PARCELS: two glorious sides of the same band

Interviews with Richard Kingsmill

Parcels have always had ambition. But they’ve gone sky high with the vision for their epic second album.

With their new album Day/Night, Parcels wanted to reach for the stars. Keen to avoid any second album syndrome, they went bigger, wider and more extreme than they’ve ever gone as a band.

Exploring the duality of the band, the darkness and light within the group, they arrived at an epic double album called Day/Night. Self-produced at the La Frette studios in Paris, drummer Anatole ‘Toto’ Serret and Richard Kingsmill go into how the album progressed through an ominous Australian summer, then months of separation during a worldwide pandemic, as well as playing cover versions for weeks on end.