The multi-platinum success of The Hoosiers 2007 debut album, The Trick to Life, and singles such as Worried About Ray and Goodbye Mr. A, raised huge expectations for its follow-up, not least at The Hoosiers record label. The prophetically titled The Illusion of Safety was, all the band agree, a troubled project from the start.The News From Nowhere, released in 2014, was an astonishing return to form. Doing it on our own terms, says Irwin, and actually having a proper say in it, felt wonderful. We had nothing to lose, but a lot to prove.Shattering their previous run of an album every three to four years the release of "The Secret Service" only a year after their third album reveals a band hitting their stride through a purple patch; improving as they discover they have more to say than ever.