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"It almost began as sort of a joke: ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be funny if we grabbed kilts and took all these songs and gave them a Scottish flavour?’"

"Working with vocals, it represents an obstacle to us – but it also excites us and makes us want to keep writing and working on the material."

"With a full length album on the horizon we’d love to have a lot of new songs instead of recycling old ones from the previous EPs."

"We could barely play our instruments, we definitely didn’t know how to write songs – we were just playing covers at that point. I definitely didn’t think we’d be doing it for a long time."

"The music I’ve always appreciated the most is music that’s been driven by storytelling; everything from The Beatles to Modest Mouse."

"Ours is the sort of music that was played in dance halls in the 1920s and ‘30s in New York and Chicago."

"My dad is a pastor – he’s a man of the cloth – but I don’t see him anymore and I’m very much agnostic now."

"It’s nuts to be ten years on, and still to be able to remember the feeling of playing the youth centre at our first show. A decade – fucking hell."

“I can be very controlling – not in a negative way, but I know what I want a lot of the time."

"One thing that I have to take from the process of making this album, and if I want to better myself as a writer and as an artist, I need to up my productivity. I need to learn how to not take four years to write a song."

“It’s hard to explain that, but I’d been through a lot of changes in my life, and over the last five years I’ve been taught some interesting lessons, you know?"

"We’ve got a week off and then we’re going back out again to do some shows with Mumford (and Sons). I love going out with the Mumford guys, so that’s exciting."