That is not a surprising statement when you consider frontman Glenn Richards wrote and recorded half the album at West Hobart, where he has been living for about three years.

"It is 50 per cent looking back at Melbourne, and on a much more micro level it's the same experiences that Australian artists have when they first go overseas, they tend to redouble their focus on the homeland," Richards told X-static.

"The writing does span three years and at least 50 per cent comes out of my experience here.

"I had to relearn patience, as I had become quite discontent with the process (of making an album) and found myself easily distracted, starting something and not finishing it, and I realised it was something that was affecting me quite deeply.

"Hobart in the first couple of years I weened myself of that way of doing things. While it wasn't a relaxing process, it was necessary, and it doesn't hurt that it is such a lovely place to wake up in."

Richards described the album as something that started by "pointing the finger a little bit at myself".

"Where I was and my approach to the business of living, which wasn't satisfying or going anywhere, which was affecting everything including my music and the way I was responding to the career I have chosen.

"Beyond that, I don't tend to journalise any aspect of the individual experience in songwriting, which has to be done very well if done at all.

"I need to let my imagination go to work and I needed to use my personal framework and projecting more of a national outlook, looking for a larger framework to project more of an imaginative feel.

"I've always tended to project the personal on to the external, which is a parallel dissatisfaction of what is happening in Australia, our popular culture and our politics.

"I suppose I was pointing the finger outwards as well."

The end result is an album that is described of having plenty of "loss, dislocation, distance, new hope and healthy anger".

Richards, who said he was feeling nervous and excited heading towards the album's release, was hopeful that Augie March would be able to play some shows in Tasmania later in the year.