I don't think we ever know when we're going into it what it's going to end up like and that's
always been the case there are rumors today as we record this um of Eminem and new headlining
Glastonbury next summer I can't even see your eyes I can't even yeah yeah right yeah what a mashup
you must be so excited for people to hear this in terms of what you do on the record there's loads
of beautiful um detail through percussion within any new sort of additions to your setup yeah I
think for a while stubbornly I had an open cushion policy when I was first starting I like wanted to
be like Mr rugromo only plays drums but obviously you get a bit older and I'm like learn a few more
things and learn what's important Alex seems just totally in his element vocally with this one and
lyrically it did he seem really happy making this record yeah I think so I think I've sort of seen
him gradually become like different vocalists and and writer as well you know like and it obviously
a lot of it comes with age as much of a cliche as that is just experiencing getting better at
crap in a way you know like first records there were no attempts to do anything like that and
and that was right for the time like 17 or whatever it wasn't the time to do that and I think
yeah he's just it just becomes like a different singer in that way and I think and it does suit
him like it makes sense did you always know that there was going to be another like Sonic extension
of Tranquility I don't think we ever know when we're going into it what it's going to end up like
um that's always been the first really with Tranquility that was the case and then with
this one it was a lot of we didn't really know what it was until it was finished and it was
a natural thing to go from Tranquility to this like I feel like it always makes sense because I
pick up where we left off a little bit so you you laid this down in the monastery in Suffolk right
and then also you did some stuff just outside of Paris too how were the different kind of
environments in terms of your creative working the main yeah the main chunk of it was the the one in
um Suffolk which was when we were that's the main bit where we're all
together and recording every day living there waking up there and doing it all
um and then the rest of it the France part of it was a lot of I'll redoing the vocals and singing
stuff there and that's but that's the studio where we did um Tranquility as well so and we've done a
lot of stuff there so we were like quite familiar with that but it's comfortable there the Suffolk
one was it's just a house that's not even a studio it's like we sort of took everything in there to
make it into a studio and it was just a place that we could all be together and like we had
like been in the same room for a couple of years at that point so it was we could just completely
like immerse itself in it and I think that helped be able to wake up and just get straight into it
for sure I imagine quite like the early days where I was probably like rewinding the clock for you
guys as a unit totally and then you went to rack and you did all the strings yeah by the time I'd
heard it all fully done like that it was like another level because we had like we had like in
mind about these little sketches and we did like versions of the strings with keyboards and stuff
just to see what like placeholders but until you get the Professionals in and like someone who's
like and Bridget who arranged all the streams and all the players are obviously amazing it's
just like something I can't really comprehends when you see people like that do what they do
if we talk about the image of the record as well because I know you're a keen photographer
right you did the cover um photograph which is for people that haven't seen it you must
be totally high up in New York in a room somewhere overlooking down this car on the rooftop car park
loads of donut marks around it where someone's been tell me when that happened it was it's
actually La it's that downtown LA which you don't really see much of it's in a lot of films but it's
usually used to look like New York um because it doesn't look like it's not palm trees and all that
stuff that everyone expects but I lived there for a year I lived downtown for a year and that was
the view out of my bedroom window uh and it was always there's always something going on on that
top after this like people would like just be having a picnic on there for some reason I never
understood that one but I got a picture of that too responded quite right for the record I took
it a few years ago before that album was even sort of thought about and it was just a photo
I took and I sent it to Al along with another new photographs just in a way of like I look at
this photo it's cool you know this is like this is the stuff I see where I live now and he was
sort of taken by the photo and it just like kept coming back up in some way and
he just said oh he's sort of like tells a story that photo quite know what it is yet
as we got into the process of making the record more and more the lyrics sort of mentioned the car
not just the title track but like in within other songs every occurring thing and then it just made
sense for that to be yeah is that a Toyota Corolla did I read that's what we think it is yeah I don't
remember at the time what it was but yeah that seems to be the common content I'm sure you've
all got nice like Motors now but what's the worst car your Alex had looking back did you have some
proper bangers yeah I did yeah yeah I did like my first car was a Vauxhall no but it cost 250 quid
me and my brother had to fix it once like they do like the cliche thing of like using tights to
fix the fan belt sure and turns out it actually works so we had to do that a couple of times my
first two cars were pretty rough yeah um in terms of the live setlist how was reading and Leeds was
it lovely to be back yeah that was fun I think yeah when we knew we were doing it it seemed
like it didn't seem that real that we'd be doing that again like playing again you know like yeah
and constantly been a while since we've been on stage all right can we remember how to do this
so no one just feels like and that was a nice welcome you know back to the to like the crowd
back here and um then yeah they were both great they were both a lot of fun for us and it was
it was weird because obviously the record wasn't out so it's still sort of like picking up where
we left off live last time sneak in one new one or something there are rumors today as we record this
um of Eminem and new headlining Glastonbury next summer I can't even see you guys I can't even yeah
right yeah what the mashup yeah I can't see your eyes so I can't even tell if you're lying but um
I think I know as much as you do at this point in terms of the rumors okay yeah
all right fair enough oh guys it'd be great wouldn't it yeah mash up with Eminem it's
like rewinding back to the late 90s right it looks like on your tour diary October is
kind of down time it's promo for you guys the album's coming out Etc um and then you're off
to South America over to Australia and then of course back to these Shores like early next year
right so just a few months ahead yeah South America will be fun that's always a wild one
um but yeah it's I mean I see like what my next video looks like McDonald's so it's like it's
a bit about it's daunting but reassuring at the same time at least I know totally it's absolutely
wonderful to have you back thank you so much for your time today I really appreciate it Matt ers