Making

01 · Play
The friction dial

Feels like care

A first-time payee gets one extra check, a code to enter, then never again. The pause lands exactly where the risk is, and customers read it as the bank looking out for them rather than getting in the way.

Trust100%

Friction is the only trust signal that runs both ways. Too little and people feel unprotected. Too much and they feel policed. The craft is knowing where the dial sits, and for whom.

02 · Sound
Music
Cover art for the 3½ Minutes release Peep, mannequin figures on a neon-lit, rain-soaked street
1990-93
3½ Minutes

A guitar band with a couple of real moments. NME Single of the Week in 1992, and "Bled Me Dry" on the soundtrack of Son In Law, the 1993 Pauly Shore film. We shared stages with Blur, Suede, Radiohead and The Pogues. Bandmate Alex Boucher later wrote a memoir of the era, Three And A Half Minutes of Fame (2024).

Cover art for the Inaura album One Million Smiles, the band standing on a bleached beach under a green-tinted sky
1994-97
Inaura

Duran Duran meets Nine Inch Nails while hanging out with Dave Gilmour. Signed via EMI. The debut single "This Month's Epic" was later called one of the finest singles of the mid-1990s. The album One Million Smiles, produced by Steve Osborne and featuring Dave Formula of Magazine, was shelved by EMI in 1996 and rescued by Org Records in 1998. Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto remix of "Coma Aroma" travelled well beyond the band, from Cream Live Two to Global Underground '96. We toured the UK, Europe and the US with The Human League and EMF.

Now
Off-Peak

New electronic music, picking up where the 1990s left off. Warm, analogue, and built after hours.

First releases coming soon
03 · Image
Photography

See the full album on Flickr