"We went about the recording "Trick of the light" in much the same way as the first album ("Romance & Melodrama"), by working remotely from our respective home studios in Derry and Carlow, and bouncing files back and forth. We went through a few different stages in the making of this album, building, breaking down and rebuilding the arrangements for the songs, changing direction a few times in the process. At Shayne (Byrne: producer/collaborator)'s suggestion, we stripped the songs down to their bare bones, and rebuilt the songs using the guitar in a slightly different way to the first album.