“I dreamt I was sitting by a fire on the beach in Santa Cruz at night” says Ross Godfrey, one third of Little Mountain, of the surreal way in which his band was born while he was staying in Beachwood Canyon in Hollywood, California, in 2012. “I was surrounded by 1950’s doo wop singers in velvet suits, and we were all singing an original country soul song. It had a great feel to it, and when I woke up I grabbed my guitar and tried to record as much of it as I could remember. Since I wasn’t really up to much, I then jumped in my beaten up old Mustang and drove up the Pacific Coast Highway to Santa Cruz. I kinda figured I might find the rest of the song if I went to the place in the dream.” In the end, having made it to Santa Cruz, Ross bumped into Will Sprott from The Mumlers. Over a bottle of tequila, they wrote the rest of ‘Catch Me’. “I knew I had a great song,” Ross continues, “and I wanted to start a band to write a whole album of similar cosmic music.” Ross had recently started a relationship with Amanda Zamolo: the two had met while making an album, Dive Deep, with Morcheeba. With Ross playing bass and Wurlitzer electric piano, and Amanda - a self-taught singer from Paris, France who was raised on a diet of Edith Piaf and Kate Bush - singing lead vocals, they soon recorded ‘Catch Me’ together in California. They were joined by Will Sprott, who guested on backing vocals and played guitar, and Dan Joeright (Jim White, David Byrne), who added drums in his desert studio