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is great’. It was literally just cemented in my Mascot came in, and it was just so nice for als and tribulations and seeing it through,” says
brain, ‘Just trust the vision. Just trust your in- someone else and someone of that power and Josh.
stincts, trust your gut’. And, even though it might people that are there and the team there to be “I agree,” says Zack. “I mirror the longevity
be hard, if you really believe in something, so unanimously like, ‘We believe in it as well, of the band. One thing I’m really proud of is,
you’ve got to see it through, and I think the proof and we’re going to back it as well’. So, yeah, I yeah, just the relationship that we’ve built, how
is in the album for us. Yeah, it invigorated us and think it was massive for us. It definitely helped close we’ve become, and that’s definitely re-
it inspired us. They’re an amazing label filled us in more ways than just releasing songs and flected in the music as well. We’re so excited
with amazing people, and we’re exactly where being signed to a label.” about this new music. I think we’re all so unified.
we wanna be. And it, hopefully, told us all we’ve We always have been, of course, but just the
just got to keep doing what we’re doing, and the rophy’ has done particularly well as a journey we’ve been on to where we are now. I
right people will come.” ‘Tsingle, and the band knew early on that think we’re all three peas in a pod, three top lads
Jack adds, about being signed to Mascot it was pretty special. as Josh said. Yeah, I’m really happy with that.
Records, “Yeah, I was just going to say, it was “It was one of those songs which happened Very proud. Well done lads.”
definitely a point where it came at a really good really quick, and usually that tends to be a good
time for us. But I also think that ‘Trophy’, for us, sign. Not always, but it kind of was just a real he band had no rules when they went to
was, you kind of said, was it a point where we natural flow. It was the chorus that came first, Twork on ‘The Fallout’. “Us going inde-
felt like we’d earned that sort of thing? I feel like with the piano and the lyrics. It all happened in pendent, and being in the studio, just us three
‘Trophy’ was massive for us, because we’d had quite a short session. I think we got the classic and our two producers were in the room and it
12 months of building, curating what we wanted tingles when it’s, ‘OK, this is a big chorus,’ he was like, ‘Let’s just write what we want.’ We al-
to put out to the world, how we wanted to be smiles. “I think we knew pretty soon on, for ways envision a live show, so we were like,
seen and how we wanted to sound and every- sure.” ‘Let’s do this fucking riff, this fucking crazy beat,
thing. And we took that step back and it was Zack comments, “The giveaway for me was and the lyrics.’ Yeah, they’re all just natural, in
hard to do because it was a big hit for us as well. when I played it for some mates and a week the moment.”
Everything takes a hit when we take a step back would go by and then they’d come to my house Zack says, “One of the things we struggled
like that. And then, to come back with ‘Trophy’ and be like, ‘Oh, Zack, play me that ‘Trophy’ with was actually choosing the singles, because
and it do what it has done… It’s on 3/4 of a mil- song again. Let me hear that ‘Trophy’ song we all love every single track on the album as
lion on YouTube, completely naturally, and has again’. It would be in their heads all the time,” much as the others. They’re all great tracks that
done amazing everywhere, and when we play it he says, with a big grin. “I think, yeah, that sen- we love very dearly, so, I think, it’s a cheap an-
live everyone absolutely loves it. The first time sation that Josh was talking about, when you swer, but I’m excited for everyone to hear the
we played it live was with Ice Nine Kills and it just know you’ve got something good cooking, whole thing as a complete package. Just the
was such a surreal moment and such a payoff it’s super exciting.” journey from the start to the end, I think it’s a real
to be like, ‘Yeah, we’ve done the exact right With trophies being something that most experience, you know. Very, very, very, very,
thing to take this time out to hone what we people are proud to receive, we ask what the very cool.”
wanted to do,’ and I think that was a real big pay- band are most proud of accomplishing, as peo- Jack adds, “It’s going to be exciting to see…
off. And then, like Zack said, for Mascot to then ple? similar to what we’ve spoken about, going away,
come in… The trio decide on longevity. having that time to hone anything in, it’s a lot
“So, we sold out the tour in January and “Just us sticking together through all our tri- more unified of an album, I feel, than ‘Survival

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