ROCKWIRED conducted an e-mail interview with SAMI FISCHER of MY GLORIOUS in regard to their latest release. Here are the results.

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART BREAKS was an unexpected surprise - a very nice listen. Now that all of the work that has gone into making it is behind you, how do you feel about the finished work?
It's great to have finished it. We loved making the record, but we spent so much time on doing it that we're all really happy it's done. In the course of recording, editing and mixing you hear the tracks so much that you start to question them just because you've heard them too often. By the time the album gets released you're maybe less convinced than when you started it, that it's a hit. But then, when it goes on sale and you start getting reviews and reactions you go back to realizing that it's a very decent piece of work. That's where we're at now, I guess.

I'm a little confused by the geography of the band. Where are you guys based out of.
Haha, a though one. Well, we live in Vienna/Austria. I myself am half British and half Austrian. Although we live in Austria, we're not there a lot of the time. We play mainly in Germany and the USA.

How did you guys settle on the name MY GLORIOUS?
Well we needed a name fast, so we started making ridiculously long lists of name ideas. We narrowed it down as days went by and settled on one. The day after we had settled the name I heard a song by the band DELIRIOUS called MY GLORIOUS. I thought it fitted, so we ditched the other one.

Talk about the genesis of the band. What brought the three of you together in the pursuit of music careers?
Well I met the guys around 6 years or so ago. I was playing with local acts and songwriters and the guys were just starting out really, but they had seen me play a couple of times. We never really connected until one day a mutual friend pieced us together as a band for an event. We played that show together and enjoyed each others playing. I was in a band called FRESH at that time and the bass player had just left, so I hired GREGOR and a little later we let our drummer go too and we got PAUL to join. We did FRESH for a couple of years, along with two other guys, but noticed that it wasn't as serious as we wanted it to be. So we discussed it with them and decided to split and to do the trio thing. I guess it worked out alright.

How did music begin for you?
I don't even remember. All I know is we always had a piano around, I can't ever remember not taking lessons. I always played along with the radio, trying to learn new songs. I never wanted to play everything exactly the way it was, I always preferred to make it mine, play it the way I want to play it. I remember, we were living in a flat in Vienna when I was a kid and I'd open the balcony door wide so people in our apartment complex could hear me play and sing. That was the performer in me, I guess.

Garage rock isn't something that is usually equated with music that comes out of Europe. Does your band's sound make you stand out over there?
Right, it's equated with something that comes out of a garage, right? Funny, considering we don't have a garage. Does our sound make us stick out? I guess so, people always seem to say that we have our own sound, which is the best compliment you can get as a musician, I think.

Talk about the other two members of the band - GREGOR SAILER and PAUL SAILER. Tell me what you think each of them brings to the table that makes this band work.
Wow, they bring the cash. No, that's not even true...they're twins by the way. And they play like twins too. They're so tight...they are totally committed and I love that. We get on really well most of the time, sometimes we hate our guts though.

How easy or difficult is that working with brothers? Does it ever feel like it's two against one?
Yeah, twins. It does feel that way sometimes, but my ego is big enough for both of them.

Explain the songwriting process for you and within the band. How do songs evolve?
We jam a lot. We just love music and we play and play as much as we can. Ideas evolve and we work on them. Sometimes we'll do a whole song together, sometimes I will take the fragments home with me and finish it there. Most often though, the song will be written by the three of us, I always add the lyrics.

With that being said, what songs off of the album stand out for you the most and why?
That's always interesting. We find that the songs we like most, are often not the ones the audience like most. I'd probably favour UNDER THE WATER, BLOW UP THE SUN and ATMOSPHERE. I love the mood on those songs and, like all the songs we write, they have a very deep meaning for me. I love writing from the bottom of my heart and that's what's in the songs. I can identify with all I write which is probably more than you can say about the average song off the radio.

Would you consider HOME IS WHERE THE HEART BREAKS a collection of individual songs that stand alone or do they all come together in a concept album sort of fashion?
It's not a concept album, but it's not just a collection of songs either. Emotionally it's all connected. You can find me in all of the songs and it's my thoughts and feelings over a certain period of time, namely the album’s creation period, so it's bound to have a thread running through each song.

How have audiences responded to your live sets?
I wouldn't know, we're so loud, we don’t hear them. No, honestly, they love us and we love them. When we started out it was fashionable to go on stage in your every day clothes, drink beer and swear at people. If they have a good time, fine, if they don’t, fine too. Because that makes it easier to deal with rejection. We don’t want to do it that way though. We give it our all, for us it's all about the crowd that we're in front of. Whether it's just two people there or a thousand. We don't care, we just love making music. If we get rejected it hurts a lot, because we decide to open up all the way each night, but when you get accepted it's all the better.

Any plans on making it over to the States?
Yea, it's planed that we're superstars there shortly.

What would you like a person to come away with after they've heard this album?
Hunger for more.