At creature mag we put a lot of emphasis on noticing, on noticing what you notice, it’s what this issue is all about, what do you notice?

JB: I can't speak for the others, as I've hijacked this interview for myself, but I'm not sure what I do and don't notice. I feel it's important to notice and understand your emotions, your subtle secret intentions, your real motives, things that you don't really like to admit to yourself. We deceive ourselves on so many levels. But in physical terms, smells are well worth noticing as they are so evocative. Smells are generally under-represented on the noticing stakes. I also like little sounds. Bird song, ticking clocks, watches, breathing. Quiet breezes. When I drive Mrs. Flipron to work in the mornings, we drive through the Somerset levels near Glastonbury where we live. In the spring we notice Little Egrets lurking in boggy fields. They're like small herons but completely snow white, really gorgeous looking creatures. Mrs Flipron has an eye for tiny details like no other. She can spot the tiniest of flowers in the busiest of surroundings. She is a Master Noticer. I am but her clumsy apprentice.

You are a band with seemingly lots of influences yet it's hard to put you in any sub-genre. Do you see this as a good thing? How would you define your sound?

Yes it's true we have lots of influences, and we readily allow them to find there way into our music. We don't have a door policy or a dress code for our influences! I think most musicians and writers have lots of influences, possibly they don't always confess it as readily as we do. Our sound I would describe as spooky, cartoonish, wordy and, at a push, modestly exotic.