Dimorphodons' debut single 'Searching For Dimorphodons' may be the work of a solo artist, but it sounds like the work of a bevy of intense musicians all dressed in lavish gowns attempting to open a door to another world. But, I can confirm, it is definitely just one intense musician dressed in a lavish gown attempting to open a door to another world. Or, as he puts it, "the fantasy world I’d like to live in".
There were a "few obsessive attempts to nail the right feeling for this song", he tells Clash, "but it kept coming out too clean when recorded properly. In the end, holing up overnight in an abandoned barn and smashing out a really frenetic version into a dictaphone got the vibe I was after".
"As the recording went on", he explains, "a storm swept in and the thunder and lightning bolts felt like another musician to play against".
Ah, so there was someone else pretty intense in the room as the record was made. Kind of. Not sure if the lightning was wearing a lavish gown. Nor, to be honest, if Dimorphodons was. But he is in the video for the track and it is magnificent.