It’s a bit surreal about looking back and realising just how much time has passed without you really noticing it happening. Nearly ten years ago, we filmed a little video called At Home With OLDER. At the time, we were sitting there talking about songs we were writing for what would become our first album Silence. It all felt pretty hopeful, a bit unknown. We said back then that we hoped we’d just keep making music as we got older.
Well… we definitely got older. And somehow, we also kept going.
That video was filmed in 2017, leading into Silence, which came out in 2019. And now here we are, not only having released that album, but three more after it: Human+ in 2021, Unmasked in 2024, and Selfie in 2025. We’re now working on album number five. If you’d told us that back then, we’d probably would’ve smiled politely and not quite believed you.
We must have written around 60 songs by now. Some made it, some didn’t. That’s just how it goes. Songs you think will be centerpieces quietly fall away, and others take their place. There’s no grand plan, just a process you learn to trust.
From the beginning, though, one thing hasn’t changed. We never set out to be famous. We never expected to make money from it. That ship had well and truly sailed by the time we decided (slightly madly) to jump back into writing high-energy original rock music. The name OLDER wasn’t ironic. It was just accurate.
And maybe that’s been the freedom in it. We do it because we enjoy it. Because we want to make something that feels good, sounds good, and is genuinely ours. There’s no chasing trends, no trying to fit into a space that doesn’t really exist for us. We just get on with it.
There’s been a bit of chat lately about AI in music, so we’ll say it plainly: we don’t use it. Not for writing, not for lyrics, not for hooks, not for arrangements. Everything you hear is played, built, and shaped by us. Real instruments, real parts, real effort. That’s not about being anti-technology. Far from it. The studio is full of tech—digital workstations, plugins, all the tools you’d expect. But none of it replaces the actual work. If anything, it just exposes it. If the song’s not there, no amount of clever software is going to fix it.
The only time we’ve used AI was for a music video (Wiser – 2024), and we were completely upfront about it. It had a purpose—bringing old photos to life in a way we couldn’t otherwise. But the music itself? That stays human.
Looking ahead, album five is already underway. It’s called Skip Ad, which feels about right. The music’s written and recorded, and now comes the slow part — vocals, production, refining everything. That’ll take about a year, which seems to be our slide whether we plan it that way or not.
And that’s kind of where we’re at. Ten years on, still here. Still making noise. Still enjoying it.
Give it another ten years and who knows… maybe we’ll have ten albums. Stranger things have happened.
