Faced with the deadline of naming the band for the release of New Addiction in 2014, band leader Simon Rigoni choose 2 Inch Tape, not because they had used the analogue format to record their debut album, but because they had deliberately limited themselves to recording principles available in the early 70’s, the golden age of the album.

Nine years later with the impending release of their sixth album “What I Need”, 2 Inch Tape has remained faithful to their original parameters, shunning pitch correction, quantization and emulation in favour of highlighting the human performance and its frailties.

But within the boundaries of their constant, the variable is the bands willingness to explore a menagerie of sounds borrowed from genres as diverse as country, post punk, folk and prog rock without ever precisely emulating one’s sound, for 2 Inch Tape is about putting the ingredients in a blender to create unique sounds, songs and albums.