1. Ride

Craig: "Ride is very short and it's the first song on the album. It's a good way to start things off, I think. The opening guitar part starts off really scratchy to sort of throw you off the scent, lull you in to a false sense of security. There's a kind of beat- music verse and then the chorus comes in and it starts getting a bit more… well, loud. That's where we decide it's time to set off the fireworks that Patrick has been carrying in his bag since high school. It's about time you did something with those, Patrick."

Patrick: "What can I say?"

2. Animal Machine

Craig: "Well, it's the second song, and it's also quite short and it's also dark. The chorus harmonies sound like they've got a bit of Suede in there – that's the band I'm talking about, not the material that you can have your jacket made of if you feel like it. It sounds very staccato to me in the chorus. You know, very short and sharp."

Patrick: "What was it our friend Robin said about this one? ‘Nirvana meets Suede – clearly a good thing'."

3. TV Pro

Craig: "This song is meant to sound like it's a dream. That's the idea behind the production and the sounds with the effects on the guitar in the verse and the way the vocal sounds. Although the music has that spacey, dreamlike sound, the words are more to do with things that exist in the real world, but I wouldn't want to get too specific about them. It's better for people to listen to them however they want. It's also one of our newer songs, so hopefully it could be a pointer towards the future for us and how we might sound."

Patrick: "Features the coining of the word 'electual' and a great multi-tracked chorus where Craig sounds like a schoolyard full of angry goats."

4. Autumn Shade II

Craig: "This is the first acoustic song on the album and it's very quiet, very peaceful. It's calm. It's not really intentionally linked to Autumn Shade on the first album, but of course in the title, well, you have to think it's linked somehow. It's more about the feel of the song than the words, though. It really couldn't have been called anything else. It's pretty abstract."

Patrick: "Short. Soft. The harmonies are amazing. No, I didn't sing them. Craig did. I don't need to be doing that type of thing in the studio when he's in there. He seems to have a pretty good handle on singing five different harmonies over himself, something I think is well demonstrated on this track."

Craig: "Thank you, thank you."

Patrick: "You're welcome. Next."

5. Evil Town

Craig: "Evil Town is about kind of certain types of people and certain types of places, but no-one or nowhere in particular. It really isn't. But if you think about a town that is, well, evil, just apply the song to whatever place that is for you. I think it's got this futuristic vibe to it but it's still just using basic drums and guitar."

Patrick: "Very chromatic equals Evil in a musical sense."

6. Winning Days

Craig: "Winning Days is Number 6 – it's the start of the second side if you were thinking about it as an old record – and it's about what you think about at different times, how you feel different. It wasn't really a song when I first wrote it, more just a poem really. That was a really long time ago. It's also one of our best songs, I think. Although the words can sound a bit kind of down, the melody is happier."

Patrick: "When Craig originally played me the song and I had a cassette copy, I wrote down the title as 'Wedding Days'. I thought Stone Roses at the time. The up-beat end section has incredible Beach Boys-style harmonies, very complex but rhythmically compatible with each other."

7. She's Got Something to Say to Me 

Craig: "That's a really short song. I think the main thing to remember about it is that it has got a sound to it that sounds like surfing feels. Well, it's surf music is a better way of putting it. Surf music like Dick Dale or the Beach Boys or even the Easybeats. There's all kinds of different surf music – this is sort of a combination of all that."

Patrick: "An unwieldy title perhaps, but we're really happy with it. It's got a surf guitar solo in a song with an obvious sixties vibe."

8. Rainfall

Craig: "That one is more kind of 'classic' I think. It's got that kind of sound that's hard to tie to a particular time. I hope it does, anyway – it does to me. It's very simple and I don't know what that means… it's an innocent sound in an innocent song, I think."

Patrick: "All Craig's songs are heartfelt but I think this one came out of somewhere even more cardiac. I think that's the innocence in it that you're talking about. It's unaffected. Very snappy drumming by Hamish, by the way."

9. Amnesia

Craig: "This one's like poetry. It's a really slow song and it's a real head trip. We played this one a lot when were touring last year, and we kept building it up in soundchecks. We kept working on it together. I think that working on this song was really when we all started to play together really well. We did one demo of this before the album and by the time we went into the studio it sounded really good. It's got a cool organic vibe to it in the way we play it, but then the vocal harmonies are a bit more space age."

Patrick: "Moog in chorus makes me ask 'Spaceman, can you stay a while?' Great words, great drum pattern, one of my favourites."

10. Sun Child

Craig: "This one's very slow. It's a ballad really. It's a country song and a rock song. It's about being positive and I think the music helps it come across that way. It's got good harmonies in the chorus. The outro kept getting longer and longer but it all really worked well. The outro really came together in the end… at the end. The outro is the end. Do you follow me?"

Patrick: "My absolute favourite. The singing on this is very expressive. It means a lot but it never slides into a country n' western parody, which it could have done. Then there is the guitar solo, which is heavy on whammy bar and expressive as fuck."

11. Fuck the World

Craig: "This one is an environmental song but that's not really obvious when you hear it at first. It's the sound of the past to the present to the future. Hopefully, everything is about the future."

Patrick: "Heavy."