songs, In and Out of the Light came together in a new way for The Apartments. Recording began in Sydney, at the end of winter, 2019. Working a few hours a day, one or two days a week, the album was finished in the summer, the final mix being completed the day before coronavirus lockdown hit Australia in 2020.

The songs took shape impressionistically across the recording days, with details of melodies, fragments of lyrics and hooks determining the form—a departure from the band’s usual way of the songs being built up from a bedrock of bass and drums. Peter Milton Walsh and bass player Eliot Fish worked with producer Tim Kevin in his Marrickville studio in Sydney, while French Apartments, Natasha Penot and Antoine Chaperon, recorded their parts in various studios in France and English drummer Nick Allum worked in London. In and Out of the Light features Chris Abrahams from The Necks on piano.

The track, We Talked Through Till Dawn, was recorded live in one take with Peter singing while Chris played piano—the same way in which they had recorded an Apartments fan favourite, She Sings to Forget You.

With exquisite instrumentation, gorgeous harmonies and Peter Milton Walsh’s impressionistic storytelling, The Apartments have an album to get lost in—for a day, for a week, for a lifetime.