Guillemots' second album Red is what happens when Beatles-influenced pop, jazz, folk, experimental and industrial music combine, according to their bassist Aristazabal Hawkes.

"The first record was very much Fyfe's," she says, talking about the band's frontman Fyfe Dangerfield. "He had pre-written most of the songs before we even got together as a band. He had the vision for the end result."

It proved to be a successful vision too, as the band were hailed by the likes of Mojo as the next big band to watch before they had even released a note, and the album itself, Through The Windowpane, was shortlisted for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize.

For this record, the four-piece core of the band got together and pooled their musical ideas.

"It was a very different process," says Arista. "We didn't have anything pre-written.

"We got our own studio in a converted synagogue. We started rehearsing and writing while the studio was still being built. There was no heating or lights. Kriss Kross (Red's cacophonous opening track) was one of the first things we wrote together, which had something to do with being there cold and angry."

Although initially intended to be a quick follow-up to the band's debut, Red ended up taking ten months to complete, largely because of the different places the four musicians come from.

"Fyfe grew up listening to The Beatles so he very much wants us to be a pop band," says Arista.

"I am more jazz-orientated, into people like Charlie Mingus, Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.

"(MC Lord) Magrao listens to a lot of experimental banging beats and industrial music, while Greig (Stewart) is from the middle of nowhere in Scotland and listened to a lot of folk music and world music.

"We are all so different, it's surprising how it works. I wait for the day when it explodes!

"It's not the most time efficient way of doing things, with the four of us and our co-producer Adam Noble arguing over one sound or one bar which you hear for half a second.

"But there were times where something sounded really good and we all agreed on it, and that was when we knew it was something to keep. Our patience levels have definitely risen."

Now, after such a long time at home, the band is preparing to make the switch and head out on the road.

"It is a very different lifestyle," admits Arista. "We are all looking at ways to make it less different from our home life.

"I'm concentrating on eating healthily. Fyfe said he will try swimming every day, which probably won't happen but it will be interesting to see if it does. We are also talking about writing some new stuff on the tour. You never know until it happens!

"Touring itself is pretty much living on a bus with 16 guys, waking up in a different town every day. It's a bit like being in a circus.

"I have always felt it is really important to tour though. There is nothing else like going to a gig and seeing a good live show."

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