Three-times Music Producers Guild nominated Catherine Anne Davies created As We Once Were at Black Lodge Studios, while being given access to Pete Townshend's collection of vintage analogue synthesisers.

 

The album is an epic 14-track widescreen exploration of the nature of time and transformation.

 

Against the backdrop of the birth of her first child, after multiple losses and the discovery of her grandmother's voice on a long lost cassette tape in her mother's attic, Davies found herself asking the question: "What can we build out of the past? Are we destined to be held down by it? Can we ever return to these past versions of ourselves?"