AlunaGeorge Talk Debut Album: ‘We Wanted To Provide A Well Rounded Experience’

When DIY spoke to AlunaGeorge earlier in the year, they told us they were putting the ‘finishing touches’ to their debut album; now they’ve revealed a little more about what we can expect from it.

‘We noticed that there’s kind of two extremes on the album,’ Aluna Francis explains, speaking to DIY. ‘Half the songs are from endless time in bedroom sessions, and half the songs are when we spent this one week out in the woods.

‘Sound-wise, we don’t have too many surprises, but we do experiment with lots of different writing styles. Some songs are almost like a ballad, or a waltz, but then there’s some on there that are almost four to the floor, but not quite.

‘I think that it’s important to have an album that doesn’t just sit in one area. We could quite easily have made an album of slow, downtime, ballad bedroom jams, but we wanted to provide a little bit more of a well rounded experience. Give it all. Give it up.’

Read the full interview in the December 2012 / January 2013 issue of DIY, available now.

AlunaGeorge have recently finished a November UK tour, and are planning to play London’s XOYO on 20th February.

They’ve also just been revealed as one of the three acts shortlisted for 2013’s BRITs Critics’ Choice Award, previous winners of which include Emeli Sande (2012), Jessie J (2011) and Ellie Goulding (2010).