On Monday, heartfelt Glasgow four-piece Sons and Daughters return with their outstanding third album This Gift. I met them at the Soundhaus, Northampton, where they played the first gig of their recent tour.

Adele (vocals) and David (drums) were both in the now-defunct Arab Strap but left the band at the end of their 2001 tour. "They were on tour and Adele had this idea for a band called Sons and Daughters," says Scott (guitar) while smoking a roll-up. "It was sort of a joke but it came to fruition when they went back home. They were friends for years - they used to work together - and then they met me in the record shop where Adele used to work."

Their acclaimed first two albums, the dirty folk of Love The Cup and the punk blues of The Repulsion Box were both released on Domino Records. "In the beginning we were really lucky, we got to do a lot of touring," says Scott. "We did a couple of tours with Franz Ferdinand, and in 2006, we got to tour with Morrissey. We've played with some people we really love and admire. We’ve been blessed." On the subject of touring with Morrissey, Adele adds, "He really was a charming man."

In the summer of 2006, the band holed up in a house in Scottish village to work on new songs for the third album. They were isolated from the world – no television, no phones – with the sole aim of creating a great pop record. They also wanted to create an album very different from the previous ones, leaving their comfort zone.

"We'd started to bore ourselves to be honest, really, and we needed to get out," says Adele. "I hate it when bands can’t be bothered to do something new and just copy themselves. Love The Cup was great and we love it, but we just wanted to make a pop record, in the kind of vein of Blondie and the Smiths. We also wanted to expand our sound because I think if we’d made another record exactly the same we would have put ourselves more into this little corner of 'Oh that's Sons and Daughters, I know they sound like that.'"

The new album, produced by Suede's Bernard Butler, is charged with sixties glamour and glittery guitar riffs. Scott doesn’t sing, instead expanding the sound with as many different guitar styles as possible. Adele, by contrast, drops the guitar and explores her voice. "We decided to do what we enjoyed more," says Scott. "I enjoy playing guitar more. The songs were more in Adele’s vocal range and the lyrics were more from a female perspective."