The release of Curve' came as a huge relief. We started writing those songs while we were still touring ‘
Radlands' in America in 2013 so from start to finish it was over a three-year creative process. We amassed quite a substantial amount of material in that time and it wasn't until we invited Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Spacemen 3) round to hear some music that he pointed out we were essentially already producing the album ourselves. We had an excellent co-pilot in Matthew (Twaites co-producer) and building the studio ourselves was essential in getting the sound that we were after. In the past, we've always been quite precious about holding back outtakes and tracks that didn't make it, but in this case, the songs that made up ‘The Whole Earth EP' were just as important to us as the ones that had made it onto the album. I think we played everything off both the Album and EP live at least once on tour.
