Phone calls to musicians often interrupt some interesting things, whether it is all-night parties with tigers and snake-wrangling to performing to thousands.
But for Cut Copy's Tim Hoey, this call comes during something far more wholesome.
"I was just doing some washing actually, getting rather domestic," he laughs from his Melbourne home.
The Australian guitarist has been yearning the "normal life" for a while.
"It got to the end of the tour and we were in Seattle. I think we had about three days off and I remember I was walking around and I looked up and saw this apartment window and I could see this couple doing the ironing and doing the washing and I just kind of sat there and stared at them and I was just craving a domestic scene."
Hoey has had little chance to get down and dirty with his domestic self recently.
The band has been a busy bunch of boys recently. The night before this call breaks into his cleaning time, Cut Copy performed their first home town show in a "very long time" only a week after getting back to Australia from a gruelling tour of the States and Europe.
"I think we did 50 shows in two months in the States. It was a brutal cycle," says Hoey.
But taking their third album Zonoscope to the world has been a welcome experience for Hoey and his band mates.
"I think the first tour after the album comes out, you've been cooped up in a studio for the better part of a year and a half, and then there's that anxiety when you're sitting around waiting for the album to come out. Then it eventually comes out and that first tour is the first really immediate connection with the audience to see how they are reacting to the songs and to the record and everything."
With shows including a critically acclaimed performance at Coachella Festival in the States, Cut Copy have seen exactly how crowds are reacting to the slightly different sound this time round.
Hoey describes Zonoscope as a percussion-driven album that pushes the ideas they have explored in their previous albums Bright Like Neon Love and In Ghost Colours.
"I think we had the idea of this record being this very build and release, tension and release thing. We like the idea of building these hypnotic and rhythmic things for the listener to lose themselves in and it was a really interesting path to take. We were always interested in that pop song format, but we wanted to try something a bit different.
"We like the idea of combining the very raw, organic, kind of garage-band version of Cut Copy against the more ordered and structured, with computers and very machine-made music. I guess we've always liked that contrast of sounds and elements."
And now, for only the second time, Kiwi fans get to catch Cut Copy's infectious energy. The band played their one and only New Zealand show at Rhythm and Vines a couple of years ago and Holey says they have been counting down the months until they could get back here.
"It's almost criminal that in the six years of being a band, this is our first headline tour of New Zealand. So it's going to be really good to get there and be up close and personal with our New Zealand fans."
"It's not by choice that we've neglected New Zealand. Rhythm and Vines was so amazing that we've wanted to come back and I remember saying at the time, 'I can't believe we haven't come here before, we need to come back.'
"It was one of those moments that you go, 'Oh wow'."
And Hoey says he will be well and truly sick of doing washing and desperate to be back on stage by then.
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