Vines frontman Craig Nicholls talks John Kennedy through his band's anxiously anticipated second album 'Winning Days'. Hear what he's got to say and listen to the record for yourself right here.

Craig Nicholls may be one of the most volatile and unpredictable frontmen of our time, but he's also one of the most talented. The Vines debut, 'Highly Evolved', made them instant darlings of the music press and also turned the spotlight on a burgeoning Australian music scene.

Now, after years of thrillingly unpredictable live shows and being hailed as everything from the new Nirvana to an accident waiting to happen, The Vines have proved the cynics wrong by returning with the awesome 'Winning Days'.

Hear Craig talk John Kennedy through each and every track on the album below.

'Ride': "We do like swearing, there's a lot of swearing on the album, but we're not trying to provoke ourselves or anyone else..."

'Animal Machine': "I'm not sure if it has swearing on it or not, but I think it's an evil song nonetheless..." 

'TV Pro': "We're really, uh, very happy with this song. It's very futuristic, it's where the album really starts to open up, I think, and goes into weird spaces..." 

'Autumn Shade II': "I connected those two songs 'cos they had the same kind of feel, the same kind of words and the same kind of lyrics. So it just seemed to make sense to me. Plus I was too lazy to think of a new song title so I put a Roman Numeral at the end of it like a 'Rocky' movie."

'Evil Town': "If any, I'm referring to Sutton - I didn't say anything bad! I was just kind of thinking...Dracula..." 

'Winning Days': "It's a very simple idea of your perception when you're real young, real small when you have a clean slate or whatever. That's what I mean when I say 'the winning days are gone'. I think it's the best song that we'll ever do." 

'She's Got Something to Say to Me': "I think I'd describe that as a retro kind of pop song. We just wanted to try it one time. We promise we'll never do it again..."

'Rainfall': "That is natural, it's about nature - the trees, the sky, and rainfall of course."

'Amnesia': "It's kind of personal and lame. I just think that it's poetry and it's kind of philosophising - if that's a word - just being, I dunno, it's playing the role of God. Pretty sick."

'Sun Child': "It was the b-side too, I think, 'Highly Evolved' which was on the first album. But the version we had of it was on the four-track and it was really lo-fi." 

'Fuck the World': "First of all I'm trying to do a lot of swearing, the flip side is a very negative, kind of narrow-minded rejection of everything."