Fuck It We've Got Laptops, Let's Just Do This

"Early on in the recording, things were really all up in the air for us," Superfood's Dom Ganderton recalls, "but we just thought, 'Fuck it, we've got laptops, let's just do this.' So we started recording it in our bedrooms, in our flats and rehearsal rooms, and then we went into an actual studio and started recording some drums. We've basically been recording it in any place we can over the last couple of years: hotel rooms, parked cars, anything.

"We went into a park one night at three o'clock in the morning and did some vocals. We just said 'what can we do?' We took our laptops and some mics out into the middle of the park that was over the road, and we were just belting it out in the middle of this park. It was quite surreal, but quite funny."

Despite the highly irregular manner in which the album was written and recorded - in fact, probably because of it - Ganderton and writing partner Ryan Malcolm are stoked with the way it's turned out. "It was a really different process," he states, "usually you go into a studio for about four weeks, basically live there and you finish it, but we just went completely the opposite. We just made the songs in dribs and drabs and really having time to reflect on them, and I think what we got from it is a really interesting result."

So did the stuff they did in the park make it through to the final mix? "Yeah it did! The chorus vocals on Raindance is us in the park. Oh, I meant to mention there's a fax machine solo on the record too." He laughs, while being deadly serious at the same time.

Ultimately, Ganderton feels their sound has very broad appeal, and invites listeners from Australia to check the record out and find out for themselves. "It's all about the rhythm and it's all about good songwriting, so I think there's something there for everyone, I think there's something there that's going to capture everyone's attention. I think Aussies will love it."

So much so that the band, while they are busy playing with the likes of Wolf Alice in the UK and Europe for the rest of this year, are looking very strongly at getting over here for a tour in the not too distant future. "Since we started we've wanted to get out to Australia," he says, "we're looking at hopefully early in the new year, January, there's a few festivals and stuff that we're trying to get out to. Fingers crossed."