Your awesome new record ‘Fight or Flight’ has been out now for a little under a month – how has it been received? If I’m judging by audiences reactions to playing new music, it’s been great. I’ve been noticing even before the album got released, as we started playing a lot of new music live and I’m used to going to shows and when the band play new music that’s when the excitement dips a little bit, and having done that ourselves (we’ve played new music at shows plenty of times) you kind of want to drip feed the audience new music sometimes, this time around we were playing pretty large chunks of new music well before the record came out, partly because the reaction was really good. If we’re going by the audience reaction, it’s been great. I don’t really know how else to judge how it’s been going, but we’ve got Facebook and Twitter stuff, and of course that’s all your own fans anyway, but sure, they seem to love it!
We read an interview where you said you “no longer feel the need to satisfy others” – what made you have this realization and how is this reflected in the record? I don’t think it’s more this need to satisfy people, as much as the concern of whether they were satisfied or not.