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"In the end, we’ve allowed ten days but after the fifth day we’d already tracked nineteen songs, so we ended up just taking the day off. We’ll track all day tomorrow and then Sunday will just be party day.”

"For someone who is very result orientated, if they don’t see it come out or see it in a store, it’s like it didn’t happen. As a creative person going through the process, it is quite the opposite. It’s like, ‘We did it! It was amazing! Now what can we do?’”

“I play with my guitar tuned down to D-standard and use a thicker string gauge. My guitar style is quite rhythmic and groove-based and I find the looseness of the strings helps to add an extra percussive element.”

Heading to Australia next year for the Future Music Festival, Boys Noize will be bringing along his rambunctious attitude and a brand new live set

“I don’t really have a defined idea but we’ll see. We have a whole lot of touring to do. When we get back I will have a good idea of what we want to do. All of the ideas I have at this stage don’t even point to an album."

Black Crow was recorded over three days. The sessions were about six to eight hours per day but with some breaks throughout the day. I spent time in the night recording the quieter songs that didn’t require full instrumentation.

Now that the dust has settled on the amazingly massive and perfect Radiohead tour, we can now turn our attention to some new material from Atoms For Peace.

"And I said, ‘None of these songs are about you,’ which was pretty embarrassing, but I had to say it ‘cause she was wound up about it and I just thought, ‘You’re getting wound up over nothing,’ hahaha."

“The stuff that we’re writing that is perhaps less urgent or more subtle, and that in the past we might have just mercilessly thrown away.”

"I’d be pretty disappointed if I got seven tracks on an album, but it’s a lot bigger than what you’d expect an EP to be… So we went with mini-album…”

"It’s not serious music... or it’s [not] too deep. It’s fun, it makes you smile... But it’s not too commercial – it’s just good music. That’s what I’m all about – good times.”