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“Mostly it’s just me dicking about in my boffin cave.”

"I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading about Australia’s history in the last couple of years – way more than I ever did as a teenager because I was too preoccupied by my own ups and downs and shit.”

"Over the years with band money we’ve kind of collected a bit of recording gear, so now we’ve got it to a point where we’re happy with the quality we can produce ourselves."

“I’ve been on Instagram and stuff before but Twitter’s pretty interesting. I followed God the other day, I Am God or something like that."

“We kept our heavy roots while at the same time progressing as a band and as musicians."

"I’ve never seen Disclosure live, so I’m really intrigued to see them."

"I think I pretty much played in every venue in Melbourne and probably all across Australia; any venue that would have me. Just because you just gotta get ‘gig fit’ like that."

"We fell into a little pigeonhole from the last record of being a breakdown band and just playing a lot of open breakdowns so we really tried to steer clear of that this time."

"It’s a natural progression because I constantly evolve, which helps when not feeling bogged down by what people’s expectations are of what you should or could be."

"Everyone treats him so sort of seriously as an icon that everyone’s a bit serious and so what we try and do halfway through the show is lighten things up."

"I think that with both this record and the last one our main directive was to kind of keep up the energy – maybe the energy that people like from our earlier records."

“It took me a long time to hear a soul or spirit in electronic music."