The Rapture, who are making progress on their second album with a variety of well known producers, have been speaking to NME.com about how well that's been going.
Frontman Mattie Saffer said "We're pleased as punch to be working with people as brilliant as Paul [Epworth] and Ewan [Pearson] and Danger Mouse. We started with a goal of making an album that's an even happier Saturday night than the last one, and this record is going to be so good that even the engineers get laid off the back of it."
Saffer explained that the band's relationships with the aforesaid producers go back a long way: "The people we're working with we've know for ages. In the time we've been away our friends became the top producers."
Commenting on rumours of trouble between the band and original collaborators DFA who are conspicuous by their absence from the new album, Saffer added: "A little bit of shit went down that we both could have handled better, but we're still friends. I'm sure we'll work together again."