Today, the outstanding psychedelic-garage rockers September Girls release their brand new album Age of Indignation.

For the quintet's second offering, they've delved deep in to society at large, exploring the broader topics of religion, feminism and the conceited reflection of social media.

September Girls play Dublin's Grand Social Friday, 15 April and Cyprus Avenue, Cork, on Saturday, 16 April.

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Full interview with guitarist/vocalist Caoimhe Derwin at SXSW 2016

How is this year's SXSW compared to two years ago?

"We are here for a shorter stint this time and we are staying closer to the city, so from a practical point of view it's more accessible. Also, the last time we tried to go see so many different things, we ended up travelling all day. Yesterday, we had a gig in Hotel Vegas and then we just hung around and saw loads of good bands. We are taking it a bit more easy, rather then getting caught up in the madness. We are just trying to see good bands and not go to too many places in one day because it's just impossible to get around."

What bands do you want see?

"I wanted to see LA Witch and i saw them yesterday. They actually played on the same day as us. We were supposed to play a show with them but we couldn't arrange it because of timings, but we got to see them and have a chat with them. We got to see JJUUJJUU, one of the guys from that band is a manager of LA Witch. He'd been emailing us so we got to see his band. They were amazing. Shannon And The Clams were playing inside, so the showcase we got to play was really cool."

How was your late night gig?

"We played at 1am on Friday at the Main II. Security were really horrible. The guy who put on the gig was really lovely, he brought us in and we put our gear down. There was a big ice bucket full of drinks, so i took a bottle of water because i was really thirsty. One of the guys goes 'you can't take that, it's not for you.' Then the two security guards came running over and said 'put that down mam, that's not for you'. I just thought the water was for us because it was beside the backstage area, but they were flipping out at me. They were just acting like dickheads."

So, there weren't many perks to playing the Main II then?

"Not really. To be honest, we didn't think anyone would be there because it was 1am, but it was really nice because people who had seen us earlier in the day had followed us around. We thought we'd just be playing to our label, but there was a load of people there."

What was the goal of coming back here two years later, what did you get out of the first time being here?

"To be honest, the first time around we were so rushed. I felt i'd never come back. I found the whole thing too stressful. Although, i enjoyed the gigs, we were on the go all the time. So this time we said we'd take it a lot easier, stay closer to town. Really, we wanted to come and do it better, do it in a more relaxed way where we get to enjoy it and we're not running around like lunatics the whole time. We wanted to see some good music and soak up the atmosphere because it's so great here. Everyone's real enthusiastic and good fun. We made it into a road trip as well. We drove through Arizona and we stopped at Roswell. We thought we'd find some alien themed cafes, but we ended up going to some place like Eddie Rockets that had some aliens stuck up around. We went through The Mojave Desert, it was just beautiful. We stopped at were Grand Parsons died in room eight at the Joshua Tree Inn. It was lovely and we got to see the desert."

The trip to Austin overlaps with the immanent release of September Girls' new album Age Of Indignation. Was the trip to SXSW to promote it?

It's part of it. The album is out on April 8. I don't really know if we'll get anything out of playing here because we are based in Ireland and we have full time jobs. You can't really come to the States and tour for a really long time, so it's good to hang out with people and see what's going on in the scene."

The album launch is at the Grand Social on the April 15 with Spines and Fierce Mild. And the new video 'Love No One' is really cool, where was that shot?

"I am not allowed to say, you know what that means don't you? There's lots of symbols that will give it away, but i actually not allowed say. We are inspired by certain imagery, even with the album cover, it has an occult symbol theme that we are really drawn to from an aesthetic point of view. We generally start with a pinterest board and we'd all put images together. Then, we got the overall image of what it was we wanted to look like and we just put a story into it. We did everything ourselves, costumes and hair, on zero budget as usual. We had a great venue and two really great guys who work with Jessie, they were doing the camera work. It was amazing, it felt so professional. Usually, we do our videos in our practice studio, throwing milk and custard around the place, so we had to scrub it afterwards. It was nice not being in the practice studio for once."

You mentioned the occult earlier, have you guys been to see the film 'The Witch'?

"No, it's a psychological horror isn't it? It looks amazing. I think if i watch it i might be terrified for the rest of my life. I'm into all of this stuff, but i am also a scaredy cat. I'd like looking at a poster of the film during the day, but if i ws watching the film at night, i'd say i'd be terrified. It does look amazing, i probably will see it."

So you are more, let's go up to the Hell Fire club during the day, as opposed to going up at night.

"Exactly (laughs)."