The album is slightly heavier, darker, more intense and varied in it’s musical style and content, than the band’s first album, ‘IN TECHNICOLOR’.

During the writing & recording of ‘PHONOGRAPHY’ , the band went through a number of personal and professional changes, which have inspired their muse and influenced the song writing process. Creative artists that THE TREAT are, their work often reflects what effects them, not only in their immediate surroundings, but also world events of a socio/politico nature, as can be heard in the lyrics of ‘Fanfare For The King’, ‘The Deathday Parties’ & ‘Bolivian Diary’, all three on ‘PHONOGRAPHY’. To lyrically balance the album, the band have included a light hearted ode to the singer’s cat , ‘Black Cat Whites’. THE TREAT are always eager to progress musically and their collective talents have enabled them to branch out from the straightforward rock of the first album and add lighter, acoustic flourishes to ‘PHONOGRAPHY’, as heard on the tracks ‘Meadowland’ & ‘Haitian Mourning Dress’. Their artistic reach and ambition is such that they have also incorporated elements of psychedelia (on ‘Black Cat Whites’, ‘Effervescence’ and ‘Meadowland’), prog rock (on ‘Jagged Glass’ and ‘Effervescence’), traditional blues (on ‘Haitian Mourning Dress’) and indie (on ‘Erased’) into their unique mix, while retaining the basic elements of good song writing, which caught the attention of reviewers and D.J.s in the first place. THE TREAT have not taken away any of the elements of their original sound, only added more colours to their work. The heavier late 60s/early 70s style continues to inspire the group, and can be heard on ‘Too Late’ & the pop radio friendly ‘Roaming’. However, on ‘PHONOGRAPHY’, they have added Foo Fighters/Soundgarden/Queens Of Stone Age influences to their heavier style - heard on ‘Make You Crawl’ & ‘Fanfare For The King’.