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PUNK ROCK
PUNK ROCK

PERFECTION
PERFECTION

“To be honest with you, we received that art- Matty exclaims an excited “Yeah!” then Paul, our producer, said, ‘Oh hey, my
work and we liked it so much that we said “We’d just become best friends,” Ali says, mum has a sitar.’ So he brought it the next day,
straight up, “this is the album artwork.” So we holding back the laughter as Matty agrees. Dan tuned it up and started working on it.
stuck with it.’ This conversation is a reminder of why Ze- Spent all this time working on it, and he just did
While on the topic of the octopus, Ali and brahead are adored; they put on such a fun it.”
Matty told us what they would do if they had show on and off the stage, even on record you “That was the first time he ever played a
octopus tentacles for a day. Ali says, “I would get a sense of their personalities. Everyday life sitar,” Matty says.
be so dehydrated!” for them reads through in their creativity, espe-
Matty joins in with “What would I do if I cially when it came to recording ‘Who Brings a ositivity is important to keep a hold of
had? Oh Jeez! I would do so many things, Knife to A Gunfight?’ “That was actually the first Pas a band. However sometimes it is
probably brush my teeth, comb my hair. So song we wrote for the album,” Matty says. “The difficult to see through mistakes. Ali previously
many things at once! Hail a cab.” guitar riff.” Ali does a little example of the said that ‘Save Your Breath’ is ‘a song for those
Ali encourages him by asking, “Swing from song’s almost infectious catchy introduction, of us who realise that no one is perfect… and
a tree?” before telling us how the idea for the song we are ok with that!’ He highlights the fact that
“Yeah, swing from a tree! Wow, so many came about. “Dan had that, and we used to go you shouldn’t reflect too much on the past and
different possibilities!” Matty answers. to this restaurant every day when we were has a ‘no regrets’ motto in his life. “You know
Ali counts up Matty’s activities since octo- recording and this guy was the owner and he everybody makes mistakes, you embrace your
puses have eight tentacles, he says “That’s had this instrument.. It wasn't a sitar, I can’t re- mistakes and hopefully learn from them but
only four, so many more things you could do. member what is was called, it was from his you can’t wallow too much in that or you’re
Build a club house!?” home country. Anyway we tried using that and gonna be miserable, I think.”

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