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In an era where a majority of musicians seem to view writing good songs as low down the list of attributes required for a successful career, Canterbury quartet Moose Blood are that rarest of things: a band who let the songs do the talking.

Bursting on to the scene in 2012, they solidified themselves as one of the UK’s hottest exports across two albums (2014’s debut full-length ‘I’ll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time’ and 2016’s ‘Blush’) which took the best of American mid-west emo and updated it with a quintessentially British twist.

The latter of those two records proved to be a breakout success, crashing the UK top 10 and propelling the band on to the main stages of Reading and Leeds Festival and Lollapalooza as well sold out shows at L.A’s legendary Troubadour, New York’s Bowery Ballroom and London’s KOKO – to say nothing of the Kerrang! and Alternative Press Music Awards nominations they’ve picked up on the way.

But while Moose Blood have a track record and undeniable song-writing prowess that would make many of their peers green with envy, they’ve eschewed rock star excess and big-mouthed bravado at every turn: a quiet, focussed group of friends that don’t need to shout to be heard loud and clear.

“We’re the people we are,” explains guitarist Mark E. Osborne of their less-than-extravagant demeanour, “and to try and be another way wouldn’t be honest. I think that’s why people connect with the music we make, because it’s honest and comes from a true place – people can see through you straight away when you’re faking it.”

To that end, the band – completed by singer and guitarist Eddy Breweton, bassist Kyle Todd and drummer Lee Munday – holed themselves up in Los Angeles with long time collaborator Beau Burchell to record anticipated third album ‘I Don’t Think I Can Do This Anymore’, an LP which delves into the most complexly emotional territory they’ve ever explored.

“We’re incredibly grateful to be in this band,” offers ever self-effacing frontman Brewerton, “but there are some aspects of this journey that have been really hard. Especially being away from home so much, for me it got me to a point where I was questioning if I still wanted to be in Moose Blood at all. I think we all were really, and that’s where the title of the record comes from.”

Indeed, the first single to be taken from the record, melancholic ear worm ‘Talk In Your Sleep’ explores relationship breakdown from the perspective of an absent, on the road partner; the vagaries of trying