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ChartBlog: First of all, congratulations on the new single, cos it's a big leap on from where you were first time around...
Anders: Yeah it is! When we started doing the first album, that had a very band-y sound, cos we were very young when we made it and we didn't really know how to make the kind of pop music that we wanted to make, y'know. We were really into Stock, Aitken & Waterman, that kind of sound, and we wanted all of our songs to sound like that. Basically, we were 18 and 19 years old, so we just went into a studio and recorded everything, and hoped that our producer could make it sound like that, and he couldn't. He didn't really know about that...

Then when we re-released the album in the UK, and around Europe, we had the chance to re-do some songs, like 'Boyfriend' was re-produced, and we started really getting into the production of it all. We started to have some really clear ideas of where we want to go with the music.

So now this new album is just where we wanted to be all these years. It's nice to have a whole album with a sound we really love.

ChartBlog: It's nice that your personality still comes across. The one thing you could always level at Stock, Aitken & Waterman productions was that the performances were a bit devoid of personality.
Anders: Yeah, exactly, but I think the fact that we've produced it ourselves and no-one's really been interfering with it, it's really a personal thing to us. So, I definitely think that that's the reason why it sounds a lot like us. C: And are you getting good responses from people?
Anders: Yeah! You know those people who'll say, like "I've never really listened that much to your music" because they didn't really like the last record, and then they really like this! That's always really nice, but we've really been amazed at how the reactions have been. It's good times!

ChartBlog: Which Stock, Aitken & Waterman songs did you like?
Anders: [laughing] I think 'Never Gonna Give You Up' is a brilliant, brilliant song. And another song that I really like is 'You Spin Me Round' by Dead Or Alive. I read that when they produced that record, they had like the old school disco lights in clubs, right? The ones that are triggered by the bass and the treble and stuff. They had one of those in the studio, and they mixed that song to make the lights go as crazy as possible! We really like that, y'know. We haven't done it yet, but it'd be fun, wouldn't it?

ChartBlog: I could never get on with the really supercheesy pop songs they did...the Big Fun/Sonia end of things...
Anders: Yeah, a song like 'You Spin Me Round', we really like that because it's so dancey, and still it's really dark, and we've had that for some of the songs on this record, that we could turn the cheeriness down a bit and then turn up the dance element of the song, because in that way it balances. We have a theory that the more dancey a song gets, the more you get into a good mood, so you can take the mood down to balance it, I guess.

ChartBlog: Yeah, if you go too happy, you end up with 'Barbie Girl' by Aqua.
Anders: Yeah, exactly!

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