Blaenavon talk album two: "These songs are a lot more direct and from the heart"

If Blaenavon's debut 'That's Your Lot' was a beautifully pitched exploration of vulnerability, then it appears that their long-awaited follow-up is more of the same.

After a huge 2016 that included a high-profile support slot at The O2 for alt-J, Blaenavon seemed to slip off the radar this year. Hunkered down at a Manchester studio with Wolf Alice and Foals' producer Catherine Marks, the boys have been busy crafting something special.

The track that he is most excited about is one of those ballads, entitled ‘The Song's Never Gonna Be The Same'. "It's just the best thing I've written by quite some distance I think," he explains, before also waxing lyrical about the title track (the name of which is still under wraps).