Track listing

1. The Way We Do It
2. Jesus in a Show
3. These Things Happen To You
4. On Fire
5. Words Run Dry
6. Iliffe Morning
7. Little Anne
8. It's OK
9. Big Man
10. Not a Lot of Nice Days
11. No Fun
12. My Little Ache
13. Over and Out

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The debut album from Team LG, The Way We Do It arrives blinking into the daylight after several low key releases through Twisted Nerve and Earsugar which found healthy support from the likes of John Peel, Chris Coco and Stuart Maconie.

Team LG were Mr L and Little G, who met through a mutual friend who thought the pair would make interesting music between them. They didn't make any for a little while, but moved in together immediately.

In time they started sketching their ideas into a cheap sampler and a four-track. Their initial success made them vow to always work that way and through this process discovered their own unique, homespun little world of sound. Conjuring epic ramshackle tunes out of old casios, melodicas, violins, toys and anything else they found whilst routing around in local charity shops. Often these songs were made overnight - Little G would sing, play and frolic, then fall asleep while Mr L pressed buttons and bounced the parts around on the rickety equipment until daybreak - always finishing the new song in time to listen to it with hot coffee, fresh ears and a sleepy Little G.

Combining weightless beauty with heavy sentiment; heavenly hooks collide with assured percussive clonks, clicks and rattles. Like angels driving vintage tractors, ploughing the streets of London , leaving in their wake deep tracks of rich soil and heavy clay. The album tumbles blearily from early morning anticipation, afternoon snoozes and late night eeriness - tales of the city, stories of day to day and songs from the heart. The intense songs reflect 2 years of in-jokes, quarrels, joy and sorrows from the initial bright twinkles of the title track to the sombre piano led lament of Over and Out . It's impossible not to get wrapped up in the nagging throb of On Fire or be swept along by the gentle majesty of Jesus In a Show . All through the album there are odd pop numbers, moments of intimacy and weary frustration - but there is an undeniable underlying melancholy to these recordings.

Over time the pair grew apart, until one day they weren't on the same team any longer.

So The Way We Do It captures something genuinely personal. A treasure trove of of love letters, stickers, bus tickets and sweet wrappers that all meant so much once - and all too precious to throw away. The pair have moved on and are now both busy with with their separate projects and happy in their own way. The creeking sampler and four track are keeping busy too!

So, out of the debris Kennington Recordings was formed - an emotional rescue package, put together by close friends determined to turn a sad end into a happy beginning and resolved to share with all who care to listen to the highs and lows, the rise and demise of two special people with special talents.

It was the way they did it...