When I'm feeling inspired, I'm prepared to sit in the same space for days on end and create. Hiking and surfing helped me through the writing process. But we struck gold with 'Heaven Is A Place In My Head' and 'Life Was Easier When I Only Cared About Me' - both quite long titles. We live in the future now, why not? Sometimes, those sessions would be disastrous. We decided to step outside of our comfort zone and write some songs together over video chat. Our creative juices were overflowing in the spring of 2020, and being inactive wasn't an option.

Some of these songs were written over video chat. I just thought to myself, 'Apocalypse Whenever', and started laughing.

I was taking a shower one morning, before heading to the studio, and this memory zapped into my head as if from nowhere. It wasn't as bold a title as the album we were making. It rolls off the tongue and sounds quite elegant, but I was starting to have my doubts. The working title for this album was 'A Moment Of Reflection'. My friend's dad suggested we call it 'Apocalypse Whenever', as a wink and a nod to Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece. In the summer of 2005, I made a comedic 'short film' about the end of the world. Sometimes a song needs to sound like you're speeding through a tunnel at midnight as it's pouring rain outside, and sometimes it needs to feel like you're lying by a pool in Los Angeles overlooking the city. We love to communicate musical ideas in abstract ways, especially when we're in the studio.

I had a clear idea in my head of how I wanted this album to sound, and the best way to communicate that, in the beginning, was through visuals. We got vocalist Christo Bowman to run us through what we need to know. Bad Suns are brave, calling their new album ‘Apocalypse Whenever’ in the middle of what could quite easily be sold as the precursor to something far more imminent.

The apocalypse made me brave lyrics