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"We just wrote what came<br />
natural, what felt good"<br />
coffee — completely unaware<br />
that they were sitting on,<br />
literally, millions.<br />
“We were in London, watching<br />
music on TV. It’s like, Lady Gaga,<br />
some R&B star, and … ‘Sweet<br />
Disposition’?!” grins Dundas.<br />
It all started in supreme earnest,<br />
after rising independent label,<br />
Liberation, inked a deal with a<br />
promising Melbourne act that<br />
many liked, but nobody was<br />
willing to commit to.<br />
In June, their self-titled<br />
follow-up to Conditions debuted<br />
at number one on the Australian<br />
ARIA albums chart, and now<br />
they’re literally peering down on<br />
the lives they used to lead.<br />
“It’s a reminder of where we<br />
came from,” nods Dundas. “It’s<br />
something that, even to this day, I<br />
can’t really grasp.”<br />
Naturally, with album two comes<br />
that patently irritating threat of<br />
sophomore slump. (Or, really,<br />
the patently irritating talk about<br />
sophomore slump.) So bloated is the<br />
industry’s cycle of hype, expectation<br />
and superfluous criticism that, well,<br />
it’s hard for an act to do something<br />
well, and have anything else<br />
received without pretense.<br />
For this follow-up — which<br />
they recorded in London — the<br />
M.O. was simple: “It was like<br />
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