Simone Ubaldi, Journalist

Jon Hopkins' 'Immunity' makes the top of Simone Ubaldi's list in 2013.

"We grew to a point where this thing that we didn’t expect to be a real thing, especially not a real career, became a real career."

"It’s a developing thing. It’s not a static situation – our ages, the band – so it’s not the same as it used to be. We’re more mature now. There aren’t the same jitters there."

"It was really rare to hear him say something like, 'I really like that music you wrote'. Instead he'll say, 'It sounds like you got what you wanted on that one'. And in the end, it worked. We got everything right to the spot that we wanted."

There is no rock, no pop, no swaggering cuts of classical music in the set and ultimately that is kind of a pity.

"At a certain stage of youth, there are less things to do and less things to worry about."

“Some kind of music is like real smartypants, you know, like Radiohead or something – nothing against them, I never heard their stuff actually but I know that they’re real smart."

Frontman Sam Nolan explains how he got rid of that nasty writer's block

“We surfed, we ate well and played all night... We had to find a way to get the buzz again and it worked."