Brendan Telford, Journalist

"I had this bizarre fascination with paper cranes... In primary school we made one thousand paper cranes for a teacher’s daughter who had leukaemia, this huge gesture of well wishes."

“We had a few road bumps last year... We all realised that we needed a small break from each other, which in a lot of ways has been really good for us for it’s allowed us to think back over the past year and what we had achieved."

"It’s natural that when you put something out that you think that you will get shitcanned."

Harmony is a clever, sinuous beast of an album that proves that Die! Die! Die! are more potent than ever.

"It’s like the entire group has received this collective breath of fresh air, this inspired vigour for music and life, and we thought it was just that initial getting-back-together, things-slotting-into-place phase. But it’s continued into 2012, and it has revitalised us."

"We found it hard to believe that they showed interest in putting us out, because as far as we were concerned we were just some band on the other side of the world."

It’s been a horror year for Peter Black, otherwise known as Blackie, wild axeman of seminal Aussie rock icons the Hard-Ons. Yet as he shows Brendan Telford, he’s as resilient as they come.

“I just wanted to play with things, then get them out there and see what made sense. I think that’s some of it, I’m realising what it’s about, maybe…”

What the album does do though is show that Milne is yet another step closer to realising the musical peaks that he ardently seeks.

Strange Dreams is a ferocious mission statement, a feverish mark of intent that’s exhilarating in its confidence.