“This sounds really arrogant, but every song on this album is the best song we’ve ever written to that point,” Connor Schofield states. “That’s the sort of thing that NME would put on the cover to make me look like a twat,” he laughs. Sure, such hyperbole might be fairly overused at this point, but with their second album finally released, Jaws couldn’t be more thrilled.
“It sounds really big headed, but I’m just so proud of the whole thing,” Connor enthuses. “I listen to it and I sort of think, ‘What the hell - how is that us?’ No disrespect to you...” he trails off, turning to his bandmate sat next to him. “No, I agree man!” Eddy Geach exclaims. “I mean, ’it’s the best record we’ve ever made’ is such a cliché, but…”
The album, released this month, arrives two years on from the band’s debut. In the time since, the three musicians have toured across the country together, performed with other bands, and even started a clothing line. “But more importantly, I work at Schuh and it’s student night next week. Come down!” Connor laughs. “We’ve just been doing real life for a bit.”
Taking time away from the spotlight, the group started work on their new record well over a year ago. “We wrote SO many songs!” Connor proclaims. “With the first album it was sort of like, ‘Oh, look, there’s eleven songs, that’s the album, cool!’” he depicts. “With this album sometimes it would take me eight songs to get to one good one. I’d happily write the eight shit songs, because I knew eventually we were going to get one that mattered.”
