[6] Vocalists on the album include Emily Reo, Samira Winter, Casey Sowa, Atom, Doreen Kirchner, Glockabelle, The London African Gospel Choir and an Atlantan vocal trio.

To some extent, I’ve always worked that way, but I wanted to pursue that properly this time, and it actually turned out a lot more subtle than I thought it would.

I think The Scene Between picks up where songs like ‘Ready to Go Steady’ and ‘Buy Nothing Day’ left off on the last album, because there’s expansion and variation within an identifiable Go!

Team blueprint.” Parton expresses how he wished to avoid having any high-profile guest appearances on the album, as opposed to their previous two albums, which featured Chuck D (‘Flashlight Fight’ on Proof of Youth) and Bethany Cosentino (‘Buy Nothing Day’ and ‘Rolling Blackouts’ on Rolling Blackouts).

Instead, he chose to scout out a collective of relatively unknown vocalists, a process which included putting out open calls on the Drowned in Sound message board.

The band went on a tour to support the album, which notably included the return of classic line-up members Ninja and guitarist Sam Dook.

We want to get to Japan and America, and do as much as we realistically can.” Between the Scene Between, a free cassette with download card, was given with copies of the album at independent record shops.