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We can do better than that. Why does every single band sound the same, like The Libertines?" And American bands like Arcade Fire and Cursive were doing things that were much much bigger but no English bands were doing anything like that. So many elements of English pop music that weren't being represented and also people aren't doing this big sound with strings and stuff, so that was what we wanted to do.'