Q: How much did winning the Mercury Prize in 2014 affect you as a band?

A: Our folks got really proud of their wee laddies on the telly playing our wee hearts out. Bless us they said.

GET UP by Young Fathers (Live at the 2014 Mercury Prize)

Q: What is the greatest influence on your music?

A: I think to just wake up and get something done with what you’ve got. I’m keeping it simple but I’ve been talking too much lately, get’s on my nerves having to talk about stuff but makes me a more rounded person or something like that. Ken?

Q: How much has Edinburgh shaped your sound?

A: A lot but only from the negative side. Which I complain about but if it was a vibrant enthusiastic city we wouldn’t be who we are.

Q: What is your favourite song by another artist, living or dead?

A: Today its Four Tops — Baby I Need Your Loving.

Baby I Need Your Loving by the Four Tops

Q: What is your recording process like? Who decides which lyrics go where and who decides how the music sounds?

A: I do the music. We all do it but. It’s weird to a lot of people who have looked in on us in the studio, not having strict roles that bands usually have but thats just the way it is and how we grew up.

Q: What drew you to using the EMS Synthi in your tracks and live shows?

A: I walked into Tim London’s studio and seen it sitting there with its big colourful buttons and thought ‘I’ll av that’. Its the best looking bit of machinery around. Sounds alright too.

Q: What is the best way to describe one of your gigs, to somebody who has never seen you live?

A: 4 amateurs being very professional.

Q: Why did you decide to call your most recent album White Men Are Black Men Too?

A: What better way to start a conversation about something really complex than with something simple.

Q: Which of your songs best encapsulates you as a band?

A: Deadline

Deadline by Young Fathers

Q: You guys have recently been working with trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack. How did that come about, and are there any more collaborations you’ve done that we don’t know about?

A: They asked us down to Bristol and we got on. Which doesn’t happen that much with us, we’re not big collaborators. We know ourselves and that’s enough to deal with.

Q: What is coming up on the horizon for Young Fathers?

A new year. A new me. A new you. A new us. Keep the chin up.