Michael Smith, Journalist

"The response has been really good, really positive. But I’m always working on what’s next, so you know, I’m Mister What Comes Next, not Mister What Happened Before."

“I think working with crazy people brings out a lot of great things because they just bring an insane energy that make me feel really secure!”

"We’ve done some recording with our current rhythm section who’ve been with us four or five years now and it’s very easy recording with them somehow – they’re a very lively pair of lads because they’re both, what, 22 now, which is great."

“I think less is more sometimes, and that’s what we learnt from the first recordings. We weren’t too happy with them – I just found it too ‘studio’.”

As prolific as he is, the result is always never less than quality work that is, at best, inspired.

"It’s funny, that song,” he admits. “I did it as a dare really. Howler, my booking agent, was, like, ‘I dare you to write a ballad,’ because I’d never written one before, so I tried and it took me ages to write that song."

“I wrote and recorded 33 songs for that project and used 24 because I felt eight songs per CD were enough, like a side of vinyl, where you have to turn it over if you want.”

“I have a manager who’s based in Santa Cruz in California, so when we were putting together the vision for the album, everything just pointed there. He just had really good connections with the studio and musicians and producer, so he just made it all happen.”

“Not that we’ve been trying to write differently, but we’re opening up a lot more doors with the new songs, with a few different sounds, but it’ll always just have that coastal feel anyway.”

"We played a lot of different cities, from Shanghai to Beijing, all the way inland to Xian and everywhere in between that."

"I think that, in this record, I was trying to bring more of my life into it and pluck out these moments and explore them through song. I think I’m stuck in permanently being nostalgic. I don’t know what for, but I think that’s my life, this position."

"I think this is a bit more of a grownup album,” Auldist admits. “When I did my first album, it was an introduction, so I basically told a lot of stories about myself, and the second one was, ‘Well, what do you do now?’"