With their new album, The Maine are spreading a message of hope: "I wanted to put an emphasis on mental health"

As the twenty-tens enter their penultimate year, the dynamicity of music has shifted. Some bands have broken their moulds to burst through the underground and into the mainstream with brand new pop-driven sounds, like All Time Low and Paramore. There are also bands who either broke up or went quiet and are now touring their debuts on unnecessary nostalgia trips, like We The Kings and Cute Is What We Aim For.

There's one band ripping up the Venn diagram by both sticking true to their roots while optimising their sound for the necessary evolution all bands aspire creatively to achieve. That band is The Maine, and on their seventh album ‘You Are OK', they're opening the floor for rock music to return to our ears once more, as vocalist John O'Callaghan explains.