Love Is All are a Gothenburg-based five piece, fronted by singer Josephine Olausson, known for their chaotic pop-punk and frenetic live sets. Last year they were remixed by the likes of Hot Chip, Studio and Fryars. Their second studio LP, A Hundred Things That Keep Me Up At Night, comes out later this year, and they play Hoxton Bar and Grill on Wednesday night.

Dazed Digital: What keeps you up at night?
Josephine Olausson: I've got terrible space phobia. I really hate the thought of the universe and the whole thing being endless. If I start thinking about that I feel as if I might puke. 

DD: Your last record had a lot of frustration on it. Are you still frustrated?
JO: That whole boredom and restlessness is what's driving us creatively. It's not due to people being stuck in offices for ten hours a day anymore. It's stuff like things taking too long. Being on the bus can be really frustrating when it's not going fast enough and there are people being annoying.

DD: How's this record different to the previous one?
JO: We haven't taken a big crazy leap. The songs are a bit faster with a few more handclaps. We can't really make electronic music or anything else. No one in the band would come along with a laptop and start playing weird samples. Everyone else would be like "What are you doing? Don't complicate stuff."

DD: You play covers quite often. Any plans to release some?
JO: I hate coming to London without any new music so we're talking about making some CDRs of covers and selling them for a pound or something. 

DD: You do all the band's artwork. How's the new album looking?
JO: So far there's a lot of dots and lines. It looks a bit like a jazz record. It's blue and red and white and black. 

DD: Who are your biggest influences as a band?
JO: We all come from really different worlds. Markus used to be in a heavy metal band. When him and Johan are together they start singing Beatles songs. They seem to know the whole back catalogue. Ake loves Breeders more than anything. He's the only one with a car and he plays a lot of late seventies punk, that kind of stuff. A while back I told everyone I thought Vampire Weekend was the best new thing I'd heard but then we listened to it people took it to pieces and it was just like, "Ugh, we shouldn't really talk about music." I guess we all like Talking Heads and Roxy Music. I like Huggy Bear. 

DD: Wyatt Cusick left his band behind and moved to Gothenburg when you guys got married. Is there any chance he'll do any more Aislers Set stuff?
JO: I don't know if he's going to do anything with the Aislers Set again. I'm trying to make him make music. I feel like we're taking up way too much of his time. I feel kind of bad about that. I bet he's getting really tired of Love Is All.

DD: You and Aislers Set both got a big helping hand early on by appearing on John Peel's radio show. What are your memories of that?
JO: I also did it with my old band Girlfriendo – we'd only released a 7" and then we did a Peel session. When it happened again with Love Is All I was just blown away. I kind of wish we could do it again because back then we were like "Ok, we've done the session, now let's go and get drunk." I don't think we took it seriously enough.

DD: Are you much more serious now?
JO: I still get drunk at shows but not completely wasted. Most of the time.

DD: How does the reaction you get in the UK compare to Sweden?
JO: We're nothing to the Swedish papers. We've hardly ever been in the local paper. For us it's a lot harder getting somewhere here. People in the UK seem a lot more curious.