“There’s a thirst there,” declares The Music’s Rob Harvey as he looks to sum-up the spirit fuelling his band’s new album ‘Strength In Numbers’. “There’s a hunger there again. It’s about brining people together and making them feel good.” Defiant, optimistic and united, The Music’s third record finds them buoyant, and brimming with vigour. However as the band’s frontman sketches out, it’s not the usual bluster from a band with a new record - this is a hard won confidence.

Despite only just reaching their mid-20s, Robert Harvey (vocals) Adam Nutter (guitar), Stuart Coleman (bass) and Phil Jordan (drums) have fought hard to get this far. They are a band that have been to the brink, but pulled it back before everything crumbled into dust.

It’s nearly four years since the release of their last album, ‘Welcome To The North’ but The Music are now more inspired, determined and powerful than ever, but they earned this state of mind by escaping from the depths, investing their souls into the creation of ‘Strength In Numbers’.

“The album was definitely born out of darkness. It’s got an underlying element of urgency. It’s pulsating,” says the singer of the new record. “It’s been a long time and we’ve been through a lot in that period which made us realise we had to do something special. Every song has to be worth something.”