It’s a chilly November afternoon, and Ben Barlow’s eyes are fixed on the countryside outside the kitchen window. Neck Deep have been living at this studio for three weeks, and will remain so for as many more, and have already grown immune to the charms of the 400 acres of fields that surround it, the nearby river that recently broke its banks, and the mysterious cats that watch the humans from the safety of the long, snaking driveway. The band’s singer has something more pressing in mind right now – namely, the bonfire planned for this evening, and scouting for materials to build it, which need only satisfy one criterion: “If it burns, we’ll burn it.” Encouraged by his bandmates, Ben, with a couple of strokes of a marker pen, makes these words the 10th of Neck Deep’s “Album 4 Rewlz” –...
