成人快手

That policy has brought them success with two great albums. However, just before they started on their third, things went a bit haywire in Oceansize鈥檚 world, as lead singer Mike Vennart explains.

"We decided not to do a new record for Beggars Banquet, rather than the other way round, we鈥檝e founded a new record label and we鈥檝e got a new bass player."

"When Jon left, we thought we were really screwed, because when you start gambling with your chemistry, you can come a cropper. So it鈥檚 something we took very seriously.

"There was an unspoken vibe that if we couldn鈥檛 find the right guy, then we鈥檇 have to quit, because there鈥檚 no point carrying on if you鈥檙e only going to be firing on half your cylinders.

"I don鈥檛 really know why we went through the painful process of auditioning people. People came from far and wide to try out, and there were some really good players, but I think we were auditioning simply 鈥榖ass players鈥�, when we were looking for an all-round musician, who could look at the music from lots of different perspectives."

So with a new multi-instrumental bassist on board, the band headed to the studio with more than just a new member; Mike says there was a new attitude to writing too.

"It was a liberating experience making this record, because to be quite honest, we didn鈥檛 care what people thought of it. We were very insular, doing it six days a week and indulging ourselves, and I think that means it鈥檚 not contrived, it鈥檚 a lot more us than we鈥檝e done before."

"So when we sat down to write this one, the only thing we said was 鈥榣et鈥檚 not make any singles!鈥�"

It wasn鈥檛 just a policy of no singles. Mike explains there was also an effort to 鈥渕ake it inherently darker, whatever that means.鈥� Alongside that, the band also wanted to make an album with more coherence.

"The last album was all over the place with so many different styles and moods, whereas I think these songs know each other.

"There were songs on the last album that were a bit happy-clappy in places, and I don鈥檛 think we do happy very well. We鈥檙e not exactly the Polyphonic Spree."

"The album was supposed to be called The Frame, after the song on the album, but then one of our friends, who鈥檚 in Future of The Left, said 鈥業 love the title鈥� Frames, isn鈥檛 it?鈥� We just thought, 鈥榳ell it wasn鈥檛, but that鈥檚 a lot better.

"It鈥檚 an angular title, it evokes strength and structure and it鈥檚 quite cinematic. But hey, whatever you think it means, that鈥檚 what it means!"

Maybe it鈥檚 just an ironic statement on the nature of music perception. While the rest of the world tries to pigeon-hole and frame bands, Oceansize just charge on, insisting on doing things their own way. Given the quality of album number three, long may it continue.

Oceansize release Frames on Monday 1 October. The band play Academy 3 on Tuesday 9 October. Tickets are 拢10.