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The Districts: "We usually go mad in the studio and make a lot of noise"

Anxiety, frustration and "a lot of real life" - The Districts' new album is born from an unsettled time.

Hey Rob, how’s life?

Hello! Life’s quite good right now, our album is all wrapped up, and we’re about to head out on tour until it’s released, and more touring after that. Looking forward to it. Home life has been really nice as well.

What have you guys been up to since the release of ‘A Flourish and a Spoil’? Has it all been touring and recording?

We toured most of the whole year it was released, and started writing and demoing towards the end of it. 2016 was spent writing, demoing, and a few studio stints here and there. Spent a lot of time figuring our lives out a bit too and just hanging around. A lot of bedroom recording and solitude too.

What was your frame of mind like when you started work on this latest album?

Pretty scattered, to be honest. We had toured for a long time, and it was weird adjusting to being home. I ended a pretty long-term relationship and was in an unsettled mental place aside from that as well. But we were all also very excited about making music and being unrestricted creatively, and a lot of good things happened as well. Writing and recording all took place while a lot of real life was happening to us all I guess you could say. It was a good and maddening process.

Do you find yourselves tonally or thematically influenced by the state of the world? What do you make of the recent election nonsense?

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