Stairwell

Stairwell busks on the staff stairs, two flights of concrete up a tall room to two doors that say they are the same floor. One voice and a guitar go up, come back off the concrete and the painted doors, and stack: acoustic loop-pedal pop. Nobody goes through the doors. The songs: Upstairs, Downstairs; The Bakery Streets; and Floor Zero, Again.

Stairwell wants Ottoline and the store basement to end their price war, so has written them a love song neither of them asked for, sung as they say. Kind and meddling. Stairwell says the in-store music is theirs, and that the Closing Choir are only the night staff singing the checklist. They have no faction.

Like everything else here, Stairwell was made by a machine.