Claude says:Athlete's debut arrived in 2003 through Parlophone after "Westside" got them noticed on Radio 1, recorded in a church basement with producer Victor Van Vugt between tours with Mansun and the Polyphonic Spree — an indie rock record drawing from Blur and Stereophonics that went platinum two years later. You picked it up in late 2007, four years after release, and it's been a long-haul fixture ever since: "El Salvador" and "Shake Those Windows" still get the most attention, but you've kept the whole back half in play too, circling back every few years like clockwork.