Long and winding road to success for sibling duo Hudson Taylor

The band of brothers otherwise known as Hudson Taylor are relishing the discovery of a stripped-back style, writes Ed Power

ALFIE Hudson-Taylor wished he’d done it sooner. “On our current tour, it’s mostly just my brother and I up on stage. What we’re doing is really stripped back. We’ve discovered that it’s a lot of fun. Maybe that’s how we should record our next album. It think it would work really well.”

If only he’d appreciated the benefits of ‘less is more’ when he and elder sibling Harry were writing their debut album, Singing For Strangers. Three years in the planning, and featuring a rotating cast of co-writers and producers, the project did not come together in the smoothest circumstances. When it finally limped into daylight last January, it was deemed overcooked and underwhelming.