klngaegon:

All This Bad Blood + Growing Up & Moving On

[The songs] draw on pop culture and literature to a degree. Mainly, though, they touch on that feeling of being at the end of your teens and start of your twenties, and the worries you have as a young adult. It’s quite an odd existence… They’re songs about trying to grow up, looking back to the past and forwards to the future.  – Dan Smith

diverg:

I think it’s important to write a lot of songs and write songs you think people will like regardless of what genre you’re in. Not in terms of compromising your song writing- you should always write what you want to. You hear a band do a wicked sound and you think they’re so good but they just don’t have anything you can latch into. That’s the most frustrating thing in the world. – Dan Smith