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Life-long friends Danny Miller and Max Harwood have got into a lot of trouble (and broken lots of bones) together. Having known each other since the age of nine, even as teenagers they were fulfilling the rock’n’roll lifestyle. “We were skateboarding and Max broke his arm on his fourteenth birthday. We went home to his house and smoked weed and played music for like a day-and-a-half before going to hospital. He was playing the drums with a broken arm until then,” Danny laughs.

Fast forward twelve years and the brotherly pair live, record and tour together, based out of their home studio in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York. “In some ways it’s insane,” says guitarist and singer Danny. “So much of the groundwork of writing and recording this album has been just the two of us. It’s a very intense relationship.” But it’s a set up that works well, continues drummer and producer Max. “Although we have different creative opinions sometimes, on the whole there’s a larger frequency that we’re both on.”

Since releasing their bedroom-recorded single ‘Loud(y)’ in 2015 - a commentary on coming of age in an over-saturated society - they’ve toured with Glass Animals, Miike Snow and Foals. “There’s a really cool art to their show,” they say of supporting the latter Oxford rockers in Chicago. “It was really good for us to experience that, because we’re still figuring out how to translate our recordings into a proper show.”