CARBS premiere Joyous Material Failure

1. Stick A Flake In Me (I'm Done)
Jonnie: I once had a fever dream that I was made of ice cream and that if I didn't keep rolling over and over, I would melt to death. So that chorus wrote itself, but the verses are a product of painstaking Hebridean dial-up speed internet research. The history of ice cream. No word of a lie.

2. James Special
Jamie: All sandwich shops are equal, but some are more equal than others. Shouts out to Il Cap on Great Western Road, your vegetarian selections may be limited, but the piece names invoke a certain mystique. Respect. Check out Jonnie's insane scratching skills six seconds in.

3. Infinite Ammo
Jamie: This is a lament for my youth, when I spent sunny days playing outside, and rainy days making versions of my friends and I in the Player Creator in FIFA '98, when I could have spent my entire childhood alone in my room, rapping.

4. Fat Back To The Future
Jonnie: This one started out as the sound of a 9-volt battery dying inside a guitar and the funeral just got out of hand. I have no idea what Jamie is singing about here. He was grief-stricken and full of vol-au-vents. I just backed him up like a big bro should.

5. Waterworld
Jamie: I haven't seen very many films, so it was good of Jonnie to give me a rundown of blockbustin' classic Waterworld, spoiler alert. One day, I believe that humans will evolve to have gills so that rappers can rhyme for days without pausing for breath...

6. Pizza Time O'Clock
Jamie: "I'm like Kevin Costner, without the gills." This is my favourite track on the album, we wrote the lyrics in a back and forth stream of consciousness, and still ended up talking about pizza. We eat Italian rarebit every time that we write music together, it's an intrinsic part of CARBS.

7. Life Drawing
Jonnie: Musically, an 'end-of-level boss' theme if I ever heard one. Lyrically, this particular train(wreck)-of-thought dropped me off in a rather awkward spot. I visit this place every time we play a show, to my increasing discomfort.

8. Salty
Jonnie: Sometimes you just need a good cry. My tear ducts seem to have left my body however, and I've been denied this catharsis for some years now. That bit in 1988's Big where Josh spends his first night alone in the city has always tugged at my dusty heartstrings, so it seemed like a good launching point for this frustrated lament.

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Joyous Material Failure is out on 11 Sep via Save As Collective. CARBS play Glad Cafe on 12 September