"Originally we wanted to record it as a psychedelic jam session, but in the end we just couldn't help writing tunes," says British Sea Power vocalist Yan (born Scott Wilkinson) of the making of their third (and arguably best) album, "Do You Like Rock Music?"

The English quartet have carved out a reputation as eccentrics through their past habit of decorating the stage with foliage and stuffed animals, as well as their penchant for playing unorthodox venues such as seaside cafes and parish churches.

Less melodramatic than their previous effort, "Open Season" (2005), "Do You Like Rock Music?" was recorded in the Czech Republic, Canada and a 19th-century coastal fort on England's southwest coast. It tackles with wide-eyed enthusiasm themes such as nationalism, the 1953 floods of Canvey Island in England's Essex County and the concept of "rock music as religion."