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length albums, we want all brand new in, so it will be mostly albums from now on. sults, in my opinion, were well worth it. We
songs from you. We don’t want anything I think we will still do stuff in between. We would have never got the second album or
from your old EP. We want 10 brand new will still do singles because we are always even the third one if we had released it
tracks to release from you,” otherwise we writing. We’re musicians, so it’s what you when we were going to originally, so I think
might have done another EP. We needed do.” the waiting was key to it. And then of
that kinda kick, I guess.” course Despotz pushed for it, which was
Luke adds, “We’ve been waiting, any- oting that prior to the release of cool.”
way, really, because we did the first album N‘Tear Me Down’, the band had “I think we make it harder for our-
and it was one sound and you listen to ‘We kicked off their career with two EPs, their selves,” Skarlett adds. “With each release
Are The Brave’ and you listen to ‘Sentience’ self-titled release in 2010 followed by ‘Vil- we always want to better ourselves and
and they are all progressing. We did have lain’ in 2012. Luke confirms that the pattern then the more you bring out you’re like
Album Two in mind years ago, but we did of two EPs followed by an album was ‘Well, now what do we do? What do we put
some stuff and we just didn’t feel ready for merely a coincidence and adds, “It was out next?’ But I’m really proud of ‘Regener-
it. It wasn’t the time for it to come out so we never planned, that was just how it worked ate’ and how it has turned out.”
decided to wait. When we wrote a lot of the out. We were always just trying to find our So, is the new, heavier Skarlett Riot
stuff for ‘Sentience’ we still weren’t sure feet, because the second album is so hard likely to be a long term characteristic of the
about doing a full album, but we were really to do, there are so many bands who fail band or do they feel more changes could
cool with where we were, so we released with it and we didn’t want to do that. We lay in their future?
that and then the offer from Despotz came would have rather waited and I think the re- Luke jumps in to suggest “It’s reggae

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