Lupe Núñez-Fernández would like to reassure Clientele fans, who can be kind of intense, that she is not trying to take their band away. She and Alasdair MacLean, the Clientele's singer and guitarist, have just released a record called Street of the Love of Days that fits very well into their lifestyle.

You see, the pair live together in London, and when they're not busy with their respective bands (Núñez-Fernández is one of the forces behind twee powerhouse Pipas), they make a little music under the name Amor de Días. Is it their fault that their domestic bliss sounds so nice?

"It's strange because all this time I've been in this illusion that Pipas is my main band," says Núñez-Fernández, who describes the process of making Street of the Love of Days as the end of a four-year process of writing tunes at home when they're not busy with their other gigs. More significantly, it's a bit of a letting-go for people who are used to making music very carefully ("I mean, how else do you end up writing records when no one’s asking you to?" she says).

Núñez-Fernández, who also writes and edits art books, says she let herself not try to structure Amor de Dias' songs in her usual manner, which she describes as a process of addition: "it’s gotta have this, and it’s gotta have this, and it’s gotta make me wanna dance." She and MacLean recorded the album with eight other musicians and just let the arrangements happen, "almost to get back into the essence of writing songs," she says.

Live, Amor de Dias will be more stripped-down than on record, just the pair plus a recorder player and a cellist. They haven't played live very much, but she's not sweating that, either: the songs "won’t have the arrangements" they do on the album, she says. "Fifteen-part vocals, we could never really do that. In a way the songs are gonna be easy to play."

WATCH: "Late Mornings"

Amor de Días - Late Mornings from Merge Records on Vimeo.