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In eight tumultuous years between 1997 and 2005, the Welsh three piece released five studio albums, scored twenty Top 20 hits, racked up multi-million sales, and toured relentlessly on an exhausting schedule. Something had to give. “I took time out in 2006 to deal with an illness in the family,” says Kelly. “I was at the point in my life where I needed to break the cycle of album-tour-album-tour, ‘cause it wasn’t creative, it wasn’t refreshing, it wasn’t anything. When you’re constantly moving, you don’t have time to look down, so you don’t know what you’re doing really. Focussing on something other than yourself for a bit naturally makes you think about what is really important. And time is precious.”

The Stereophonics come back single, ‘It Means Nothing’, was inspired by terrorist attacks in London but clearly taps into Kelly’s own feelings of reconnecting with core values. “You take people for granted every day until something goes wrong. Funerals might be the only time you talk to your family all year. You give a shit about what trainers you wear to work, all the material shit, but you don’t really pay much attention to the person you love who walks out the door, and it means fuck all really without that one person.”

Musically, ‘Pull The Pin’ brings together the rockiest and most melodic aspects of Stereophonics in a collection of songs that comes out fighting on all fronts. “In these times, when you can download a track before its even released, if one song’s weaker than the other then its fucking done, you have to kind of make ‘em all stand their own ground,” enthuses Kelly. “I think we’ve achieved the best parts of the band over the last ten years on one record. The energy captured reminds me of when we started. It is the sound of a band happy to be back together.”

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