LAUREN MAYBERRY: Thank you. That’s very nice of you. I feel like I’ve been sitting on it forever, but also that this month is going so slowly.

TUCKER: It feels so good to actually have release day, doesn’t it?

MAYBERRY: I feel like you’ve released many more than me, but I don’t know—second album. People ask us in every single interview if you feel like there’s a lot of pressure. I feel like I’d explode from answering another question about pressure.

TUCKER: Sometimes you have to focus on the actual album itself.

MAYBERRY: When you guys put out the most recent record, it felt like it came out of nowhere. Was that purposeful?

TUCKER: We did try really hard to keep it a secret until we were ready. I think it helped us write something that was really unexpected. Sometimes it’s useful to have that element of people not knowing what you’re doing and not paying attention. Obviously you guys don’t really have that, but it seems like you kept it quiet while you were writing the record, a bit.

MAYBERRY: I think so. When we first started, the band and things started to pick up, people would always ask us, “When are you going to move to London?” To me, that doesn’t make a lot of sense because we self-record and self-produce, so we don’t need that for the long term. I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we’re not on tour and we’re writing, we’re in a small room and you can’t get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect—I think it’s quite nice.

TUCKER: Of course. I think that makes perfect sense that you’d want to live in Glasgow. You seem like a Scottish band to me. Do you feel like a Scottish band?

MAYBERRY: I think when we leave the country we do. When we’re here, we don’t really think about it as much. We don’t feel it a lot in the U.K.; it’s when we go to North America a lot. A lot of people have Scottish heritages, so people ask about us there a lot more. Culturally, the States and U.K. are very similar, but there are certain things where it’s such a massive disconnect. My partner is American so we’re doing a cultural exchange—I feel like I’m always learning. Occasionally he adopts some Glasgow slang and it doesn’t sound right, but I like that he does it.

TUCKER: There are some things that are very different and we Americans tend to be very entitled when it comes to our way of speaking. I wanted to ask you, in terms of being a writer, who are your favorite writers or poets?

MAYBERRY: That’s a good question. No one has ever asked me that in an interview, ever. At the moment, I’m reading a lot of non-fiction. I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve been traveling a lot—it’s easier to pick up and put down non-fiction stuff. I’ve been re-reading the Jessica Valenti book, Full Frontal Feminism. I’ve been reading Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates; I saw him on The Daily Show talking about it and immediately after that I had to order that book. Then The Daily Show ended, and I was very sad. I felt like I was weeping for a week.