LP: The track Unbalancing Acts has a minute and half of grasshopper and cricket sounds layered with chanting and then it drops into the song. Tell me about that.
JW: It’s the atmosphere of it. I recorded all the chirping sounds in London actually. I went to All Tomorrow’s Parties once and was recording people and that’s what the sounds of crickets are sped up. It’s sort of getting the intention of the field noise. It’s fun to make.

LP: And the artwork for Twilight Driving featuring a man fighting a kangaroo..
JW: That’s Thom’s [Stewart, Bass] uncle, he’s an artist who paints wildlife. You know when you’re in primary schools and there are all those wild life paintings, yeah that’s what he does. Even in fish and chip shops they have all the local fish and he paints those! He does a bit of taxidermy too.

LP: You’ve won a few awards recently, are those something you see as accomplishments?
JW: It makes me really nervous. A lot of the time you get nominated for something and all of a sudden you’re put into a competition that you didn’t ask to be in. You don’t care if you win but people make it a big deal if you don’t win and it’s like, “But I didn’t even sign up for it!” People ask how you feel about not winning, “Well I was fine before you asked me about it!”

LP: [Laughs] That’s why they have the alcohol on hand…
JW: I know! It’s a shame that awards are such a big deal, it puts it all into a hierarchy. If someone wins an award they are automatically considered the best, which isn’t true.

LP: What was your speech?
JW: The award speech has become a vessel for pseudo political bullshit, you must have to be a pretty entitled person to feel the need to become a spokesperson for a whole movement. People work their whole lives for organisations, and then some fucking pop star comes in and thinks they can come and tell the world how it is…I think I said that the wine was good.

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