Sky Kirkham, Journalist

"I think we’ve had the time to mature as a band and get to know each other and our sound a bit better. So we were really keen to finally get that music together and put together a new, more mature, release."

“I started writing songs because I heard things that made me think that it was worthwhile to start creating a dialogue.”

“I really love the storytelling and the story behind music. And when I listen to other artists - a lot of my favourite artists are great storytellers - I feel that’s what I connect with most."

“It’s easy to make music. I mean it’s what we love to do. That’s really part of it too; it just comes out very easily for us. I just don’t know what I’d do if I wasn’t doing that, you know.”

"To be honest, it’s very difficult to replicate the record live when there’s only the two of us on stage. There are so many layers and instruments that have been put into the record, it’s just physically not possible to do it."

"We really like playing in Australia,” Ruawai begins, reflecting on his band’s history. “I really find people are a little bit reserved here [in New Zealand], they’re not as reserved in Australia."

"This is the first album that I’ve actually been quite straight up about stuff... I think other songs I’ve written in the past, unless I’ve told someone a song was about them they wouldn’t have really known."

“Easy answer is we’re basically book nerds and we love reading books and all that sort of stuff. But the more complicated answer is we’re trying to create a collection of stories and feelings and concepts that are alien to us.”

"There is still a part of me that yearns to make another full-on rock’n’roll album so, I don’t know, we’ll see if I have that in me over the next few years or not."