On their debut album Reasons, Melbourne-based duo ALTA strived to create what they call "emotional dance music."
Vocalist Hannah Lesser and producer Julius Dowson spent ten months at home recording the album themselves. "We get a little obsessive and care a lot about the feel of the vocal take, and when we’ve tried we can’t recreate that feel later in a better environment, even though it’s a better recording," they explained in an interview with Wonderland Magazine. "So, most of the vocal takes are made hand-holding a condenser in a dark room without headphones, because it’s a better environment for us. Which is so naughty and might have secretly caused our mixing engineer George some troubles, but he never said anything and we love him!"
Their D.I.Y. spirit got them the results they wanted, as reflected in the intimate, emotional resonance on today's Song of the Day. "We really poured a lot of ourselves into the album, we’ve definitely come out of the process different people. We hope that it resonates with some people like it did with us when we were writing it."
