Opshop - Second Hand Planet

I still find it magical. You know, we'll walk into the studio on Tuesday, and there will be nothing — just a void of electrons all swimming around somewhere in the room. And then, by the time we finish, there'll be this art created out of this nothingness. If that’s not magical, I don’t know what is.

– Record producer Greg Haver on creating music

I do like Greg's approach of looking at it as an album, instead of a group of singles and then the other songs. It really does bring more integrity to the whole process, so that no song should really be given more direct attention than any other song.

– Opshop frontman Jason Kerrison on producer Greg Haver's approach to recording the album

That's the cool thing about bands: it's not all about great playing — all the bands that I really like, they have flaws. You know, they're maybe not the greatest players, but it's the interaction between the people and what they all bring to it, you know?

– Record producer Greg Haver on group dynamics

I wanted to have some really aggressive songs and some really mellow songs, and have a really good balance...

– Record producer Greg Haver on choosing the songs for the album

We did all the ballads and lighter stuff to start with, and so now it's time to be a bit more rocky, I suppose. And that's always a little bit more fun.

– Opshop guitarist Matt Treacy

You’ve gotta go "well, that's it" at a point. I guess it’s like any creative endeavour where there’s a....a commercial factor to it. At some point in time, people are going to want to listen to it and buy it, so there has to come a point where you go "Okay, that’s it. Here you go, release it."

– Opshop drummer Bobby Kennedy on wrapping up the album for release

Second Hand Planet has taken us to new heights in terms of the number of shows we've played, the production values in the shows, the touring we've done. I mean, since that record, so much has gone on that, as a band, we have progressed.

– Opshop drummer Bobby Kennedy on the band's growth

Everyone seems to be buzzing now. And I don’t know whether it's because we’re getting towards the end of the whole process.

– Opshop bass player Clint Harris describes the atmosphere as the band gets closer to finishing the album

Suddenly you start hearing songs that have an opportunity to become singles. They might not just see the inside of an album, but might actually get out there a bit more.

– Singer Jason Kerrison

Making records is 50 per cent psychology, for me anyway — especially when I'm not engineering it.

– Producer Greg Haver