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An interview has been posted on auspOp which is a must read for any fan, it gives a  pinhole view into what has been happening in Rogue Traders camp. But don’t just take our word for it, check out the snippets below and then read the whole article!

“We did leave Sony,” he admits. “It was not through want of everyone trying their absolute hardest and it wasn’t an easy thing at the time, I can tell you. It was quite upsetting. And also it was very confusing for our fans, because obviously they were waiting for a record that didn’t materialize, even though it was material in itself. So it was really, really hard.

“Really what turned it around was when we realized that we were approaching our ten year anniversary, which was an event for which we always intended doing a greatest hits,” he says.

“It seemed like a brilliant way to tie the two projects together. Out of loyalty, we went to Sony first and they really liked the idea. I have to give them a lot of credit for showing continued faith in us and here we are with ‘The Sound Of Drums’.”

The highlight single for the new release is ‘America’; a track written at the time that the Bush years came to an end and the Obama era began. We’re surprised to discover that James wasn’t really expecting the question about the new track.

“Mindi is a unique talent and she is her own person and we’ve always said from the beginning that we weren’t looking for the next Nat, we were looking for the first Mindi.”

“We’ve been living with this album for a long time, so we just need to get it out of system and play it out of our system and then probably by the time the tour is finished, we’ll start thinking about the next record,” James says.

“So we certainly intend to keep making music.”

We for one are very glad that they intend to keep on making music! Read the full article at auspOp.