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“I married an Aussie girl and we lived in Portland for a few years, and then we moved to Australia – we’ve been here for years... I’m really enjoying it, Melbourne’s great.”

“Mate, if I could borrow the early Kiss pyrotechnics, that would be brilliant, but not at this stage.”

“It’s as if God has been crowdsourced to the rest of society,” says deep-thinking Canadian d’Eon. Anthony Carew chats with the accidental adult-contemporary musician.

"We went through so many periods where we weren’t working as a group, everyone was working on the individual projects, so nothing felt overly different... so all of us were incredibly surprised at what was going on, because Thurston and Kim always seemed like this extremely stable couple. And this is personal stuff, and it’s hard to deal with in a public setting."

"A lot of death, a lot of murder – what else have we got?... We’ve got a few old favourites – there’s a couple of songs about shit. There’s a few songs about serial killers and a lot of stuff that happens in Australia I try and pick up on."

“I got a recording grant from Thirty Mill Studios – that’s pretty lucky. Also, a lot of musicians are featured on the album, and people were happy to come in and help out.”

“Sometimes it was really heavy and difficult to get through, other times you try not to focus on it too much – even though it’s difficult not to.”

“The house thing is gonna go the way of maybe like disco... It’s just got to the point where people are getting burnt out on it.”

"We’ve been booked for a few festivals that haven’t been announced yet – we’ve got a few up our sleeve for Australia over the summer. Then we’ll start looking overseas.”

Jordan Malane of surf-punk band Bleeding Knees Club treats us with his Top Five offerings.

“We’ve battled with the idea of being a prolific band and releasing a lot of records, and also our love for the road, but the two don’t really go hand in hand.”