Evocative series of vignettes by the two musicians and visual artists.
This duo first collaborated in …Bender in 2004 and resumed activities after working on an art show in 2019. Johnson is best known for playing with Gallon Drunk and Nick Cave, and Gullick as a photographer, but We Travel
Time combines the more impressionistic aspects of their solo albums. When I’m Down is a plea for comfort set to dolorous violin, and Stormy Sea, based on skeletal piano and guitar figures, feels like peering out at waves and harbour lights. The vocals are set back in reverby space, making these short songs deliberately sketchy and understated: We Sail is basically the repeated refrain “We sail to the edge of the world…”. The lengthy title track is similarly inscrutable, with violin and guitars petering out into the sound of rain, before some of the vocals return running backwards, leaving it all feeling oddly unresolved.