Decider: Your records often revolve around unifying concepts. What is Invincible Criminal about?
Mark Mallman: My records all have themes, and the theme of this one was going to be money and Satanism, and then I changed it to crime. It’s usually just a loose theme. With Devil And The Middle C, it was alcohol, and with The Red Bedroom, it’s about prostitution. It’s not absolute, but it comes out in bits and pieces here and there. For me, if I don’t have a theme, I just write songs that are totally unrelated. When I listen to the record, it’s about time. You wake up in the morning one day and you’re 100 years old—that’s one of the lyrics. Invincible Criminal is [about the idea] that time is robbed from us, and we can’t fight it.
