<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\nLet\u2019s talk about Bloom<\/em>. How do you feel the album is a transition from Teen Dream<\/em>. How are the LPs lyrically different from each other?<\/strong><\/p>\nI think every album we\u2019ve made from the first to the fourth has been a progression, very naturally. Because we got tired of old songs, I think you\u2019re always consciously coming up with melodies or new sets of lyrics. On Bloom<\/em>, a lot of the changes are a simple result of how we\u2019re more experienced and we\u2019re more perfectionistic [sic] about every sort of element that we do. I think lyrically I always try to make sure that\u2019s happening in lyrics, that there are worlds, colours, feelings, you know, that a listener\u2019s journey is never stifled by something personal or too literal, that it\u2019s just enough. <\/p>\nDo you typically steer clear of listening to too much music or watching too many films – for instance – when songwriting, for fear that it will have too heavy an impact on your creativity?<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen it comes to film, we don\u2019t limit ourselves. Films are a great way to escape what you\u2019re doing, just to take a break. But yeah, musically, we have a lot of music that we love that gives us a lot of inspiration emotionally, but we definitely don\u2019t listen to albums while writing or recording thinking, \u201cthis is what we want to sound like,” because we\u2019re a song band. I think it\u2019s important in the development of the song not worrying about making it sonically sound like something else. I think that\u2019s really destructive. So yeah, to answer your question, we don\u2019t do too much of that. It happens naturally because the album absolutely consumes you. Once you\u2019re three or four songs in and the size of the record becomes apparent, it starts to consume you and leaves very little time to go somewhere else. <\/p>\n