We Two

“We Two” is a track from the album “The Boys Of Dungeon Lane“, released in 2026.

The album contains many inventive twists and turns, but perhaps none more endearing than the creation of this stripped-down tune. As McCartney explained, when EMI got purchased by Thorn Electrical in 1979, the buyer wanted to purge all the equipment from Abbey Road (which EMI owned at the time).

McCartney got a lot of the old studio equipment, including a Studer four-track tape machine that the Beatles recorded many of their classics on, the harmonium played on “We Can Work It Out” and the spinet used on “Because.”

Because the Studer could only record four tracks, the Beatles employed a technique called “bouncing down,” which would quickly mix two tracks down to one to free up tracks. McCartney said “I and Ringo would be on bass and drums, which would take up two tracks and then we’d bounce it down to one track. You had to get it right because you couldn’t get it back.” In England, Watt and McCartney wrote the sweet love song, “We Two,” to record on the Studer and bounced down the tracks. “We’re particularly proud of the snare drum” on the record, McCartney said, of the song that ends with the sound of the track playing backwards.

From Billboard, April 17, 2026 – From the “Boys of Dungeon Lane” listening session, April 16, 2026

The four-track “uses a fat tape, like an inch… so you get a great bass sound, a great snare drum sound. So we made up a song to go to record on the four-track,” and they did the same hazardous style of overdubbing as back in the day, “and we did the same post, you know, “‘bouncing down’ and all that sort of stuff. And we’re particularly proud of the snare sound.” After the playback, McCartney and Watt continued to amusingly concur on this very fine point: “Best snare drum ever!” … “Best snare drum.”

From Variety, April 17, 2026 – From the “Boys of Dungeon Lane” listening session, April 16, 2026

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