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   New music and the future

"I’m actually finding with this new stuff, that’s coming out now, after ‘Envy of Angels’ - it’s the whole batch of songs that I’m writing now - they’re more redemptive. They seem to be more about people connecting, more about love, more about hope. 

With the support of the band, I came through that period of not really feeling like writing - and writing grim stuff when I did write. [I’ve] come through that to now, where I’m writing a lot. And we’re all really looking forward to the next record. We’re going to record it pretty quickly but ourselves in a more sort of home-based recording way. We’re moving around to different garages, different small studios and finishing it sort of at our own pace. I would say it’ll be ready about June. 

We’re trying to make stuff more often now. There was a big gap between the first album and ‘Salty’ because we were trying to find a record deal. There was a big gap between ‘Salty’ and ‘Envy Of Angels’ because we had found a record deal, but we relocated to England and we were touring an enormous amount. We should have been writing and making and recording new songs but we were sitting in the back of a transit van in Prague somewhere. Where we’re at now, even though we’re not involved with Virgin anymore, we’ve still got the platform that they built for us, and we’ve still got some albums in us - better ones than we’ve made, I think. And that’s what matters to us."
 
 

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