Benny Doyle, Journalist

"I don’t think we’re going to have a grant, we’ll just see how it falls, and we’re interested in like what Josh Freese did with his record a few years back."

"Loveless talks more about a specific time that I’ve spent over the last two or three years where I’ve found that I needed to push myself and find myself – my inner self – rather than things like falling in love with someone else."

"This one we’ve been able to take the time and shape the songs more, and think more about dynamics."

This is music for late nights and comedown mornings; it’s for red wine and close times. There’s so many ideas pushed into this record that by all logic it shouldn’t work. However, it does, and spectacularly so.

The single they’re on the road to promote, Is This How You Feel?, is a righteous celebration of good vibes, hands in the air-type stuff, and by the end of it all there isn’t a face not smiling right back at the band, a mutual love-in complete.

"It took us longer than we wanted to finish the album and record it, but the reason it took us so long was because we just weren’t happy with it."

"We’re all very proud of our previous work as a group, but it – and we – have got everything to prove to ourselves and we’ve also got everything to prove to our audience because they don’t owe us shit – we owe them.”

And too indie for heavy metal.

"[The Mercy Beat] just turned into the most fun thing so we quit all the other bands."

"I wasn’t open to jack shit when I was younger."

He who devours the globe, Jim Adkins, chats with Benny Doyle