Leave something cooking for too long and it burns. This is how Thornhill feel about certain aspects of their 2022 second album Heroine – in fact, ‘overcooked’ is the very word frontman Jacob Charlton uses when looking back at it. Ultimately, the era’s monochrome visuals and elaborate theatrics didn’t quite feel representative of the Melbourne quartet, its message over-reliant on the visuals in order to be understood. It was a product of almost excessive time and space in one of the most strictly locked down parts of the world during the pandemic. “We couldn’t be face to face with each other, we couldn’t be in the same room.” Jacob remembers. “We couldn’t even be there for drum tracking.” Guitarist Ethan McCann agrees when he jumps on Zoom with K! slightly late after r...