After recently launching their second album Boom Boom home in Australia, indie rock/pop band Belle Roscoe have returned to Europe where they have

spent the past five years. Time to lounge with friends in Parisian bars and snooze off the jet lag with lazy afternoons?

Not for siblings Julia and Matty Gurry. They’ve headed straight to Belgium to record.

“I’ve just woken up in my room at ICP studios in Brussels, trying to shake off the jet lag and adapt to the climate change from 30 to 5 degrees,” Matty tells Issimo. “I am expecting four hours’ sleep a night to squeeze every minute into our time here. Five songs in five days!”

Three of these songs are part of their Serge Gainsbourg project, an homage to the French icon and the band’s flourishing in his homeland. “We had always been fans of Gainsbourg but only truly discovered his brilliance and virtuosity in 2010 when we were asked to reinterpret some of his songs to celebrate the release of the film about his life,” says Matty.