How does it feel to have made the Guardian writers’ favourite album of 2023?
It’s bonkers. The benchmarks we set for ourselves when we started 10 years ago – we’ve gone so far beyond them that it’s hard to comprehend. We’d go: “Let’s imagine we could be successful enough to have a sound engineer. Let’s aim for one day being able to do a tour of the whole UK.”
Why do you think False Lankum has been a breakthrough album?
I think we finally nailed what we wanted to be. We nearly got it on the last album [2019’s The Livelong Day], but that was a bit too bleak.
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