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“We’ll do some more recordings and try and get as many shows as we can. It’s always been the approach we’ve had, but I guess we’ve been documenting things a lot more recently.”

"When we recorded the song, I only had a basic understanding of the lyrics."

"There’s definitely some lyrics on the record that don’t have anything to do with the Paracosm idea, but sonically I think there is [a narrative thrust]."

"There’s one song on the album that was actually recorded at The Vanguard in 2010 – Holdin On. I’d recorded about eight songs there before we left and I never really did anything with them."

"It’s literally all I care about. I like my girlfriend and I like music, that’s all I’ve got."

"Of course you never thought that far ahead. But I don’t see why we can’t keep doing it - as long as we’re all still alive, and sort of well."

"We were like a mess at the beginning because we were so confused and didn’t know what to do, like what should we sound like."

"I didn’t even really know that Australian hip hop existed when I started getting into it. I enjoyed it, so I figured that’s what I wanted to do."

“It’s interesting just seeing people at school’s reactions to all this stuff. I don’t usually gloat about it or tell everyone who I am in this second life kind of thing."

"On our third album a lot of the songs did come from a riff or a groove, but I don’t think we were all completely satisfied with [those] songs, so this time around we worked backwards and we started everything with an idea."

"We are a loose band, and deliberately so, but there was an emphasis to how we could work as a unit, because we had all this time to write and we wanted to push ourselves into places we hadn’t been in before."

"The album pushed us and demanded a lot of us and forced us to try new things and go out of our comfort zone."