Rizz:  The most overwhelming part of life is existing, so whether we’re putting out music or not yeah you could say we are overwhelmed.

Matt:  It's a bit of both. It started out as a personal, sort of story song in a way. But looking at the lyrics as they were coming out, they started to speak to the cult of personality that is taking over the world, really. I feel like so many of the unbelievable things we're seeing are the symptoms of collective disease, but nobody has really been able to diagnose or even acknowledge what that is. 

Rizz:  That sounds about right. We generally like shit that’s heavy and angsty but also catchy at the same time. We wanna make music that’s played on the radio that people can get down to without being generic or safe. It’s tricky.

Matt:  We don't worry much about what genre we're in, or how what we do relates to all of that. We just write based on what inspires us and what we think is cool to listen to, and watch live. 

Rizz:  Yup, 'Heartbreaker' will be on it. We have a bunch of songs written, some recorded, artwork is happening, it’s kind of all coming together at the same time. We’re trying to do something really epic from all angles and I feel like we’re sort of halfway up the mountain. We got a fair way to go… Little Timmy’s leg is broke and we’re almost out of chicken. Lassie, get help!

Rizz:  We’re excited to play new songs for sure. We’re going to play a lot of cities we’ve never played like Madison and Minneapolis…. Can’t wait to check out their local airports and Best Westerns.

Matt:  Playing these songs in bigger rooms is fun, and it's really illuminating to see how new songs go down at shows like this. So it will be good for the album to be doing these shows. 

Rizz:  I wouldn’t say we have overcome them entirely, we’ve just mastered the art of compromise. Pick your battles, fight for what you know for sure, respect each other and leave room for the individual to grow. This band is a collaboration in every sense of the word and it takes patience to put it together right, but we like the results. 

Matt:  It takes a lot of trust to collaborate properly, but that total trust is when good chemistry happens. Also, it's not really a collaboration unless the other person brings something to the work that you either couldn't, or wouldn't. So you're always gonna have that moment when you look at the other person like, really? But that's so often how good shit gets made. 

Rizz:  We originally came here with our old four piece rock band to make a record with Rick Parker in LA. Long story short the band broke up but Matt and I didn’t wanna go back to Sydney, so we kept making tunes. It felt like a crazy adventure just moving to another country randomly. It still kind of is, we love you crazy Americans.

Rizz:  We generally don’t fuck around.

Matt:  We were floored when Gary said yes. We wrote that song for him to sing, sent it to his people and just forgot about it. We couldn't believe it. Then it took a year to get the song finished cause he had the busiest year of his career and we weren't paying him…But we got the track done just after Christmas. Thor Harris has worked with Kevin McMahon, the producer of our first album The Great Sun, who is also a good friend of ours, so that relationship helped it happen.  

Rizz:  Ummmmm, not really. The thing we enjoy the most about those sorts of films are pretty cheap, like violence, effects, lighting, mood etc. It touches a part of your brain that isn’t invested in the plot. Matt is the wordsmith in this band he’s the thinker who’s always been a fan of language and poetry. Merge those things together and you have something exciting yet poignant. 

Matt:  Our lyrical inspirations generally run deeper than the aesthetic stuff, and try to reach down into the heart of things. We don't really tell specific stories, we like to bypass that and go straight to how some words, or thoughts, make you feel. What keeps you up at night that you can't tell anyone about? That's what we’re aiming to speak to.