Matt O'Neill, Journalist

"I think we’ve been doing this for a long time now and we’re starting to really wrap our heads around songwriting."

Stripped of both its (profoundly relevant) sense of locale and underlying narrative tensions, Berthold’s ...Menagerie loses all propulsion and pathos. Only the script remains to be enjoyed.

"There’s still very much that snobbery that exists between classes. There’s still that grudge from the lower classes towards the higher."

“We want to do a debut album pretty soon. We don’t ever want to stop."

"We had our sights set on what we wanted it to do - which was to notch us up another level - but I guess it just came as a shock when it actually happened."

They'll showcase some fresh material on their upcoming Aussie tour

There is a sense that Topology can go further still – but, for now, Ten Hands does a wonderful job of bringing their oft-obscured sense of adventure a lot closer to the surface. An awesome album.

"We’re just finishing up with the writing and getting into pre-production. It’s coming out really nice so far."

"It’s been really good. We’ve been getting return curtain calls at the end of each show. It’s going really well."

"Six albums, seven albums in... It can become a job. It can become a business. You can lose sight of that feeling that says: ‘you have to get a fucking album out, you have to get these songs out, you have to get these words heard’."

"I think when we started we probably wanted to play a bit of modern music and just do gigs, really. Gigs in a couple of different places. It’s always been a very gradual thing for us."