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On Minus, the Victorian five-piece’s second album, they don’t so much find their feet as notice what daring stunts and sexy moves they can do with them. “There’s nothing better than a good pop song,” says Dukes Of Windsor singer Jack Weaving. “When you’re hit with the good stuff you forget [the bad]. There are so many different acts that are well respected that have pop sensibilities.”

Collaborating with Pelle Henriccson and Eskil Lövström, who produced one of the band’s favourite albums, the seminal The Shape Of Punk To Come by ’90s hardcore-punk giants Refused, the Dukes endured the sub-zero temperatures of the Swedish winter (hence the album title) to work with them. “They’d given The Shape Of Punk To Come a real sort of groove I don’t think hardcore had really had before that,” Weaving says. “That’s what they brought to our album. I kept getting yelled at, down the headphones, to give it more Al Green and more Marvin Gaye … [Pelle and Eskil] really wanted us to give it more soul, which I hope came out in a strange sort of … clinical Swedish way!”

With its cool, crisp beats and dark basslines, Minus often reflects the environment in which it was made. “If there was a feeling or a few words to describe the album, it’s definitely all about the call to arms,” says Weaving.

The first single, ‘It’s A War’ was added to high rotation on triple j and reached the status of Number 1 most played song on the station, with the second, ‘No Disguise’, also going to Number 1.