Though just over half-an-hour in duration, Notes with Attachments, a curiously compelling set of instrumentals by bass ace Pino Palladino and producer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist Blake Mills, took more than two-and-a-half years to complete. Since 1980 Palladino has been prolific as a session and touring musician. He's amassed hundreds of credits with the Who, D'Angelo, Adele, John Mayer, Jose James, Margo Price, and Keith Urban, to mention only a handful. Mills is no slouch himself. In 2020 alone, he played on records by Bob Dylan, Stephen Malkmus, Rufus Wainwright, and Ted Poor. He also produced Perfume Genius' Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (that Palladino also played on) and issued the album Mutable Set under his own name. Notes with Attachments began life as Palladino's first solo album. He'd send Mills tracks based on ideas he'd was working on, hoping to involve him. Mills responded and Palladino sent more. Before long, Mills was adding production and instrumental touches to these mixes. It occurred to both men that a full collaboration made sense. They enlisted a small cast of friends including drummer Chris Dave, keyboardist Larry Goldings, saxophonists Sam Gendel, Marcus Strickland, and Jacques Schwartz-Bart, and violist/violinist Rob Moose.

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