The Ultimate Painting was an improvised piece put together by Drop City, an artists’ commune which formed in southern Colorado in 1965. And now it is also the name for a new collaboration between Mazes’ Jack Cooper and Veronica Falls’ James Hoare. But don’t expect their debut album, due in October, to be a kaleidoscope of colour but more a dimly-lit low-fi set in which both men show off their love of analogue sound.