Ought: "I’m trying to think about ways to be a positive force"

There comes a point for every band to broaden their horizons and make a step up to the next level. For Canadian post-punk mavericks Ought, that time is now. Of course, when you’re in the middle of things that 'step up' might not seem quite so apparent, but frontman Tim Darcy is aware that this time on their third album ‘Room Inside The World’, is a little bit different.

“We’ve been sitting on this one for a minute, longer than any other record we’ve made. We’ve put the most time into it,” he begins. “There’s more of a change between the second and the third record than between the first and the second. If you want to look at it in broad strokes, then this is a big shift. I feel like it’s in conversation with the other records, though. As much as we invested time in pre-planning and sharing a lot of ideas, there are also moments on the record where we’re trying to build upon things we were getting at on the other two records, but trying to do them more deeply and say them in new, updated ways.”