He also does DJ sets – but says it “kind of annoys” him when people just refer to him as a DJ.
“I’ve been playing instruments for decades and was producing for five years before I even touched a set of decks,” he told Rolling Stone, external.
Now, the two sides of his live performance feed off each other, he told Radio 1’s Saunders.
“When I’m DJ-ing a lot, I really miss playing live. And when I’m playing live, I miss DJ-ing.
“Weirdly, it informs what I’ve been writing in the reverse. Like, when I spend a lot of time playing live with the band, I end up writing clubby music because I long for it.
“And then vice versa – when I’m out DJ-ing, I just miss the more live elements of making music.
“So I feel like I have a passion for both equally and mutually, and I think that’s why it’s been so easy to transition from DJ-ing into – not just a band, but the music that I make lends itself well to live performance of electronic music. It still holds the basic principles of traditional songwriting, but with electronic production.”
