"It was important to me for the album to resemble handing the world a mixtape that I burned on a CD and made for you... Here it is! It's called 'Immunity'.

LANY frontman Paul Klein is in Auckland, New Zealand, midway through his 80th show out of a whopping 100 shows currently scheduled on the ‘Malibu Nights’ world tour, and he’s sharing an anecdote with the audience about how earlier that day, a local doctor informed him that the chances of him being able to get up on stage and play the show that evening were 50/50.

Fresh off a plane from Sydney only an hour prior, human beanpole Ruel Vincent Van Dijk is hard at work entertaining everyone within earshot, drily improvising deadpan impersonations of an alter ego who begun life as quarterback of his high school football team, before growing up into a slickly suited art school graduate - all inspired by real-life outfit changes tonight at his Coup De Main cover-shoot in New Zealand ("My Dad grew up here and pretty much his whole family lives here, so we always go see them.

The first time I ever spoke to musical mastermind Finneas O’Connell (with only one solo song to his name thus far), seated in a gazebo at Auckland’s Albert Park back in September 2017, he told me very wisely that, “With my own project I wanted to make sure it felt like a cohesion. I feel like the most immediate way to do that was to be really honest, and to make sure that anything I was putting my own name behind was really authentic.”

Within a few minutes of meeting, Jack Mulhern has taken it upon himself to tell me about his favourite parts of Central Park as we choose where in the park to take photos in, sincerely explaining to me how an Ancient Egyptian obelisk (which I later learn is called Cleopatra’s Needle) came to end up being put on display near the Metropolitan Museum Of Art.