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Longer in creation than any of its predecessors, Hayden Thorpe, Tom Fleming, Chris Talbot and Ben Little took almost a full year away from touring to conceive and construct the eleven tracks of \u003ci\u003ePresent Tense\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in London and recorded at Konk Studios in London and at The Distillery in Bath, the band worked in close collaboration with co-producers Lexxx and Brian Eno protege Leo Abrahams to create a record of astounding intricacy, coherence and emotional resonance. 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