It’s Saturday 22nd July 2023 and I’m backstage at Tramlines festival with Fred Macpherson and Jed Cullen from Spector. It’s a weekend that has made film history, as movie buffs and pink lovers descended on cinemas across the country for Barbie and Oppenheimer. It started as a bit of a meme but it snowballed into a cultural moment that became bigger than the teams behind the films could possibly have imagined. In many ways, it’s a fitting way to frame an interview with the band, who The Indiependent can exclusively reveal are preparing to launch their fourth studio album at the end of this year “hopefully before Christmas”. If Now Or Whenever was 2022’s answer to the band’s upbeat debut, Enjoy It While It Lasts, then their new LP is more like 2015’s Moth Boys, says Fred. So less Barbie, more Oppenheimer. 

“It’s not electronic sounding like Moth Boys was, but I think it’s the mood; it’s a sort of an after party mood, more than at the club. A little more of a downer than an up, even though as Jed pointed out, it does have bombastic big moments that are probably bigger than Now Or Whenever,” says Fred. 

Read the rest over on The Indiependent.