"I think I needed to have a break from that vibe when I did – I mean, four years, off and on, of having different band line-ups and stuff."

"My belief is that it’s not my conscious self, it’s the old people divining me to go back to the songlines – my ancestry tapping me on the shoulder.”

"The album’s done everything I’ve wanted it to do, pretty much. It’s gotten me some pretty good recognition, it’s sold lots of copies, and it’s exposed me to that festival scene, which was kind of the goal."

"We’re just a little band basically. We’ve met some people though, that want to work with us so hopefully there’ll be a few opportunities to get back to the EU."

"I’ve just been trying to work through and finish this album, which is exciting but quite terrifying all at the same time.”

“It’s been extremely daunting, to take on a whole album and make all those calls, you know, without having seven other people over you on every decision along the way.”

” How it felt to spend twenty minutes submerged, with guitar, underwater? “I’m pretty used to it,” Godden rationalizes with a laugh. “I’ve done a lot of surfing. It was just like being dumped.”

“I wrote the lyrics about my great aunt, who is quite ill and is a very inspiring figure. The song still has drive, particularly when performed live.”

“I’m always the guy with the iPod, kind of DJing and trying to make everyone dance. So I figured I’d make a danceable kind of record. And try to marry it with considered lyrics… often with those types of songs that I’d play, the lyrics would be fairly throw-away and a bit of an afterthought.”

"The birthing of Deep Heat, conceptually at least, came out of my realisation that people had managed to pigeonhole me as a serious, earnest singer/songwriter, which is fair enough considering the last record that I made."

“We make music because we like it. We don’t have many goals or anything like that; we do it because we want to have fun.”

Jake Stone from Bluejuice tells us some of his favourite things.

“We don’t just wanna copy or recreate something..."

Northeast Party House describe their new single's title character. "He’s just a trickster... kind of a cross between a trickster, a wizard and a pimp.”

Hiatus Kaiyote have lofty ambitions for their music – they want to take you to another world, writes Nic Toupee.