Leeds, England’s Eagulls are currently touring the US in support of their brand new self-titled album, and they’ll be playing The Great Scott on Wednesday night. They bring to mind the most erratic and angsty tracks by the Futureheads, a band I revere highly, although there is a more consistent chugging to Eagulls’ songs, as well as a more reverby, done-in-the-practice-studio feel to their recordings. How this will pan out in a live setting will be interesting to watch—expect it to be pretty raw.

I had a chance to interview Mark Goldsworthy a few weeks ago once they had toured a little bit in the U.S. And were gearing up to come over to Boston.

I’m going to level with you on a few things. Mark wasn’t much of a talker, which makes me wonder about why they decided to make him the spokesperson for an interview they set up. He did put up with my dumb questions, which is worth something, but I’ve learned from this experience that if you ever want anything beyond “yes” or “no” in an interview, don’t ask a yes-or-no question. Second, I’ve learned most bands don’t have anything interesting to say about their music that you can’t Google and find a million times over, so I tried to keep it interesting on both ends so the questions aren’t exactly music-related.  Third, the connection was real bad. A lot of my questions I had to abandon or ask a bunch of times, and some transitions aren’t there. Upon relistening, even less was clear.

Allston Pudding: You have 14,385 likes on Facebook [at the time]. If you had to let one of those people die prematurely, and you didn’t get to choose, or else you could never play music again, would you do it?

Mark Goldsworthy: What, just let one of them die?

AP: Yeah.

MG: Yeah.

AP: What’s the worst album you’ve ever heard?

MG: The Jay-Z and Kanye West?

AP: Watch the Throne, really?

MG: Yeah, it’s total bile.

AP: Did you see Lego Movie?

MG: No, but we play the Lego game on our van. It’s like the Star Wars Lego series.

AP: Is it pretty good?

MG: There’s like one game in our van, and it’s that. So we played it for about four minutes and then turned it off.

AP: So not good?

MG: No, it’s shit.

AP: You guys played Norman, OK last night, right? How shitty and boring is Norman, OK? It sounds really boring.

MG: It is rather drab. We just went out for drinks and talked about life.

AP: Is there a God?

MG: No. It’s 2014, there’s no such thing as religion.

AP: Well, there is.

MG: There is, but it’s delusional.

AP: What do you sleep in?

MG: Usually boxers. Boxer briefs.

AP: Do you think I’ll ever be truly happy?

MG: You?

AP: Me.

MG: Yeah, I think if you find a nice man or woman and settle down and have children.

AP: Thanks man, that means a lot. If you were to come out of the closet, which family member would you tell first?

MG: I wouldn’t hide it, I’d just tell everybody.

AP: Right, but you have to tell one person first.

MG: I’d probably tell Tom Kelly (Eagulls’ Bassist)

AP: Is there anything there?

MG: Nah.

AP: So tell me about the show at the Great Scott. Who should go?

MG: If people want to go, they should go. If they want to see what we do.

AP: And what would you say that you do?

MG: We…play music…for people.

AP: Wow, you’re really selling it. What was your favorite question that I asked?

MG: The worst album question.