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RICHARD JONES: I anticipate we go into every anthology aggravating to acquisition article new, it usually takes two or three songs for us to, you know, acquisition that affectionate of flavor, that complete that we're analytic for. And with this album, we hit aloft it with the sounds of "All In One Night" and the agreeable positivity from "Caught by the Wind" and amid those two advance it affectionate of paved the way for how the anthology feels really. We're consistently absolutely attractive for those moments and aback they happen, it's a abundant time.

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CD: How do you anticipate the complete has acquired on this new record? What can the admirers apprehend to hear?

RJ: I anticipate the capital aberration for this is there's a lot beneath of anxious guitar sounds on this compared to the aftermost album. It's a lot added layered than the aftermost album. The aftermost anthology was hardly added bare back. It's gonna be absorbing to see what bodies think.

CD: Even all these years later, you accumulate alluring a newer and adolescent audience, do you anticipate that plays a role in influencing you?

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RJ: Yeah. We aboriginal saw a big about-face in the age of the admirers aback we appear our fifth album, songs on that anthology like "Dakota" and "Superman" confused the way bodies see the Stereophonics. And aback we appear Graffiti on the Train aback in 2011, we begin a new admirers again. I'm absolutely beholden for admirers accepting new bodies into the fandom and I'm consistently beholden for the bodies that accumulate on listening. That's affectionate of the name of the game, aggravating to get added adolescent admirers into alert to your music. Aback we're recording the anthology there's new sounds and the new affectionate of feel that you haven't had afore because that drags bodies in from everywhere abroad then.

CD: After all this time, how do you accomplish a almanac that still feels claimed and honest to you?RJ: We never capital to be a bandage that aloof got a one anthology success, we capital to be a bandage that creates a big archive of work; we knew we capital to be actuality for the continued run. Twenty years later, ten albums, we're still award new things about what we can do. I anticipate it aloof goes aback to our accomplishments about lots and lots of agreeable tastes. We're not a bandage that aloof listens to one artist, there's such a all-inclusive arrangement of albums and artists that we love, we can affectionate of booty our afflatus from so abounding altered places. We can accumulate on alteration and evolving to altered things.

CD: How does 25 years of activity alfresco of the bandage affect you as a artist and affect what you put into the new record?

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RJ: The change that I anticipate all of the bandage has gone through, is accepting ally and accouchement and the albatross that comes with accepting a family. I anticipate as artists and musicians you've consistently got that affection to be the best you can possibly be. The best bandage you can possibly be, the best artist in that bandage you can possibly be, and I don't anticipate you anytime lose that. We're consistently appetite to acquisition new things and new means for bodies to see our music and new means to accomplish it, those things consistently advance us advanced and award new things about ourselves. We've all got our priorities absolutely good.

CD: Do you anytime attending aback and continued for some of the aboriginal days? Or accept you accepted the all-embracing akin which you're accepted on?

RJ: I anticipate we're absolutely advantageous because we've had success wherever we go. Like in the U.K. we're arena big arenas and stadiums but again we can go to average America and we can be accomplishing the clubs there. We've got that affectionate of ambit from small, thousand-capacity clubs all the way up to stadiums. I anticipate we've developed into ambidextrous with the bigger venues all the time, but the affection and the activity you get aback you comedy those baby venues, you'll never lose that feeling.

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CD: What would you like to see activity forward?

RJ: It would be abundant for us to abide to address and almanac able-bodied into the approaching and augment our listenership and see if we can booty our bigger productions abroad beyond the globe. It's alone the bound bodies in the U.K. that get to see us do those big shows but it'd be abundant to booty that worldwide. Also, award new things out about ourselves that we can appearance added bodies as well, that's what we try and do on anniversary album.

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